• Vasan Bala calls the scene  Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in Pathaan one of the greatest moments.
• He was taken back to the 1995 film Karan Arjun directed by Rakesh Roshan.
• Which featured the two actors as brothers.

The sequence between Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in the movie was one of the greatest meta moments in the theatre, according to Vasan Bala, who saw Pathaan on Wednesday. The filmmaker was transported back to Rakesh Roshan’s 1995 film Karan Arjun, which starred the two actors as brothers. Rakesh just so happened to see the movie in the same theatre as Vasan.

Taking to Instagram, the excited filmmaker put up an image stating, “SK says ‘Bhaag Pathaan Bhaag’ And this happens as Rakesh Roshan is in the cinema hall! Come On!” His caption read, “One of the greatest Meta Moments in the Cinema Hall for me. Ever!” In Karan Arjun, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh play brothers who try to avenge their father’s death, but are murdered. Years later, they are reincarnated and meet again. It is the ‘Bhaag Arjun Bhaag’ dialogue that reunites them across lives.

Vasan’s Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota actor Abhimanyu Dassani wrote, “Feels” on his post, while actor Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor shared a clapping hands emoji. One Instagram user commented, “(laughing face with tears emoji) you live in real life cinema.” Another agreed with the filmmaker, “Yes yes. That scene was a full Karan Arjun vibe.” Yet another shared, “Woahh, you are truly the king and lover of meta film references (clapping hands emojis).”

The eccentric comedy Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota, starring Abhimanyu, Radhika Madan, and Gulshan Devaiah, was the director’s directorial debut. The filmmaker previously worked with director Anurag Kashyap on the films Dev D (2009) and Bombay Velvet (2015). The critically acclaimed Netflix film Monica O My Darling, starring Rajkummar Rao, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, and Sikandar Kher, was his most recent production.

On January 25, Pathaan, which also stars Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, premiered to packed theatres all over the nation. Strong word-of-mouth suggests that the action movie starring Siddharth Anand, which debuted to a 57 crore gross, would continue to do well at the box office throughout the Republic Day holiday’s extended five-day weekend.

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