Salman Khan Shammi Kapoor Connection: There is always someone’s connection in Bollywood. Some have a connection through family, while others are connected through films. Same is the case with Salman Khan and Shammi Kapoor, they have done two different films with the same name. Both their films did well at the box office.
Salman Khan did a film with the same name in 1998 as Shammi Kapoor did in 1963. The name of that film was ‘Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya’ and both these films did well at the box office.
Shammi Kapoor’s ‘Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya’
In 1963, the film Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya was released under the direction of B S Ranga. Shammi Kapoor was seen in the lead role in this film, his heroine was South actress B Saroja Devi. Shammi Kapoor’s father’s role in the film was played by his real life father Prithviraj Kapoor. Salman Khan’s mother Helen was also seen in this film. This film was a hit film of that time.
Salman Khan’s ‘Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya’
The 1998 film Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya was directed by Sohail Khan and this is where he started his career as a director. Actors like Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Kajol and Dharmendra were seen in the film. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the film Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya was 8 crores while the film made a worldwide collection of 33.37 crores at the box office.
Let us tell you, Shammi Kapoor’s film Pyaar Kiya To Darna was successful but it did not get the response that Salman Khan’s ‘Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya’ got. By the way, Salman Khan has a good relationship with the Kapoor family. Salman has done superhit films like ‘Biwi No. 1’, ‘Judwaa’, ‘Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge’ with Karisma Kapoor, daughter of the Kapoor family.