Rani Mukerji labored with director Karan Johar on one of the most successful films of her profession, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and due to their running relationship and close personal friendship, believed that he would continually keep her in her thoughts for destiny projects. Rani appeared in a cameo in Karan’s follow-up, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, but become greatly surprised whilst the filmmaker didn’t provide her a position in ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho,’ which turned into directed by way of Nikkhil Advani.
In a 2004 look on Koffee with Karan, Rani admitted that she was disillusioned with Karan for having prevented telling her that he turned into going into an exceptional course with the film, which eventually starred Preity Zinta opposite Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan. She stated that she grew to become to Aamir Khan for comfort after feeling permit down via Karan.
She said, “To be sincere, once I first got to know approximately it, I didn’t get to understand it from you, so that is what harm me. Like, I’m so near you, even in case you make a film, you could usually talk it with me, whether you’re taking me or any individual else. I proportion that comfort stage with you. but then, when you didn’t come to me and communicate to me about it, and that i heard it from any person else, I used to be like, ‘Why didn’t Karan come and tell me?’”
Rani continued, “You and i don’t have that relationship, wherein I’d sense horrific… I do not forget I did move and cry in front of Aamir, that you don’t know, I’m telling you to your show.” Karan really didn’t recognize this, and he stated, “I didn’t even realize that Aamir changed into the shoulder to cry on.”
Rani introduced, “It wasn’t a cry for, ‘Oh, Preity got the position’, i used to be very glad for you. but i was just unhappy that I were given the news from somebody else. And perhaps that point i was a bit touchy, because i was going thru a lull in my career. but then, God is type…”
Whilst Karan and her patched up, she seemed in a cameo inside the track “Mahi Ve.”