Aditya Chopra recalls how Shah Rukh Khan-Anushka Sharma’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi brought back hope for YRF

Anushka Sharma recalled how Aditya Chopra was insistent that she should not be revealed to the audience before Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’s release. She said, “I was only 19 when I signed that film. My first film, and Adi said that I could not tell anyone. Nobody knew about it. In the office, no one was allowed to tell each other. It was a huge secret. Adi told me that I couldn’t even tell my parents.”

Working on Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi brought some hope and joy to Aditya, as he said that he would forget his anxieties and worries when he was on the sets of the film. However, few weeks prior to the release of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, tragedy struck India in the form of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He said, “The city was paralysed and the film was coming out in 2 weeks…so a lot of people in the company told me to push the film.” Aditya stuck to his instincts, and said that he was sure that people would still like the film. “I took the risk, and did not changing the date. The film did well, and we were okay.”

During the course of the documentary, Aditya Chopra addressed the ups and downs of his career, and also the failure of his film Befikre. “That was rather heartbreaking for me. Probably till now, it still chips away,” he laughed and shared. Befikre, starring Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor, was a racy, light-hearted romantic film. “I don’t think the country was ready for this from me,” he said.