Aamir Khan Starrer Sarfarosh Completes 25 Years, Makers To Celebrate With Special Screening

Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh was released on April 30

Aamir Khan starrer Sarfarosh is considered as one of the cult films. The action drama has recently completed 25 years. To commemorate this milestone, the makers have announced a special screening of the film and invited audiences to relive the timeless performances of the actor.

Sarfarosh, released on April 30, also starred Sonali Bendre, Naseeruddin Shah, Makarad Deshpandey, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajesh Joshi, Smita Jaykar, Manoj Joshi, Upasna Singh, Surekha Sikri, Akhilendra Mishra and Akash Khurana and many more.  The special screening will be organized on May 10 at PVR Juhu in Mumbai. The screening will see director John Matthew Matthan and music director Lalit Pandit, Mukesh Rishi together.

The cast and crew members will be felicitated and will be encouraged to share their memories and trivia attached to the film. Along with the team, fans can also be a part of the screening as they will have a chance to win tickets to the premiere.

Recently, director John Matthew revealed that his friends who were funding the film didn’t have enough faith in him and wanted to cast Shah Rukh Khan instead.

The Indian Express quoted John as saying, “I met my friend Manmohan Shetty, who owned Adlabs, and told him that I want to make a film. Around this time, Shetty had started Entertainment One to produce feature films. He had funded two films of my friends, both of which starred Shah Rukh Khan. One was Vikram Mehrotra’s Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, directed by Kundan Shah and the other was Praveen Nischol’s English Babu Desi Mem, both starring SRK. So at that time, all of them suggested I take Shah Rukh. I said, ‘Listen, I don’t think Shah Rukh suits my role. I don’t have him in my mind,’ but they said that we would be able to save more money as the three of us could get a deal, but I didn’t want to.”

Talking about why he had faith in Aamir’s potential, John said, “Then I met Aamir. He read the script and said yes. So then I started studying Aamir, what he had done and he had done only love stories. I felt that was good because he was unassuming. For example, if you see Spiderman, when you see that guy first, you know that he is not going to be able to do anything, but he becomes Spiderman and you start believing he can do it. So I needed a hero who transforms, then you are with him, rooting for him because you feel that this guy is too vulnerable. In a realistic movie like Sarfarosh, I needed the audience to feel for the guy. With all three considerations, I was sure I wanted Aamir.”