Karan Johar’s debut film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai achieved cult status, with characters Anjali (Kajol), Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), and Tina (Rani Mukerji) ingrained in the memories of fans. In a recent Actors’ Roundtable 2023 with Rajeev Masand on Netflix’s YouTube channel, Kajol disclosed that she fought with Karan to play Tina’s role in the film.
Karan Johar Categorically Rejected Kajol’s Wish For Role Swap In KKHH
Kajol said, “I fought in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I fought with Karan Johar, I wanted to play Tina’s role and he was like, ‘No. You are playing Anjali.’ I was like, ‘But I want to play Tina’s role. You don’t know what I will do with Tina.’ Karan told me to shut up. I fought with him tooth and nail for 45 minutes but he refused categorically.” Sidharth Malhotra, also present at the roundtable, humorously remarked that he was quite happy “with the way the film turned out.”
In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kajol played Anjali, who is best friends with Rahul. Anjali silently harbours feelings for her best friend, while Rahul falls for Tina, a new girl in college, eventually marrying her. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves college only to reunite with Rahul years later and marries him after Tina’s death.
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Earlier, at a IIMUN event, Karan criticised Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and said that it “propagated wrong gender politics.” He said, “I feel like I have grown as an individual, The first film that I made, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I firmly believe that the gender politics of that film was all wrong. It is propagating incorrect gender politics, there is a lot of surfacesness in that film. Of course, there is nostalgia so you love it, but you don’t scratch the surface of the film and see that what Rahul is doing is actually not what I would want all the Rahuls in the audience, or all the boys in general, to do.”
Karan Johar Remembers Shooting Shah Rukh Khan And Kajol Reunion Scene In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Without Informing Them
In an interview with Film Companion, Karan Johar confessed that he shot a scene in Kuch Kuch Hota Haiwithout informing Shah Rukh Khan or Kajol. The scene in question is where Shah Rukh reunites with Kajol after eight years, when they incidentally come in front of each other at the temple in a summer camp in Shimla. While SRK follows his daughter Anjali to meet her at the camp, he is unaware that the teacher there is Kajol aka his college best friend Anjali Sharma.
It seems that the expressions that the actors were giving were for a rehearsal but Karan Johar had continued to keep the camera rolling and had shot the sequence without informing the duo. “I explained the scene to them (SRK and Kajol) and I played a song for atmosphere. The two of them came into the frame and performed. But before the rehearsal began, I told my DOP Santosh to roll the camera. After we were done, I said cut. Shah Rukh asked, ‘Now we will do the take?’ I said, ‘No, we have rolled.’ He was surprised,” the filmmaker revealed.
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