{"id":348009,"date":"2025-11-01T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:56:15","slug":"us-based-content-creator-calls-working-on-kal-ho-naa-ho-worst-job-of-her-life-was-so-bad-she-switched-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348009\/","title":{"rendered":"US-based content creator calls working on Kal Ho Naa Ho \u2018worst\u2019 job of her life; was \u2018so bad\u2019 she switched careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2003 film Kal Ho Naa Ho, starring Shah Rukh Khan<\/a>, Preity Zinta, and Saif Ali Khan, is a classic in the history of Indian cinema. American content creator Ash Cantley, however, claims that she worked in the film and it was the \u2018worst\u2019 of her life. She claimed the experience was so bad that she even switched careers. Here\u2019s what she said.<\/p>\n

\"US-based US-based content creator Ash Cantley relived her experience of working on Kal Ho Naa ho. American influencer claims bad experience on Kal Ho Naa Ho<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ash, known for her Talk Pop To Me series, which discusses pop culture and celebrity gossip, says she has two decades of experience working as a TV producer and celebrity executive. At the TikTok Creator Summit held in New York last week, she says she befriended a creator who is passionate about Bollywood. When she told them she had to check her IMDb to find the \u2018random\u2019 Indian film she had done long ago, she was told by the creator that it was \u2018like the Titanic of American films\u2019.<\/p>\n

She said, \u201cI worked on the film Kal Ho Naa Ho<\/a>, and it was so bad that I ended up switching careers,\u201d adding, \u201cI had such a such a bad experience on that film that I probably tried to block it out. First of all, I got paid $75 a day, and I\u2019m talking 12 to 17-hour days. I was a set designer, which means I spent most of my time redesigning this diner, inch by inch.\u201d Ash claimed that the diner was \u2018abandoned\u2019 and had \u2018so much filth\u2019. \u201cIt was the worst job of my life. I was severely underpaid. I\u2019ll never do that again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Internet reacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reactions to her video ranged from people being sceptical about whether she had even worked on the film to some wondering why she would accept a job where she claims to have been underpaid and miserable. In a follow-up video, she explained that she didn\u2019t have a phone with a camera back then and has \u2018no proof\u2019 to prove herself beyond her IMDb<\/a>. She also claimed that those criticising Bollywood for unfair pay need to recognise that Hollywood has the same issues too.<\/p>\n

Ash also alleged that she was underpaid as compared to the men and that she was too young to know better. \u201cI think the men got paid $125. I accepted it because I was young, dumb and desperate to get in the industry. I am not angry about it, in fact, most jobs in production were like that, and we were paid peanuts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kal Ho Naa Ho was Nikhil Advani\u2019s debut film based on a script written by Karan Johar<\/a> and Niranjan Iyengar. Yash Johar produced the romantic drama under Dharma Productions. It was one of the highest-grossing films upon its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2003 film Kal Ho Naa Ho, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, and Saif Ali Khan, is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,170746,170748,170747,54941,53,14106,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-348009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kal-ho-naa-ho","10":"tag-kal-ho-naa-ho-american-influencer","11":"tag-kal-ho-naa-ho-art-department","12":"tag-karan-johar","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-shah-rukh-khan","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115474556428093764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}