MUMBAI: Farah Khan Kunder, who began her career as a dance choreographer, is now one of Bollywood's most renowned directors. With the movie Main Hoon Na, which has a particular place in her heart, she made her directing debut in 2004. The movie was a huge success and starred Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Suniel Shetty, Amrita Rao, and Zayed Khan. She shared some intriguing and little-known details regarding the film's production during a discussion on Maniesh Paul's podcast.
She mentioned, "The Shah Rukh Khan and Satish ji scene was very difficult to shoot. We used to make Satish Ji drink water and he would spit on Shah Rukh in that scene. We also kept a backlight to show it clearly. Shah Rukh couldn’t stop laughing in that take and he spent five-six takes laughing. Then I told him, ‘Karle na shot, he is spitting on you.’ This was also pre-covid so this was fine."
She went on to say that many of the primary characters in Main Hoon Na were actually inspired by her old Nehru Nagar society's neighbors and aunts.
She added, "We grew up in an old housing society in Mumbai called Nehru Nagar, and all the characters of Main Hoon Na were inspired by the aunties and uncles of that society. There was an uncle in that society who would spit while talking and Satish Shah’s character was inspired by him. We had an aunt and uncle who would speak English with a certain accent and we have used that with our characters in the film. My co-writer Rajesh Saathi was also from Nehru Nagar so we both took inspiration from people living in our society."
Farah added that the attractive teacher Chandni Chopra was based on a number of other hot instructors who she and her brother both had crushes on. The actress who would portray this part is Sushmita Sen.
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