Sonali Bendre is a graceful actress who ruled Bollywood and Telugu films during the 1990s. In her decades-long career, she has essayed versatile roles, starring alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and more. One of her standout films with SRK was Duplicate, where Shah Rukh played dual roles, one good and one evil, and Sonali played the girlfriend of the evil ‘Manu’, and was a female lead alongside Juhi Chawla. However, despite the film’s success, Sonali wasn’t satisfied with her role in it.
Sonali Bendre feels her character in Duplicate was ‘one-dimensional’
In a recent chat with Bollywood Bubble, Sonali Bendre opened up on her experience working in the 1998 blockbuster, Duplicate, co-starring Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla. Sonali, who plays ‘Lily’, the love interest of SRK’s evil character, ‘Manu’, in the film, recalls how her character became one-dimensional as the story progressed. The actress shared:
“It was a film that a lot of people talk about. But this is one of those films that really helped shape the way I wanted my character to be. The idea was to have beautiful grey shades in this character, but it kind of started becoming very one-dimensional. I think it became more of a secondary character when I got onto it.”