Did you know Farah Khan earned more than Shah Rukh Khan for ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’?

Describing the production as ‘gareeb,’ Farah revealed that she earned way more than SRK in the film. (Image via Associated Press)

Renowned filmmaker Farah Khan recalled meeting Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for the first time and knew that they would get along instantaneously. She also recalled that while working with Shah Rukh Khan on the film ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’, he used to become her “assistant” because the budget of the film was tremendously less. Describing the production as ‘gareeb,’ Farah revealed that she earned way more than SRK in the film.

“The budget was very low. Shah Rukh was paid Rs 25,000 for that movie. I was the highest paid person on that movie, let me tell you. I was paid Rs 5,000 per song, and there were six songs. Just because of that, I was paid Rs 30,000. We couldn’t even afford an assistant. So, that full song ‘Aana Mere Pyar Ko’, we cast regular people from Goa,” Farah said.

Farah also revealed a funny anecdote involving Shah Rukh Khan pinching the extras. Due to the low budget, all the extras in the film were just regular people so they did not know how to take cues or hit marks. To solve this, SRK used to pinch them turn by turn as a notion for them to stand up from behind a wall in a song.

When asked about her strong bond with SRK, Farah said, “We started the shoot in 1991, and I was also new. We were in Goa, and I’d only read an interview of Shah Rukh in which he sounded very brash and arrogant. I was very scared. I remember what he was wearing and doing when we first met; Kundan Shah introduced us. Sometimes, you instantly hit it off with somebody. You feel like you’re friends from school. That’s what it was like with Shah Rukh. We had the same interests, we’d read the same books, we had the same sense of humour.”