Our emotions were running high: Farah Khan

Yesterday they were enemies and today they are the best of friends. So much so, that filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is making a movie with the 47-year-old filmmaker Farah Khan in the lead. So, how did they finally make up?

“I sent him a text message on his birthday and he messaged me back. That is how it all started. I know Sanjay from the time we worked together for 1947 — A Love Story. He was directing a song in the movie and I was choreographing it. We were both small fries, but became the best of friends then. I know that even if he gets upset, he will wait there for someone to make the first move. He will reciprocate. And he did,” says Farah.

The filmmaker adds that she did try to reach out to Sanjay as she felt the fight between them was ‘plain stupid’. “Our films were clashing at the box office and our emotions were running high. We said a lot of things to each other that we shouldn’t have. Yes, my film was a box office hit and his flopped. But a few months down the line, I realised that assignments come and go, films release and go, but friendships remain. I knew Sanjay would not reach out to me. I also knew he was not happy. It took him some time to cool down (read four years!), but eventually he did,” Farah says.

Farah reveals that when Sanjay told her that he wants to cast her as the heroine in his film, she laughed it away. “I told him ‘Are you mad!’ It was a role of 40-year-old aggressive loud Parsi woman. Very few know that my mother was Parsi (sister of child actor Daisy Irani and screenwriter Honey Irani) and my father is a Pathan (stunt director Kamran Khan). I guess I will also get some help from Boman (Irani, her co-actor),” she said.