{"id":347850,"date":"2026-03-15T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:17:07","slug":"farah-khan-reveals-main-hoon-na-started-as-a-college-rom-com-india-pak-angle-added-later-why-make-a-small-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347850\/","title":{"rendered":"Farah Khan reveals Main Hoon Na started as a college rom-com, India-Pak angle added later: ‘Why make a small picture?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farah Khan<\/a>\u2019s directorial debut, Main Hoon Na (2004), remains one of Bollywood\u2019s most beloved films, starring Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> alongside Sushmita Sen<\/a>, Amrita Rao, Zayed Khan and Suniel Shetty. While audiences know it as a mix of action, comedy, and family drama, Farah recently revealed that the film\u2019s concept started much smaller, as a simple rom-com set in a college.<\/p>\n

\"MainMain Hoon Na, Farah Khan’s directorial debut, began as a small rom-com but became a bigger film later.Farah says Main Hoon Na was supposed to be a rom-com <\/p>\n

Speaking to Ranveer Allahbadia on his podcast, Farah shared, \u201cActually, at first, it was purely a rom-com. He goes to school, then he falls in love with a teacher. Everyone has a teacher that they are in love with. So the idea came from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally, she planned to shoot the story at St. Xavier\u2019s College in Mumbai with a modest scale. \u201cIt was small-scale. But then I thought, why am I making such a small picture? So I made it bigger and bigger. Then the India-Pakistan angle came in, the step-brothers angle came in. Drama is my forte. I enjoy shooting dramatic scenes,\u201d she explained, drawing parallels with her later hit, Om Shanti Om.<\/p>\n

The final version of Main Hoon Na follows Major Ram Prasad Sharma, an Indian Army officer who goes undercover as a college student to protect a general\u2019s daughter from a rogue soldier, while also reconnecting with his estranged family. Farah said adding layers of action and drama transformed the initial rom-com idea into the multi-genre entertainer that became a box-office success.<\/p>\n

Fans have speculated for years about a sequel, especially after Shah Rukh Khan hinted at various upcoming projects. Rumours about Main Hoon Na 2 suggested it might be Shah Rukh\u2019s next film after King. However, Farah recently addressed the speculation, and asked fans not to believe in rumours.<\/p>\n

Farah’s YouTube journey<\/p>\n

Farah Khan has turned her creative energy to YouTube, where her cooking vlog series with longtime chef Dilip has become a viral sensation. Launched in April 2024, the channel quickly captured audiences with its mix of easy-to-follow recipes, playful banter, and candid celebrity guests. It now boasts nearly 3 million subscribers, while Farah herself has around 4.5 million Instagram followers. Before her digital success, Farah last film, Happy New Year (2014), starred Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sonu Sood, and Boman Irani, and was a major box-office hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farah Khan\u2019s directorial debut, Main Hoon Na (2004), remains one of Bollywood\u2019s most beloved films, starring Shah Rukh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19763,93,3217,61,60,63882,270,115491,1266],"class_list":["post-347850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bollywood-films","tag-entertainment","tag-farah-khan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-main-hoon-na","tag-movies","tag-rom-com","tag-shah-rukh-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}