Anupam Kher recalls clash with Aamir Khan when the 'Lagaan' actor complained about him to Mahesh Bhatt during 'Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi': 'Mere andar ka NSD ka gold medalist jag gaya’

Aamir Khan and Anupam Kher had shared screen space in ‘Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi’ which starred Pooja Bhatt also and was directed by Mahesh Bhatt. Kher played Pooja’s father in the film. There was a disagreement between Kher and Aamir in the film because the latter didn’t like the interpretation of scene. In a recent interview, while promoting his latest directorial, ‘Tanvi the Great’, Anupam Kher opened up on this incident. When asked if Aamir was upset with him during the shoot, Kher said during a chat with Siddharth Kannan, “He wasn’t upset with me, he disliked my interpretation of the climax scene. I play a man who tells his daughter to abandon her to-be husband and run away from the ‘mandap’. In my imagination, only a man who is not in his senses would make such a suggestion, so I decided to play the scene comedically. Aamir didn’t like it, apparently. So, he went and complained to Bhatt saab even though he was just an actor like me.” He added further, “Bhatt saab told me what Aamir had said, and that’s when mere andar ka National School of Drama ka gold medalist jaag gaya (my inner drama school gold medalist was unleashed). I asked Bhatt saab, ‘You’re okay with my performance?’ He said he is, so I told him, ‘Then let’s continue as we were’.” In the same interview, Kher was also asked about this incident during a press conference wherein he told Mahesh Bhatt to leave. People thought that Kher was disrespecting him but the actor-director clarified his stance. He said, “He is too important for me to disrespect him like that.” Kher had made his acting debut with ‘Saaransh’ which was directed by Mahesh Bhatt.