Why Homi Adajania Thanked Dimple Kapadia In The Opening Credits of ‘Cocktail 2’: ‘…So She Wouldn’t Wallop Me!’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Dimple Kapadia has featured in all of director Homi Adajania’s releases: “Being Cyrus” (2005), “Cocktail” (2012), “Finding Fanny” (2014), “Angrezi Medium” (2020) and finally, “Murder Mubarak” (2024). “Raabta” (2017) and “The Fakir of Venice” (2019) don’t count as he produced the former and only has writing credits for the latter.

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At the trailer launch of “Cocktail 2”, the possibility of Kapadia being in it, seemed remote. When asked at the time if she would feature in the cast, he had replied, “I enjoy the privilege of Dimple Kapadia’s trust as an actor. We share a similar madness, though I often have to reel her in before she goes nuts with her already off-the-wall characters. I think she’s fantastic as an actor, and even more so, as a human being. At first, it was a coincidence that she was in my second film, which was ‘Cocktail,’ then she made it to the third and so on!” 
 

Well, the film has been out for a week now, and Kapadia was not in the cast of “Cocktail 2”, but there was a “Thank you” acknowledgment to her in the opening credits. And therein was the mystery: had her role been edited out? Or had she made some creative contribution?

The real reason: “There was nothing substantial in the script for ‘Dimpa’. I had to thank her so she wouldn’t wallop me for making a movie without her!” he shares.

On what she thinks of Adajania’s first non-Dimple Kapadia film, he says, “No, she hasn’t watched my film, just the way she barely sees or hasn’t watched any of the films she has shot for.”