When Tena Desae forgot her lines!

TenaDesae, whose Bollywood films Yeh Faasleyand Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bandedidn't do too well at the box-office, had a dream Hollywood debut recently, as she starred along with the likes of Judi Dench, Dev Patel and a host of other well-known names in Oscar winning director John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which has been received well in India.
However, she was so much in awe of Judi Dench that she forgot her lines in front of her! Says Tena, "I was so much in awe of Judi Dench that once, I forgot to say my lines and she had to do a retake due to my mistake! But she was very sweet about it.What happened was that I was asked by John to watch her closely while she was emoting and she had a paragraph long dialogue to go with it. Now, I was so attentive that I completely got lost in the moment and after she was done with the scene, I forgot that it was my turn! It was a disastrous mistake on my part but was dealt with very gracefully by Judi." Tena, already being hailed as the next Freida Pinto, also has a lip-lock scene with Dev Patel in the film. She says, "Initially, I wasn't very comfortable but on the day of the shoot, it went off very well. I guess it was more difficult for Dev because while I was facing only the rest of the unit, he was facing about 300 people who had come to watch the shoot!"