Yeh Prem Mol Liya song launch: Sooraj Barjatya reveals “There was a joy in picturizing songs lasting three antaras…me, Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar are the LAST batch of directors who saw…”
Sooraj Barjatya, Himesh Reshammiya, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sharvari and producer Mahaveer Jain attended the title song launch of their film, Yeh Prem Mol Liya, at Mumbai’s iconic Royal Opera House. The kind-hearted and humble Sooraj Barjatya went down memory lane and revealed some fascinating anecdotes. Sooraj Barjatya said, “Earlier, the makers used to set the choreography and would then plan the music accordingly. This happened not just in Indian cinema but also in the West. I did that too. In Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994), the entire sequence of joota chori was choreographed first. We showed the choreography to the composers (Raam-Laxman), who then composed the music. Similarly, we first choreographed the gulel shot in ‘Didi Tera Deewana’ first. Then the music followed.” He further said, “There was a certain joy in picturizing songs with three antaras. The shoots would go on for several days. Sometimes, we would wonder, gaane ka shoot shuru kahan se karein. For a director, that itself wa...