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For the first time, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has set the record straight about her equation with Shah Rukh Khan in this month's third anniversary issue of Hello! Here are some extracts from her interview...
On that difficult period with SRK: On the contrary it empowered me because that was the first time in my career, my dates were going to be decided by the leading hero.
Vinod (Chopra) and Raju (Hirani) are testimony to this. When SRK decided he was not doing Munnabhai MBBS, they did come to me and say (Sanjay) Dutt saab had agreed to do it.
But because I was attached to SRK's company, I said my dates will be decided by him if he is doing Munnabhai I will do it.
But once that incident happened with SRK (when Salman created a ruckus and SRK threw her out), and I was out of his movies, I dared to make the choices I did. I do not want to judge SRK or what happened then... we are friends now.
On discussing the incident with SRK: It's really weird with him. Whenever he would meet me socially during those days, he'd apologise which was never taken up in the open. Never in public.
He said it wasn't right and he couldn tell me all his reasons for what had happened... he was awkward about it.
But last year at Karan Johar party he and Gauri came up to me and they came out with a whole lot of reasons.
I was like, "Really what difference does it make? Because I am the one person who didn't hinge my career on yours!"
On working with SRK again: If a filmmaker comes with an offer, then we will see how it goes. We both maintain that... but right now there are no such talks.
On that difficult period with SRK: On the contrary it empowered me because that was the first time in my career, my dates were going to be decided by the leading hero.
Vinod (Chopra) and Raju (Hirani) are testimony to this. When SRK decided he was not doing Munnabhai MBBS, they did come to me and say (Sanjay) Dutt saab had agreed to do it.
But because I was attached to SRK's company, I said my dates will be decided by him if he is doing Munnabhai I will do it.
But once that incident happened with SRK (when Salman created a ruckus and SRK threw her out), and I was out of his movies, I dared to make the choices I did. I do not want to judge SRK or what happened then... we are friends now.
On discussing the incident with SRK: It's really weird with him. Whenever he would meet me socially during those days, he'd apologise which was never taken up in the open. Never in public.
He said it wasn't right and he couldn tell me all his reasons for what had happened... he was awkward about it.
But last year at Karan Johar party he and Gauri came up to me and they came out with a whole lot of reasons.
I was like, "Really what difference does it make? Because I am the one person who didn't hinge my career on yours!"
On working with SRK again: If a filmmaker comes with an offer, then we will see how it goes. We both maintain that... but right now there are no such talks.
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