The Most Famous Line in ‘Laalo – Krishna Sada Sahaayate’ Was Never in the Script

Somewhere between faith, fatigue and instinct, Laalo – Krishna Sada Sahaayate found its most quoted moment.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, director Ankit Sakhiya revealed that the film’s most famous dialogue—the scene in which Laalo turns to Krishna and asks, “Will you be my friend?”—was never written into the script. It emerged organically on set, improvised in the moment by actors Karan Joshi and Shruhad Goswami. “That dialogue was improvised. Truly. It wasn’t written in the script,” Sakhiya said, recalling the emotional beat that has since become the film’s defining line.

The moment cuts to the core of the film’s central idea: Krishna not as a distant, thunderous deity, but as a friend who is approachable, conversational, and human.

What is striking is how simply it arrived. Sakhiya explained that the actors were only told they needed to respond honestly in that beat. There was no written cue and no attempt to “stage” faith. Instead, instinct took over, allowing the emotional arc of the characters to guide the exchange. Sakhiya also credited the actors’ theatre training for trusting the flow of the moment rather than shaping it for effect or emphasis.

The line’s resonance has grown alongside the film’s unlikely box-office journey. Released with minimal promotion, the Gujarati film became a word-of-mouth success and is now set to reach a wider audience with its Hindi-dubbed release on January 9.

In the same conversation, Sakhiya spoke about the film’s stripped-back, almost “school-project” approach to filmmaking—shot on a single camera, built with limited resources, and sustained largely by belief. But it is the improvised line that best captures what the film has come to mean for audiences: not spectacle, but intimacy; not performance, but presence. For a film rooted in sincerity, it feels fitting that its most enduring sentence was not manufactured. It was discovered.