Saif Ali Khan was cast one day before Kya Kehna’s shoot, was asked to bring his own clothes to set: producer Kumar Taurani

Chandrachur Singh, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan in Kundan Shah’s Kya Kehna.

When Preity Zinta was in the early stages of her career, she starred in Kundan Shah’s Kya Kehna, which was seen as a brave and unusual subject for its time.

In this film, Zinta played a teenager who gets pregnant and decides to have the baby as a single mother. The film also starred Saif Ali Khan and Chandrachur Singh, and while have applauded Saif for taking up a negative role in this film during this stage of his career, the producer of the film recently revealed that the film just fell into Saif’s lap by chance and he was cast at the last moment.

Kumar Taurani of Tips Films, who was producing the film, recalled that they had cast another actor in this role but he bailed on them on the day of the shoot. “We knew that he is not going to show up,” he shared with The Music Podcast. Taurani said that they were fully prepared to shoot but could not have started without an actor so they decided to meet Saif Ali Khan.

“So in the evening, we went to Saif’s house, that you listen to the film. He listened to it and said yes. We told him that we will start shooting tomorrow. He said ‘okay, no problem’. We had already done Kachche Dhaage with him and he was very happy,” he shared.

Since Saif was cast last minute, they had no time to prepare his wardrobe so they asked Saif to bring his own clothes. “We asked him show us your clothes. We selected his clothes and we told him please bring these clothes and come to the set tomorrow and we started hooting,” he said.

Saif played a negative role in the film as he refuses to take any responsibility of his child. At the time, Saif was frequently seen in positive roles and wasn’t known as a risk-taker in the movies.