SRK’s Runaway Cameo

SRK has been accused for ‘delaying’ Viveck Vaswani’s Dulha Mil Gaya. For the first time, Shah Rukh clears the air about why he didn’t shoot for the film sooner, and more. Read on…

Shah Rukh Khan has been accused of delaying Viveck Vaswani’s Dulha Mil Gaya. King Khan is being painted as ungrateful for not finishing his cameo in the film, which has been in the making for over a year now. Vaswani, who played ‘Godfather’ to SRK when he first came to Mumbai, is disappointed that Khan isn’t shooting for him. Here, for the first time, the actor clears the air about why he didn’t shoot for the film sooner, and more. Read on…

It is being said Dulha Mil Gaya is stuck because of you…
I’ll do it, yaar. (Snaps) No, it’s not stuck because of me. Vivek’s a friend and he’s responsible for me being
in Mumbai. I’d never say no to him. I’d never take money from him, I will do the film.

Is the problem your dates?
No. The problem is that they’d assumed that my character would take four days of shooting but when it came down to it, it was 18-20 days of work, and that is a lot of film for me to do. See, I am very clear, when I do a guest appearance, I don’t do it for money. I do it for relationships. I don’t want to know the film, the story, or anything. I haven’t read the script of Dulha Mil Gaya and I don’t even want to. It’s not my film. I have just come as a guest, to have fun, to make you smile, finish my work and go back. I don’t even see the films, or even go to its premiere.

So you were told it was a guest appearance and the role was extended?
Let me put it like this, for Billoo Barber, I have worked only for 20 days… that too, because I increased the songs otherwise it was a 12-13 day role. When in my own production, I do a guest role like this, it’s wrong for me to go in for an outside film without Vivek trying to make it look like that and make it look like a Shah Rukh Khan film.

Why did you take up DMG?
Maybe I don’t even want to participate in the film as a character. But as a friend, as a guest star, as someone who is fond of Vivek and Sushmita, I’ll be part of the film. But it should not be about me. So now they’ve reworked my part and now they need five or six days and Inshallah, I will finish it soon. I apologise if I have delayed the film.

Are you comfortable doing cameos?
I do a film after I go through a whole process and if I like it. For a cameo, I don’t even want to do the process of whether I like it or not… I will just go and do it. It’s very clear… like Billoo Barber is about Irrfan Khan and when you come to see me in the film, you will see enough of me. I have devised the film like that. It’s a very important guest appearance. It’s not like Bhootnath. Where the film’s story is not bothered by me. I am just there because Juhi is there, and Amitji is there, Vivek (Chopra) is there, and they are all friends, and they all said, ‘We’ll be shooting at Mehboob (which is close to Mannat), just come whenever you are free’. So I did it. With Dulha Mil Gaya, I will do it but not for 20 days. It just became too much. They wanted an outdoor in Dubai, South America…. I was like, ‘Listen guys, I can’t do this’. Now, it is a five-day shoot and I will finish it. I had shot for it, half a day, about three shots, my entry song… I don’t know what my hair was like then, maybe I will cut it back to that…