Did you know Shah Rukh Khan’s Baazigar shot with’ two endings’?

The film Baazigar starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Shilpa Shetty has completed its 25 years of success. It was released on November 12, 1993. The directors of the film Abbas-Mustan seem to be happy as the film has withstood the test of time.

Notably, the film was Shilpa Shetty’s debut and one of Kajol’s earliest successes. The movie Baazigar was among one of the most super hit movies in the nineties. As the film completed 25 years, Abbas-Mustan revealed an interesting fact about the film. He said that the film was shot with two endings.

Yes! You read that right. The original ending showed Ajay (Shah Rukh Khan) peacefully dying in his mother’s arms. However, actress Rakhee Gulzar, who played SRK’s mother in the film, never wanted a sad ending in Baazigar.

Mustan told news agency PTI, “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.”

Revealing the reason why they settled for the ending wherein Shah Rukh Khan died in the end, Mustan said, “We felt the ending where the police comes and takes SRK will not work as the emotional graph of the character would not be conveyed correctly.”

Speaking about the film’s success, Mustan said that it is a “big compliment” that people still like the film despite the fact that Shah Rukh Khan played a negative role in the film.

“People still like the film and it is a big compliment to the entire team. The important thing is the maker should be convinced with his own vision as that will reflect on screen. We had a hero playing a negative role. Though it led to the hit pairing of Shah Rukh and Kajol, it was not a romantic film. But it all worked well,” PTI quoted Mustan as saying.

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