Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore spoke about balancing a life in arthouse cinema alongside her burgeoning Bollywood career in the ’70s, and revealed that she once had to make such a grave ‘compromise’ to accommodate multiple projects that she would’ve been sued had it happened now.
In an interview shared on the Quorum YouTube channel, she said that she was offered the film Aranyer Din Ratri by Satyajit Ray after she had already signed Aradhana, directed by her mentor in the Hindi films, Shakti Samanta, and co-starring the era’s biggest star, Rajesh Khanna. She said that it was virtually impossible to get Khanna’s dates at the time, because he had signed with 12 producers simultaneously.