Mumbai- Actor and National Award winner Yami Gautam has responded with humour to reports that she received a hefty paycheck for her cameo in husband Aditya Dhar’s film ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, saying that the opportunity to be directed by him was compensation enough.
Yami shared her take during an upcoming episode of the quiz show ‘Kon Honar Crorepati’, where she will appear alongside actor Aadinath Kothare. During the conversation, host Madhuri Dixit asked whether Yami had been paid for her appearance or had agreed to do it at her husband’s request.
“I watched ‘Dhurandhar’. I really liked it. Did you get paid for that cameo? Or did your husband say, ‘Please, babe, do it’?” Madhuri asked.
Laughing, Yami replied that some things were priceless. She said Aditya had asked her to visit the set because he wanted good luck to be with him during the shoot.
“Being directed by one of the finest directors in India was my fee,” she said, adding that she was also surprised when she heard reports that she had received a “big fat cheque” for the cameo.
Yami made a special appearance as Shazia Bano, a nurse who is revealed to be an undercover Indian agent operating in Pakistan. Her character appears in a brief but significant sequence alongside Ranveer Singh’s Hamza.
Directed by Aditya Dhar, ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ features Ranveer Singh, Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R. Madhavan and Sara Arjun, among others.
–IANS