When Farah Khan yelled at Zayed Khan for undermining her authority during Main Hoon Na: ‘How dare you say cut on my set?’

He said, “If you tell me to dance at a night club, I was an amazing dancer. But if you ask me to do 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4… Geeta (Kapur) was in charge of me for one month, and she ‘ragdofied’ me so badly, I can’t tell you. I had two left feet for Bollywood dancing. I became a dancer because of that one-shot song that Farah was taking. We were shooting in Darjeeling, and the camera was about to come to me after two minutes of Amrita, and all of a sudden, a dancer falls down. He was having a fit, because of the high altitude. I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, what should I do? Should I save him or continue with the step’.”

Farah commanded Zayed to continue, but he tripped over the other dancer. In his head, Zayed thought that he had already messed up his grand entry in the film. So he called ‘cut’. This made Farah furious. “She got so mad at me. She was like, ‘How dare you say cut on my set?’ I said, ‘Farah, there are people dying down here, what do you want me to do?’ She almost threw a chappal at me,” he said.

Main Hoon Na went on to become a blockbuster, and launched Farah’s directorial career. Zayed, however, couldn’t match that level of success. After several years out of the limelight, he is now planning a comeback.