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Shah Rukh Khan is ’20 years ahead of his time’; Salman Khan pretends to be aloof, but ‘he’s as sharp as a knife’: Kareena Kapoor highlights differences

Kareena Kapoor, who has worked often with the 'Three Khans of Bollywood' - Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir - highlighted the differences in their approach to work in a new interview.

kareena salman shah rukh aamirKareena Kapoor has worked frequently with each of the Three Khans.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan is a star in her own right, but she also holds the distinction of having worked frequently with each of the ‘Three Khans of Bollywood’ – Salman, Shah Rukh and Aamir. Kareena highlighted the differences in their approach to work, and what makes them so special.

In an interview with mid-day, Kareena described Shah Rukh as ’20 years ahead of his time’, said that Salman pretends to be aloof but is ‘as sharp as a knife’, and that Aamir becomes too obsessed with his characters and his films that he needs to be told to ‘calm down’. Kareena most recently worked with Aamir on Laal Singh Chadha, with Shah Rukh on Ra.One, and with Salman on Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

She said, “Salman, obviously, he relies on his persona and his personality, his super-duper stardom. His confidence is on another level. It’s not like he isn’t aware. He’s always a bit like he’s not listening or he’s sleeping, but he’s listening to everything. He’s as sharp as a knife.” About Aamir, Kareena said, “Aamir is very focused. He becomes obsessed with his character, all he thinks about is work. He lives with those characters, and that’s all he talks about. That’s his personality, and we love Aamir Khan for that.” Asked if it gets ‘unnerving’ to work with him, she said, “I tell him to calm down when it’s getting too much. It borderline becomes like we can’t do anything else.

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She then spoke about Shah Rukh, whom she described as the ‘biggest star India has ever seen’. She said, “He’s made of something else. He’s made of a special cloth that nobody is made of. He’s working towards each and every person on that set, not just his own character. He’s something else. But he’s also kind, and he’s concerned, and he’s just doing everything at the same time, and I don’t know how he does it. He’s a multitasker, but he’s making you so comfortable. He’s the biggest star India has ever seen, but you never feel that when you’re with Shah Rukh.”

Kareena was most recently seen in the Netflix thriller Jaane Jaan, which marked her streaming debut. She will next be seen in the film The Crew, and in The Buckingham Murders.

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