Koffee With Karan 8: Sharmila Tagore On Political Uproar When She First Slipped Into A Bikini, ‘Questions Were Asked In Parliament’

Koffee With Karan 8: Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan recently appeared on the latest episode of Koffee With Karan Season 8. Amid fun discussions, Sharmila Tagore revealed how everybody started talking when she slipped into a bikini for a scene in An Evening In Paris. The decision to showcase herself in this way garnered widespread interest and became a topic of discussion, even among political circles. During KWK 8, Tagore stated that she was ‘upset’ about the way it was interpreted.

Sharmila said, “The photographer was slightly worried. I just thought I looked very nice. What really hurt me later because everybody interpreted it in such a way that I was upwardly mobile, I was trying to catch eyeballs. I didn’t feel like that.”

‘Questions were asked in Parliament’: Sharmila Tagore In Bikini Controversy

“When it came out in Filmfare, I was in London so I was unaware until Shakti Samanth called me and said, ‘Will you come back quickly? There are terrible things happening here.’ He gave me a dressing down and said, ‘If you want to be in the public eye, this is not the way to go.’ I used to live alone and I was very upset with all this completely opposite of what I thought would happen. So I sent a Telegram to Tiger and Tiger said, ‘I’m sure you are looking very nice’ and that was my support.”

Tagore went on to state, “Questions were asked in Parliament. It was not pleasant for me. But learning I did. After that I chose Aaradhna. It was the RRR of our time.”

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Opening up about the same, Saif Ali Khan said that he was ‘very proud’ that his mother broke barriers and pulled off the scene in the movie. “People in boarding school used to tell me, ‘Is that your mum?’”