In Yash Chopra’s Darr, Sunny Deol performed the quintessential hero whereas Shah Rukh Khan, who now guidelines Bollywood as one among its largest superstars, was the anti-hero. But do you know after the movie’s launch, Sunny and Shah Rukh didn’t communicate to one another for 16 lengthy years? Sunny was upset on the approach his character was portrayed within the movie whereas SRK’s Rahul Mehra managed to take over its canvas.
In an look on Aap Ki Adalat, Sunny Deol walked down the reminiscence late and recounted the disagreements he’d had with Darr’s director Yash Chopra on the units of the movie, and the way offended it had made him.
Shah Rukh Khan in Darr. (Photo: Express Archive)
Sunny Deol opened up on how he disagreed with the climax of the movie the place Shah Rukh’s character stabs his commando character. “I had a heated discussion with Yash Chopra regarding that scene. I tried explaining that I am a commando officer in the film. My character is an expert and fit, then how can this boy beat me easily? He can beat me if I can’t see him. If he can stab me while I am looking at him, then I won’t be called a commando,” Sunny mentioned.
Darr was directed by Yash Chopra. (Photo: Express Archive)
However, the director refused to pay heed to Sunny’s complaints, which resulted within the actor ripping off his pants in anger. “Soon, out of anger, I didn’t even realise that I had ripped my pants with my hands,” he mentioned. The actors didn’t communicate for 16 years after the movie launched, however Sunny mentioned that wasn’t deliberate. “It’s not that I didn’t talk but I just cut myself off and I anyway don’t socialise much. So we never met, toh baat karne ki baat he nahi hai,” he recalled.
Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla with Yash Chopra. (Photo: Express Archive)
In an interview earlier, Sunny mentioned that his “issue with the film was that I did not know they would glorify the villain.”
Darr got here out in 1993 when Sunny Deol was on the peak of his profession whereas Shah Rukh Khan was nonetheless cementing his place within the movie business. It was additionally SRK’s first movie with Yash Chopra.
Darr not solely made SRK extraordinarily well-liked, his “K-k-k-k-kiran” dialogue is remembered to today. It was amongst a handful of ‘anti-hero’ movies that the actor did in his profession.
