‘Shah Rukh Khan rebuilt his family and career after losing everything’: Manoj Bajpayee

Manoj added, “Mujhe bohot khushi hoti hain usko uss mukaam pe dekh ke, jiss tarah ke duniya usne khadi ke apne liye. Ek vyakti jiska pura duniya ujadh chuka tha, 26 saal ke umar mein, aur uska pura parivaar ja chuka tha, phir usne apni duniya khadi ki, parivaar apna create kiya, apne liye itna bada naam, izaat banaya (I feel very happy to see him achieve this level of success. He had lost his family, rebuilt everything, from his career to his personal life).” 

SRK and Manoj have shared the screen on two occasions. They first appeared together in the 1989 TV film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones. Years later, they reunited for the epic 2004 film Veer-Zaara. 

“Main isliye respect karta hoon kyunki main unke aas paas saare doston mein tha, jisne dekha tha uske saath yeh sab hote hue. Mere liye kabhi Shah Rukh ke liye koi kadvahat nahi ho sakti (I respect him because I was one of his friends who had seen him at his worst. I can never be bitter about Shah Rukh’s success),” he said.

On the show Dus Ka Dum, SRK had opened up about losing his father. The actor had said, “I was 15 when my father passed away and 26 when my mother passed away. It was very sad for us. The empty house without my parents used to come to bite us (my sister and me). The loneliness, pain and sadness of the loss of both my parents, have been overwhelming enough to take over my life wholly.”