EXCLUSIVE: “I have wonderful memories of belly dancing and singing Rakkasa in Egypt with Amitabh Bachchan”- Zeenat Aman : Bollywood News

Zeenat Aman is one of the most talented and loved actresses from India. She began her acting journey in 1970 and went on to feature in some of the best Hindi films we have seen. From Roti, Kapada, Aur Makaan, Lawaaris, Hare Rama Hare Krishna to Don, Zeenat Aman has given several hit performances back in the day. She has featured as the female lead in over 80 Hindi films. Recently, she was honoured at the Filmfare Middle East Achievers Night in Dubai. At the event, she spoke to Bollywood Hungama about her journey and some of her memorable characters.

EXCLUSIVE: “I have wonderful memories of belly dancing and singing Rakkasa in Egypt with Amitabh Bachchan”- Zeenat Aman

Zeenat Aman is still remembered for her work and appreciated by the audience. Some of her songs are still fresh in the minds of people across the world. “It’s been so long. All these songs were in the 70s. For them to still be alive and appreciated, it’s very heartwarming and sometimes overwhelming because no matter where I go, people meet me and greet me and talk about the work that I did. It touches you that people still remember and still enjoy the work that you did,” she said.

Sharing her memories of shooting in Egypt with Amitabh Bachchan, she said, “I have wonderful memories of Egypt, doing the Belly dance and singing Rakkasa by the pyramids with Mr. Bachchan in The Great Gambler.”

Zeenat Aman’s characters are relatable even to this day. She played characters with different shades back in the day when that was not the norm for female actors. "At that time there was a clear delineation between the heroine and the vamp. I played characters that were shades of grey and there were reasons for the character to turn grey. So it was a combination of the heroine and the vamp in the roles I did. Like the role I did in Hare Ram where I played the role of a girl who ran away from home and became a drug addict. There is a reason as to why that happened. In Roti, Kapda Aur Makaan, she chose the rich man over the poor but in the end, she sacrificed her life for that and I mean so many different shades. In Insaf Ka Tarazu, she pulled out a gun and shot somebody. In many films I played the good-bad girl the bad-good girl, however, you want to call it," she said.