Funny side of salman khan & Shahrukh khan.
Salman gave several interviews after the brawl, but he refused to divulge the trigger of the fight. Check the interview where he admitted that Shah Rukh used to be a part of his Khan-daan once and that he used to address him as ‘Sir’. You will realise that Salman speaks from his heart when he’s in the mood. Also, he leaves a lot unspoken and sometimes just speaks in monosyllables. However, if you note the expressions on his face and eyes, you will realise that hidden in those monosyllables are the best answers. Here’s the much-anticipated video.
By 2000, Shah Rukh Khan was a superstar in his own right in Bollywood and he was on top of the game. It was during this time that he earned the moniker ‘King Khan’ because by then he had toppled the other two Khans from their mantles. Salman, on the other hand, was still delivering duds in between hits and the whole spotlight of the film industry had shifted to Shah Rukh by that time.
This is the same year when Shah Rukh Khan paired up with Aishwarya Rai in Josh. Though they played brother-sister in the film, it was a mathematical certainty that the two would be cast as leads in other films.
Five months later, Shah Rukh-Aishwarya starrer Mohabbatein released and set the box office on fire. Though the Aditya Chopra film was sold more on the fact that Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan were together in a film for the first time, Ash-SRK’s pair also garnered tremendous response among the audience. Suddenly, Shah Rukh-Ash pair was the talk of the town and Salman-Ash pair wasn’t. Every producer wanted to sign Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya in their film.
Salman always wanted to see himself rule the box office with Ash and he found his dream shattered by somebody who was five years his junior in the film industry. Make no mistake, they are exactly of the same age and incidentally Salman is younger to Shah Rukh by almost 55 days (both Salman and Shah Rukh are 1965 born). Salman made his debut in 1988 with Biwi Ho To Aisi while Shah Rukh’s first film was Deewana in 1992.
Even though Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (which released a year before Mohabbatein, in 1999) scored well at the box office, their volatile relationship ensured that Ash and Salman never signed a film together even though they came very close to it many times.
On the other hand, Shah Rukh also realised that the pair had tremendous potential and hence, decided to put his own money into his next film with Aishwarya as his heroine. During that time, Shah Rukh had a production house with Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza called Dreamz Unlimited (Red Chillies would come in the picture much later).
The first venture of Dreamz Unlimited was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and it tanked in a big way at the box office. Two more films from the same company (Asoka and One 2 ka 4) went down a similar path. Shah Rukh knew that if he wanted to keep his production company afloat, he needed a massive hit. Shah Rukh was on the lookout for a perfect script that would script his comeback.
Aziz Mirza then came up with an amazing script and Shah Rukh promptly roped in Aishwarya for the film. The film was a make-or-break situation for Shah Rukh purely for the sake of his production house.
