Recently, filmmaker Karan Johar revealed one of his most embarrassing moments at the chat show ‘Social Media Star With Janice’. The producer recalled defecating behind a limestone during the shooting of song “Suraj Hua Maddham” in Egypt and being caught by the foreign crew.
Karan Johar, during his latest appearance on Social Media Star With Janice, spoke about the making of the blockbuster song from ‘Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham’. Karan, who was the special guest along with social media sensation Prajakta Koli, said the sequence in the video where lead pair Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol are romancing at a location full of limestones, Karan had a tough time.
During the chat show, he mentioned, “The sequence in ‘Suraj Hua Maddham’ where Kajol is wearing a green saree, the location had 500 kilometers of just limestone statues, probably the most beautiful location I’ve ever seen. It was in Farafra, Egypt. But, I was having a bad time because I had loosies. There was no van in those days,”.
“I literally went behind the biggest limestone statue. It was so big, I thought I’ll be covered for life. But then I turned and saw an army coming my way with me facing backward,” he added. In an episode of the reality show ‘Hunarbaaz’, Karan had shared how the army was a Hollywood film crew that had come to do a recce of the area. “Around 20 of them saw me and they were about to take out their cameras. I immediately turned around and said, ‘Please, I am the director of this movie, have some respect,’” the filmmaker had said.
Directed by Karan Johar, the film was released in 2001, and went on the be a blockbuster hit, also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Hrithik Roshan, and Jaya Bachchan.
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