Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan discusses how he came up with the concept of making a movie on reincarnation in his very first Karan Arjun (1995) interview with Lehren. He also goes into detail about casting young talents like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. In addition to sharing some fascinating information regarding the film's soundtrack, the filmmaker emphasized the significance of Rakhee's character.
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00:00It's not like, this is a hit song, let's put it in the film, which often happens, and
00:12it works, but I don't do that.
00:13The stories are the same, sir.
00:14Only the screenplay, how you present the same story in a new way, how interesting you can
00:20make it, that is the basic thing.
00:23The one who knows his work, the one who can make good films, he will survive.
00:30Actually, Karan Arjun film is based on reincarnation.
00:37So, I had seen a similar film once.
00:43So, in that I saw that the hero and heroine couldn't meet in birth, and for some reason
00:52or the other, they are separated.
00:55They die.
00:56They are born again after 20 years, and then they meet again.
01:01So, it came to my mind that all the films based on reincarnation are based on love stories.
01:11So, I thought to myself, why not in a family bondage?
01:14Mother and son, mother and two sons.
01:18So, the idea struck me, and I just made a rough story.
01:24The mother and her two sons, how the villains kill them, the young sons.
01:32The mother doesn't believe.
01:35The mother is in front of God, in front of the Goddess.
01:38She shudders and says, no, you will have to return my sons.
01:41The story is the same all around.
01:44If you want to make revenge, it will be the same, that the parents killed them, or raped
01:47the sister, or something happened, then the hero took revenge.
01:50If you want to make love, it will be the same, that the boy is rich, and the girl is poor,
01:53or the girl is rich, and the boy is poor.
01:55So, the stories are the same.
01:58Only the screenplay, how you present the same story in a new way, how interesting you can
02:04make it, that is the basic thing.
02:08Salman, the story he has taken, is completely new for him.
02:14The audience has never seen Salman like this.
02:17All the films he has done, are romantic films.
02:20In this, he has a role, that he doesn't talk too much.
02:27He says one or two words in the whole film.
02:29It's a role like this, and he has done a very good job.
02:32Karan Arjun's songs are also very good.
02:35Then the same thing comes up, that every song is made with feeling.
02:41That in this situation, this song is needed.
02:45So, what will the actors say?
02:48What will a mother say for her sons?
02:50What will two sons say for their mother?
02:52What will a hero say for his heroine?
02:55And we have gone with the story.
02:57We haven't done like, this is a hit song, let's put it in the film.
03:03Which often happens, and it works.
03:06But I don't do that.
03:08For me, it was taken for granted.
03:10That I have made any film.
03:12It's not like that.
03:14Now, only the fittest will survive.
03:17The one who knows his work, who can make a good film, will survive.
03:24I think it is very good, in a way.
03:27For me, every scene, every second of the film, I am involved.
03:32So, it will be very difficult for me to say, which scene is good, which is bad.
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