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'I'll Think Twice Before I Make A Film Like Bombay Again'
GLOBAL MOVIE MAGAZINE
|FEB 2025
‘Films like Roja and Bombay, at that point of time, were not something about which would be too worried.’ thought if I’m honest and if I’m reflecting what a normal person like me is feeling, then that honesty will come through.’
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Filmmaker Mani Ratnam said that he initially thought of making his 2000 hit Alai Payuthey with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol but then dropped the idea as he was unable to crack the climax of the film.
The Tamil-language romantic musical starred R Madhavan and Shalini and was later remade in Hindi as Saathiya with Rani Mukerji and Vivek Oberoi. The film revolved around two young people who elope and get married but soon cracks start to appear in their marriage.
“What I had planned to do with Shah Rukh was Alai Payuthey. I wanted to do it with Shah Rukh and Kajol and I told him the story and he agreed. But I had not cracked the last element of the story. 
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