In 1992, Juhi Chawla had first collaborated with Rishi Kapoor on Bol Radha Bol. Having teamed up on multiple films since, Sharmaji Namkeen was to be another movie that would take their association forward. But fate had other plans. For Chawla, there’s a still sense of disbelief as she remembers her co-star who passed away in April 2020. “I was shattered. Just a few months before [his demise], we were on sets, laughing together, as Chintuji [Kapoor] was calling me an insecure actor. He would yell at me for watching my scenes on the monitor. I used to love it when he scolded us because that was his way of showing [love],” she recounts.

Rishi Kapoor in the film