Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om completed 16 years this month. It marked Deepika Padukone's debut and also starred Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kirron Kher and Shreyas Talpade in the lead. On Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa's podcast, director Farah revealed that Shah Rukh promised to go shirtless for Dard-E-Disco. In order to attain the perfect look for the song, he didn't consume water for 2 days.

Farah said in the interview, "I wanted a bare body shot of his in Main Hoon Na but he couldn’t work on his body as he had a back injury and had to get surgery. So during Om Shanti Om, he said I promised you that the first time I remove my shirt (on camera), I’ll do it for you. He didn’t have water for two days because it causes bloating. In Dard-E-Disco, he couldn’t even dance properly because he was cramping so much."