'Shah Rukh Khan loved the idea': Emraan Hashmi on story behind his viral scene with Raghav Juyal in Aryan Khan's Ba***ds of Bollywood

Emraan Hashmi, who is basking on the success of his last outing in 'Ba***ds of Bollywood', recently opened up about his viral scene in the series with Raghav Juyal. The actor also shared the story behind the epic scene.

The viral scene was not in the original script

Emraan told HT City's Stars In The City, "Coming to that line… first of all, a masterstroke from the writers, friend of mine Bilal, Aryan, entire team. And a bit of trivia, two things actually. That was not the original scene that was written for me. It was actually me at a film premiere where there is a fan, and that is Raghav, and he sees me, and there’s this little bit where he starts singing about me. And I think one month before the film shoot, this was locked, as an intimacy coach, and it was bounced off me. Aryan called up, and Bilal asked me ‘Are you okay playing an intimacy coach?’ I was like, ‘If I can’t do it, no one else can do it. ’ So I think they also took it to Mr SRK and he loved the idea and the change. And then finally, we shot this scene. And that scene was like, there was a bit of improv in it. I think Raghav crying was something that had us in splits also, because we didn’t expect that he was going to go that over the top with that scene. But he was mindblowing."

The scene that went viral overnight

Elaborating further, he added, "I think due credit to the way he’s done it, Lakshya, the entire, all the artists over there. And that’s the thing, you don’t know what goes viral, what sticks with the audience. I didn’t know because I don’t generally get on social media. I got a call from Netflix 6 hours after, I think the next morning, from the head of Netflix. She said ‘You know, Emraan, how viral this has gone, this is unbelievable. People are coming to the third episode and consuming just for that. It’s just insane!’ So, yeah, it’s nice to get that."

On working with Aryan Khan

Hashmi also shared his experience working with Aryan Khan. He said, "Aryan loves retakes; he takes a lot of retakes. The thing is, when you’re enacting something, we don’t laugh at our own joke on the set because you know, that is just very self-indulgent (laughs). But we’re just doing it the way we’re doing it, and then the audience is supposed to laugh. And yeah, I just got that reaction. Aryan loves acting out scenes. That’s the first thing I asked when I came on, I asked, ‘Why are you a director? Why don’t you become an actor?’ Maybe he’ll become an actor someday, I don’t know. But hopefully, he’s a good actor. But yeah, he also lets actors be; he shows the tonality of the scene and tells people to get their bit into it, your personality.”