Little Known Facts About Raja Hindustani

Directed by Dharmesh Darshan and starring Karisma Kapoor and Aamir Khan, Raja Hindustani was the third most commercially successful Hindi film of the 1990s.  Made on a budget of ₹57.5 million, the film went on to gross ₹763.4 million worldwide. Here are some interesting yet little known facts about the 1996 Bollwood movie Raja Hindustani:

• The movie was remake of the musical hit "Jab Jab Phool Khile" starring Shashi Kapoor and Nanda.
• Perfectionist Aamir Khan consumed liquor for the first time in this movie for the song "Tere ishq mein" as his character in the song was shown as drunk.

• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was offered the lead role opposite Aamir but she turned it down; the role then went to Juhi Chawla but she did not do the film due to her problems with Aamir and then the role was finally offered to Karisma Kapoor and she walked away with all the awards that year.
• Dharmesh Darshan, the director was more keen on having Pooja Bhatt on board, but reportedly Aamir wanted to work with someone he has never worked with before. So the director signed Karisma Kapoor.

• After the song Tere Ishq Mein Nachenge, there was a scene that both Aamir and Dharmesh liked but it never got shot because the film crew suggested that the scene was too intense for a popular film like Raja Hindustani. The scene was — as a humiliated and inebriated Raja (Aamir) leaves his wife’s (Karisma) house, he walks slowly towards the train station and the beggars sitting on the side of the road recite a poem by Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi that mirrors Raja’s state of mind.
• The first cut of this love story was about 4 hours and 25 minute long, before it was edited to be a 2 hour 54 minute movie.