Shahrukh Khan and Kajol are one of the most loved Bollywood on-screen couples of all times but did you know that they did not start off well?
Shah Rukh confessed that he’d even warned Aamir Khan about working with her, calling her unfocused and ‘very bad‘.
Shahrukh Khan told Indian Express “When I was working with her in Baazigar, Aamir (Khan) asked me about her as he wanted to work with her. I left him a message saying, ‘She is very bad, no focus, you will not be able to work with her’. And then I saw the rushes in the evening. I kept calling Aamir to clarify. I told him, ‘I don’t know what it is but she is magical on the screen.’”
While sharing an incident, Kajol says “I remember Shah Rukh and other actors had a huge hangover when they came on the sets and I was jabbering away in Marathi to his make-up guy. They were like ‘what is that voice. It is going to split open our heads’. He was very grumpy but I kept chatting and finally he said, ‘Will you please shut up… chup ho jao’. I think that’s how we became friends.”
Shahrukh retorted, “Even now, I have to tell her to ‘shut up’”.
However, now Shahrukh does not hide away from admiring Kajol. He says, “Kajol is not technical, she is an honest actor and that’s great quality. My daughter wants to become an actress and I would want her to learn that. I hope I learn that from Kajol. I can’t explain but she is something else on the screen.”
Shahrukh and Kajol have starred together in films such as Baazigar, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, and most recently, Dilwale.