Vineet Raina looks pretty menacing in Kaala Teeka, where he plays the evil tantric, Devri. If that wasn’t enough, Vineet decided to smear his face and body in 15 kg of mud to scare the daylights out of the audience. The actor’s feat was for a crucial upcoming sequence of the show, where his character tries to hide himself from everyone. Since ordinary mud would be damaging to his skin, the creatives decided to use multani mitti for the scene instead. A paste was very meticulously prepared in a bathtub, using 15 kg of the mud. As the actor emerged looking like a brown yeti, completely unrecognisable, the set was happy with the job. The only hitch with the scene was that Vineet had to stay wrapped in the pack for a gruelling four hours.
Says the actor, “Ever since the creative team informed me about the scene, I was extremely excited to do it. Since I had to stay smeared with mud for four long hours, they used multani mitti instead, which, in fact, has therapeutic properties and is good for the skin. However, it was a task managing it for four hours, as I was unable to talk with the sticky pack applied all over me. After I took it off, though, everyone said I was glowing!”
