Juhi Chawla, who has shared the screen with Shah Rukh Khan in over a dozen films, recently shared an interesting anecdote about the iconic dialogue "I love you K.K.K.Kiran" from their 1991 hit romantic thriller 'Darr'. Speaking at a Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry event, she revealed how Shah Rukh came up with the famous stammer.
Juhi Chawla shares inspiration behind SRK's iconic dialogue
"I hadn't noticed it, but Shah Rukh was observant. Yash ji [director Yash Chopra] used to stammer a little, and Shah Rukh once revealed that he picked up 'K-K-K-Kiran' from him. He said, ‘I am going to use it in the film,’ and that's how it started. Thank God for that," Juhi said, as quoted by The Indian Express.
'Darr', directed by the late Yash Chopra and produced under Yash Raj Films, featured Shah Rukh as a relentless stalker who goes to obsessive and violent lengths to stay close to Kiran (Juhi Chawla), a woman he loves, who is married to Sunny Deol's character. The film established Shah Rukh as a formidable anti-hero.
Shah Rukh speaks about the iconic dialogue
In the Netflix India docuseries 'The Romantics' released last year, Shah Rukh recalled how he came up with the idea of the stammer after discussions with Aditya Chopra, who was an Assistant Director on the sets of 'Darr'.
"I had a classmate who had a stammer. And then we did some study, some BBC documentary or something where they talked about how people’s minds become aware of one sound, and it’s like a sharp current," he said.
"So, you can’t say the word. I told Yash ji that I would like to use this aspect with the character. And then Adi [Aditya Chopra] suggested that because you become aware of a sound, let’s make him aware of the woman he loves the most, her name. So, I only stammer on the word Kiran. It was just for that one word because he’s so aware of her," Shah Rukh added.