Bollywood Director Subhash Ghai, who made great films like Dilip Kumar’s Saudagar, Sanjay Dutt’s Khalnayak, Anil Kapoor’s Meri Jung, Jackie’s Hero and Shahrukh’s Pardes, has turned 79 today. Subhash gave a place in cinema to many new faces like Jackie Shroff, Mahima Chaudhary, Manisha Koirala, Meenakshi Sheshadri through his films.
It would not be wrong to give credit to Subhash Ghai for polishing the skills of many actors like Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan. His films are known for lavish sets, iconic characters and epic climaxes. Subhash Ghai is a great director and is equally short-tempered. Sometimes in anger he raised his hand on Salman Khan and sometimes he troubled Amitabh Bachchan with his demands. While many relationships were formed in his journey, he also had many conflicts due to anger.
The feud between Subhash Ghai and Salman Khan is not a matter of 5-10 years. The fight between the two started when Salman Khan was shooting for his first film Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). One day Subhash Ghai had reached the set of that film. The film’s director Sooraj Barjatya was Subhash’s friend. As soon as Subhash Ghai saw newcomer Salman Khan on the set, he was unhappy and said, how can this small, thin boy become a hero.
Subhash Ghai’s loud voice reached Salman Khan’s ears, obviously he must have felt bad hearing this. Although he was new at that time, so could not say anything. Maine Pyar Kiya, released in 1989, was a huge hit, which catapulted Salman Khan to stardom.
A few days after the film’s release, a party was organized at Subhash Ghai’s house, in which Salman Khan attended. Suddenly both of them started arguing in that party. No one knew what the reason was, however, the situation escalated so much in that party that Salman slapped Subhash Ghai.
This was revealed in the year 2002, when Salman gave clarification in the matter of raising his hand on Aishwarya Rai. Salman had said in an interview, I never hurt others, I only hurt myself. Yes, but I have definitely killed Subhash Ghai. He hit me with a spoon, he almost broke a plate on my face. He even held my throat. Then I lost my temper and raised my hand at him, but I apologized to him the very next day.
Subhash Ghai has also talked about this feud. He had said in an interview, the very next day of the fight, Salman Khan came to me to apologize. He was standing in front of me like a child. I smiled at him and asked, what happened to you last night. He replied, I have come here because my father has asked me to do so. Subhash further asked, meaning you should not apologize. Salman said, I have to apologize. In this way both of them reconciled.
It was the year 1987, when Amitabh Bachchan had signed the film Deva with Subhash Ghai. Deva was the biggest film being made at that time, in which the casting of Amitabh Bachchan was sure to make the film a superhit. The film, which started with a big budget, was announced in a big press conference.
Eventually, the shooting started on time. Amitabh Bachchan always reads his script and memorizes the dialogues before shooting. One day, while sitting in the make-up room, Amitabh Bachchan was reading the script when something bothered him. He wanted to discuss that part with Subhash Ghai, so he told his assistant to go and call Subhash Ghai. As soon as the assistant came to Subhash and said that, he replied, if Amitabh Bachchan wants to consult me, then tell him to come to my office.
As soon as the assistant told this to Amitabh, he got angry. Amitabh Bachchan asked his assistant to get all the luggage packed and went straight home from the shooting. Despite Amitabh leaving the set, Subhash Ghai did not call him or try to contact him. The next day Subhash and his team kept waiting on the set, but he did not come. This sequence continued for about a week. Every day the set would be ready and everyone would wait for Amitabh, but would only get disappointed.
At the same time, Subhash Ghai was also shooting the film Karma in Kashmir. As soon as Madhuri came to know that Subhash Ghai was there, she sent a photograph of herself to her hair dresser. Subhash liked Madhuri’s picture so much that he called her to meet him. When Madhuri reached her set, she met choreographer Saroj Khan. Saroj asked her, will you dance? Madhuri agreed and gave a small dance performance there. Subhash Ghai liked Madhuri’s dance of a few seconds so much that he immediately said, don’t do these small roles in films, you have talent. Then Subhash Ghai gave Madhuri a job in the film Ram Lakhan, due to which Madhuri got recognition across the country.
Subhash Ghai had written and directed about 16 films in his career, out of which 13 films were hits. This is the reason why many people still call Subhash Ghai the second showman of Hindi cinema after Raj Kapoor. He has also been given the National Award for the best film made on social issue for the film Iqbal.
Subhash Ghai has announced at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 that he is soon going to co-produce a film on Osho with an Italian producer. Lankesh Sukameli will direct this film. Apart from this, Subhash Ghai is the owner of Mumbai’s acting school Wizzling Woods International Institute. This school is one of the 10 best acting schools in the world.
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