Vivek Vaswani reveals moment when Shah Rukh Khan chose Bollywood over television after mother’s death: ‘Meri maa ka sapna…’

He said, “We went to Gehlot near Church Road. We ordered butter chicken and naan. He said to my face, ‘My mother is dying’. He poured his heart out. Then we went and sat on Marine Drive. He told me about his mother, the organ failure.” Vivek also recalled sending medicines for Shah Rukh’s mother from Mumbai to Delhi.

“I used to buy expensive medicines here in Mumbai and send them through Raman (SRK’s friend) to Delhi because he was a pilot. But she died,” recalled Vivek.

Shah Rukh Khan‘s mother Lateef Fatima Khan, died in 1991 after suffering from poor health. Vivek travelled to Delhi at the time. “I went to Delhi. I stayed at his house, I met Gauri. I met his friend Vivek Khushlani,” he shared.

After his mother’s death, Shah Rukh returned to Mumbai and rang the bell at Vivek’s house. “One day he came, and said, ‘I want to do films’. I said, ‘But tumko film karni hi nahi the bas TV karna tha (You only wished to do television). But he said ki mujhe ye film because meri maa ka sapna hai that I become a superstar (I want to do a film because my mother wanted me to be a superstar,” Vivek shared.

Shah Rukh Khan had earlier recalled his mother’s death during an interview with Simi Grewal. SRK said that he had never prayed in his life, but when she was battling for her life in the ICU, he prayed in the parking lot of the hospital. “I was not prepared for her to die. I never used to pray, but when she was in the ICU, and she was getting a breathing attack, I went down to the parking lot of a hospital and for the first time, I prayed. I was told to pray 6000 times, and that she won’t have pain. ”