New Delhi: Shah Rukh started his journey from television with ‘Fauji’ and went on to work on many TV shows, including ‘Dil Dariya’ and ‘Circus’. He later moved on to films, and the rest is history. But the actor was not interested in doing films initially, and even his wife Gauri Khan didn’t want him to act in films.
Actor, writer, and producer Viveck Vaswani shared this information in an interview with Connect FM Canada. Shah Rukh used to live with Vivek Vaswani as he didn’t have a place to live and was not interested in working in films. It all changed when his mother died in 1998, and he changed his mind.
Viveck Vaswani told Connect FM Canada how the actor gave him a call from the airport after his mother’s demise. “Patthar ke Phool was an unqualified hit. GP Sippy sahab wanted me to make another film with Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon, but I had already met Shah Rukh, he was living in my house. At that point he didn’t want to do films. Gauri had said you can’t do films, you can do TV. But his mother died and he decided he wants to be a superstar in her memory. So, he came back from Delhi after her funeral at 5 in the morning and said, ‘Will you make a film with me?’ I said yes, he said no you’ll have to swear it, because if you are not going to make it then I won’t come to your house, which I think was very sweet because where would he have gone that early in the morning! We put the bags in the living room, went to The President hotel, which is just next door. We sat at the coffee shop, which is where Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman was born,” the producer told Connect FM Canada.
Shah Rukh Khan made his Bollywood debut with ‘Deewana’ in 1992, also starring Rishi Kapoor and Divya Bharti. Also released in 1992, were his films as main lead including ‘Chamatkar’, ‘Dil Aashna Hai’ and ‘Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman’.