Mumbai: A supposedly funny line in David Dhawan’s Main Tera Hero where Raju Kher takes a dig at Katrina Kaif’s lack of command over the Hindi language had the affable director being confronted with lots of righteous protest.
The director says the actress will take the “bantering quip” sportingly.
“It is just an off-the-cuff remark, a bantering quip in the film, and Katrina is a girl I’ve known for many years. In fact, she did her first big film ‘Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?’ with Salman Khan and me. She can never be offended with what I do. She knows it’s all in fun,” said Dhawan.
For the first time Dhawan has directed his son Varun in “Main Tera Hero”, which also stars Nargis Fakhri and Ileana D’Cruz. The film is coming out April 4.
He was recently quoted as saying that his son Varun won’t get married until Salman does.
Laughed the filmmaker, “I was just doing some ‘masti’ with my son. I don’t see any likelihood of Salman getting married. So. I was kidding about Varun staying a bachelor.”
Director David Dhawan teamed up with his actor son Varun for the first time in “Main Tera Hero” and gets sentimental about the filial bonding.
He says that the film has not only strengthened their bonding, Varun also saved his life during the Bangkok shoot.
“Directing Varun has brought us closer together. During a schedule in Bangkok when I took ill, I could feel Varun’s panic,” said the director informing that it was a reaction to medicines that almost killed him in Bangkok.
“I had taken a fall in Bangkok and was taking medicine for the injuries. I made the mistake of gulping down the medicines on an empty stomach. The medicines reacted and I passed out. My son saved my life that day.”