Salman once warned Kaanta Laga makers about Shefali’s video

In the aftermath of Shefali Jariwala’s untimely decease astatine the property of 42 owed to cardiac arrest, tributes are pouring successful from fans and manufacture veterans alike. Fondly remembered arsenic the Kaanta Laga girl, Shefali became a household sanction with the 2002 remix video that redefined the Indian euphony video landscape.

However, not everyone welcomed the song’s bold and rebellious visuals backmost then, including superstar Salman Khan.In a caller interrogation with Hindi Rush, recorded conscionable months earlier Shefali’s passing, the euphony video’s directors Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru shared however Kaanta Laga created a nationalist uproar, starring adjacent Salman Khan to intervene.“A large histrion called america to his location and said, ‘Main tumhe samjha raha hoon Radhika Vinay, yeh jo sexy kaam hai kam kiya karo, acha nahi hota (I’m explaining to you—stop doing specified sexy songs, it’s not good).

You person nice, axenic minds.’”The histrion successful question, they aboriginal revealed, was nary different than Salman Khan.A remix that “disturbed the motivation fibre of the nation”Radhika and Vinay recalled being summoned by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) soon aft the song’s release.“We got a telephone from the censor committee saying, ‘You person disturbed the motivation fibre of the nation,’” they said.Interestingly, the inspiration for Kaanta Laga came from Salman himself.

“One day, we went to Salman Khan’s house. He was moving retired portion listening to a Jhankaar Beats remix of a Kishore Kumar song. That sparked the thought for a caller benignant of euphony video,” Vinay shared.The effect was a bold departure from their earlier, much accepted euphony videos for Falguni Pathak, Jagjit Singh, and Pankaj Udhas. What followed was a caller question of remixes similar Kaliyon Ka Chaman and Chadti Jawani, implicit with sensual styling and edgy storytelling.

The ungraded down the styleRadhika revealed that the video’s rebellious vibe was rooted successful idiosyncratic anecdotes.“I went to a girls’ school. One of my friends refused to get a stamp connected her manus astatine a club—she asked for it connected her cervix instead. That country made it into the video. The porn magazine? I was erstwhile caught speechmaking 1 successful school—so we utilized that too.”Vinay added, “Even I didn’t cognize determination were big magazines for women with antheral models.

Our assistants scouted each implicit Mumbai and recovered 1 connected Hill Road successful Bandra.”They besides clarified that the much-talked-about thong worn by Shefali was simply a manner choice.“We didn’t realise we were disturbing the ‘moral fibre’ of the country,” Vinay said, ironically referencing the CBFC’s words.From ungraded to surface legendShefali Jariwala, who played the fierce, club-going rebel successful the video, aboriginal went connected to enactment successful Bigg Boss 13, ironically hosted by Salman Khan himself. Despite the contention that surrounded Kaanta Laga, the opus made Shefali an icon of aboriginal 2000s popular culture.In an interrogation recorded conscionable 10 months earlier her passing, Shefali had said, “There tin beryllium lone 1 Kaanta Laga miss successful the full world, and that is me. I emotion it. I privation to beryllium known arsenic the Kaanta Laga miss till the time I die.”