Years after she danced to "Tip Tip Barsa Paani", Raveena Tandon spoke about the dance number, her relationship with Akshay Kumar and the gossip magazines of the 90s.
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00:00TT and Thunder Thighs and Miss This and Miss That.
00:03You had Thunder Thighs? I don't believe that.
00:0590s journalism and that breed of those journalists were really dirty.
00:09Really dirty.
00:10Is that Tip Tip Parsa Pani was not vulgar?
00:30Your personal life has always been something that's always in the news.
00:51Even today if I was to Google Raveena Tandon, Akshay Kumar's name comes up with it.
00:56And you broke up with him 25-30 years ago or something.
01:00But it still comes up.
01:01And it comes up that there's war between everyone whom he's involved with.
01:07Once I had moved out of his life, I was already dating someone else.
01:11And he had moved on dating someone else.
01:13So where will jealousy come from?
01:15It's January 2023 when we are taping this.
01:19And the fourth or the fifth story if you type Raveena Tandon comes up is
01:25Raveena Tandon's engagement with Akshay Kumar.
01:27Which year was that?
01:29Forgotten about it.
01:31So it's still talked about.
01:34I think there are some pairings which people never forget.
01:38Yeah, I think we were a hit pair during Maura.
01:42And even now when we bump into socially, we all meet, we all chat.
01:46I mean everyone moves on.
01:47Girls are changing their boyfriends every week in colleges since then to now.
01:52But one engagement that has broken is still stuck to my head.
01:55I don't know why.
01:56But yeah, so everyone moves on.
01:58People have divorces, people move on.
02:00So what's the big deal?
02:01So even after that, after he broke up with you, it was always that
02:04whoever he finds, he's finding people who look like Raveena.
02:08Do you remember that?
02:10No, I don't.
02:11You don't? Or you just blocked it out of your mind?
02:13I would not read anything that was written about that.
02:16Because then why unnecessarily raise your blood pressure?
02:18So don't read it, sit down.
02:19Do you do that often?
02:22Yeah, I block it out.
02:23Gossip magazines of those days, now there are no magazines.
02:25Were completely blocked from my house.
02:27Really?
02:28Yeah, because 90s gossip magazines were the worst.
02:31And some of those women I see roaming around today
02:34carrying the women's lib badge over their heads and their hearts
02:38who were the worst enemies of women, would body shame women,
02:41would slut shame women, would do everything possible
02:45to bring another woman down.
02:47And today they roam around being the biggest feminists.
02:50So I was like, when did that happen?
02:52If I start telling stories about them.
02:54To you where nobody would body shame you, you always looked perfect.
02:57Oh no, no, no, please, I was called a lot of things.
03:00You always was?
03:01Khabi 90s ke kholo, TT and Thunder Thighs and Miss This and Miss That.
03:04You had Thunder Thighs? I don't believe that.
03:06Yeah, but I was plump.
03:08I started at 16 and a half.
03:10I had all full baby fat, which still hasn't gone.
03:13So I don't care.
03:14I have been like that, I am like that.
03:16Too bad.
03:17No, you're exaggerating.
03:19It was like, I think Sridevi was called that a lot.
03:23I think after that I was called that.
03:25I don't know, I remember some of these titles.
03:27No, no, not only for me, a lot of other heroines also.
03:30And besides that, I think instead of supporting women,
03:33what they did was to, they would, all these women editors
03:37first of all would fall in love with the heroes.
03:39And then what the hero said was the last word.
03:42If he wanted to, you know, pan a woman,
03:44the woman would be panned and shamed
03:47and literally her career ruined in the magazines
03:52with nasty articles being put out about her.
03:55There were so many untrue articles that were put out
03:58just because some heroes went and said,
04:00Okay, write about her like this now.
04:01And it would be the last word.
04:03And even if there would be an apology,
04:05there would be one last line in some other issue of the magazine
04:08that that story we carried ultimately proved not to be true.
04:11But who will read that?
04:12At that time, the screaming headlines is what made news, right?
04:16Yeah.
04:17So that used to happen a lot.
04:18Social media kind of changed all that, right?
04:20There is the viciousness also,
04:22but at least you can put out your point of view.
04:24Yes, yes.
04:25That is what is very, very necessary
04:27is that today you can put out the truth instantly
04:30that see, this is the proof and this is where I was
04:33and this is what it is.
04:34But at that time, what the newspapers wrote
04:36or what the media wrote was the last word.
04:38You didn't have a voice.
04:40It was like, I remember anybody put on a little weight,
04:44any actress put on,
04:45Is she pregnant? Is she pregnant? Is she pregnant?
04:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:47That whole thing.
04:48At least now, I mean, within a day,
04:50denial can go out that,
04:52Okay, it was just I had samosas for lunch or whatever.
04:55Yeah.
04:56No, no, not samosa.
04:57I mean, whatever.
04:58I mean, I'm being facetious.
04:59But it used to be really, really dirty.
05:02The 90s journalism and that breed of those journalists
05:06were really dirty.
05:07Really dirty.
05:08Really dirty.
05:09Is that why you just moved out once you got married?
05:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:12That's why I was like, okay, I'm waiting
05:14because this viciousness I can't deal with
05:16because I am not like that as a person.
05:18What I am, I am on the face.
05:20I think initially, in fact,
05:21I remember even writing an article about,
05:23I don't believe in plucking flowers.
05:26I prefer flowers and animals in the forest
05:29and in the nature where they should be.
05:31So I always, I started this trend
05:33of sending people cakes right in the 90s.
05:35And I remember writing an article,
05:37see how diabetically, artificially fake,
05:40sweet she is nowadays.
05:42She sends cakes to everyone
05:43instead of flowers for her birthday.
05:45How does that make that an article?
05:48I would say I'd rather send a bottle of wine or cake.
05:51And that's what I started.
05:52I used to send everyone cakes.
05:55So that was supposed to be fake.
05:57So aise likhte the un log.
05:59So I'm going to go with the films
06:02that I like the most.
06:03So I'll go with...
06:05We all know Chichora film.
06:07It has to be, right?
06:08I mean, the 90s was something else.
06:10You know, that reminds me,
06:12when there was this talk about that Deepika song,
06:17Deepika Shahrukh song,
06:18that Besharam Rang song,
06:19which was coming on.
06:20And at that time, everybody was like,
06:22oh, you know, it's too vulgar and things.
06:24And then of course, because it was orange
06:27and so all the orange dress songs came up.
06:31You know that, okay, wasn't this vulgar,
06:33wasn't this vulgar, wasn't this vulgar,
06:34wasn't this vulgar?
06:35Yellow and orange.
06:36What did I do in orange?
06:37Yellow, you were yellow.
06:38So your tip tip barsa pani thing.
06:40So when we were all talking,
06:42mere moose nikal gaya ki agar ye vulgar hai,
06:44which I think is,
06:45I mean, it's not a nice song, this one.
06:47At least personally, I didn't like it.
06:49I don't believe it should be banned,
06:50but I didn't like it.
06:51Toh maine kaha ki wo tip tip barsa pani bhi toh.
06:54And this was on air, by the way.
06:56This is an on air discussion we had
06:58on one of the podcasts.
06:59I think, how dare you say tip tip barsa pani?
07:02So there were all these 90s kids,
07:04these guys now, they are in their 40s.
07:06And they were like,
07:07don't you dare say anything about tip tip barsa pani.
07:11Blasphemy.
07:12Did you even realize when you shoot?
07:13Tip tip barsa pani was not vulgar.
07:15In fact, there was a point where,
07:17I think even the co-producer of the film,
07:20he kind of mentioned in an interview of his recently
07:22that Raveena didn't want to do a song earlier.
07:24And then we kind of convinced her
07:26because they wanted the whole song
07:28without the saree on.
07:29And I was like, hello, that ain't happening at all.
07:31I'm going to keep my saree on.
07:33Yeah, okay, getting drenched is okay.
07:35You're doing a rain song.
07:36The whole world has done rain songs.
07:37And the whole world gets drenched.
07:39But I said, no way, Jose.
07:40I'm keeping my saree on.
07:41So there's just that one flip of a saree
07:43and then where he dances with the saree
07:45and then it's back on to me
07:46where I actually put it on.
07:48So, I mean, there are times
07:49when you can put your foot down.
07:50No one puts a gun on your head and says,
07:52do these things.
07:53And see, I've always believed
07:55that there's a thin line
07:57between sensuality and sexuality,
07:59in your face sexuality.
08:00So I am not a person
08:02who would like in your face sexuality
08:05that come see I'm sexual.
08:06I think that's a little too much.
08:08I think sensuality can be in anything,
08:10can be in a hair flip,
08:11can be in your eyes,
08:12can be in your expression,
08:13can be even in the way you smile.
08:15So that is,
08:16I'm a believer of sensuous things,
08:19of sensuality.
08:20And that's how I see Tip Tip Barsa Pani.
08:22Tip Tip was a very, very sensuous song.
08:23There was no in your face vulgarity
08:26as such in that, you know,
08:28where in those days
08:29when there was an era in the 90s
08:31where all double meaning songs
08:32and double meaning, you know, films like,
08:35I mean, there's so many of those songs
08:37which are so vulgar and so obscene.