This Is How Salman Made Karan Johar Fall On His Knees And Cry His Eyes Out On KKHH Shoot

Salman Khan is the like the ‘league’ of league actors. Even for Karan Johar, he is a glorious biggie who said yes to his first film ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ and gave him a hard time on the sets. Though we would really like to believe that he was only joking.

In a one-on-one interview with Neha Dhupia, Karan Johar spoke about how Salman Khan was adamant on wearing ripped jeans for his introduction shot in KKHH when he was supposed to wear a nicely tailored suit. 

 

Karan narrates the episode here, 

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Day 1 came of shooting and Salman was doing 2 shifts. Salman was shooting the patang wala gaana in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Saajan Ji Ghar Aaye for me which is his intro song in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

I walked in and there was a black suit which his designer Shabina Khan had designed, all set for the big song and Kajol was in this elaborate lehenga and the set was all palatial and he was like ‘hey, I have an idea! I’m going to wear these torn jeans and white t-shirt and I’m going to, like no f*****g dulha has ever worn torn jeans on his sagaai.

And it’s going to set a trend and people are going to go mad! I don’t want to wear this suit, don’t be silly. I’m just going to do Saajan Ji Ghar Aaye in these torn jeans and this t-shirt.’ And I was like, oh this is lovely, it’s cool, it’s nice. And I went outside and I said no Salman.”

Firstly Salman is a humongous star, he’s really gracing my film with his presence and he really wanted to wear those torn jeans, I think he was pulling my legs but I was like traumatized for five minutes.

Salman was like I’m not wearing it, I’m not wearing it and I said please, please please and finally I was so wound up and nervous, scared and petrified that I started bawling loudly in front of him. I was like *waah waah*, please it’s my first film, I beg you! Don’t do this to me; wear the black suit.

It will look very nice, I promise. I don’t think he has ever seen a grown man weep like buckets in front of him and he was like yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don’t worry, main pehanlunga. Tu rona mat haan, main maar dalunga tujhe, tu rona mat.

And I was like please, I went down on my knees. I was fully theatrical and old school filmy. I’d become Rakhee from Ram Lakhan. I went on my knees and I said please. He wore it, and it was fine. I just couldn’t believe that he was going to wear torn jeans and I did not know what else to do and when in doubt, you cry and I knew he was kind of soft-hearted and he wouldn’t take a huge football in front of him weeping like I did and he wore it and it was fun.

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So life isn’t easy even for Karan Johar.

 

So the real question is, was Salman joking?

But if the song Sajan Ji Ghar Aaye was actually done in torn jeans and a white shirt, it would have been super cool. A real trendsetter, don’t you agree?

Source: Pinkvilla

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