Salman Khan is celebrating his 59th birthday today, receiving good wishes from fans and friends. Talking about his career, his on-screen chemistry with Rani Mukerji was widely appreciated. The two starred together in the 2000 film Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye, directed by K. Murali Mohana Rao. Let’s revisit the film and watch Lehren's special conversation with Salman Khan, Rani Mukerji, Jackie Shroff, the director, and the cast.
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00:00This film basically is about, there is somebody for everybody in this world.
00:22I mean, if it does not work out with one relationship, okay, that does not mean that you're going
00:26to live the rest of your life without anybody.
00:29There is somebody there waiting for you at some point, and things will work out for you.
00:34Mera character ek aisi ladki ka hai, jo aaj ki ladki ka character I'm playing.
00:40That she wants to work, she wants to stand up on her own feet, wo khud kamana chahati
00:45hai, jaise ki aaj kal hum sab ladkiya jo, humare age group ki hai.
00:50Hum log chahate ki hum log khud kaam kare aur jaldi shadi bhi nahi karna chahate because
00:55we feel that we should do something on our own, so that we prove to ourselves that we
01:00are worth something.
01:02Toh mera character bhi aisa hi hai, ki she wants to also get married at the same time.
01:07Aisa bhi nahi ki she doesn't want to get married, but she also wants to work, she wants to have
01:11a career of her own, and when she falls in love, she doesn't even realize that the person
01:19who she's fallen in love with, she's not marrying, she's marrying somebody else.
01:23This film is not about, this is the hero, and that is the villain, and this is, you
01:27know, these are character artists.
01:29Everybody is playing their part, everybody is a character artist in this film.
01:33There's no preference given to Salman Khan or Jackie Shroff, you know, there's nothing
01:38like that, Rani Mukerji, anybody.
01:40Everybody is, it's like, basically when you're at home, okay, you may be a big star outside,
01:46but when you come home, there's prominence to everybody.
01:50You know, your mother, your father, your sister, everybody's equal.
01:54So that is what we've tried to basically convey in this movie, that the family is there.
01:59It is not a remake, it is a straight story.
02:02It is like, it's just like happens every day, everywhere, in your neighborhood.
02:10It resembles, it has the identification.
02:12Murali, as far as Indian emotions are concerned, he's one of the best directors that we have.
02:18Jo unke paas, jo Indian emotion ki pakad hai, I don't think anybody has got that.
02:22He's brilliant with them, you saw Bandhan, and there's Anari.
02:27And for him, this film was a great challenge, because it's a modern film.
02:32It's not a, like, dehati, gaon ka film.
02:35It's a very modern film, and in that film, he's got out so much of emotion, and so much
02:38of happiness, and joy, and so much of positivity in this film.
02:45It's unreal.
02:46Murali ji bahut hi ache director hai, he's very sweet-natured.
02:50Unko language thoda se problem hai, because he doesn't know how to speak Hindi.
02:55But the way he directs a Hindi film, it's like amazing.
02:59Because I feel that if you don't have command over the language, it's very difficult to
03:02do an entire film.
03:04Kyuki Hindi picture karne ke liye wo language strong honi chahiye.
03:08But Murali ji has proved that without knowing the language so well, he can really direct
03:13a very good film.
03:14Murali sahab ke saath yeh meri doosri picture hai, pehli Bandhan, Bandhan ke baad yeh.
03:21Aur yeh same thi, mein Narendra Bajaj sahab, Shyam Bajaj ji, meri purani mitra bhi aur
03:26do pictures mein kaam kiya hoon.
03:27It was very good to work with, so was Jackie dada, so was Manish, so was she, and so was
03:33Rani.
03:34They were all great.
03:35Anyway, even Shakti Kapoor was brilliant.
03:37Oh yes, yes.
03:38We were all like a family.
03:39And we're sad that it's over now.
03:42Jackie, fantastic, fantastic.
03:45Pooja Batra is very good.
03:47Kashmira Shah, who's playing my sister in the movie, is brilliant.
03:50Manish is a highlight.
03:51Everybody, as far as performance is concerned, everybody is good in the film.
03:55Shakti Kapoor.
03:56We had such a good time making this film that nobody was acting.
03:59Kisi ne koi performance, you know how people try to overshadow, so ki yeh meri lines hai,
04:04yeh meri lighting hai, mera facing hai.
04:06No one was doing that.
04:07The atmosphere itself was like a family there.
04:11And everybody's playing their roles, you know.
04:13And because we all liked each other, so it comes across on screen.
04:17Music toh bahut hi acha hai, jaise aap log sab sun rahe hain abhi.
04:21And personally, mujhe is film ka poora album bahut acha lagta hai.
04:26If you take the title song, Kahi Pyar Na Ho Ja, it's very melodious.
04:30Then there's Savaria, Oh Savaria, which is a stage song.
04:33That's also a lot of fun.
04:35And the best part about that song was ki humne wo gaana ek din me kiya.
04:39It was more fun because rehersal kiya tha ek saath.
04:42And it's great fun because we all are there.
04:44Hum log sab ek saath uss gaane mein hai.
04:46This guy is a musician in the film.
04:48And so he goes for weddings and he sings at weddings and parties and stuff like that.
04:56So out here he's kept a small function for children.
04:59And it's a flashback song to show that how their lives used to be so happy and everybody used to be together.
05:07And now that one person is not going to be there in their lives and is going to go somewhere else.
05:10So that is one moment that he cherishes of the past.
05:14Every film is a challenge and every film is an experience.
05:18But this film now, what I am doing, it is more of a love story, a family story.
05:25And there is a good comedy into it.
05:29Mostly I think I'm known for much of a commercial film.
05:33This film is entirely youthful and lighter.
05:37Kahiin Pyaar Na Ho Ja is an extension of what friends do for each other.
05:41How they help each other when they want to go and work.
05:44Or if they are in some kind of turmoil or whatever.
05:47Basically it's showing how there is love between these six people.
05:50And which is shown very nicely in this film.
05:53I mean there is family too but they behave like friends too.
05:56There is no tension in the house.
05:58There is no tension in the entire film.
06:01You want to be one of the friends. You want to be one of the family members.
06:04Imagine it's just about six people.
06:07They show how six people live in a neighbourhood.
06:10And how close they are. It's their story.
06:13Salman Khan is a co-star.
06:16He is also an old friend of mine.
06:19I have known him for years.
06:22He is a very close friend of mine.
06:25Rani is there with him. I like her a hell of a lot.
06:29She also I know since a long time.
06:32Pooja Batra ji is very attractive.
06:35She is doing a beautiful role.
06:38She is a crazy girl. I love her a lot.
06:41She wants to be a heroine.
06:44I want to add that our producers were excellent.
06:47Narendra ji and Shyam ji. They were very sweet.
06:50Very cooperative. Very simple.
06:53And absolutely amazing people to work with.
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