Shah Rukh Khan and Rajkumar Hirani’s first collaboration Dunki recently released in theatres and has been receiving much appraisal from the audience. In a recent interview, Shah Rukh went on to share that he has been a good friend with the filmmaker for a long time and even was the first choice for many previous super-hits of Rajkumar like Munna Bhai MBBS and 3 Idiots. 

Shah Rukh went on to mention that during the time of Munna Bhai MBBS he was really excited for the project but suffered an injury due to which he couldn’t do the film.

The actor shared, “I still remember, I was shooting a scene for Devdas, in which I was going to pass away. And this gentleman came and said, ‘I have a script’ and I said, ‘Okay, let’s meet day after tomorrow, I’m doing this film next’. He said, ‘You haven’t heard it’. I said, ‘I love the title, it’s a fantastic title, Munna Bhai MBBS’.  We were supposed to do that film, we sat on it for six-seven months.” 

Talking about the director’s film 3 Idiots, Shah Rukh went on to add, “We worked on the script; we did the casting together. But there was a timing issue, one of my films got delayed, and I had a setback with another injury. I told him to finish it off. It was a very ambitious project, 3 Idiots, so I said, ‘You can’t have an actor coming from one film and going to another, so you please go ahead and do this’. So, that one didn’t happen.”

Rajkumar’s Dunki released on December 21 and also features Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal, Vikram Kochhar and Boman Irani alongside Shah Rukh. Focusing on the issues of illegal migrants who take to illegal routes in hope of moving to a better place, the film was even screened at the Rashtrapati Bhavan few days back. 

Source: MBC Group