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So confident were they that they did not realise that another much talked-about film of the year, Qurbani by flamboyant Feroz Khan was also slated to release on the same day. Khan also had everything at stake, as he had spent his last penny on his movie co-starring Vinod Khanna and Zeenat Aman. He had got a brand new, imported Mercedes smashed in one scene of the movie. It's music, especially Biddu's disco song Aap Jaisa Koi by Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan had also become a rage.
Bollywood gravepine has it Ghai, over-confident about the prospects of Karz, had advised Khan to defer the release of Qurbani.
But, as it happened Qurbani crushed Karz at the box office clash of the biggies, emerging as the biggest hit of the year, leaving even Dostana starring Amitabh Bachhan and Shatrughan Sinha behind.
Karz' failure drowned Kapoor into depression and he has talked about its aftereffects in his book. Ironically, the movie attained the status of an iconic musical in later years and was even remade a few years ago, with Himesh Reshammiya playing the lead. The remake was a bigger disaster, though.
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Kapoor, of course, recovered from his depression later. Ghai and he, however, had the solace that Qurbani lost to Karz in the race for the best score of the year at the Filmfare Awards that year but that was only a small consolation.