As Shah Rukh Khan turns 60, we’re celebrating the moments, memories, and magic that make him who he is through the eyes of those who’ve worked closely with him.
One of them is filmmaker Gauri Shinde, who directed him in Dear Zindagi where he played the charming and compassionate Dr Jehangir Khan, a psychologist who taught us that it’s okay to pause and reset.
But before Dear Zindagi, Gauri Shinde had already seen the “SRK effect” on her ad film sets.
“When SRK is on set, female hormones are skyrocketing,” she laughs. “Even in an ad film shoot I have to round up my girls and tell them, ‘BEHAVE YOURSELF. No jaw dropping, put a rubber band!'”
So how does she handle her own hormones?
Gauri Shinde laughs again, “Good question, I don’t have an answer for that! Sorry male directors, but as a woman director I can have all these 360-degree feelings about him which you will never know about or understand.”
Her first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan was as memorable as the man himself. It was at the premiere of Paa, the 2009 film directed by Gauri Shinde’s husband R Balki.
