Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt’s ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’ is performing well at the box office. The Karan Johar directorial has earned over Rs 70 crores within a week of its release. Now, to mark the success of their film, Karan along with the makers organised a press conference in Mumbai on August 3.
At the event, he got candid about the visual and emotional spectacle that he brought about in the romantic drama. Karan recalled an interesting anecdote about Alia Bhatt and how she got married twice in just four days.
Referring to the ending scene of the film in which Rocky Randhawa and Rani got married, Karan Johar recalled, ‘Alia aur Ranbir ki shaadi hui thi aur chaar din baad we were shooting our sequence with Ranveer and Alia. So in that week, Alia Bhatt got married twice, one in real life and one in reel life. And the mehndi that Alia Bhatt’s character has in the scene is the same mehndi that she had in her wedding celebrations with Ranbir Kapoor. We just darkened it. And we shot that song ‘Kudmayi’ in Jaisalmer and Vaibhavi Merchant picturised it beautifully.’
He added, ‘However, when it came to the length of the song, everyone was of the opinion that it should be somewhere lower than 2:50 minutes. It shouldn’t cross that number. Then we had to constrict it into a box along with the rolling credits. It truly broke my heart as a film-maker that I was not able to present the song in its full glory. But we are launching this song today for everyone to cherish.’
‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’ also stars veteran actors Dharmendra, Shabana Azmi and Jaya Bachchan along with Tota Roy Chowdhury and Churni Ganguly in key roles.
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