As Kuch Kuch Hota Hai clocks 25 years of its launch, actor Archana Puran Singh aka Miss Briganza, shares that she solely has fond reminiscences of the enjoyable and laughter on set along with her co-stars and movie’s director Karan Johar. “Karan used to regale us with very cheesy couplets like, ‘Aakash mai udd rahe hain kabootar, flutter flutter, flutter flutter.’ We were in Mauritius, where we shot a major part of the movie, and we used to play dumb charades and have many get-togethers in the evenings,” she tells us.
Archana’s son, Aryaman, was simply 2 years previous on the time of the shoot. She reminisces about how Kajol (actor) picked him up throughout breakfast and gave him quite a lot of kisses, to which Aryaman reacted by making a grimace and forcing her to place him down. She says, “I was like, ‘It is Kajol, and one day you are going to grow up and say wow.'”
One of the heartwarming moments on set was the actor’s interplay with Anupam Kher, who performed Mr. Malhotra within the movie. She shares, “Anupam used to take my son by the finger and go for a walk in the garden. Location shoots are really intimate, and we all felt really sad when the schedule was over,” including that she appreciated the inventive freedom given to her and Anupam by Karan Johar. “The kind of improvisations that Karan allowed me and Anupam made everything better. We created comedy with each other. Anupam and I both being comic actors predominantly, we created whatever we could after the scenes that Karan wanted. He knew exactly what we wanted, yet he gave us the freedom to experiment,” the 61-year-old tells us.
The movie not solely holds a particular place in Singh’s coronary heart but additionally within the historical past of Indian cinema. She states, “We never thought while making that this film would make such a landmark in the history of cinema. I have always experienced in my career that whenever films are destined for great heights, the memories around it are very specific, and the kind of fun that you have on the sets while shooting does translate onto the big screen, and that’s exactly what happened.”
“When Karan narrated the film to me, I cried and laughed while listening to the script,” Singh remembers and provides, “Miss Briganza’s skirt length, buttons on the blazer, and hair, every detailed decision was taken carefully. I was doing my own makeup for the film as I wasn’t given that budget.”
Singh additionally reveals that Mr. Malhotra and Ms. Briganza had intensive scenes which needed to be deleted as a result of movie’s size. “In one of the deleted scenes, Karan said that years later, Ms. Briganza and Malhotra would also get off the train with greyed hair, and the background score would say ‘Waqt ne kia kya hasi sitam.’ Unfortunately, that scene had to be deleted, but I have no regrets, I love each and every part that remained,” she ends.
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