Karan Johar confirms project with Salman Khan on superstar's 58th birthday. Karan revealed the tale of how Salman joined the cast of his directorial debut, "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai," which also starred Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, and Rani Mukerji, on Instagram.
"Twenty-five years ago, I was at a party lost and confused... A massive movie star came up to me and asked me why I was standing by a corner... I told him I had been to several actors for a part but was politely rejected... the superstars sister is close to me so he graciously said she had spoken highly of my script and that I should meet him the next day to narrate the film to him," Karan recalled.
"I went with a prayer in my heart and a deep desire for a miracle and narrated the first of the film like my life depended on it. He looked at me at the interval point (by then I was looking like I was at the Sahara desert and water could keep me alive) kindly offered me water and said ‘I’’m on!!!’
"I was perplexed and said, ‘you are in the second half, you haven’t heard it?' He said ‘I love your father and my sister will kill me if I don’t do this movie’ and that’s how Salman Khan was in KKHH'," Karan said.
In the 1998 romantic drama, Salman had an extended cameo as Aman, the fiance of Kajol's 'Anjali' who graciously lets go of her in the end. Karan expressed his gratitude to Salman's agent Alvira Khan Agnihotri and acknowledged his father Yash Johar's connections in the business, which enabled him to cast Salman in the film.