“ Lavkar uth devla javal shooting
chaalu aahey” (Wake up fast,there is a movie shoot happening
near the temple) Aai tried to wake me up one fine day in
the summer of '92 in Goa. I asked her “Who is the hero? “ as I
was still trying to wake up ,my grandmother didn't know any of the
new heroes .Meanwhile one of my elder cousins who had just had her
fair share of watching the shooting had come back for a small break
and I asked her who is the damn hero, she says it is same the guy
from “Fauji”.”Oh that guy” I said, Fauji used to come on TV
in the 90's and my cousins never missed this show,they had totally
fallen for this lead hero of the serial. “But what is his name?”
I still persisted only to get a blank response. Still not excited
about the shoot wondering why wasn't Salman or Aamir shooting.
I clearly remember the location ,there was a Fire Brigade truck ,a building from where some smoke was coming out and in between all
this they were shooting a song ( You can clearly see the part in the video I have shared below). There is a lady in the with a
camera,which is on a rail,shooting the song and when she yells out
“ACTION' ,the lines from the song plays in the background “Jhoota
hoon yaah sacha honn,jaaney saara zamana” ( Whether I am Liar or
Truthful,the whole world knows) and then the Hero appears and
widens his arms and then runs behind the heroine who seems to be
upset at him and there are nuns around her trying to convince her to
speak to him, while he climbs up the ladder and tries to enter the
buikding,from where the smoke is coming out (Emotional Blackmail in
Hindi movies I guess). After the shot the Hero goes and sits on his
chair .All alone no one is there to speak to him. I am amazed how
serious he is off the camera and how he changes his expressions when
he comes in front of the camera.A girl approaches him and asks him
for an autograph,he doesn’t even smile but obliges her.All the
while I think, why this guy isn’t smiling. Now other kids go to
him,even I am there in this bunch( oh yeah even I was a kid once).He
gives everyone an autograph and then he asks me in a “Don’t you
want one?” and I reply back saying “I am on a vacation,I don't
have a paper with me” ( How stupid I could be,why couldn't I just
borrow) ,and then he smiles at me and goes back again for his
shot. When I narrated this incident to my cousin sisters they
couldn't stop laughing,at first they didn't believe me but one of the
kids from the neighbourhood narrated the same version .I took me two
days to get his name right,first it was Saroj khan then it became
Shahroj Khanand then finally I was able to say Shahrukh Khan.
The song,which they were shooting later
turned out to be a very nice song called “Aana mere pyaar ko
naa tum jhoota samjho jaana” ( Anna please don't think my love
is fake) and the movie was Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa,which has been one of
my favourite movies since then and it has a wonderful soundtrack
too.I don’t know whether I like the movie because I have a bias
towards it or may be because it is just the movie about a boy who
really likes this girl but his feelings are unrequited,so he tries
very hard to woo her and in the process makes a mistake,which makes
the girl very mad at him.I feel the story comes very close to
reality ,sure we all make mistakes,atleast I have and there is always
the desire to want to win back that special person whom we just don't
want to let go.The only sad part is that our life is not like these
romcoms. .Ok I changed the tangent,coming back to KHKN,I don't remember
when was the last time after KHKN did SRK not manage to get the girl
in a film fall for him.May be therein lies the answer why I like KHKN
so much, Sunil ( SRK's character in the film) ,the nervous wreck who
is so damn real,I like him very much.Hell yeah even I lke singing
these lines to a girl :) “Dekh meri taqdeer dil main kiska
teer,aankhon main tasveer kiski hain sanam” (The english
translation would be damn idiotic try it in your head,please don't
try.)
