Asha Parekh remembers 'intimidating' Bina Rai

"I remember Binaji was very, very introvert. I was the youngest person in the unit. She was my senior and intimidating. She wouldn't mix around and kept completely to herself on the sets. I remember once a co-star was getting a shot repeatedly wrong. The giggler that I am, I kept bursting into giggles. Binaji just stared at me, and then suddenly smiled softly. That was a rare moment of connectivity with her."

"Ghunghat" director Ramanand Sagar had got very upset with Asha. "After the incident, he scolded me saying I should know how to behave in front of someone as big as Bina Raiji."

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Asha also remembers Bina Rai as a woman of rare elegance. "She was not quite like the average film person. Always different and detached One more illustrious soul gone," she said.

Asha also lost another co-star, the little-known actress-producer Chandrakala who passed away suddenly on Dec 4 following a massive heart attack. Asha worked with Chandrakala in Nasir Husain's "Teesri Manzil".

"It happened so suddenly. I wasn't even in town," said Asha.

Besides doing bit roles, Chandrakala had also produced films like Dharmendra and Vyjanthimala starrer- "Pyar Hi Pyar" and "Anand".

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