Rakesh Roshan’s iconic action-reincarnation film completed 20 years recently. The film will be special to a lot of people for several reasons. Below we have a compiled some trivia on the film that released in theatres on January 13 1995.
- Karan Arjun featured Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan together for the first time. Both the Khans are the biggest superstars of this generation and have been ruling the roost for the last 25 years.
- Possibly the best on-screen couple in the history of Indian Cinema, Shah Rukh and Kajol starred in this blockbuster movie. Apart from this they have also starred in films like Baazigar, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and My Name Is Khan.
- Salman had the choice of playing either of the roles out of the two. On consultation with his dad Salim Khan, he opted for Karan as Salim Khan relates Salman to ‘Karna’ of Mahabharatha.
- Karan Arjun established Rakesh Roshan as one of the best masala directors of Bollywood. He continued the trend with blockbusters like Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish.
Karan Arjun
- A 20 year old man named Hrithik Roshan worked as an assistant director on the film and it is during the making of Karan Arjun that Hrithik found the inspiration form the two Khans to go on to be a superstar himself. Karan Arjun was his first major contribution to Bollywood.
- Ajay Devgan was the original choice to play the role of Karan eventually played by Salman Khan. The casting would have been interesting as Ajay’s future wife Kajol was paired opposite SRK. Also, Ajay-SRK have differences and hence have never been paired together in a film
- Karan Arjun released months after ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ and 9 months before ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge’. Coincidentally, HAHK had Salman and DDLJ had SRK in the lead role and both these movies were the highest grossers of the 90s decade.
- Karan Arjun is arguably the most loved movie on television as it has been aired almost every week for more than 15 years now.
- One of the biggest highlights of the movie was its killer dialogues which are still fresh in the mind of viewers. The most common ones which are frequently used are – ‘mere Karan Arjun aayenge’ and ‘thakur to giyo’
- Karan-Arjun had a super-hit music album comprising of chartbuster songs like Jaati Hoon Main, Bhagra paale, Rana Ji and Ye Bandhan to. All songs were composed by Rakesh Roshan’s brother Rajesh Roshan.
- Rakesh Roshan had initially decided to title the film as ‘Kaynaat’. However, the chemistry that Shahrukh-Salman shared in the film, impressed him so much, that he decided to name the film after their on-screen characters
- Nagma was the first choice to play the role of Bindiya, which eventually went to Mamta Kulkarni.
- Interestingly, Rakesh Roshan had also thought of casting Bobby Deol or Sunny Deol for the role that eventually went to Shahrukh Khan.
Article by Abhishek Sharma
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who cares!
Can these Bollywood stalwart film makers (Rakesh Roshan here) have enough guts to digitally remaster this 1995 ATBB, scan it in 4k like they do in Hollywood and release it on BluRay as 20th anniversary collectors edition since it has 2 of the 3 bollywoods biggest superstars?
answer is NO!
so who cares if Karan Arjun turns 20 or 40 or even 100. when directors dont care. why should we!
@khan if you are not interested in Bollywood news please settle in abroad and watch the movies which you have mentioned
@Navin Bhai ha ha ha. ROFL.
srk is the king
Thank God they didn’t cast Bobby Deol. The film would sanked without a trace.
SRKians every year expect miracles from SRK but only Aamir & Salman giving their fans plenty to rejoice! :P
ha ha.jealosy at it’s peak notch.there is no entertainment in karan Arjun if we remove KING KHAN.what salman did besides remaining silent like a statue even in song also can’t give a single expression.and they said salman is better than KING KHAN in ka?that also said by one 6 fingered alien’s fan.with out KING KHAN karan arjun would like andaz apna apna.thanks to MY KING.
@shaggy,KING KHAN is far more than just a legend,any doubt?
@ab positive,rajshri productions made entertaining family drama which attracted audience.but YRF made only leading pair romance story based on only LEADING PAIR,that they did also before in films like chandini and silsilay but non of them worked.but KING SRK was the game change for them,HE is the reason why YRF is the biggest film production house today.while the same couldn’t happened for rajshri productions instead of working with salman several times.about amir the script and chemistry worked so it was a big hit unlike amir’s second collaboration with dharmesh darshan in mela was a big disaster?so that cleay shown what is amir’s stardom no need to explain this after working with dhoom/raju hirani.that us obvious previously expected he’ll get big hit,so no credit goes to amir khan.
@khan,karan arjun is a legend film that only Indian can understand well.if you will compare it with hollywood then my request for you boycott Bollywood.
@navin,as usual non sense comment!!still I am astonishing how @indicine is publishing this garabage unrelated comment to their Article that they said they will not post such comment.I doubt whether my comment will publish or not as I always say TRUTH that hurts everyone.now also I said this.
I have literally stopped replying you but a moron like you never fails to grab eyeballs. First you say, Jab tak hai Jaan is better than Rang De. And now you say “Without King Khan, karan arjun will be like Andaaz apna apna.”
Andaaz apna apna is a cult hit enjoyed by millions of viewers. Karan Arjun is one of many blockbusters which come and go. KA can’t even come to the foot of AAA. I don’t care about the khans but don’t you dare to ever say Karan Arjun is better than Andaaz Apna Apna. Go and watch Chota Bheem you lunatic! I don’t have time to waste on a person whose name resembles hissing of a snake. But dont you dare to say anything against AAA.
Some typos there. Andaaz Apna Apna is a cult classic. (I know it’s not a hit) Secondly, my comment is dedicated to @SSS khan
@gj, great reply to the moron….
Srk is a legend, god of Bollywood & baap of all Bollywood actors. 3 things cannot be hidden the sun, the moon & the truth.
SRK main hero Tha Karan – Arjun Mein aur jyada dance , fighting & dialogues srk (king khan ) ke the in Karan – Arjun… Salman khan srk se jyada cute Tha in Karan Arjun but srk ka later leading role Tha K-A Mein 100% agree.
Karan Arjun was a blockbuster and both Khan’s share equal credit for it. Salman was riding the unimaginable success of HAHK and Shahrukh had won awards and accolades for his antihero roles in Baazigar and Darr. The film in itself is quite routine, just above average, music is better and the heroines didn’t matter. It could have been Karisma Kapoor or Raveena Tandon and nothing would have changed. It was a film of two rising stars which did well.
The problem with Rakesh Roshan was when he decided to replace Sunny Deol with Shahrukh Khan in his next film, Koyla. Sunny was already signed for the role when Shahrukh manipulated hia way through. Thanks to Hrithik that Rakesh Roshan, the director is still floating around.