Kabir Khan is one of the most famous directors of Bollywood and he has given us quite a few entertaining movies. He started his career with Yash Raj Film’s Kabul Express and then he made New York which starred John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Katrina Kaif in important roles.
During an interview, Kabir Khan said that Aditya Chopra asked him to cast Katrina Kaif in New York but she wasn’t interested. Here’s what Kabir revealed, “When Katrina came in, this was going to be her first film with Yash Raj, so she came and I think, she was a little disappointed by the film when she heard it. She was wanting to hear maybe a love story, song and dance, and she was like ‘what kind of film is this?’”
Kabir further told that he had met Salman Khan while making Kabul Express and it helped him as it was Salman who convinced Katrina to work in New York.
Kabir said, “Those days, she was seeing Salman. Salman asked her ‘how was the meeting?’ She said ‘there is a new filmmaker who has made one film and he offered me a film. It’s interesting but I don’t know’. Salman asked ‘who is the filmmaker?’ so she said ‘there’s this guy called Kabir Khan’. So apparently, Salman said ‘aankh band karke picture sign kar lo, I have met the boy’ (sign the film with your eyes closed, I have met the boy). It’s so sweet that he remembered that one meeting.”
Well it was good that Katrina worked in New York, what do you say?
