Sharmila
Tagore
On
KWK
8:
The
latest
episode
of
Karan
Johar's
chat
show
Koffee
With
Karan
season
8
was
a
blockbuster
as
it
saw
film
veteran
Sharmila
Tagore
gracing
the
couch
for
the
first
time
with
her
son
Saif
Ali
Khan.
The
conversations
spanned
family
dynamics,
cinema,
and
more.
Tagore,
who
was
among
the
first
few
actresses
to
wear
a
bikini
on
the
big
screen
for
her
1967
film
An
Evening
In
Paris,
spoke
about
the
backlash
she
got
for
it.
During
the
show,
Sharmila
shared
how
her
bold
step
grabbed
eyeballs,
including
those
seated
in
Parliament.
Sharmila
talks
about
her
bikini
photoshoot
in
60s
The
79-year-old
actress
was
her
unfiltered
best
on
Koffee
With
Karan
8.
She
revealed
how
fans
and
the
film
industry
were
shocked
seeing
her
bikini
scene
and
even
added
that
questions
were
raised
over
the
same
in
the
Indian
Parliament.
Host
Karan
said,
"Your
famous
bikini
shot...
You
know
the
shot
I
am
talking
about.
Nobody
else
wanted
it
to
happen.
Even
the
photographer
had
some
anxiety
issues
about
doing
that."
Replying
to
him,
Sharmila
Tagore
stated,
"Yes
I
do." Saif
Ali
Khan
added,
"People
in
my
boarding
school
used
to
ask
me,
is
that
your
mum?
I
was
very
proud
of
it."
Sharmila
then
added,
"Yes,
the
photographer
was
slightly
worried
and
I
just
thought
I
looked
very
nice.
It
really
hurt
me
later
because
everybody
interpreted
it
in
such
a
way
that
I
was
upwardly
mobile,
I
was
trying
to
catch
eyeballs.
I
didn't
feel
like
that.
When
it
came
out
in
Filmfare,
I
was
in
London
and
I
was
unaware
till
Shakti
(Samanta)
ji
called
me
and
said,
will
you
come
back
quickly?
There
are
terrible
things
happening
here.
He
said
if
you
want
to
be
in
the
public
eye,
this
is
not
the
way
to
go."
She
mentioned
that
she
sent
a
telegram
to
Tiger
Pataudi
and
said,
"I
was
very
upset
with
all
this...
Completely
opposite
of
what
I
thought
would
happen
so,
I
sent
a
telegram
because
those
days
you
could
send
telegrams.
So,
I
sent
it
to
Tiger
and
he
said,
I
am
sure
you
are
looking
very
nice.
So
that
was
my
support."
"Questions
were
asked
in
Parliament.
It
was
not
pleasant
for
me.
But
learning
I
did.
After
that
I
chose
Aaradhna.
It
was
RRR
of
our
time," Sharmila
said,
referring
to
her
film
with
Rajesh
Khanna
in
1969.