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In the recently released Netflix documentary series The Roshans, director Rakesh Roshan looked back on the turbulent experience he had with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan while making the film Karan Arjun. He admitted that the two stars didn’t believe in the film, and made life very difficult for him on set. Shah Rukh, who appeared in the documentary series as well, accepted his misbehaviour, and said that Rakesh’s wife scolded him and Salman for the trouble they were causing. In a new interview, the filmmaker said that he would pray every day before going to set, and hope that he doesn’t lose his cool with Shah Rukh and Salman.
He told Connect Cine, “In all my films, I was in my comfort zone. Only in Karan Arjun, right from the beginning, there were days when things were happening and I didn’t know why they were happening. But I got over it. I used to pray every morning, ‘I should not lose my cool. They are immature boys. Let them behave the way they are behaving. I shouldn’t lose my cool, and I should get my work done’. This is how I completed the film, in the exact dates that I took from them.”
In the documentary, Rakesh had said, “Shah Rukh didn’t believe in this story at all… They started losing interest in the film. When a shot is ready, though the sun is setting, they wouldn’t turn up when we called them. They’d come at the last moment and we had to rush the shot.” Shatrughan Sinha corroborated these claims in the series, and said, “They (Shah Rukh and Salman) tormented him (Rakesh). They mocked him or won’t cooperate with him.”
Things got so out of hand that Rakesh’s wife had to intervene. “Pinkie ji scolded me a lot. ‘You are troubling Guddu (Rakesh) a lot. I didn’t expect it from you.’ Because, between Salman and me, I was slightly better behaved; at least on the face of it. I was like, ‘I didn’t do anything. It’s all his (Salman) doing.’ We were two young kids, really troubling a father figure, to be honest,” said Shah Rukh Khan.
Karan Arjun went on to become a hit, and remains a memorable part of both Salman and Shah Rukh’s filmographies. Shah Rukh went on to work with Rakesh’s son, Hrithik Roshan, on Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. It was reported that the two weren’t comfortable working with each other, as Hrithik was being billed by the press as Shah Rukh’s successor.
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