As Shah Rukh Khan's Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman turned 31, his co-star, actor Viveck Vaswani has opened up about the time when the superstar was reluctant to work in movies initially because he would have to hug girls and his wife, Gauri Khan, had forbidden him from doing so. Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman was helmed by Aziz Mirza. Along with SRK the 1992 film also starred Juhi Chawla, Amrita Singh, Viveck Vaswani among others. Vaswani shared that when SRK returned to Mumbai from New Delhi after his father passed away, the two stayed together and also shared the reason why SRK continued to work as a television actor for long before he ventured as a film actor. “Shah Rukh Khan used to live in my house. When he returned to Mumbai after his mother died and he said ‘Let’s do a film’, I had to say ‘yes’. Until then, he preferred to work only in TV. He was against films. When I asked him the reason, he said, ‘I can’t do films because I’ll have to hug girls in films. And Gauri has said no’! I told him ‘Ok. You come and stay with me. We’ll figure out life’,” Viveck told Bollywood Hungama. However, he soon started working in films. Viveck opened up about how after the passing of his mother, SRK decided to go big with films as her dream was to see him on the big screen. He said, "But after his mother passed away, he decided to work in films as it was his mother’s dream that he should become a superstar. Every night, we would sit at the Taj President Hotel, Cuffe Parade, which is next to my house and brainstorm on what we should make. I was very clear that the film should be a Shah Rukh Khan vehicle. It has to be Shah Rukh Khan in and as Shah Rukh Khan.” Shah Rukh Khan has been a film star for over three decades and has delivered the biggests hits of his career - Pathaan and Jawan - this year. SRK will next be seen in Rajkumar Hirani's Dunki along with Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal.
