By Salman Akhter:There have been several incidents which are less known, sometime SRK was not happy with a producer or Director due to creative difference and sometimes some of his blatant comments on others’ work, that created a undeclared rift between them, some of them I would like to bring to your knowledge.
Raj Kanwar- When Shah Rukh Khan was in his initial phase of his career, he got one of the remarkable hit of his career in the form of ‘Deewana’, but, strangely, he never did any movie with Director Raj Kanwar apart from a guest appearance for Salman Khan starring’Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega’, Reason, he was unhappy the way he was treated in the films climax, while originally in the script, it was SRK who was to die in the movie, but, on insistence of Rishi Kapoor Producer Guddu Dhanoa & Co and Director Raj Kanwar obliged the senior actor and eventually Rishi Kapoor died in the climax of the movie. SRK was said be unhappy with all of this episode but never publicly showed his displeasure due to respect to the senior actor.
Sunny Deol- It is well known that Aamir Khan did not accept Yashraj’s ‘Darr’ because he wanted to have joint script narration session with Sunny Deol but Yashji was not comfortable doing that. eventually, Shah Rukh Khan stepped in the Aamir Khan’s shoe and Sunny Deol still had complete trust on the senior maker’s commitment, but, it is understood that due to SRK’s stock price were on rise, the senior maker opted to get flexible in terms of giving extra footage to SRK and the dialogue SRK speaks in the climax were rumoured to be not included in the original script, on watching preview Sunny Deol felt betrayed and assumed SRK might have played some manipulative game alongwith senior director, so Sunny Deol never worked with Yashraj or SRK thereafter, finally he broke the ice and invited Dharamendra and Bobby Deol for his OSO’s much publicized ‘Deewangi’ song and it appears Deols are leaving the past aside and making a healthy environment with Khan.
Anil Kapoor- Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood entry, his transformation into a bigger star was only responsible of Anil Kapoor’s fall from the super star status, Anil Kapoor was climbing the stairs of success with Tezaab’s ‘ek… do… teeen’… Chaar … and Anil Kapoor was the Super Star’ but Shah Rukh Khan shook Anil Kapoor’s empire and became uncrowned king of Bollywood, publicly they never shared any ill vibes but that period was the heights of cold war between them, they did ‘Trimurti’ together and than SRK did some guest appearance in Anil’s Brother Boney Kapoor’s movies to clear the air between them.
Sunil Shetty- There were no comparisons between these two different kind of performers, Sunil shetty was more popular for his physics than acting abilities and SRK was known for his energetic style of acting where shades of Dilip Kumar were visible. When SRK signed Producer Late Yash Johar’s ‘Duplicate’, he was playing dual role for the first time in his career, when asked by a journalist, how is he preparing for his first double role character in a movie, he replied, that reply only was enough to upset Sunil Shetty, he said, ‘when I am doing double role.. you can be sure .. it wouldn’t be like ‘Gopi Kishen’.. has to be better than that.’ Sunil Shetty did show his unpleasant by saying ‘I do not know.. what makes Shah Rukh Khan to comment on me’. Later SRK offered Sunil Shetty a role which was originally offered to none other than South Super Star Kamal Haasan and SRK-Sunil Shetty cold vibes disappeared.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra- The latest undeclared war was in between Vinod Chopra and SRK, when the Maker was unhappy over the word of war from Farha Khan & Co about the Oscar nomination of his ‘Eklavya’, Farah Khan and Sajid Khan expressed their opinion against ‘Eklavya’s nomination in stead of other movies like ‘Dharam’ etc. Vinod Chopra took it offence and called press conference ‘I never said ‘Paheli was a rubbish movie’ so who they are to declare my movie as incorrect choice for Oscar’, SRK said nothing, eventually, the project he was going to start under Vinod Chopra Banner to be directed by Raj Kumar Hirani declined.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali-The clash of OSO and Saawariya release on Diwali was responsible to create a bigger gap between the two talented craftsman SLB & SRK in their own field, both created magic with ‘Devdas’ but when the question of one-upmanship arised with their latest offerings, their comment about each other widened the crack that is clearly visible even after the declared fate of their movies. its only time will tell when they bury their differences and come together to create another history again after ‘Devdas’.
Subhash Ghai- During ‘Pardes’ it is said that SRK was not happy with the way Showman was giving extra importance to Apoorva Agnihotri and Mahima Choudhry in the script. It was a Shah Rukh Khan film but Showman too was on his prime. They made peace (Shanti) with each other by the time OM Shanti OM became blockbuster.
In an Industry of Show, Glamour and Competition these kind of cold wars have not just been in SRK’s destiny, this had once happened in between Dilip Kumar – Raj Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna-Amitabh Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan-Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan-Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff-Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty-Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan-Ajay Devgan and recent so called rivalry between SRK & Big B.
Cine Industry is a very fragile world where nothing lasts longer, friendship or enimity, and the remedy is the TIME, it heals and make even arc rival in to a closest buddies, like Salman Khan and Subhash Ghai are doing a project together despite stories of Khan indulging physical fight with Ghai. Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan had a major showdown on the set of ‘Chalte Chalte’ because of Aishwarya Roy, today, they are best buddies.
Even after few of above bad patches, SRK had somehow, managed to make ‘theek thaak’ (o.k.) in the end, still, these cold wars and bitter phases have deep significance at his career which are rarely discussed.
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5 Comments
December 30, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Shahrukh too is human before anything else, its absolutely normal to have these kind of incidents in about 15year of career but see Shahrukh never talked cheap about any less about anyone he is well behaved person in fact, i did hear about most of them
April 14, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I completely agree with you, because he is an intelligent and sharp guy.
Most importantly he is a great actor and no one can even touch that height where he is right no.
God bless SRK and you may live on that height for all of your life and even after that :)
December 15, 2008 at 3:12 am
you both are absolutely right!
December 23, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Shahrukh dont worry they r all jealous of u
January 3, 2009 at 5:45 am
I have to completely agree that Shahrukh has not openly said anything bad abt anybody who has been bashing him down. But i think thats what makes fans like him more. :D