Pooja Bhatt recollects being frightened of enjoying her grandmom in Zakhm, carrying her saree and mangalsutra

Pooja Bhatt performed a single mother in Zakhm, and Kunal Kemmu essayed the position of her younger son. Ajay Devgn performed the position of her grown-up son within the movie that additionally featured Nagarjuna and Sonali Bendre.

Pooja advised ETimes in an interview, “Frankly, I was terrified to take on the responsibility of playing my grandmother and tried hard to suggest to my father we cast another actor in my place but my father gave me no choice. He said ‘I am not asking you Pooja. I am telling you that you are playing this part.’ That was the end of the discussion. The rest is history. The privilege of playing my grandmother – that was her personal saree I was wearing in the song.”

She added, “It is something I will always be grateful to my father for. The ‘mangalsutra’ I wore in the film also belonged to my grandmother Shirin. And the set of our home was a replica of the home my father grew up in as a boy. Those days and that space I shared with Kunal (Kemmu) in front of the camera are some of the most magical times of my life!”

Zakhm was critically appreciated for selling nationwide integrity because it highlighted the rift that religion-based politics brings within the society and the concord doable amongst fellow residents.

A couple of years in the past, Pooja recalled her grandmom and revealed she was a Muslim girl who would take younger Pooja to the Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai each Tuesday. “fifteenth December 1998 is when our movie #zakhm bought censored. A movie the place I had the privilege of enjoying my grandmother, Shirin Nanabhai Bhatt-a Muslim girl who took me to Siddhivinayak temple each Tuesday & to church each Wednesday & Friday.That is the true spirit of India,” she tweeted in 2019.