Bollywood actor Jugal Hansraj is in the headlines after a long time. He remembered the days of shooting of the 1983 superhit film Masoom. Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jaffrey, Tanuja and Supriya Pathak were in lead roles in this film. It was directed by Shekhar Kapur.

Revealed after 42 years
Jugal Hansraj acted as a child artist in the film. This film was released in the year 1983. Now after 42 years of the film, Jugal has made revelations about Shabana Azmi. He told that Shabana used to maintain distance from him during the shooting. She used to ignore him on the film sets. During the shooting days, she did not understand why she did this.

Shabana used to ignore me
Jugal Hansraj revealed in a conversation with Pinkvilla that Shabana Azmi used to maintain distance from him during the shooting of Masoom. She was very friendly with Urmila Matondkar and Aradhana. Jugal said, “Shabana ji used to talk a lot with both the girls because she was their mother in the film. Whereas she used to keep a distance from me. She used to ignore me.’

Due to this reason distance was maintained
Jugal Hansraj further said that he was so innocent that he could not understand why she did this to him. He said, “Later I found out that this was a part of Shabana ji’s process. She did not want us to come close because the coldness that was there should have been visible on the screen. Everyone should have felt that there was a discomfort between me and my mother, so she did it very beautifully.

Shabana was the step mother in the film
Let us tell you that Shabana Azmi played the role of Indu Malhotra in the film Masoom. Jugal Hansraj was seen as his step son Rahul Malhotra. At that time Jugal was a child artist. Apart from Jugal, Urmila Matondkar and Aradhana started their career as child artists with the film Masoom. The film was based on Eric Segal’s novel Man Woman and Child, published in 1980.

Director Shekhar Kapur often expresses his views through social media. On Saturday he expressed his opinion regarding the use of AI. He posted a video on social media platform ‘X’.

He wrote in the caption, “We are not yet trapped in the clutches of any AI, and what is happening is just a web of inflated prices of companies or things beyond their actual value. If people are repeatedly told about rising prices, then people start believing it to be true.

What else did Shekhar Kapur say on AI?

He further wrote, “AI is here forever and it can prove to be helpful in making our lives even easier and more productive.”

Giving an example, he wrote, “For example, if your house is being sold at a very high price, then it is no longer just your house, but has become a part of the real estate bubble. This does not mean that you do not need a house, but its prices have become high, which can fall at any time.”

We are not going through an AI bubble. We are going though a manipulated valuation bubble. Valuation is a story that if told long enough becomes a myth.

AI is here to stay. It’s potentially the most democratic technology to help make our lives more productive.

When your home… https://t.co/R2EbLVmdZe

— Shekhar Kapur (@shekharkapur) November 8, 2025

The director has given many memorable films

The director has given many memorable films in his career, but before entering the cinema world, he was a chartered accountant in London. After this, he turned towards Hindi cinema and entered the entertainment world with the serial ‘Khandaan’ and made his directorial debut with ‘Masoom’.

After this came his superhit film Mr. India. This film is still considered people’s choice for its characters and story. He has directed films like ‘The Four Feathers’ and Elizabeth-I in Hollywood.

Recently Shekhar Kapur had announced that he will make the sequel of ‘Masoom’. ‘Masoom’ was released in the year 1983. After the release, Shekhar Kapur was awarded the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Director.

Today we are talking about Jugal Hansraj, who won the hearts of the audience with his innocence and charming look in the film ‘Mohabbatein’. Who became an overnight star from this film. But then a time came that he suddenly disappeared from the industry. Today, on the actor’s birthday, we will tell you some of his interesting things. Know why his career drowned after signing 40 films together ….

Jugal started acting at the age of 10

Very few people would know that Jugal Hansraj was born to former cricketer Praveen Hansraj. But he made his career not in cricket but in acting. Jugal started acting from the age of 10. His first film was ‘Masoom’ in 1983. In the film, he worked with Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. Apart from this, he also did many films in childhood.

,Mohabbatein, Fame from the film from the film

Then Jugal Hansraj was seen as a hero in ‘Aa Gar Laga Ja’. However, his film could not succeed anything special. Then he appeared with Shah Rukh Khan in the film ‘Mohabbatein’ released in the year 2000 and became at the box office. He got a lot of fame from this film and the film also did a great collection.

Jugal signed 40 films together

From here, Jugal Hansraj’s career started flying and at one time he signed 40 films together. But then his bad phase started soon. Actually the actor which was signed by films. If some boxes were closed in them, some were not released even after shooting. After this, the actor came to be called ‘wretched’.

Actor was last seen in this film

Let us know that when he stopped getting work in the industry, the actor left India and went to New York Shift. Although he appeared in many projects in between, but he could not get special success from them. Recently, the actor was seen in the film ‘Nadaniyan’ with Ibrahim Ali Khan.

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Shekhar Kapoor has recently announced the sequel ‘Masoom: The Next Generation’ of his 1983 film ‘Masoom’. In this film, many actors including Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jafri, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar played important roles. At the same time, Shekhar Kapoor in one of his latest posts told the shocking thing about the first film ‘Masoom’ made under his direction. He revealed that no one had gone to the theater to see it, but then something happened that its tickets were sold in black.

No one had reached the theater to see ‘innocent’
In fact, through an emotional and heart touching post, the director recalled that tension filled week of the release of his first film Masoom with the window of old memories. He told that when this film was released, no one had come to see the film, and he felt that his career as a filmmaker was over before it started.

He wrote in the post, “The problem is that you have made an ‘article’ film, then even the other young black marketers joined the almost threatening style. I soon understood that he was ‘artistic’ from ‘Article’ that he was ‘artistic’ … but it was not praised in any way … because they bought tickets in the hope of getting full house, so that they could sell on profit …

Career as a producer ends before it starts Done
The theater was lying vacant in the film release Friday and the days after that. He further said, “I went to the theater … and there were only two people, and one of them was me! So much emptiness shook me. It was the end of my career as a filmmaker … which was not really even … because innocent was my first film.”

Everything turned into mid -week
Shekhar further wrote in his post, “However, the turning point came in the mid -week. By Wednesday, the distributors had started removing the film from theaters, and were trying to bring a more commercial film instead. Then Thursday came. Something changed.” Shekhar Kapoor wrote, “I got a call that people have started coming. Till Friday, ticket houses were full. By Saturday, tickets started selling in black – the audience who were shying away from seeing it initially, now they are splashing to go in.”

The innocent was declared a hit declare
Shekhar further writes, “And the race to find new cinemas has started … and the innocent has been declared a hit … I don’t know what happened on Thursday? I don’t know what happened. What would happen if they do not come on Thursday? The distributors would leave other cinema too … and there is no innocent film that someone would watch.”

Shekhar further wrote, “Now, after so many years … when I am preparing to bring ‘innocent, the next-generation’ into production, the word ‘article film’ still persecutes me … and … what happened on Thursday? Did my (or film) luck change overnight?”

Shekhar Kapoor’s daughter will play the lead role in ‘innocent the next-generation’
Let me tell you that Shekhar Kapoor’s upcoming film ‘Masoom The Next-Jeanation’ is based on the theme of home and identity and her daughter Kaveri Kapoor will be seen in the lead role. Fans are waiting for this film from Bracebree.

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