When Kashmera Shah was approached for Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, she was relatively new to the industry and had just signed Yes Boss (1997), and is glad that the makers gave her the part of Nisha. “I perfectly fit the desired appearance for the role and the team of Yes Boss assured them of my talent,” she recalls.

On set, things, however, weren’t very pleasant with actor Bijay Anand, whom she was paired opposite in the film. For her introduction scene, Shah was asked to kiss Anand: “Kissing on screen was a very big deal 25 years ago. That scene took a lot of retakes as it had to be done in an elevator and Anand kept getting the angle and movement wrong. Ajay (Devgn) and Kajol got very uncomfortable. Ajay came to Bijay and said, ‘I can’t make this girl do this scene again and again. Why don’t you damn stand on your mark?’”

Shah also recalls Anand’s entitled behaviour on set: “We went to Seychelles to shoot and Bijay started acting like a star. Subah-subah orders dene lagte thhe, ‘Mere shoes laao, mera ye kaam karo’. I used to wonder why he behaved like that.”