When Kal Ho Naa Ho was launched in 2003, followers of Karan Johar’s fashion of cinema couldn’t consider that Karan had not directed the movie. It had his title throughout it, but it surely was Nikkhil Advani who had directed the Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta-starrer. Kal Ho Naa Ho’s success brought on a rift between Nikkhil and Karan, which they resolved after just a few years, however in a current interview, Nikkhil stated that the script of the movie was “director proof.”
In a chat with Digital Commentary, Nikkhil stated that Karan wrote Kal Ho Naa Ho so exactly that any director may have made the movie. He credited Karan’s writing for the success of the movie and stated that he was solely concerned within the technical facets of constructing it. Recalling the method, he shared that late producer Yash Johar was eager that after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Dharma hits a hattrick with their third movie. He needed the third movie to be a “blockbuster,” and at the moment, Karan was already writing Kal Ho Naa Ho.
“I learn someplace yesterday that Karan’s biggest remorse is that he didn’t direct Kal Ho Naa Ho. However that’s not true as a result of for my part, I believe the script was director proof. Like some writers say that irrespective of who directs it, it will have been what it was . It was director-proof. All the pieces was written in it,” he shared. Nikkhil recalled that the comedy bits of the movie with Sushma Seth, Rajpal Yadav, Delnaz Irani have been all part of Karan’s script. “Karan is an unbelievable dialogue author. The feelings within the second half… Jaya ji’s emotion, the revelation that Shah Rukh is dying on the interval level. It was director-proof,” he stated.
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Nikkhil added that the technical facets have been his contribution. “I used to be the one who was doing issues like cut up display screen, shot breakdown, the breaking of the fourth wall… I don’t bear in mind if I confirmed one thing to Karan or he confirmed me one thing and we stated incredible,” he recalled and added that he was the one who introduced Shankar Ehsaan Loy on board. “Dil Chahta Hai had launched and I stated I wish to work with Shankar Ehsan Loy,” he stated.
Kal Ho Naa Ho was not too long ago re-released within the theatres and followers of the movie loved the expertise of catching the movie once more after 21 years.
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