Did You Know SRK's Baazigar Was Shot With Two Endings? The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan who had to face a quite hurdle while shooting for Baazigar- be it the long delay of shoots or to not getting to By Team Bollyy 12 Nov 2018 | Updated On 12 Nov 2018 05:40 IST in Latest Trending New Update Follow Us Share The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan who had to face a quite hurdle while shooting for Baazigar- be it the long delay of shoots or to not getting to play the chocolate boy 'the hero' but as the film completes 25 years, the director duo Abbas Mustan are happy as it is regarded one of the best Bollywood thrillers till date. As the film completes 25 years, Mustan, in an interview with PTI, talks about the obstacles the team faced, why Salman Khan and Anil Kapoor turned down the anti-hero role and why they shot two different climax scenes for the movie. He recalls the movie received overwhelming response across the globe and they witnessed it during the film’s US and UK screenings. The birth of the film, however, was difficult. The mahurat of the film was done in December 1992 and the shoot was scheduled to start soon, with the aim to wrap it up by January-February. The film hit a roadblock after communal riots broke in different parts of the country post the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6. “There was a tense moment due to riots, people were scared and were not going out. But Mumbai is a city that bounces back like never before. Once things got cleared, work began as usual. “We started shooting sometime in late March and wrapped it by May-June and decided to release it on Diwali. The film was earlier set to release in June-July.” Baazigar chronicled the story of a young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon and how he plots to destroy the rest of the family. Mustan, an ardent fan of Manmohan Desai’s cinema, was inspired by the filmmaking style of the renowned director to form the crux of Baazigar as a mother-son story with revenge as backdrop. “In his films, the character of a mother was of utmost importance. We wanted to have that element in our film. It is all about bringing the right emotion for a film. If the mother-son relationship is explored and justified properly on screen then it definitely strikes a chord with audience. If a son is taking revenge for his mother then his every sin is forgiven. And it worked well with the audience.” The makers felt veteran actor Rakhee Gulzar was the perfect choice to play a distressed mother to Shah Rukh. It was Rakhee, who had told the director duo to change the climax of the film. “Rakhee ji said yes but wanted the ending to be changed as she felt audience should not be let down. A lot of distributors said the hero should not die in the end and instead the police should come and arrest him. “So we had shot both the endings. We felt the ending where the police come and take SRK will not work as the emotional graph of the character would not be conveyed correctly.” When the first copy came out, Mustan says, both the distributors and Rakhee eventually agreed to go with the duo’s vision of the climax. The film is said to be a remake of A Kiss Before Dying but Mustan insists only one scene is inspired from this 1991 Hollywood film. “Our film is completely different from this Hollywood movie. Only one shot where a man throws a girl off the terrace, we just had that scene where Shah Rukh’s character throws Shilpa off the terrace to her death. That film has no track of mother-son, it is there in our film,” Mustan says. Well, to conclude, as they say, all well that end's well. And this is what happened with Baazigar. For more Bollywood updates, follow Bollyy! Tags: Bollywood, Bollywood News, Bollywood Updates, Television, Telly News, Baazigar, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Shilpa Shetty #bollywood news #Bollywood #kajol #Shah Rukh Khan #Bollywood updates #television #Telly News #Shilpa Shetty #Baazigar Related Articles Advertisment Latest Stories Read the Next Article