Veteran director Mahesh Bhatt is well known for his profound, dark, and intense films from the 1990s. Famous novels like Zakhm, Daddy, and Aashiqui addressed urgent social concerns, told unusual love tales, and had compelling drama that was sometimes unsuitable for young readers.
 
The filmmaker changed genres to make a comedy-masala movie for his daughter, alia bhatt, because he wanted to make a movie his kids would like. Gulshan Grover, Mohnish Bahl, Farida Jalal, Sharat Saxena, and tiku talsania all had excellent performances in the 1998 film, which starred Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, and sonali bendre in the key roles.
 
The movie also included Farah Khan, a choreographer who had just started her career. The plot centered on misidentification, with Shah Rukh Khan playing the dual roles of villain and chef who was falsely accused of being a mobster. But he didn't gain anything from this genre change because the movie was a huge failure. The co-producers of Duplicate, karan johar and his father, yash Johar, who founded dharma Productions, lost a lot of money on the movie.
 
But that was their final failure before they became really successful. Their subsequent endeavor, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), was a huge hit and won over people all across the country. Remarkably, alia bhatt played the younger version of Preity Zinta's character in Mahesh Bhatt's 1999 film Sangharsh, her first on-screen role as a child artist. She later became a well-known actor in the business after making her bollywood debut in 2012 with karan Johar's Student of the Year.
 
 
 
 
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27/01/2025 12:38 PM