Almost every cinema buff cried when Shah Rukh Khan’s character Aman Mathur breathes his last because of a heart condition in Nikkhil Advani’s romantic drama ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ in 2003. Now it seems even King Khan didn’t like the scene too.

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In a recent interview with Film Companion, director Nikkhil Advani said that Shah Rukh found this scene ‘irrelevant’. He went on to say that SRK who was also shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Devdas’ at the same time, compared his death scene in that film to ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’.

“Yes, but Shah Rukh absolutely hated the death scene of Kal Ho Naa Ho. He kept saying, ‘You’re too irreverent, not giving it any respect’. He was also shooting Devdas at the same time in which he had a spectacular death scene. He kept saying, ‘Usse kehte hain death scene (Now that’s a death scene’. I explained to him that I was looking at death as a comma,not a full stop,” he told the publication.

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Advani made his directorial debut with ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ in 2003. He previously assisted in films like ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Mohabbatein’ and ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’.

Apart from Shah Rukh, the film also starred Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta in leading roles.  The movie was a massive success at the box office.

Advani later went on directing films like ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’, ‘Chandni Chowk To China’, ‘Patiala House’, and more.