Actor Soni Razdan is on a roll this 12 months, having appeared in a movie and three internet sequence in 2026. The veteran actor is thought and revered at this time for her massive physique of labor in each cinema and on streaming. However there was a time when Soni was hustling as nicely. Within the 80s, when the actor began her journey, she not solely confronted rejection however was additionally not even paid for her work. Besides when the cost arrived – 10 years later – it became a heartwarming story.
Why Soni Razdan wasn’t paid for Khamosh
In a dialog with Hindustan Instances, Soni recalled how her remuneration for the 1986 movie Khamosh was essentially the most uncommon. “Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an unbelievable particular person. Once I labored in Khamosh, I don’t assume he gave us any cash. He instructed us, ‘Once I promote the movie or once I make the cash again, all people will get it throughout the board’,” Soni recollects.
Khamosh was Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s second function movie. The younger filmmaker himself produced and bankrolled the movie. Other than Soni Razdan, it additionally starred Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, and Pankaj Kapoor. The movie grew to become notable for Amol, Soni, and Shabana portraying fictional variations of themselves.
When Vidhu despatched a cheque 10 years later
However for the acclaim it received, Khamosh was not a industrial success when it launched in theatres. It was solely after it bought its TV rights within the 90s that the movie grew to become a cult success on early cable tv. And true to his phrase, Vidhu Vinod Chopra delivered. Soni says, “Some 10 years later, a cheque got here to my home. I stated, ‘Why am I getting this cheque?’ So I referred to as him up, and he stated, ‘I promised you, Soni, I’ll pay you’.” Getting emotional on the reminiscence of the gesture, the actor provides, “That was a extremely unbelievable second.”
Soni Razdan’s latest work
Soni not too long ago appeared in two initiatives: the movie Om Ka Hari and the Netflix present Shaque. Om Ka Hari, written and directed by Harish Vyas, is the story of the tussle between a father and a son, performed by Raghubir Yadav and Anshuman Jha, respectively. Soni seems within the movie, together with Ayesha Kapur. The movie launched in theatres on September 18.
Lower than per week later, Soni appeared in Shaque. The sequence stars Parineeti Chopra in her internet sequence debut, alongside Jennifer Winget, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Soni, Sumeet Vyas, Harleen Sethi, Anup Soni, and Dhruv Chowdhury. Created by Siddharth P Malhotra and directed by Rensil D’Silva, the sequence started streaming on Netflix on September 24.