When Bipasha Basu came face to face with 'lecherous' men!
31st July 2006 21.15 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau

Although not a chicken at heart, Bipasha Basu got scared when she saw a crowd of lecherous, lewd, unshaven men on the sets of Omkara .

The film has Bipasha playing a local dance performer named Billo Chaman Bahar in UP. Bips has done two item songs in the movie, which hit the theatres last Friday.
However, while shooting the first item number Beedi Jalai Le, when Bipasha got dressed in her skimpy outfit and went on the shooting sets, she was scared to see a crowd of unkempt, unruly men casting lewd glances at her.

“I had never seen so many unshaven, unkempt, unbathed and lecherous men in a crowded, sweaty place,” a report quotes Bipasha as saying.

Bipasha said she had a panic attack and ran away from the place. Later, the movie’s actor Saif Ali Khan came to her and assured her that there was nothing to be scared of.

It took Bipasha some time to realize that these 'lecherous' men were hired actors who had deliberately been made to look unkempt and lewd for the item song.

Putting her trust in the movie’s director Vishal Bhardwaj , Bipasha danced her way through the item numbers in the film.

Bhardwaj, in fact, shocked other stars of the movie as well while shooting various other sequences. He made Kareena Kapoor ride a rickshaw in the middle of a crowded bazaar in Lucknow. He made Ajay Devgan sit at the back of a dilapidated truck while shooting another scene.