‘Shah Rukh Khan had money, but not enough to waste’: Vivek Vaswani reveals why the actor stayed at his house for two years

Vivek Vaswani shared how his parents allowed Shah Rukh Khan to stay at their home for two years, before he moved out and eventually bought Mannat.

Shah Rukh Khan stayed at Vivek Vaswani's house for two years. (Express Archive Photo)

When Shah Rukh Khan came to Mumbai to become an actor in the early ’90s, he had enough money on him, but he was smart enough to not waste it. He first stayed at filmmaker Aziz Mirza’s office, and later at Vivek Vaswani’s house. Vaswani, in a new interview, shared how his parents allowed Shah Rukh to stay at their house for two years before he moved out.

Vaswani told Siddharth Kannan that the story began when they went to watch a film together. He said that he was the one who bought the tickets, and also some cigarettes. After the movie ended, Shah Rukh asked Vaswani, “Give me Rs 100, I’ll go back to Bandra.” But having spent so much money on the tickets, Vaswani didn’t have Rs 100. “I asked him to sit in the car and I thought I will drop him. But there was not enough petrol in the car. So, I told him let’s go to my home and you can borrow Rs 100 from my mother, and take a taxi,” shared Vaswani.

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But his mother was asleep, and so, Vaswani offered Shah Rukh to stay at his place for the night. From that night onwards, the actor stayed at his place for two years, until he got married. “Then he shifted to Aziz Mirza’s house in Devdutt, and from there he shifted to a one room-kitchen, and then he bought a flat at Carter Road, and then, of course, Mannat.”

Vaswani clarified, “It’s not like he didn’t have money, he didn’t have money to waste. He was staying in Aziz Mirza’s office and that somehow bothered me, ‘Why should he stay in an office?’ I have such a big house. Of course, I cannot take credit, if my parents had not given permission, he could not have stayed. I cannot take credit for giving him a home as the home was not mine, it was my parents’.”

The filmmaker also said that he never takes credit for Shah Rukh Khan’s success, as whatever the actor achieved in his life was solely because of his hard work.

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Shah Rukh is fondly known as the ‘Badshah’ of Bollywood. In 2023, he starred in three blockbusters, Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki.

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