A little reluctant to be slapped for real, the actress had already sent feelers to the director inquiring for the scene to be captured using camera tricks that make it seem like an actual slap though her co-star Shruti’s hand never actually touches her cheeks.
It seemed Purvi told the director, “I have never been slapped in my whole life and that i would truly like to keep it that way!”
Looking at her reluctance to be slapped, the director and her Pavitra Rishta co-stars Ankita Lokhande and Shruti Kanwar teamed up and decided it was time for Purvi to be a sport and be slapped for real-not once, not twice but atleast 6 times.
They however asked “Shruti the slapper” to head easy with the force in order that Asha doesn’t get actually hurt, but just exasperated and frustrated while shooting.
So when it was time to shoot the scene, Asha was bewildered when actual slaps landed on her face and worse still, retakes after retakes were called for.
When after the sixth take, the director asked for another retake, Asha said to the director, “This isn't fair … we had a discussion in regards to the slap, didn’t we?”
That is when all of the co-conspirators jumped in, burst out laughing and hugged Asha, explaining how they’d all decided to get her slapped for real on seeing the way in which she was seeking to chicken out of the scene.
Shruti who delivered all of the slaps laughed out the loudest but insisted, “Those were the softest slaps anyone may have asked for … so that you better not crib, Asha!”
The current track has Shruti who plays Archana’s daughter Ovi discovering that the affection of her life Arjun (played by Rithvik Dhanjani) is seeing Archana’s adopted daughter Purvi (Asha Negi).
In an angry outburst, she slaps Purvi for trying to steal a person who belongs to her.
Pavitra Rishta will now see a love triangle of types where Archana might be caught in a dilemma as either way, certainly one of her daughters could be hurt.
