Veteran actress Juhi Chawla first won our hearts on the silver screen almost 33 years ago in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. Juhi now looks back on her film journey and shares intriguing anecdotes from her past.
Speaking of the time she worked on her debut film with Aamir Khan, Juhi says, “I still remember when our movie was going to be released. Nobody knew us.
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Mid-Day reports her adding, “Remember, at that time, it was a common practice for taxis to carry film posters. There was a long line of taxis below our building, so I would go from driver to driver requesting them to put up the posters.”
She continues, “They would ask, ‘Who’s he?’, and I would say, ‘He is the hero, Aamir Khan.’ They would then point to my image on the poster and ask, ‘Who’s she?’, and I would say, ‘This is me.’ And they would say, ‘No, no,’ and shoo us away. But some did reply sweetly, allowing us to put up the posters.”
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Looking back on how the success of a film was measured back then, Chawla reveals that she and Aamir would wait outside cinemas to gauge the audience’s reaction.
“In those days, it was not like today, when daily collection figures are public knowledge in a day. We would stand outside theatres to see if people were going in to watch the movie or not. And we slowly came to know that people actually like our movie,” she recollects.
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