Dia Mirza 'Had To Strip Bare In Front Of 100s Of Men' For Song Shoot: 'That Really Unshackled Me'

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Dia Mirza 'Had To Strip Bare In Front Of 100s Of Men' For Song Shoot: 'That Really Unshackled Me'

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Last Updated: August 28, 2026, 07:57 IST

Dia Mirza said she was almost down to her undergarments, but she found the experience to be quite liberating.

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Dia Mirza said she wasn't too confident about her body before the shoot.

Actress Dia Mirza has recalled how she had to “strip bare" in front of “hundreds of men" for the shoot of the song Mujhe Tumse Mohabbat Hai. She mentioned she was initially hesitant as she didn’t feel confident in her body. However, Dia found the experience to be quite liberating. The song was shot with Emraan Hashmi for their 2004 film, Tumsa Nahin Dekha.

Dia Mirza told Bollywood Bubble, “It kind of liberated me in ways that I would have never imagined. And the confidence with which I was able to perform the song came from, of course, the fact that Vaibhavi Merchant is the choreographer of the song. And everyone working on it made me feel so safe."

She added, “But it was possibly one of the most difficult things that I’ve ever done as a girl. Because I had to strip bare, almost down to underwear and a bra, in front of hundreds of men on set." The actress also opened up about why she agreed to do it and said that she was aware of what was needed for her character.

Dia continued, “And it could have felt like a very… how do I explain it? It felt, but it didn’t, because by then, by the time we shot the song, I had become so aware of how important it is to find an actor’s character truth and what you are conveying through a character, that it didn’t matter to me whether there were 500 people or 1,000 people in the room."

“And I feel like there are lots of things like that that are connected to earlier parts of my career that have informed the artist that I have become today. And if I’m able to bring nuance and texture, or like a lived truth, to a moment, it comes because of the things I have been able to overcome within myself over this journey of 25 years. And I think it’s also a continuous process, right? Hopefully, I will keep learning, and I will keep getting better," she shared.

Dia called the shoot a “liberating experience". “Because there were lots of, you know, preconceived concepts aur ideas that I shed when I worked on that film. I was a girl who came from Hyderabad. I came from a very conservative background. And, I was very, I wasn’t so confident in my body. That film made me really confident in my body, because there is that one song, Mujhe Tumse Mohabbat Hai. That really unshackled me," she explained in the same chat.

Tumsa Nahin Dekhaa- A Love Story is directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. The film is inspired by Hollywood’s Pretty Woman, and revolves around a rich man who falls in love with a bar dancer, but stands to lose his inheritance if he doesn’t marry the girl his family chose for him. It also stars Anupam Kher and Pooja Bharti.

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First Published: August 28, 2026, 07:57 IST