Rakesh Roshan recalls firing Gulshan Grover from Karan Arjun because of his tardiness: ‘He would show up at 4 pm for 11 am shoot’

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“I called him and said ‘Gulshan, I won’t be able to work like this’. He suggested ‘Rakesh ji, take my close up and let me go’. I said ‘no, that’s not how this works’. I told him that we will work in some other film,” he said and shared that they were already in the middle of the shoot at that time when he told Gulshan, “Let’s part ways. He left.”

Rakesh shared that he cancelled the shoot on that day and decided to look for another actor so they could continue the shoot. “That very evening I went to look for another actor to cast and I found Aasif Sheikh. That day, the shoot was cancelled. Next day, he joined us. He was very new then. I explained everything to him. I told him that you have a line here ‘What a joke!’ I told him that I won’t prompt you and it’s not written anywhere, you use it as you like it. When you organically feel that you have to use this line, you say it. He only said it whenever he felt like it and I would say yes, this is the right way,” he said.

Aasif Sheikh is now known for appearing in the long running comedy show Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain.