{"id":73217,"date":"2025-08-16T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73217\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:50:09","slug":"chaiyya-chaiyya-bts-malaika-arora-reveals-mani-ratnams-no-makeup-rule-and-muddy-lehenga-twist-deets-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73217\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 BTS: Malaika Arora reveals Mani Ratnam\u2019s no-makeup rule and muddy lehenga twist- Deets inside |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Chaiyya Malaika Arora<\/a> recently opened up about her most iconic song \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 and shared how the shoot turned out very different from what she had imagined. She recalled the challenges, Mani Ratnam<\/a>\u2019s unique vision, and also how the experience became a milestone in her career.<\/p>\n

\u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 became a turning point in Malaika Arora\u2019s career<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Malaika, who is known for her dance numbers, admitted that \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 became a turning point in her career. She said that people continue to shower love on her for that performance even today, and she feels very grateful because the song gave her so much recognition.<\/p>\n

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Talking about the shoot, Malaika revealed that she had initially arrived on set in full makeup and dressed in a beautiful lehenga-choli designed by Manish Malhotra<\/a>. Everything looked perfect, clean, glamorous, and film ready. But director Mani Ratnam had something completely different in mind.\u201cManish had done my clothes and all that. It was pristine, clean, and chaka chak, you know, like, \u2018Get me that lehenga choli,\u2019 and I had done makeup and all, and I was waiting. Mani Sir came and said, \u2018Oh ho\u2026 Too much makeup \u2013 take it out. Not looking nice, please take that out. I was like, \u2018Take out matlab pura makeup nikal ke.\u2019 He is like, \u2018Just take out everything.\u2019 So I went and washed my face,” she recalled.The surprises didn\u2019t end there. Mani Ratnam felt her outfit looked too neat and polished, which didn\u2019t fit the raw, earthy look he wanted for the song. To bring in the feel of a banjara (nomadic) vibe, he asked the team to roll the lehenga in mud before Malaika could wear it again. Laughing about the moment, she said, \u201cThen he said, \u2018The outfit is looking too clean, it is looking too neat, and I don\u2019t want that. You know you are somebody, you return to show like a banjara. You have to have that. So take the outfit and just put it in the mud. Then just let it look. Just roll it in the mud a couple of times.\u2019 I was like, firstly, I have to remove my makeup, and then I have to wear an outfit that has been rolled in the mud. So yeah, I have to wear that.”<\/p>\n

About \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019<\/p>\n

The result of that effort is the \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 we all know today, a song composed by AR Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung by Sukhwinder Singh<\/a> and Sapna Awasthi, and the unique train-top choreography featuring Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> and Malaika made the song unforgettable, both visually and musically.Even after more than two decades, \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 continues to remain special for audiences across the world, and for Malaika, it isn\u2019t just a performance but a defining chapter of her journey in the film industry and one that still brings her love and admiration wherever she goes.”Get the latest news updates on Times of India, including reviews of the movie Coolie <\/a>and War 2<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malaika Arora recently opened up about her most iconic song \u2018Chaiyya Chaiyya\u2019 and shared how the shoot turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,57043,57041,134,56753,57042,344,57044],"class_list":{"0":"post-73217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bollywood-songs","11":"tag-chaiyya-chaiyya","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-malaika-arora","14":"tag-mani-ratnam","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-no-makeup-rule"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}