‘Shah Rukh Khan was very rude on my first day, it hurt my ego,’ recalls Dipshikkha Nagppal: ‘I was in love with him, took it as a challenge’

“When Shah Rukh came, he was smoking. So Rakesh ji came in and said, ‘Do you know Dipshikkha?’ He said, ‘She is a fantastic actress.’ Rakesh ji was very impressed with me. Shah Rukh said, ‘Yeah, let’s see.’ It hurt my ego. He was so rude. I was like, ‘This is Shah Rukh. I love him.’ Then I took it as a challenge,” she shared. Dipshikkha said that she proceeded to do the scene, which was ultimately edited out of the film and shared, “I remember the scene. I can still smell his aura.”

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Dipshikkha Nagppal shared that even though their start wasn’t great, they later became friends, and he even recommended her name for the Abbas Mustan film, Baadshah. “Ratan Jain (producer) told me after Baadshah that Shah Rukh recommended my name. Shah Rukh never revealed it. That’s his greatness,” she said.

Dipshikkha shared that she worked with Shah Rukh Khan in other films as well but she always maintained a distance, even though they became friendly on set. “Later, we became friends but I would only pay attention to my work. I would work with dedication and maybe, he noticed that but he recommended me for Baadshah. I didn’t know that,” she said and added, “I said, ‘Thank you, Shah Rukh that you said let’s see’ because had he not said it, then maybe I wouldn’t be in that film.”

Dipshikkha was last seen in the web series Raisinghani VS Raisinghani, and the television show Ishq Jabariya. She has appeared in films like Partner, Jaanam Samjha Karo, Dillagi among others.