Shah Rukh Khan NOT doing a film with Santosh Sivan!

Tahaan director Santosh Sivan has trashed recent press reports that he approached Shah Rukh Khan to work in a big budget action adventure to be directed by him.

A story has been doing the rounds for several weeks that Sivan will be directing Shah Rukh Khan in a film based on the Indiana Jones series, set in India with John Abraham as his sidekick.

Sivan, who last directed Shah Rukh in Asoka (2001), was initially not categorical with his denial.

"To be very honest I have been too busy promoting Tahaan for me to approach anyone for my films," he told Sawf News.

When we persisted, asking him categorically if he was directing a movie starring Shah Rukh Khan he was forthright, but still not very forthcoming.

"Well! I am not directing any films wherein Shah Rukh is in the film," he said in a hurry to keep the phone down. He probably did not see the point in talking further.

But then our journalists are the pesky kind. So why is the story that he is directing Shah Rukh doing the rounds? Surely, there can be no smoke without fire?

Realizing we wouldn't let him get on with his business until he gave us more details Sivan opened up somewhat, "I am not going to direct Shah Rukh Khan for any movie at all at this juncture. All I am going to do with him is shoot some commercials for him."

However, he didn't go any further and refused to reveal details about these commercials.

So there goes one more tabloid rumor down the drain!