Shah Rukh did not want to work in this film, the director changed the entire story, the project became a blockbuster hit.

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘Main Hoon Na’ was a super hit and the gross worldwide collection of this film was Rs 73 crore 30 lakh, made at a cost of only Rs 25 crore. An interesting fact about the film starring Zayed Khan, Amrita Rao, Sushmita Sen, Sunil Shetty and Kiran Rao is that King Khan did not want to act in the film. He felt that he was too old to play the role of a college student. Farah Khan described the incident in an interview about how it was not easy for her to work with SRK.

Shah Rukh did not want to work

Farah Khan said in a conversation with Radio Nasha, “After Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I wanted to do a young film. Shah Rukh Khan kept saying that I want to play a college boy. And he was only 30 at that time. Time.” Farah Khan found a very creative solution to this problem. He reversed the story of Main Hoon. I just wanted to do a college film with Shah Rukh Khan. But why would Shah Rukh go to college?”

Farah Khan changed the entire script

Farah Khan said that this is how she started thinking about the whole story in reverse. That if he goes to college, he will go to college undercover. Farah Khan said in an interview that the original script was much shorter and had a completely different plot. Farah Khan said, “It started as a very small film, but while writing I realized it was a very small script. Then the whole India-Pakistan project Milap, Raghavan (Sunil Shetty) got involved and the script got bigger. “

The story of the film was narrated in the car

Farah Khan said that she was narrating the script to Shahrukh Khan during the shooting of Mohabbatein. He didn’t have the chance, so he narrated the story to Shah Rukh Khan during his journey from London to Oxford. In about 3-4 hours of travel the story was finished and I narrated the hand written script to him. When we got down from the car after the journey, Shah Rukh Khan said that he would produce the film himself and act in it himself. But shooting started after three years. But the wait paid off.