Hrithik Roshan & Anurag Basu Fooled Barbara Mori

The actress on demand, Barbara Mori, who flew back to Mexico on April 30, apparently, had tuitions in Hindi everyday on the sets of Kites. Her director Anurag Basu took the task of teaching her India’s national language. But, of course, Basu and his leading man Hrithik decided to play a joke on Barbara, so they taught her cuss words instead.

For simple English words such as ‘good morning’ and ‘thank you’ Basu taught the actress bad words of Hindi. “Initially she didn’t realise that she was learning bad words. Innocently, she’d come on set each morning and utter the bad words, that too at the top of her voice,” says Anurag. While initially Barbara didn’t realise she was doing something wrong, after observing everyone’s reaction for two-three days on the sets, she figured out that something was amiss. Later, when the actress was told the truth she was zapped, but took it very sportingly.

But this is not the end of the story. The cross cultural collaboration came about when Barbara, too, taught some unit members a few words in Spanish without telling them what the actual meaning was. “To settle scores with me and the team, Barbara would teach us Spanish words and never tell us the actual meaning of the words she taught us, but some of us were quick enough to surf the net and cross check whether what she was teaching was correct. By the end, we knew a lot of Spanish bad words and Barbara knew a lot of Hindi, but only abuses,” adds Anurag. Source