‘Tumne mera gaana thoka toh tumhe thokunga’: What Rishi Kapoor said to the Hum Tum director while shooting ‘Main Shayar Toh Nahin’ | Bollywood News
Kunal Kohli’s 2004 romantic comedy Hum Tum, starring Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji, was said to be an unofficial remake of Rob Reiner’s 1989 landmark Hollywood movie When Harry Met Sally…, starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. But the filmmaker insists it was more of his tribute to Raj Kapoor and Woody Allen than Reiner. In this edition of SCREEN Spotlight, he recalls his struggle to acquire the official remake rights, working with late Rishi Kapoor, and why filmmakers get Gen-Z romance all wrong. You tried to acquire the rights of When Harry Met Sally… (1989) for Hum Tum, but the studio turned it down. Why was that? They said the script of Hum Tum is nowhere near When Harry Met Sally…. You’re not making that film, so why should we waste the rights? It was actually influenced more by Woodie Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) than When Harry Met Sally…. But that’s an influence, a texture, a layer that I picked up from. And the second half of the film, where Rani becomes a …








