It rarely happens that when an actor becomes famous overnight and becomes the heartbeat of everyone. When ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ was released in the year 1988, something similar happened with the lead actors of this film Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla. Both became the apple of the eyes of cinema lovers.
All the songs of this film are still on people’s tongue. Apart from singing icons Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik, Raj Zutshi also acted in this film in his early career. Raj became Aamir’s cousin in this film. Later she worked with Aamir in many films, of which ‘Lagaan’ is also one.
On the occasion of 20 years of the film ‘Lagaan’, Raj, in an interview with ‘IndianExpress.com’, shared a lot about his relationship with Aamir Khan and films. He had told how ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ brought a big change in his life.
When Aamir-Juhi got stuck in the crowd: Raj had told that there was a lot of craze among the audience about the film. Sharing an interesting incident, Raj had said that during the screening of the film, the team used to visit all the theaters for promotions. During the promotion of the film in Bangalore, the organizers came on stage to remind them that they had to leave for the next theatre. But the people present there did not want us to go.
Raj told that the people present there could have flared up, so the cinema hall staff asked us to exit through the back door. Me and Mansoor sir were sitting in the front seat of the car with the driver. Aamir and Juhi were sitting behind. The cinema hall was in a building where there were also many private offices. When people from the balcony saw us coming out from the back way, they got furious.
Brick-stones were thrown at the car: Raj told that when he started coming out of the gate of that building, people started throwing bricks and stones at our car. Due to which the glass was broken and its broken pieces fell on us. We told the driver to speed up and get out of here. Somehow they were able to get out safely.