Farah Khan recalls choreographing the legendary Pehla Nasha, reveals THIS happened when Pooja Bedi’s skirt flew in the air! | Hindi Movie News

Choreographer turned filmmaker Farah Khan recently divulged into her professional life, and in the process, gave many tidbits on the same. In a conversation with Radio Nasha, Farah Khan reminisced about the filming of the song, Pehla Nasha. Initially choreographed by Saroj Khan in Ooty, the reins were passed to Farah when Saroj had to suddenly return to Bombay.

Farah disclosed that she revamped the entire concept of the song, incorporating slow-motion and introducing Pooja Bedi in a Marilyn Monroe-esque persona.She recounted advising Pooja to hold her skirt down when the fan started, which led to a humorous incident during the first take. Instead of adhering to Farah’s instruction, Pooja let the skirt fly, causing the spot boy to faint, and revealing a thong for the first time to Farah. Despite the mishap, Farah praised Pooja’s carefree attitude, describing her as “bindass”.
In the same interview, Farah Khan reflected on her first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and knew instantly that they would get along. Despite working on low-budget films like “sometimes yes sometimes not,” where Shah Rukh often helped Farah as her ‘assistant,’ their friendship and professional partnership flourished. In an interview, Farah mentioned that she actually earned more than Shah Rukh on that ‘poor’ production. She 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.”

Farah mentioned that Shah Rukh helped her a lot during the ‘gareeb shoot’ and kept going.“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 mentioned that because the extras didn’t know how to follow cues or hit their marks, Shah Rukh would pinch them one by one to signal when to rise from behind a wall during the song. Additionally, Farah has directed Shah Rukh in three movies — “Main Hoon Na,” “Om Shanti Om,” and “Happy New Year.” Although they didn’t speak for many years in the late 2000s and early 2010s, they later patched things up and reconciled.