Kal Ho Naa Ho
A story of a lifetime… in a heartbeat.
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$13 214 520
Director
Actors
Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Sushma Seth, Reema Lagoo, Athit Naik, Jhanak Shukla, Delnaaz Irani, Lillete Dubey
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Karan Johar, Yash Johar
Camera operator
Anil Mehta
Composer
Artist
Sharmishta Roy, Mohammed Kasam Sayyad
Audition
Editing
Sanjay Sankla
Whole Team (55)
Whole Team (55)
Short description
An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.
What's left behind the scenes
- Karina Kapoor was initially chosen for the role of Naina, but she declined due to financial issues.
- Screenwriter and producer Karan Johar wrote the script with Karisma Kapoor in mind, but she asked for such a high fee that Preity Zinta was chosen instead.
- Some scenes had to be filmed in Toronto because the cost of filming in New York turned out to be simply unaffordable.
- On the fifth day of filming, Shah Rukh Khan fell ill. He was already ready to leave the project altogether, but director Nikhil Advani persuaded Johar to wait for his recovery and continue filming. Khan's illness lasted six months.
- The street where the main characters lived was filmed in Brooklyn; the film crew rented accommodation there for two weeks.
- While working on the script, Karan Johar lived in New York for a month and a half, studying the local residents and representatives of the Indian diaspora.
- Shah Rukh Khan's children didn't see the film's finale as it was released in theaters. Karan Johar specially edited a version for them where everything ends before the death of the character played by their father.
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