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“Hey Ram has been one of my most major learning curves. Getting an opportunity to work with Kamal Haasan for me at that point in my career was something very special," said Rani, before detailing her experience working for him, which she said was disciplined to a point that was unheard of at the time.
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Not just that, but Rani credited Haasan for helping her feel more confident about herself. "I remember in those times, because I am quite short, I remember wearing these platform slippers and Kamalji looked at my slippers and said ‘wow, what are these?'" to which she told him she wore them because of her short height.
"He said, "Are you crazy? Just wear flats. You are not to be measured by how tall you are but your achievements will measure who you are," and I think that also stayed with me,” she said.
She went on to add, "From then on, I was confident about my height. To be an actor, you don’t necessarily need to be tall. Being an actor is about performing, is about acting and that is the biggest lesson I learnt from Kamalji."
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He not only helped her get over her 'short' height, but also made her feel more confident in her skin in front of the camera as well. "At that time, doing a film without make-up was unheard of. Kamalji came, put a bindi on me and told the makeup artist to put little kajal (kohl) in my eyes and said, "now my Aparna is ready"," she recalled.
“That was the first time I understood that actors don’t need that much make-up. You can actually do a film without make-up. It all depends on the lighting, the lenses the cameraman uses and I think I found a lot of confidence with the way Kamalji went through with his shoot,” she said.
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