‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’ actress Renuka Shahane turned wiser and more attractive a year ago on October 7, 2024. On his birthday, we take a look down memory lane as it’s been three decades since the film’s release, yet fans remember and cherish him. As the ideal sister-in-law. Renuka played the role of Salman Khan’s sister-in-law in Rajshri Productions’ family drama. During an appearance on The Kapil Sharma Show, Renuka revealed that everyone wanted her brother to marry her.
Kapil asked her whether after the film she started getting offers for the role of sister-in-law or marriage proposals. “Bhabhi’s role,” he immediately replied, “Everyone wanted to get their brother married to me.”
Sharma then praised Renuka for her portrayal of Pooja and said that she has set the standard of what people expect from a sister-in-law. He humorously said that when his own sister-in-law came to his house for the first time, he wondered why she was not behaving like Renuka Shahane’s character.
Shahane shared her experience of filming the iconic scene in Hum Aapke Hain Koun, where her character falls down the stairs and suffers a fatal injury. When Kapil Sharma asked if she was worried about getting injured during the shoot, Renuka told that director Sooraj Barjatya had specially made a ladder made of sponge for her safety.
He said he would check on her every two minutes to make sure she was okay. She humorously mentioned that the stairs were so soft that she actually enjoyed rolling down them and that she had to deliberately act out the pain to portray the pain.
In a previous interview with IANS, Renuka had expressed that she often felt “trapped” in the image of Pooja Bhabhi from Hum Aapke Hain Koun. She explained that the character left such a deep impression on the audience that many expected her to behave like Pooja in real life.
Renuka said that, unlike her on-screen persona, she experiences a range of emotions – she feels angry, anxious, and doesn’t always have a perfect smile. She shared that people would sometimes comment that Pooja Bhabhi never speaks like she does, to which she replied that it is because she is Renuka and not Pooja Bhabhi.
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