‘Shah Rukh Khan hates loves stories, was disappointed with his helicopter entry in K3G’: Nikkhil Advani

Nikkhil Advani, who has collaborated with Shah Rukh Khan on Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham as an assistant director and Kal Ho Na Ho as a director, shares how the superstar hates love stories.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | October 25, 2024 09:41 PM IST

3 min read

Shah Rukh Khan was disappointed in his helicopter entry in K3G. (Photo: IMDb)

After his break from movies since his 2018 film Zero, Shah Rukh Khan made a grand comeback with movies like Jawan, Pathaan, and Dunki, with the former two being high on action. This was something the actor was wanting to do since the start of his career. Recently, filmmaker Nikkhil Advani, who has collaborated with SRK on Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Mohabbatein (2000), and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) as an assistant director and Kal Ho Na Ho as a director, shared how the actor hates love stories.

In an interview with Cyrus Says, Nikkhil shared some interesting tidbits about Shah Rukh from the sets of the films they collaborated on. The filmmaker said, “Shah Rukh and I used to have these conversations so many times that ‘Karan and Adi only do love story, let us do something different.’ Shah Rukh hates love stories. Considering that he is known as King Khan and King of romance, this and that, but he hates love stories. Dil Se is his favourite film. He keeps talking about his favourite sequences from the films Hey Ram and Darr. He loves his film Ram Jaane, where he is wearing a head band.”

The filmmaker added, “Shah Rukh Khan had this habit. Every time, Karan or Adi would make him hear a new song and tell him their plans of shooting it in Switzerland and stuff, he would always come back and call the other film better. He used to constantly do that.”

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Nikkhil Advani also revealed why Shah Rukh Khan gets credit for thrills in some of this films. “Even when you see Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, he gets a credit called thrills. In the beginning of the film, he gets credit for thrills. It is because he treated the basketball sequence in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai like an action scene. He choreographed it”, said Nikkhil.

Recalling another incident, the filmmaker said, “When we told him that his entry in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is with the helicopter. He thought he is going to jump off the helicopter, while he just had to step down. The scene was more about Jaya Bachchan that she gets to know about the arrival of her son as soon as he touches the ground.” The actor was quiet disappointed.

Shah Rukh Khan is all set to star in Sujoy Ghosh’s King which is touted to be an action film. The movie is also said to be starring his daughter Suhana Khan.

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