Actress Juhi Chawla, who recently appeared on The Kapil Sharma Show, shared some fascinating anecdotes from the early days of her career. As she spoke of the blockbuster film Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, which featured her and Aamir Khan, the actress recalled how they were shooed away by the taxi drivers of Mumbai before the film released.
“I still remember when our movie was going to be released. Nobody knew us. Remember, at that time, it was a common practice for taxis to carry film posters. There was a long line of taxis below our building, so I would go from driver to driver requesting them to put up the posters,” Juhi said.
During those days, Mumbai's taxis would carry posters of new Hindi films. She said that while some taxi drivers allowed them to put up the posters, not everyone was ready to feature newcomers. Juhi added: "They would ask, ‘Who’s he?’, and I would say he is the hero, Aamir Khan. They would then point to my image on the poster and ask, ‘Who’s she?’, and I would say, ‘This is me.’ And they would say, ‘No, no’."
Juhi also revealed that they would wait outside theatres to see how the audience were reacting to the film. "In those days, it was not like today, when daily collection figures are public knowledge in a day. We would stand outside theatres to see if people were going in to watch the movie or not. And we slowly came to know that people actually like our movie," she said.
Juhi appeared on the comedy show along with Madhoo and Ayesha Jhulka.
