Rishi Kapoor refused to do Hum Tum because he only had 7 scenes, said ‘Kisi aur se kara lo’, recalls Kunal Kohli

“Then I talked to him again and I spoke to him about all the scenes individually. He liked every scene. He said, ‘All these scenes are nice, add more of them’. I said, ‘Sir, do you want to hang around in the film, or have a strong impact?’ Then he said, ‘Haan chalo, baat toh theek hai, karte hain (Yes, you are right, let’s do it),” he recalled, and added, “And from then, we became best friends.” Rishi played the role of Saif’s father in Hum Tum.

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In the same chat, Kunal also spoke about Saif’s ‘Tom Cruise look’ in the film and said that the line actually came from a conversation between Saif and his daughter Sara Ali Khan, who was just 10 years old at the time. “I was at Saif’s house and we were trying different looks and Sara came in. She was just 10 or 12 then. Saif was trying on a wig. She looked at it and said, ‘Ew, what happened to your hair, Abba?’ He said ‘What! It’s my Tom Cruise look’,” he recalled and said that as soon as he heard this line, he declared that he would add it in the film. “Saif was like ‘Which line?’ I said ‘This, it’s my Tom Cruise look’,” Kunal recalled with a laugh. Hum Tum re-released in theatres this weekend.