IIE Digital Desk: 20th anniversary of "Mujhse Shaadi Karoge" interested with behind in scenes and stories have been emerged and were quite excited to see them in cinema halls and through the beautiful manadps were built at the entrance of several theatres in India and abroad with giving a full wedding like vibes. Several contests were been held at a part of the films such as with a honeymoon trip abroad and wedding chorus by Neeta Lulla. The film have opened with a great buisness and it still echoed with a crowd and even with Sonakshi Sinha and Anant Ambani, without the "Mujhse Shadi Karoge" and with the post wedding and baarat procession, respectively and became to all the more nostalgic after the Desi Girl "Priyanka Chopra" and danced to the track from her 2004 and to hit with romantic comedy and with starring Akshay Kumar and Salman at Anant Ambani's baarat.
The successed with a collective efforts of David Dhawan and wanted to re- invest and Sajid Nadiawala's and talented film Rajpal Yadav and the creative effort of Rumi Jaffery and avoid the repetitiveness film in 1997 film Deewana Mastana. Jafferey gave the credit to a filmmaker K Bhagyaraj, the film's idea and revealed to Duggal Sahab and inspired by a real person. He said, “The character was inspired by filmmaker Rahul Rawail’s father HS Rawail’s best friend, Ridku uncle. He was just 2.5 feet tall and you can find him in every film of HS Rawail such as Mere Mehboob and Mehboob Ki Mehendi. He used to live with HS Rawail like his own brother at his residence. So when I was writing Anjaam, Rahul casually discussed with me a very strange health complication of Ridku uncle. He told me that when he would wake up, he wouldn’t be able to see anything, sometimes he would have hearing impairment. I was shocked, but also found it quite funny. I told him I will use it in one of my films. Rahul said nobody will believe it. I was like why not, he will be a great character in a comedy drama. Several years later, I brought this character to life in Mujhse Shaadi Karogi.”Jaffery also revealed that Rajpal Yadav was a last-minute addition in the film and it was a task for him to create a role for the actor. The actor was fresh off the success of Jungle (2000) where he played a psychotic bandit for laughs with elan. Producer Sajid Nadiadwala called Rajpal and added him to the cast without speaking to Jaffery. “I am making a comedy drama with Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar, unn dono ke role ke baad third best tumhara hi hoga, Rumi se role sunlo. (Yours will be the third best role in the film, get your briefing from Rumi),” the producer told Rajpal. Rumi said when he received a call from Rajpal, he was non plussed.
“I called Sajid and asked what role has he given to Rajpal Yadav. Sajid said, ‘I just want him in the movie, now you figure out how.’ I was extremely stressed and I was constantly getting calls from Rajpal. The shooting date was nearing. Rajpal would say, ‘Bhaiya please brief me about my role so that I can understand its needs and start working on them’. To put him off, I told him, ‘okay, see me tomorrow’. After hanging up the phone, I started to think what role to give him. There was a role of a broker and then there was the role of a rowdy, who was the gang leader of the Eagle gang, which was originally written for Vindu Dara Singh”, Rumi told us.
He added, “By evening, I decided to give him a double role — both as the broker and the gang leader. The idea of twin brother occurred to me and it seemed just the right role for him. Soon, I called Sajid Nadiadwala and briefed him the role, he loved it. Finally, I briefed him (Rajpal) the role and he was quite satisfied. It was a very challenging situation. Just because Rajpal was a good actor, the role was created for him at the last minute.”
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi also made pugs the dog breed of choice. Rumi confesses to be obsessed with pugs since the time of Chalte Chalte (2003). Though he couldn’t use the real dog in the previous film, he successfully cast the dog in Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. “Kutta nahi, beta hai mera”, says Colonel sahab (played by the legendary Amrish Puri).
“The dog died mid-shoot”, revealed Rumi Jaffery. “Another interesting fact is that the dog initially used in the film was quite old, so it died during the shoot. But, luckily, all dogs look the same, so we brought a similar looking dog and completed the shoot with that.”