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Chinni Prakash Reveals How ‘Jumma Chumma’ Hook Step Won Over Amitabh Bachchan

Choreographer Chinni Prakash recounts how a risky hook step nearly didn't make it into Hum.

Overview

  • Prakash shares fresh first-hand recollections in a new Friday Talkies interview reported by Indian Express and News18.
  • He says Amitabh Bachchan first played him the track in his vanity van during the film’s 1989–90 pre-production.
  • According to Prakash, director Mukul Anand was unsure about the move, and the choreographer’s assistants refused to demonstrate it to the star.
  • Prakash performed the routine himself, after which Bachchan asked for three months to rehearse and worried it could appear vulgar or not suit his tall frame.
  • A theatre screening later drew pin-drop silence during the number and a loud cheer at the end, with Jaya Bachchan telling Prakash it looked “superb.”