After her bold photoshoot for ‘The Man’, Neetu Chandra decides to go bold yet again with her bathing scene in Jagmohan Mundhra’s ‘Apartment’ The scene seems to be a reminiscent of Smita Patil’s ‘bathing in the slums’ scene in ‘Chakra’. The movie is a contemporary thriller set in an apartment where two people live. Neetu plays a girl from a small town. The scene which shows Neetu bathing in a run-down broken bathroom is preceded by Tanushree’s shower scene with Rohit in her lavish apartment. Although it presents Neetu it an outdoor shot, actually it was shot in a bathroom and only Jagmohan Mundra, cameraman Uday Tiwari, my assistant and the EP Krishna Banerjee were present during the shoot.
Neetu is quite comfortable with the way the scene was shot and presented and on being compared with Smita Patil’s bathing scene in ‘Chakra’ she says, I knew that Smita Patil had done a similar bathing scene in Chakra. I have been compared to Smitaji since Traffic Signal but it’s not fair to be compared to anyone. She was a legend. We all look up to her. If I can be even one per cent of what she was, my life is set.”
