‘You feel like you’re friends from school’: Farah Khan on meeting Shahrukh Khan for the first time

Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan and actor Shahrukh Khan both have been friends for years now. Farah Khan shared about their first meet for the movie ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’ how frugally they shoot the movie.

Shahrukh Khan would double as her assistant on set because they couldn’t afford to hire a real one. Farah said, “We started the shoot in 1991, and I was also new. We were in Goa, and I’d only read an interview of Shah Rukh in which he sounded very brash and arrogant. I was very scared. I remember what he was wearing and doing when we first met; Kundan Shah introduced us. Sometimes, you instantly hit it off with somebody. You feel like you’re friends from school. That’s what it was like with Shah Rukh. We had the same interests, we’d read the same books, we had the same sense of humour.”

Further she continued saying, “The budget was very low. Shah Rukh was paid Rs 25,000 for that movie. I was the highest paid person on that movie, let me tell you. I was paid Rs 5,000 per song, and there were six songs. Just because of that, I was paid Rs 30,000. We couldn’t even afford an assistant. So, that full song ‘Aana Mere Pyar Ko’, we cast regular people from Goa.”