It’s been 15 years since filmmaker Farah Khan Kunder penned a love letter to Bollywood with Om Shanti Om (2007), and the director is proud of the film’s journey. But, despite the dialogues of the Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone-starrer turning into iconic ones, they did not receive the appreciation they deserved, feels Kunder:

“The film should have won awards for the dialogues, but it didn’t. Cult lines like, ‘Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost’, ‘Itni shiddat’ or ‘Ek chutki sindoor ki keemat tum kya jaano Ramesh babu’ are so popular. Mayur Puri (screenwriter) should have been appreciated.”

Recalling the days when the film was being shot, the 57-year-old, who was pregnant back then, shares, “While filming Dard-E-Disco, I would throw up whenever Shah Rukh would be shirtless. He used to say, ‘You can’t be doing this every time!’ He had six-pack abs for the first time. It was Deepika’s launch [film]; she was raw back then. But now, she is so confident.”

Apart from the story, music and box-office numbers, the film also had unforgettable cameos of several stars. Kunder says it’d have been a difficult task to pull off today, as “Bollywood was one back then”.