Farah tells why she explained 'Happy New Year' script to Jackie Shroff in 'three minutes'

IANS May 17, 2025 298 views

Farah Khan recently shared a hilarious anecdote about working with Jackie Shroff during the making of 'Happy New Year'. The choreographer-filmmaker revealed that Jackie was more concerned about his costume than understanding the film's script. During a YouTube conversation with Vijay Varma, Farah explained how she spent an hour discussing styling with Jackie. The film, featuring an all-star cast including Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, was a successful heist comedy released in 2014.

"He said 'tell me what clothes I have to wear.'" - Farah Khan
Mumbai, May 17: Choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan revealed that she explained dapper star Jackie Shroff the “Happy New Year” script in just “three minutes” as the actor was more keen to know what he will wear in the 2014 blockbuster.

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Farah explained script to Jackie Shroff in just three minutes

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Jackie more interested in wardrobe than storyline

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Happy New Year featured ensemble Bollywood cast

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Film was 2014 heist comedy blockbuster

Farah Khan was joined by actor Vijay Varma in her Youtube channel, where they made dosas and discussed his new home.

She went on to ask Vijay about if it was his ambition to increase his "style portion", to which he said: "I don't know. Maybe when I was a teenager, I had a fantasy of doing something like this with me. But then life happened and I fell in love with it."

Farah questioned: "Who did you look up to to make your fashion like this?"

Vijay said it was superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Jackie Shroff.

"I used to always like how Shah Rukh Khan sir used to put himself together. He used to be very casual. He had a great sense of personal style and Jackie Shroff had a crazy sense of style," he said.

Taking a trip down memory lane and talking about working with Jackie in "Happy New Year", Farah said: " Jaggu da, I have to tell you, I went for Happy New Year. He didn't ask me for the script. I told him to tell me the script story in 3 minutes. He said 'tell me what clothes I have to wear.'

"So, I had to for one hour explain to him what styling we were going to do for him."

"Happy New Year", is a heist comedy. The film features an ensemble cast of Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff.

In the film, SRK's character Charlie assembles a team of non-dancers to take part in a dance competition at a hotel in Dubai in a quest to pull off a diamond heist. Jackie played the antagonist.

Reader Comments

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Rahul K.
Jackie Shroff is a legend! His style is unmatched even today. Remember his leather jacket look in Hero? Iconic! Farah Khan movies always have great styling though - Happy New Year had such colorful costumes. Miss these fun masala films!
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Priya M.
Haha typical Jaggu dada! More concerned about his wardrobe than script 😂 But can't blame him - his screen presence is everything! That black suit he wore in the Dubai sequences was fire 🔥
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Amit S.
Honestly Happy New Year was quite average compared to Farah's earlier films like Main Hoon Na. But Jackie Shroff stole every scene he was in! That man can make reading a phonebook interesting.
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Neha T.
Vijay Varma has such good taste in style icons! SRK and Jackie are perfect opposites - one is sophisticated, the other is raw power. But both have that X-factor that can't be taught. More actors should study their screen presence!
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Sanjay R.
The real question is - when are we getting Happy New Year 2? That film was pure entertainment without trying to be intellectual. Sometimes we just want to see stars being stars yaar!
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Kavita P.
Interesting how actors have different priorities. Some want deep script discussions, others care more about their look. Shows how cinema needs all kinds of talents to come together. Jackie's focus on styling probably made his character more memorable!

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