This film of the 90s became a disaster for Salman Khan, which Aishwarya Rai rejected by calling it ‘wretched’.

Hum Saath Saath Hain: In the year 1999, a film was released at the time of Diwali which was very much liked by the audience. This film became the highest grossing film of that year. This film is none other than Sooraj Barjatya’s direct film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’. Stars like Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Karisma Kapoor, Mohnish Bahl, Sonali Bendre and Neelam Kothari were seen in this film.

However, the film came into limelight a few years after its release when the black buck hunting case came to light and Salman Khan was deeply entangled in it. Now the film has completed 24 years. So, let us take this opportunity to tell you what happened during the shooting of this film.

Black deer hunting case related to the film

When the shooting of the film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ was taking place in Jodhpur and its surrounding areas. So it is said that during the shooting, Salman Khan along with his co-stars went to Bhavad village and hunted black buck at Ghoda Farm House. When the villagers chased the gypsy, they all ran away.

However, the villagers recognized Salman and registered a case. Salman had to stay in Central Jail for 6 days from 10 to 15 April 2006 in this case. However, he was later acquitted by the High Court.

These stars were offered roles in Hum Saath Saath Hain

‘Hum Sath Sath Hain’ was a multistar film. According to the report, the makers wanted to cast Raveena Tandon with Salman Khan in the film. But the actress had refused to play the role of Preeti because she did not want to be a part of a multi-starrer film. Not only this, the makers wanted to replace Mohnish Bahl with Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor, but things could not work out. The role of Tabu was first offered to Madhuri Dixit and Manisha Koirala but at that time Manisha was busy shooting for the film.

Aishwarya had rejected the offer of Hum Saath Saath Hain

It is also said that Aishwarya Rai was also offered a role in the film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’. But at that time the actress was completing her commitments so she could not be a part of this film. Sooraj Barjatya and Salman Khan separated due to the black buck issue. To play his character in the film, Mohnish Bahl had started the practice of keeping his hand in the pocket of his pants even before the shooting. This was the first film of Salman and Saif together.

Satish Shah had taken 17 retakes

There is an emotional scene in the film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ in which Salman Khan and Satish Shah were seen. He was called at 7 in the morning to shoot this scene but it was 4:30 in the evening and his scene could not be shot. However, when the scene was shot, Satish Shah had to take 14 retakes.

Let us tell you that Satish is such an actor who completes the scene in 2 takes. He had told that he had become very stressed and started feeling sleepy while waiting for 8 hours without shooting. The budget of this film was Rs 17 crore and it earned Rs 65.20 crore at the box office.