Shah Rukh Khan called and acknowledged he was staying away from media because of Aryan’s case, says paparazzo: ‘He said I am also a father’

Varinder Chawla said that he immediately called Shah Rukh Khan’s PR team and let them know about the incident. “I immediately called his PR team that my boys have made a mistake. I told them that I have deleted everything and this will not get circulated anywhere because it was a private moment of their family. Their PR team thanked me and said that it’s nice that you understand. I thought the matter is done. Then around 10 minutes later, Shah Rukh’s manager Pooja Dadlani called that sir wants to talk to you. I got scared for a minute that he might scold me. Then I said, ‘Okay, let’s talk because why would I say no to a conversation with him,'” he recalled.

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Shah Rukh spoke to Varinder and confessed why he had been staying away from the media. “He held the phone and he said ‘Beta, they told me that you deleted the video. It’s not that I want to stay away from the media or something like that but I am also a father, whatever wrong has happened in the media…” he recalled implying that SRK had been staying away from the photographers because of whatever had happened during Aryan’s case. “We spoke for some 3-4 minutes. After that, I realised that even I am father of two. And how his son was being framed, and they way he was talking on the phone, it sounded like the pain of a father.”

Since then, Shah Rukh Khan has made many appearances in the media but he does not make as many appearances as he used to before this case. The actor will next be seen in Sujoy Ghosh’s King which also stars Suhana Khan and Abhishek Bachchan.