Karan Johar can still remember the moment he was running around in Goregaon, yelling ‘red cloth’ at the top of his lungs. When he was asked about his experiences working on Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, he described it as ‘traumatic’. According to Karan Johar's recent interview, the legendary choreographer Saroj Khan started yelling at him for all to see, and then clearly pushed him to get her point across.
At the time, Karan Johar was assisting Aditya Chopra on DDLJ set. The issue arose when they had a very last-minute request for red fabric for shooting the song Mehendi Laga Ke Rakhna. " Red cloth... they wanted that. This was a demand given at the last minute” Karan explained. He was only aware of so much fabric that would be available to be used for the production of the film. He said, “Now, we only had so much cloth that I found.”
In an effort to take charge of the incident, Karan came up with a very quick solution. He went to Jojo, assistant of Saroj Khan, “I, to save the situation, went to Jojo, Saroj ji’s assistant, and very cleverly said, you know, Jojo, I think accha lageg, unko bolo, apna ek haath pocket mein rakho, stylish lagega, cool lagega. Because I didn’t have any more cloth.”
Saroj Khan was not satisfied with the strategy and Karan Johar remembered that the choreographer was very disappointed. He said, “‘She said, tu jahaan jaana chaahe, ja, Goregaon ja, laal kapda la, warna main shoot nahi karungi.” Karan Johar kept running around on the streets of Goregaon, screaming at the top of his lungs, “Laal kapda! Laal kapda!” He also added that, “I was scared for my life. I was traumatised, traumatised, you know, and she was really scary. Like, she was the best. She somehow did not like me. She never liked me.”
On July 3, 2020, Saroj Khan passed away due to cardiac arrest.
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