When Salman Khan locked Madhuri Dixit and a journalist in a room: Throwback | Hindi Movie News

KC Bokadia’s Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam turns 21 today on May 24. The film had the rare distinction of bringing Shah Rukh and Salman Khan together. It also featured Madhuri Dixit as the female lead and a cameo appearance by Aishwarya Rai. Understandibly, the set of this film was a hotbed of activity, back in the day. A young Salman Khan was the prankster at his best and he managed to lock Madhuri and journalist Subhash K Jha in a room. The senior journalist recalls the incident that took place many years ago. In his own words…
“I had an innocuously bizarre experience on location of Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam, all thanks to filmmaker Prakash Jha who personally took me to the bungalow in Juhu where Aruna Irani‘s death sequence was being shot.

Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan were also shooting. This was way back in 1997 when I didn’t know Salman Khan, I had some issues over Madhuri Dixit being part of a song as vulgar as Choli ke peeche kya hai. And I expressed those misgivings in writing. Madhuri didn’t like it one bit.
It took my friend Prakash Jha to patch up Madhuri and I. Hua yun ke, he showed me the film Mrityudand. I was blown away by Madhuri’s performance. I still say, it is her best to date along with Pukar. Madhuri was shooting near Prakash’s office. He suggested we drive down and meet her.

He took me and my friend to the bungalow where Madhuri was shooting her screen mother Aruna Irani’s death scene in Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam.
From the corner of my eye I saw Salman hanging around.
We knocked on Madhuri’s room door. I peeped in, introduced myself and the ice thawed in no time. Soon we were chatting and doing an interview. Suddenly the door opened and Salman peeped in with a smile He froze when he saw me. The look said, ‘Media? No way!’. Madhuri smiled and said she was doing an interview. Salman frowned, and closed the door behind him.
Half an hour later Madhuri was called for a shot and we wrapped up our conversation. When we got up to leave, the door wouldn’t open.
Salman had locked it from outside. Or, so we believed. When Madhuri challenged him he never admitted it. And I guess we’d never know. But there we were locked inside, frantically banging on the door waiting for a passerby to hear us.
It was excruciatingly embarrassing. But just the thing that Salman did in those days. A perennial prankster, Salman is known to pull fast ones on his friends. I still don’t know for sure if it was Salman who locked me in with Madhuri. But the circumstantial evidence is very strong.”