Rajat Bedi reveals Govinda made Sanjay Dutt wait for 9 hours on Jodi No 1 set: ‘Sanju started abusing…’

Directed by Aryan Khan, The Ba***ds of Bollywood marks Rajat Bedi’s return to showbiz after two decades. In a recent interview with YouTuber Siddharth Kannan, Bedi recalled how Govinda made Sanjay Dutt wait for 9 hours during the shooting of his 2001 comedy film Jodi No 1, which also starred Twinkle Khanna, Anupam Kher, Ashish Vidyarthi and Monica Bedi.

Bedi recalled: “Govinda had taken on a lot of work. On Jodi No 1, David Dhawan was supposed to start shooting at 7 am but Sanjay Dutt and I were there at 6 am for some reason. David and all of us were waiting for Govinda to arrive to start work. Then we came to know that Govinda was at home. So someone from the set was sent to his house and this person was sitting outside to take him to the set. 2 In the afternoon Sanjay was crazy.”

Rajat added that at that moment they came to know that Govinda was not at home and had flown directly to the sets from Hyderabad. “Nobody knew that he would fly from Hyderabad and come directly to the sets at 3 pm. Nobody would know where he was because he would do 4-5 shifts then,” he added. When the assistant brought the scene to Dutt, he realized that he had most of the lines and asked him to translate the scene. “Sanju started abusing the assistant and told him, say these lines to Govinda, I won’t do this. So the whole scene changed instantly”, concluded Bedi.

She is known for Rajat Bedi, Hrithik Roshan, Rakesh Roshan’s sci-fi action drama Koi Mil Gaya and the fantasy thriller Jaani Dushman, which bombed at the box office but became a cult hit because of her boobs. His last release was the 2007 comedy Partner, which also starred Salman Khan and Govinda.

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