20 Years of Aitraaz EXCLUSIVE: “Priyanka Chopra’s Suicide Scene Was Removed Because…” Reveals Writer Shiraz Ahmed 20: Bollywood News

Filmmaking duo Abbas-Mustan’s Aitraaza daring drama that was far ahead of its time, has existed for twenty years today. The film was about a man Raj (Akshay Kumar) who was falsely accused of sexual harassment and attempted rape by his boss and ex-girlfriend Sonia (Priyanka Chopra). After some twists and turns in the story, Raj’s wife Priya (Kareena Kapoor Khan), a lawyer by profession, fights his case and gets him cleared of all charges.

20 years of Aitraaz EXCLUSIVE: “Priyanka Chopra’s suicide scene was removed because…,” reveals writer Shiraz Ahmed

The film ends with Sonia ending her life by suicide. The incident is shown as a news update on a news channel. On the occasion of the 20th film^e anniversary, screenwriter Shiraz Ahmed revealed in an exclusive conversation with Bollywood Hungama that they had actually shot the scene of Sonia’s suicide, but it was later removed from the final print.

Shiraz Ahmed said, “We have shown Priyanka going to the terrace of her head office and jumping from there. We didn’t show a green screen. We shot him with a crane and by hanging her from a harness. A very good dialogue was played during the scene which goes like, ‘Jab aadmi zindagi mein bohat tezi se oopar jata hai toh woh sochta hai ki use alag kisam ki kaamyabi milegi lekin usko tab pata chalta hai ki uske aas paas ke uske jitne log hain woh ons se kitne door ho gaye.’ And then she jumps.”

He added: “It was a beautifully filmed scene. We had edited that scene too. But then it seemed gruesome because we wanted the family audience to see the film. So we played those lines while showing the news of her suicide on TV in a showroom.

The subject of Aitraaz about a man falsely accused of a sexual crime by a devious woman, was quite out-of-the-box and bold. “If you try to find out, you will realize that such incidents took place even then,” Shiraz said. “The credit should go to Abbas-Mustan. They were the people who showed courage to make this subject and made it so good and that too then. They did that from the beginning Baazigarwhere they showed an anti-hero. Then inside Ajnabeethey showed the wife swapping angle.

He said the challenge was to present such a subject while keeping the Indian audience of that time in mind. “It had a controversial angle,” he said. “So it was very important to take Indian feelings and values ​​into account. Despite the subject matter, it had family values. It’s a fine line when you portray a woman this way. But the whole point was that whether it’s a man or a woman, mistakes can happen to anyone. It was a difficult situation, but we made it through.”

Talking about the depth of the characters, Shiraz said, “As you know, Akshay Kumar is the main character with whom this incident takes place. But the actual protagonist is Kareena Kapoor, through her bond with her husband. At some point, even she feels like her husband might be wrong. But she overcomes it and puts faith in him and says she will fight his case. These values ​​represent Indian culture and family values. This complimented the controversial part of the story.”

Aitraaz had some moments that would have been considered risqué twenty years ago. But Shiraz claims they didn’t get carried away with the theme. “It’s all about your intentions,” he said. “The intention may be that you add scenes that stimulate the audience because of the theme. But that wasn’t the case here. Even if you see it today, everything that was shown in the movie was the requirement of the story. That is why the film was made so that it can be viewed with a family.”

The makers received full support from film producer Subhash Ghai. Shiraz even said that he didn’t keep an eye on the making of the film. “Subhash Ghai was very confident on this issue,” he said. “He heard it for the first time and said, ‘Go ahead.’ In fact, he was so confident that he didn’t visit the sets even once. He just saw a copy. It was actually a very smooth shoot. There wasn’t a single scene or dialogue that any actor objected to, and we had to change.”

Aitraaz had released next to a big like Veer-ZaaraRam Gopal Varmas Naach and the colored version of the classic Mughal-e-Azam. Shiraz recalled that despite the situation, Ghai never felt like retreating. “The credit should go to Subhash Ghai ji,” he said. “When he saw the copy, he had a lot of confidence in it. We had a good theme and the music was good too.”

But Shiraz claimed that Aitraaz faced a lot of negativity from the sector itself. “Industry people had labeled it a flop,” he said. “They said the film did well in the first few days because of Diwali and it will disappear from Monday. But it held up so well and that too for such big films.

We currently live in an era where two major films clashing at the box office leads to a fight over the maximum number of screens. But Ahmed said this was not the case 20 years ago. “It was very peaceful then,” he says. “People are afraid these days because you get the pirated copies of films on the second or third day. So part of the audience watches the film for free. There was also piracy back then, but not at this level because there wasn’t much internet penetration. At that time, people were getting pirated movies on CDs. So the process used to take time.”

He added, “Hence, nowadays the makers want maximum exposure on the first day when two or more films are releasing on the same day. Even at that time, films ran for weeks and sometimes started later. But now the whole idea of ​​a film that resumes later doesn’t exist. Films are also more expensive these days, so makers want to make as much money as possible in the first weekend, even if the numbers drop later.”

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