Zayed Khan reveals how he nearly did not get his position in Shah Rukh Khan’s Main Hoon Na: He requested me, are you able to act?

What occurred subsequent may’ve been a scene straight out of a Bollywood movie. Zayed, hoping to have choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan helm a music for one more undertaking, gave her a name. “I needed her to choreograph Mohabbat Hai Mirchi, then she tells me ‘Where are you?’ I mentioned, ‘I’m right here.’ Then she’s like ‘Meet me in my workplace proper now,’” he recounted.

But when he arrived, nothing appeared acquainted. “I’m already on Cloud 9, I bought dressed and went, and I walked into Shah Rukh’s workplace. And I’m trying round and pondering that this doesn’t appear to be Farah’s workplace as a result of there are solely Shah Rukh’s pics in every single place, and I’m pondering what’s Shah Rukh’s connection to Mohabbat Hai Mirchi.”

Still believing this assembly was concerning the music, he confronted Farah with the apparent query: are we doing this or not? “So I mentioned, ‘Farah solar, are we doing the music?’ and she or he mentioned, ‘Just shut up — Shah Rukh is coming and he needs to speak to you.’”

What adopted was a surreal second for the actor. “I’ve been a giant fan of Shah Rukh. When we had been in boarding faculty, we used to face in line at Natraj Cinema, Suicide Alley meh, to see his movies,” he mentioned with a nostalgic snigger. “Shah Rukh was so candy. He comes together with his aura and his allure. He mentioned, ‘Zayed, you don’t hearken to how she says, however we’re making a movie and we’re contemplating you because the second lead of the movie.’ So my coronary heart stopped for a minute and I used to be like, what the hell is occurring out right here.”

And then got here essentially the most Bollywood query of all of them: “He requested me, ‘Just one query… are you able to act?’ And then I checked out him and mentioned, ‘I used to be born to behave’. I feel he was very amused by my reply.”

The second of fact got here when Farah bought into her automobile. Zayed, holding his breath, waited for a verdict. She rolled down the window and easily mentioned, “Send me your measurements, you’re going to be in my movie.” Zayed summed it up completely: “It was a fairly filmy second.”

About Main Hoon Na

Released in 2004, Main Hoon Na marked the directorial debut of Farah Khan and featured an ensemble solid with Shah Rukh as Major Ram Prasad Sharma, a navy officer with a secret mission and a hidden identification. Zayed Khan performed Lucky, Ram’s rebellious half-brother and school heartthrob, reverse Amrita Rao’s Sanjana whereas Sushmita Sen portrayed Chandni Chopra, the chemistry trainer who stole each Ram’s and the viewers’s hearts.