Pardes Unknown Facts: ‘Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain’, ‘Meri Mehbooba’ and ‘Dil Deewana’…people still listen to these three 90’s songs with the same interest. These songs are from the movie ‘Pardes’ which was released 27 years ago and featured actors like Shahrukh Khan and Mahima Chaudhary. It was one of the hit movies of that year and its songs became evergreen. You can watch this masterpiece movie of Subhash Ghai with your family as well.
The film Pardes was a love story that starts with someone else after the arranged marriage is fixed. Everyone’s work in this film was excellent and every character had its own role. There are some unheard stories related to the film which you must know.
‘Pardes’ completes 27 years of its release
It has been 27 years since the release of the film ‘Pardes’ on 8 August 1997. This film was directed by Subhash Ghai and was also produced by him. The music of the film was composed by Nadeem-Shravan. Actors like Shahrukh Khan, Mahima Chaudhary, Apoorva Agnihotri, Amrish Puri and Alok Nath were seen in the film.
box office collection of ‘Pardes’
Everyone liked the story and songs of the movie Pardes which was released 27 years ago. The earnings of the movie were also phenomenal. According to Sacnilk, the budget of the movie Pardes was Rs 8 crore while the movie collected Rs 40.82 crore worldwide at the box office. Along with this, the movie also got the tag of super hit.
Unheard stories of ‘Pardes’
Shahrukh Khan And today it has been 27 years since the release of Mahima Chaudhary’s only film Pardes. You may have seen this film many times but you may not know many things related to it. Here we are telling you some important things according to IMDB.
1. Subhash Ghai had written the role of Ganga for Madhuri Dixit. But Subhash had a rift with Madhuri during the film Khalnayak (1997) due to which Madhuri rejected the offer of this film.
2. Shahrukh’s wife Gauri was pregnant during the shoot of the song ‘Yeh Dil Deewana’. This song was shot on Shahrukh’s duplicate and Shahrukh used to come only for three-four close-ups.
3. After Madhuri’s refusal, Subhash Ghai looked for a new face and he found Ritu Chaudhary, whom he named Mahima. Mahima Chaudhary debuted with this film and became a hit.
4. Most of the climax of the film Pardes was shot in Fatehpur Sikri. During that time, there used to be so much crowd that there used to be trouble in shooting.
5. There used to be a lot of conflict between Shahrukh Khan and Subhash Ghai. Due to Gauri’s pregnancy, he was not able to give much time to her. Due to some problems, Shahrukh had sworn that he would never work with Subhash Ghai again and that is what happened.