Farah Khan has revealed that she was approached by Shah Rukh Khan and Aditya Chopra to choreograph songs for 1995 cult romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, but she turned them down. Farah recalled how she got a call from SRK when veteran choreographer Saroj Khan got late in reaching the sets of DDLJ in Switzerland.
In an interview with Radio Nasha, Farah explained why she didn’t choreograph all the songs of the Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol-starrer. “I didn’t have a phone at my home then. My neighbour got a call. There was Shah Rukh and Adi (Aditya Chopra) on the phone. Shah Rukh asked me, ‘Farah, can you come to Switzerland tomorrow? Yash Raj Films will organise. There are 2-3 songs we need you to do.’ And I swear I told them, ‘Sorry, my dates are with Nana Patekar (for Yeshwant, 1997). Day after, I’m shooting with Nana Patekar and I can’t ditch that shooting because I’ve got a bigger film.”
Farah said the song of Yeshwant wasn’t a great set, but Nana Patekar had requested her to do the choreography. “Then I didn’t do the other songs (of DDLJ). Then when they came back, Adi called me to meet him. He said, ‘I really admire that you stuck to (your commitment). Not everyone does that. The minute you get a bigger film, you dump (the smaller one).’ He had just one song left and asked me to do it. It was Ruk Ja O Dil Deewane. So I believe if you’ve given your word and if you don’t stay true to it, no one can trust you,” she added. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge turned out to be one of the biggest blockbusters of all time.
Earlier, Farah had revealed that she got her career break with ‘Pehla Nasha’ song in Mansoor Khan’s 1992 blockbuster Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar after Saroj Khan didn’t turn up to the sets.
Comments
0 comment