There were a lot of controversies that seemed to surround Subhash Ghai’s
“Khal Nayak”. The popular pairing of Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff that featured
in the director’s previous films, “Karma” and “Ram Lakhan” was abandoned and
Ghai, instead, chose Sanjay Dutt to essay a role that normally would have been
done by Anil Kapoor. Saawan Kumar’s thriller, “Khalnaika”, also coincided with
the release of “Khal Nayak” and Subhash Ghai accused the director of cashing in
on the popularity of his potboiler. And then onto other serious controversies
such as the highly publicized court case against the “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai”
number for vulgarity, the rumor mills working overtime regarding Madhuri Dixit’s
romance with Sanjay Dutt (whether real or not) and Sanjay’s arrest by the police
for links to terrorism.
