When Rishi Kapoor was apprehensive to shoot Karz song

Mumbai: Subhash Ghai’s 1980 release Karz is still remembered for its story and chartbuster music, but its lead actor Rishi Kapoor reveals he was apprehensive to shoot a song for the movie without any choreographer. The actor says his first schedule of the movie started with picturization of the popular Dard-E-Dil song, during the which he realised there was no choreographer on the set.

“I asked who will choreograph the song, so Subhash Ghai said he will. To be honest, I didn’t have that conviction or was that happy that he will shoot the song because he had made action films. I objected a little but he convinced me. He said we will re-shoot the song if I don’t like it.

I am happy to tell you, the final version that you see has been picturised by Subhash Ghai with no choreographers. He is among the very few directors who can picturise a song without any help from choreographers,” Rishi told reporters here. The 64-year-old actor was speaking at a special ‘re-premiere’ event of the film along with Ghai and actress Simi Garewal.

The film’s album, by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, had several successful numbers like, “Om Shanti Om”, “Dard-E-Dil” and “Ek Haseena Thi”. At the event, Rishi shared an anecdote involving the music of the film and Anupam Kher.

“Anupam Kher sahab often jokes with me. I had gone to a show and whenever the topic of ‘Karz’ comes, naturally the ‘Om Shanti Om’ song is remembered. The lyrics of the song are ‘meri umar kay naujawanon.’ So he told me, I should stop singing this and instead sing ‘kya umar thi, kya sama tha, kya zamana tha. Ek haseena thi ek deewana tha,'” he says.