Sonam Khan: ‘Mitti Aur Sona’ showed my acting and sexy side

Veteran actress Sonam Khan shared that she found her role in the 1989 film ldquoMitti Aur Sonardquo challenging as she played both a college girl and a sex worker to prove her acting abilities beyond her sexy imageThe actress took to Instagram where she went on to share that at the age of just 1516 she drew strength from visiting a redlight area enabling her to tackle emotionally intense scenes including the films raw climax which left a lasting impactView this post on InstagramA post shared by Sonam Khan sonamkhan_72She shared a couple of stills of her look from the film which was directed by Shiv Kumar It also stars Chunky Panday and NeelamSonam wrote ldquoMitti Aur Sona is a movie closest to my hearthellip I played a college girl and a sex worker Yes challenging it was I had to adapt the mannerisms of a college student and a girl who is moonlighting as a sex worker I had a point to prove with this movie How I had no cluerdquoShe added ldquoI was usually associated with being sexy Sonam wearing bikinis with gay abandon This movie gave me a chance in my short but eventful career of less than 4 years to prove that I could act and look sexy toordquoThe actress visited a red light area in a burka saw the mannerisms of the young girls there revealed that her ldquoheart was full of mixed emotionsrdquoldquoI even spoke to a few of them I felt a great sense of grief fear and protectiveness towards those young girlsrdquoThe shoot was rather eventful too shared the actressldquoI remember I had to do a scene in which I was wearing a skin colour short strapless dress which gave a feeling that I wasnrsquot wearing anything as the scene absolutely demanded that through camera lens ampamp angles At first I was okay and then suddenly I just burst out crying and refused to do the scenehellip I was just 1516 years oldrdquo she saidThe actress added ldquoAfter much cajoling in my makeup room I went on the set and did the scene thinking ampamp taking courage through the girls I had seen in the red light area a couple of moons agohellip ldquoTalking about her ldquofavorite song of the movierdquo she said it is ldquolsquoZindagi Mein Pheli Pheli Baarrsquo sung by the legendary late singer latamangeshkar jirdquoldquoThe last song of Mitti Aur Sona which was sung beautifully by our iconic ashabhosle ji was shot with me wearing zero makeup The shoot wrapped up of Mitti Aur Sona which was the death scene again without makeup and was the climax of the movie I started feeling very choked uprdquoSonam said ldquoI went home and cried a lot as I had so many emotions to vent outhellip my mom watched me in horror as she had never seen me crying like this I styled my look for Mitti Aur Sona all by myself as I was obsessed with Madonna back then and even now My coactors chunkypanday ampamp pran Saab were beyond helpful during the shootrdquoShe concluded ldquoI shall always be grateful to pahlajnihalani sir who gave me an author backed role Sometimes in a leap of fate I went from a scantily clad sex siren to proving that I can act toordquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever