'That's the biggest joke I've heard'

Farah Khan is in splits. It isn't that she's making a comedy. She's laughing about the rumour doing the rounds about her remaking Subhash Ghai's Karz, with Shah Rukh Khan in Rishi Kapoor's role.

Guffaws the irrepressible Khan, "Me remaking Karz? That's the biggest joke I've heard. On what basis did the writer decide that? I haven't said I'm doing Karz.

Where did he get this hilarious information? Just because my film is titled Om Shanti Om? Okay, I know that's a hit song from Karz, but does that mean that if my film was called Mehbooba Mehbooba it would be a remake of Sholay?"

Script of the matter

On a more sober note, Farah explains, "My film has nothing to do with Subhash Ghai's Karz or any other old film. Why should I do a remake? Om Shanti Om is an absolute original. I've spent months fine-tuning my script. Now when both Shah Rukh and I like what's down on paper, we cannot have fertile imaginations inventing parallel plots for us."

Earlier, Farah's second directorial venture was supposed to be a film called Happy New Year. "That didn't work out. Every day there was some speculation as to why it fell through. The fact is, the script didn't seem right. Now we're all set with Om Shanti Om."

Farah is very upset with the false stories surrounding her film. "I can't start my day getting so depressed. Come on, when I've everything in place I can't afford to have incorrect information spoiling things for me."