After
the
trauma
that
Karan
Johar
has
gone
through
in
filming
Elvis
Presley"s
track
'Jailhouse
Rock'
in
his
production
We
Are
Family,
the
producer
has
vowed
to
never
again
touch
an
international
number
or
film.
Earlier
Karan
had
obtained
the
rights
of
the
song
'Pretty
Woman" for
Kal
Ho
Naa
Ho
fairly
easily.
This
time,
too,
getting
the
original
copyright
holders
of
'Jailhouse
Rock"
to
say
yes
was
easy
enough.
The
nightmare
began
later.
Apparently,
just
days
before
filming,
the
official
contract
arrived
from
the
US.
To
their
horror,
producer
Karan
Johar
and
director
Siddharth
Malhotra
discovered
that
they
were
not
allowed
to
use
any
image,
visual,
dance
step,
or
even
the
words
associated
with
the
original
Elvis
song!
At
that
late
juncture,
everything
from
the
dance
steps,
to
the
set
to
the
lyrics
had
to
be
changed.
Says
Siddharth
with
a
shudder,
“The
contract
arrived
just
days
before
shooting.
We
got
to
know
that
we
couldn"t
use
anything
to
do
with
Elvis.
We
had
everything
ready,
the
set,
the
costumes,
the
songs
and
words…Most
importantly
we
had
images
of
Elvis
splashed
all
over
and
we
had
incorporated
the
words
from
'Jailhouse
Rock"
into
the
track.
All
that
had
to
be
scrapped."
For
a
while
Karan
and
his
director
contemplated
scrapping
the
song
altogether.
Says
Siddharth,
“What
is
the
point
of
a
tribute
to
Elvis
when
we
couldn"t
use
his
face,
his
dance
steps,
even
his
images
as
props
on
the
sets?
We
couldn"t
even
replicate
any
of
the
lyrics
from
the
original
and
had
to
rewrite
the
words
on
the
spot.
So
what
could
we
use?
It
was
the
most
devastating
moment
of
the
shooting.
First
Kajol
was
three
months
pregnant
and
we
had
to
change
all
her
steps.
Then
we
had
to
change
everything
because
we
hadn"t
read
the
contract."
Matters
got
worse
when
the
little
girl
playing
Kajol"s
younger
daughter
suddenly
fell
sick
with
chickenpox.
Shudders
Siddharth
Malhotra,
“We
had
to
rewrite
the
scene
explaining
her
absence
in
the
song.
It
was
a
nightmare.
And
one
we"d
never
like
to
go
through
again."
Karan
has
now
decided
to
swear
off
all
foreign
copyright-controlled
material.
In
all
probability
We
Are
Family
will
be
his
first
and
last
Hollywood
remake.
As
for
Elvis
Presley,
all
of
the
rock
legend"s
songs
are
henceforth
banned
at
Dharma
Productions.