After gaining recognition for several of her Punjabi films and appearances in series like Modern Love Mumbai, Wamiqa Gabbi got her big break when she was cast as one of the leads in Atlee’s film Baby John, starring Varun Dhawan and Keerthy Suresh. This marked filmmaker Atlee’s second Bollywood project, following the success of the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Jawan. While Atlee directed and produced Jawan, he presented Baby John with Kalees as its director. For the film’s muhurat, Atlee invited his Jawan star Shah Rukh Khan to attend the event, marking Wamiqa’s first official meeting with the superstar. However, the encounter was nothing like she had expected.
Wamiqa Gabbi recalls her awkward first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan; says, “I mentioned cutting my wrist…SRK simply left”
In a recent interview with Mashable India, Wamiqa Gabbi recalled her first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and shared, “My conversation was very weird with him. We were all at Baby John’s muhurat when Shah Rukh Khan visited the set for 15 minutes. My brother Hardik was with me on the set. When he came, everybody was so charmed by him that they stood around him and heard him talk. My brother and I were standing at the back and we were having our own conversation, anticipating our possible conversation with the star. I asked Hardik, ‘If he will come to speak to me while leaving, what do you think I should speak with him?’ Hardik joked, ‘Nas kaat de’. We are laughing talking all this.”
Wamiqa Gabbi added, “And as anticipated, he did come to me before he left as I was also in the film. He said ‘okay, bye’ and I said, ‘It was so nice meeting you sir, my brother was suggesting I cut my wrist but obviously I won’t do that.’ Now, as soon as I told this to him, everyone went quiet, and SRK simply left. After he left, a person from the production came running to me and was like, ‘Did you just talk about cutting your wrist?’ My brother was shocked. I honestly thought SRK will get the humour, but he didn’t.”
Rajkummar Rao, who was also part of the interview, recalled his last meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and said, “I met Shah Rukh sir at Farah Khan’s birthday. We spoke a lot. We discussed his film King, then we talked about Aryan Khan’s new show. He also mentioned that he liked my film Stree 2.”
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