The 1991 film was quite a hit back then, featuring Salman Khan, Sunil Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Ayesha Jhulka and many more. Kabir Bedi once opened up about working in the film along with Sunil Dutt and Salman Khan, at the Timeslot.
He said, “I’d seen Dutt Saab in ‘Mother India’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what an actor’. When I came to Bombay, I went to meet him and told him ‘Dutt Saab, today my childhood dream has been fulfilled having met you’. And then a producer came to me and said, they’ve got a film called ‘Kurbaan’, where Dutt Saab and I had to play two giants in a village and they were going to have a clash. And it would be a fantastic clash of titans.”
Speaking on Salman Khan’s popularity, he said, “Bollywood films in those days particularly were shot in a sort of instalment plan. You know, they’d shoot a few days every month and it would keep going on. It used to take about two years to make a film and while the shooting for ‘Kurbaan’ was going on, four of Salman’s films were released and became superhits. Immediately, the scenes in our film were converted into a love story, and Dutt Saab and I became the background music”.
He further added on revealing how Salman Khan got signed for the film, “I’d heard Salim Khan’s son Salman Khan had started acting and he was garnering quite the reputation. So that’s how they signed Salman and he had just started his career.” as quoted by Pink Villa.
