What is Shah Rukh talking about?

Shah Rukh Khan

What is Shah Rukh talking about?

The finger pointing continues, Ratan Jain refutes SRK's claim

Ram Kamal Mukherjee

Ever since Shah Rukh Khan made public his views on Ratan Jain; the producer has been a disturbed man. Recently, in an interview to Mumbai Mirror, Shah Rukh spoke about the time when he approached Ratan Jain with Ashutosh Gowarikar for Lagaan. Jain had discouraged him and also advised him to disassociate with directors like Ashutosh then.

"What is Shah Rukh talking about," says Jain. Elaborating on the issue, Jain says, "If Shah Rukh would have come to me with the script of Lagaan I wouldn never have refused the film. I would have done the film because of Shah Rukh, without paying attention to the script. My association with Shah Rukh goes back since our Baazigar days, he is like family. I don't know what went wrong."

Incidentally, Shah Rukh had visited Ratan Jain three months after the release of Lagaan. "He came to my office with Ashutosh for Akbar-Jodha. He was very keen on the project. But I am unaware of what happened after that," informs Jain.

So did Jain advise Shah Rukh to steer clear from directors like Ashutosh? "I don't know what he means to say by that. I don't remember saying any such thing to Shah Rukh," he says. So where does the Shah Rukh-Ratan Jain relationship head from here? "People think that we have a problem, but we don't. I read the interview and was taken aback. But I didn't speak to Shah Rukh regarding this issue. I think, if he feels that he needs to talk about it, he will call me. Shah Rukh is not a stranger to me or vice versa," he says.

Currently Jain is busy promoting his film Aap Ki Khatir. When asked about the Dharmesh Darshan controversy regarding the latter's sexual preferences, in London he says, "I don't take any interest in other people's personal life. I am only concerned with my films."

hmmm yaar well i hope all the misunderstanding get solved SRK dont usually keep a grudge

thanks for sharingg 👏...i hope everything get solved soon

ok Shah Rukh had said this wayyyyy back in an interview, cuz ppl kept asking him about why he backed outta Lagaan. He also kinda mentioned it recently in an interview too...
He was basically searching for a producer along with Ashutosh for Lagaan. But then things didn't work out for a long time, and SRK had other projects to complete too, and he didn't have time to do Lagaan then. So he backed outta the project and afterwards Ashutosh decided to produce it himself.

Why is Ratan Jain reacting to this now?!? Was he like sleeping all these years? LOL