Ayushmann Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan visited Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 18 to promote Udta Teer, but the evening’s most lasting moment was not about the new film. Khurrana sang the title track of Kabhi Kabhie for host Amitabh Bachchan, and Bachchan answered with a production detail that ties the film to its seeming opposite.
Two days between two registers
Bachchan thanked Khurrana for reviving old memories, then placed the song: the title track of Kabhi Kabhie, a Yash Chopra film shot in Kashmir. The detail that shifts the anecdote from nostalgia to film history is the schedule. He recalled that the Deewaar shoot had begun just two days before Kabhi Kabhie’s.
That is the striking part of the recollection. Chopra was known, as Bachchan put it, as a romantic director whose films were known for romance. Deewaar was the opposite — a hard, confrontational drama. Bachchan credited the pivot to the director’s “greatness”: the ability to change himself and the atmosphere between two productions.
Why the memory lands now
For readers who follow Hindi cinema closely, the anecdote is a small piece of evidence for what made the era distinctive. A single actor and a single director were moving between the registers that would define two separate strands of mainstream Hindi film. The lesson of the schedule is that range was not a marketing claim; it was the actual working calendar.
- Ayushmann Khurrana performed ‘Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein’ during the birthday-month segment.
- Bachchan said Kabhi Kabhie was shot in Kashmir, with Yash Chopra directing.
- The Deewaar shoot started two days before Kabhi Kabhie’s began.
- Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan later asked Bachchan to deliver iconic dialogues across a range of emotions.
The moment also fits a pattern of Kaun Banega Crorepati’s birthday-month programming: guests often arrive to promote a release, then find themselves inside Bachchan’s memory. Here the memory was unusually precise — close enough to reconstruct the sequence of two productions that most viewers know only as finished films.
What to watch for
The dialogue segment underlines the reminder the tribute opened: Bachchan’s own range, like Chopra’s, spans the two moods the episode touched. Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 18 airs Monday to Friday at 9 PM on Sony Entertainment Television. For those keeping the history straight, this is also a reason to revisit the two films back to back.
Source: bollywoodHungama.com
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