The beginning word in the song, ‘Ouch’, was Anuradha Paudwal’s expression though. The moment that thought occurred to me, I thought of ‘Dhak Dhak’, which is the sound of the heartbeat. “I started listening to the song and the opening beat itself sounded like our heartbeat. As Madhuri is a fantastic dancer, I had to come up with lyrics that would justify the sensuality in the scene. “Indra Kumar told me that Saroj ji was doing the choreography and Madhuri would be giving competition to Sridevi in that song. Another factor was that a few years before that the song ‘Kaate Nahi Kat Te Din Yeh Raat’ had released and become a huge hit. I got worried because the original Tamil song was a massive hit. “So, the hook tune was inspired by some Ilaiyaraaja’s tune. It’s not just about the lead pair’s scorching chemistry and Madhuri’s stunning moves, but also about the fascinating thought that the sound of a heartbeat could be used to denote physical desire. The sensuous number from Madhuri Dixit-Anil Kapoor 1992 drama Beta refuses to get old. The simplicity and the sentimental quality of Sameer’s romantic tracks made them earworms, as they continue to be even today. So from Maratha Mandir to Worli, we completed the whole song.” Aashiqui was followed by Saajan in 1991 and Sameer earned himself another successful romantic album. He began composing the song simultaneously and came up with its signature tune within 10-15 seconds. He felt it sounded fresh and asked me to develop it while we travel. The moment we sat in the car, I told him that a particular line was not leaving my thought and that was ‘Nazar ke saamne, jigar ke paas, koi rehta hai woh ho tum’. “I was sitting with Nadeem near Maratha Mandir (Central Bombay). Sameer recalls how the song that earned him first Filmfare Award, “Nazar ke Saamne” was written in flat 20 minutes. That’s when Mahesh ji told him that he was undermining the prospective impact of the film’s album.” As it turned out, Aashiqui’s music captured the country’s imagination, becoming the anthem of everyone, who loved, longed and lost. He was more interested in releasing them as an album. “He didn’t believe they sounded like film songs. But as he excitedly create these chartbusters, T-series then honcho, late Gulshan Kumar, wasn’t convinced they could create an impact in a film. The first song to be recorded under “Aashiqui” film album was “Bas Ek Sanam Chahiye”. He asked us if he could use these songs because he felt so inspired by the music that he wanted to create a story around it.” We offered him four-five songs and he liked ‘Main Duniya Bhula Doonga’ and ‘Ab Tere Bin’. One day, Mahesh ji asked us if we had some songs in our bank. We had recorded four songs and the album was called ‘Chaahat’. Sameer and composer duo Nadeem-Shravan were busy creating an independent album for music label, T-Series, and had already recorded four songs, which filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt happened to hear.Īt that time, there was no Aashiqui and no Mahesh Bhatt. and I am glad that I did not get into the story and just went ahead with the conviction of Karan, otherwise the film would have not been the way it came out,” he had said comparing the first draft and the final film.Sameer recounts how one of the biggest musicals in Hindi cinema’s history– Aashiqui– was, at best, accidental. So yes, I really did not understand the story when I signed in.
In his strange way Karan, the man with many words tried to impress me with his crap story. “Karan came and narrated an utterly nonsense crap story to me which is certainly not the one that finally you people saw in the film. And the eight letters - one for each birthday - made no sense, either,” the director had said in the interview to Mid-Day.Īt an event in 2018 to celebrate 20 years of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Shah Rukh had called the film’s original story ‘utterly nonsensical’. “You don’t know what Shah Rukh, or anyone else, does for a living in the movie. He had added that there was ‘no logic or backstory to the characters’. What made him endearing was his charm, his large heart and Shah Rukh’s personal charisma.”
Whatever happened to him was because there were people pushing him - his dead wife’s spirit, his eight-year-old daughter, and Anjali herself. He’s a deeply confused character, doesn’t know what he wants and, really, didn’t do a lot much in the movie. Talking about Shah Rukh’s character, Karan had said in an interview in 2019, “Rahul doesn’t stand for very much. Its director, however, had taken an axe to it sometime ago, calling it the story of a ‘deeply confused character’ that was played by SRK. As Karan Johar’s debut film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai completes 22 years today – the Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji film was released on Octo– there is an entire generation that counts it as iconic.
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