Sunny Deol and Shah Rukh Khan appear to have patched up now. While the previous’s blockbuster motion movie Gadar 2 is chasing the field workplace assortment of the latter’s superhit spy thriller Pathaan now, the 2 have exchanged heat phrases with one another after the success of Gadar 2. But their feud goes a great distance again, after they labored collectively in Yash Chopra’s 1993 romantic thriller Darr. (Also Read: Sunny Deol addresses outdated feud with Shah Rukh Khan after they did not communicate for 16 years: ‘Time heals everything’)
It all began with Darr
Darr, in some ways, was a breakthrough movie for Shah Rukh Khan, who made his Bollywood debut only a 12 months earlier than that, with Deewana. While he was a romantic hero in Deewana, he performed an anti-hero, a sociopathic unrequited lover, in Darr. He stored chasing Juhi Chawla’s Kiran all through the movie, and had many run-ins along with her husband, performed by Sunny Deol.
After the movie’s launch, Shah Rukh received quite a lot of reward for his darkish portrayal. And Sunny felt he in some way did not get the popularity he deserved because the ‘hero’ of a Yash Chopra movie.
Sunny’s confessions over time
In an interview to the journal Filmfare in 1993 after the discharge of Darr, Sunny famously stated, “I’ll never work with Yash Chopra again. He isn’t a man of his words. I don’t have good memories about him, he betrayed my faith in him.”
More recently, in 2019, Sunny appeared on Aap Ki Adalat on India TV, where he addressed the feud with Shah Rukh. He said, “At the end of the day, people loved me in the film. They loved Shah Rukh Khan as well. My only issue with the film was that I did not know they would glorify the villain. I always work in films with an open heart and believe the person. I believe working with trust. Unfortunately, we have many actors and stars who don’t function in this manner. Maybe that’s the way they want to get their stardom.”
The patch-up
Fans of the two actors started talking when Shah Rukh recently revealed in one of his Ask SRK sessions on X (formerly Twitter) that he’s watched and loved Gadar 2. In an interview with Zoom, when Sunny was requested his response to the identical, he stated, “Shah Rukh Khan had seen the film. Before that, he had called me and wished me well. He was so happy, and he told me ‘I’m so happy, you genuinely deserve it’ and I said thank you. Then I spoke to his wife (Gauri Khan) and his son (Aryan Khan). And he said tonight we are going to be watching this film. And after that, he had seen it, and I think that is when he tweeted.”
“It was so beautiful. Many times I’ve also called him up and we shared our thoughts on certain things. About the past issues – whatever they were, I would say time heals everything and we move ahead. That’s the way life should be,” he added.
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