I was not ready to do it, says Bhagyashri Borse on slapping Dulquer Salmaan for a scene in 'Kaantha'

CHENNAI: Actress Bhagyashri Borse, whose spectacular performance as Kumari in director Selvamani Selvaraj's recently released period drama, 'Kaantha' has come in for widespread praise, has now disclosed how she initially refused to slap Dulquer Salmaan for real for a scene in the film!

The film, the plot of which revolves around the ego tussle between a prominent director and a film superstar in the 1950s, has a sequence in which Bhagyashri Borse's character Kumari has to slap Dulquer Salmaan's character. Baghyashrii Borse had to strike Dulquer not once but several times hard in the sequence.

When IANS asked Bhagyashri Borse about difficulty of enacting such a scene, the actress, talking exclusively to IANS, said,"It took me a lot of time, I was not ready to do it because I was like 'Ca