Rakesh Roshan on Shah Rukh Khan: Everyone praises the king of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan. Any star who is associated with his struggling days knows how passionate Shahrukh is about his work. The film Koyla was released in the year 1997 and now it has been 27 years since its release. On this occasion, the film’s producer-director Rakesh Roshan has made some revelations about Shahrukh Khan and also told an important story related to the film.
Rakesh Roshan made many films with Shahrukh Khan and Shahrukh’s name is also included among his favorite actors. Rakesh Roshan has praised Shahrukh many times but let us tell what was that story from the film Koyla.
Rakesh Roshan narrated the story related to ‘Coal’
According to Bollywood Hungama, Rakesh Roshan said some things about the film on the 27th anniversary of the film Koyla. He said, ‘Shahrukh is a very daring person. When I wrote the climax and went to Shahrukh to narrate it, I thought he would reject it but I was surprised to hear what he said. I explained him the climax scene of the film and said that you just have to set the fire and the shot will be changed and then the entire scene will be shot on the body double.
Rakesh Roshan said that as soon as he told this to Shahrukh, Shahrukh said that he will do this scene. Rakesh felt that Shahrukh had agreed to the matter of setting fire but Shahrukh had said yes to the entire scene. Rakesh Roshan further said, ‘When I saw him running away with his body on fire, I was really scared.’
Earlier in an interview, cinematographer Sameer Arya had told that he was also there when that scene was being shot. He told that as soon as Shahrukh set his body on fire, everyone got scared, the fire was so strong that he could have died but when the scene was shot and the fire was extinguished, everyone clapped for him and everyone said, ‘Agreed.’ Boss.’
What was the condition of ‘Koyla’ at the box office?
In the 1997 film Koyla Shahrukh Khan Apart from this, Madhuri Dixit, Ashok Saraf, Johnny Lever and Amrish Puri were seen in important roles. The film was directed by Rakesh Roshan and he also produced the film. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the film Koyla was Rs 12 crore while the worldwide collection of the film was Rs 27.96 crore. This film proved to be successful at the box office.
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