Feroz Khan rejected Hera Pheri: Sanjay Gupta shares Sunday rule

Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday evening to share a few lesser-known details about the late, great Feroz Khan. His post offered a peek into the values the actor lived by, both on set and in his personal life.

Why Feroz Khan walked away from 'Hera Pheri'

According to one of Gupta's posts, Feroz Khan walked away from Prakash Mehra's ‘Hera Pheri’ (1976), a project that would have paired him with

Amitabh Bachchan

, because the schedule included Sundays, a day he refused to work. In a separate post, Gupta applauded Khan for staying thankful to the little-known filmmakers who gave him a chance in his struggling years.Sanjay wrote on X, “INTERESTING TRIVIA : Prakash Mehra offered Feroz Khan the film Hera Pheri with Amitabh Bachchan.

Feroz Khan refused the film as it would require him to work shift’s on Sunday . As a rule, Feroz Khan never worked on Sunday’s. And I thought I was the only one.”

‘Hera Pheri’: The film Feroz Khan turned down

‘Hera Pheri’, helmed by Prakash Mehra, featured Amitabh Bachchan,

Vinod Khanna

and Saira Banu in the principal roles. The story follows Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ajay (Vinod Khanna), two inseparable friends who make their living through petty crime. Their bond is tested when they learn that their families and lives are tied together by a tangled history.

Sanjay Gupta calls Feroz Khan, a "true gentleman"Gupta used another post to spotlight a quality of Feroz Khan that rarely gets mentioned: the respect he held for the directors who gave him work in his early, uncertain days. Calling Khan a gentleman at heart, he wrote, "TRUE GENTLEMAN – Feroz Khan was very grateful to all those unknown film-makers who gave him breaks in all those small films because he believed he would not have come up without their building a foundation for him.

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Feroz Khan's film career

Feroz Khan entered the film industry in 1960 and appeared in a number of well-known films over the years, among them ‘Arzoo’, ‘Aadmi Aur Insaan’, ‘Safar’, ‘Mela’, ‘Apradh’, ‘Khotey Sikkay’, ‘Kaala Sona’ and ‘Nagin’. He later established himself behind the camera too, directing, producing and acting in movies like ‘Dharmatma’, ‘Qurbani’ and ‘Janbaaz’. His final appearance on the big screen came in the comedy ‘Welcome’ (2009).The actor passed away on April 27, 2009, at the age of 69.