Juhi Chawla recently opened a box of secrets when she appeared on The Kapil Sharma show. While sharing the stage with Madhoo and Ayesha Jhulka, the actress talked about how she and Aamir were chased away by Mumbai’s taxi drivers.
On the chat show of comedian Kapil Sharma, Juhi talked about the incident that happened in 1981 before the release of Qayamat se Qayamat tak. She revealed that during that time the Mumbai Taxis used to carry the film’s posters and before the release of their movie, Aamir Khan went from one taxi driver to another requesting them to carry their film’s posters.
“I still remember when our movie was going to be released. Nobody knew us. Remember, at that time, it was a common practice for taxis to carry film posters. There was a long line of taxis below our building, so I would go from driver to driver requesting them to put up the posters,” Juhi said.
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However, not all taxi drivers were ready to give space to a bunch of newcomers. “They would ask, ‘Who’s he?’, and I would say he is the hero, Aamir Khan. They would then point to my image on the poster and ask, ‘Who’s she?’, and I would say, ‘This is me.’ And they would say, ‘No, no’, and shoo us away. But some did reply sweetly, allowing us to put up the posters,” she said.
After the film was released, Juhi and Aamir would wait outside theatres to see how the audience was accepting the film. “In those days, it was not like today, when daily collection figures are public knowledge in a day. We would stand outside theatres to see if people were going in to watch the movie or not. And we slowly came to know that people actually like our movie,” she said.
On the work front, she will next be seen in ‘Sharmaji Namkeen’. She was shooting opposite Rishi Kapoor before his demise. The makers of the film roped in Paresh Rawal to fill in his place while keeping the parts already shot by Kapoor intact.
