Mansoor Khan’s 1988 directorial debut Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, starring Aamir Khan as Raj and Juhi Chawla as Rashmi, was a pathbreaking film not only because it was a much-needed young love story in the 1980s era of hollow action entertainers, but also because of its unexpected ending. Both Raj and Rashmi, after eloping to the jungle away from their disapproving families, get killed for their rebellion in the end. It’s a lesser known fact that Mansoor’s father and legendary filmmaker Nasir Hussain insisted on a happy ending for the film. “While we were writing, he wanted a happy ending. So, he told Mansoor to shoot both the endings — happy and sad — and then they’d decide in the edit which one works better,” Aamir revealed recently. “When we went to shoot the climax in the first schedule, Mansoor and I first shot the sad ending, which is what we believed in. Once we finished that, while taking the shots for the happy ending, none of us were ever convinced it was the right thing to do.…