Shah Rukh Khan left quietly after I told him ‘nas kaat lungi’, recalls Wamiqa Gabbi: ‘There was pin-drop silence on the sets of Baby John’

Wamiqa Gabbi recently recalled her most embarrassing meeting with actor Shah Rukh Khan. Wamiqa said the superstar didn't get her humour and just left.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | May 21, 2025 11:23 AM IST

3 min read

Wamiqa Gabbi recalls meeting SRK. (Photo: Wamiqa Gabbi/Instagram)

After gaining recognition for several of her Punjabi films and appearances in series like Modern Love Mumbai, Wamiqa Gabbi received her big break after she was cast as one of the leads in Atlee’s film Baby John starring Varun Dhawan and Keerthy Suresh. This was filmmaker Atlee’s second Bollywood project after Shah Rukh Khan starrer Jawan. While he directed-produced Jawan, he presented Baby John with Kalees as its director. For the film’s muhurat, Atlee had his Jawan film star, Shah Rukh Khan attend the event. This also marked Wamiqa’s first official meeting with the superstar. However, the meeting was nothing like she anticipated.

In a recent interview with Mashable India, Wamiqa Gabbi recalled her first meeting with the star and said, “My conversation was very weird with him. We were all at Baby John’s muhurat when Shah Rukh Khan visited the set for 15 minutes. My brother Hardik was with me on the set. When he came, everybody was so charmed by him that they stood around him and heard him talk. My brother and I were standing at the back and we were having our own conversation, anticipating our possible conversation with the star. I asked Hardik, ‘If he will come to speak to me while leaving, what do you think I should speak with him?’ Hardik joked, ‘Nas kaat de’. We are laughing talking all this.”

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“And as anticipated, he did come to me before he left as I was also in the film. He said ‘okay, bye’ and I said, ‘It was so nice meeting you sir, my brother was suggesting I cut my wrist but obviously I won’t do that.’ Now, as soon as I told this to him, everyone went quiet, and SRK simply left. After he left, a person from the production came running to me and was like, ‘Did you just talk about cutting your wrist?’ My brother was shocked. I honestly thought SRK will get the humour, but he didn’t,” added an embarrassed Wamiqa Gabbi.

Rajkummar Rao, who too was part of the interview, recalled his last meeting with the star and said, “I met Shah Rukh sir at Farah Khan’s birthday. We spoke a lot. We discussed his film, King, then we spoke about Aryan Khan’s new show. He also said he liked my film Stree 2.”

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