New Delhi:
Filmmaker Karan Johar recalls his first meeting with choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan and hilariously reveals that she slept with him during the shooting of Amitabh Bachchan starrer “Main Azad Hoon” in a theatre.
Farah went to Karan’s house to shoot for her cooking vlog, where she said that the “Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani” filmmaker is her old friend.
To which Karan shared that he first met Farah during the preview of “Main Azad Hoon”, which turned out to be one of Big B’s biggest flops.
“I have known Farah since my childhood. When I was very young and I was looking at a picture where Farah had fallen asleep. The name of the film was Main Azad Hoon. (I know Farah since childhood. When I was very young, I was watching a movie in which Farah fell asleep. The name of the movie was “Main Azad Hoon”.)”
“I was watching, I was sitting in the preview theater and I was watching that picture very seriously and when I looked back, Farah Khan was actually sleeping there. Then she got up and started and this is my puzzle meeting.”
“(I was sitting in the preview theatre, watching the movie very seriously, and when I turned, I saw that Farah Khan was actually sleeping there. Then she got up and left, and that was my first meeting with her. )”
Farrah then hilariously recalled their second meeting, which took place during a preview of one of their “Friends” movies.
“Second visit… I had gone to watch a movie where a serious scene was going on and a child was walking loudly there. Javed Akhtar was common in both the films… (The second meeting happened when she went to watch a film where a serious scene was going on and there was a child laughing loudly. Javed Akhtar was common in both the films.),” Farah. Said.
The duo shared that they would not reveal the name of the film as their “friends” are involved in it.
Talking about “I’m Free”, it was adapted from Javed Akhtar’s 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe, about an opportunistic journalist who sets up a fictional newspaper to boost newspaper sales. He creates a fictitious persona in the article, but when the article gets popularity and after tremendous response, he gets an unemployed man to sit as Azad, the “man of the people”.
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