Amitabh Bachchan was nervous while shooting KANK, embarrassed Shah Rukh Khan questioned Karan Johar: ‘What is this nonsense?’

Narrating an incident, he continued, “Shah Rukh would be awkward. I’d never asked Shah Rukh for more than a second take in my entire career; he’s never taken more than two takes for anything. He and I have this synergy, we just get what we want. But there was one scene where he’s on the phone, and Preity Zinta asks, ‘Dev, who are you talking to?’ And he says, ‘I am just coming.’ That’s it. But he couldn’t do that scene. He was just so embarrassed. He said, ‘I can’t do this. What is this nonsense!’”

Even Amitabh Bachchan was nervous about the film, and what his character was being made to do. But, Karan said, at least he had a sense of humour about it. “Mr Bachchan would say, ‘Karan, what are you making? What is going to happen? What are you doing to me?’ And I’d say, ‘Amit uncle, I am casting you as a slightly overtly sexual older man.’ Then he’d laugh and say, ‘You have come to the right person.’ He has a great sense of humour and he was loving it. He loved his clothes. He loved the flamboyance of playing Sexy Sam.”

Karan revealed that Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is perhaps the only film of his that he would want to go back and change, despite the fact that he even held off on Aditya Chopra’s suggestions for the ending and went with his gut. “The whole film was too much for this country,” he wrote, adding that people told him that he’d ‘lost his marbles’ after losing his father, and that he was dishonoring the legacy of Dharma Productions. Despite this, the film was a box office hit.