Before becoming a member of Bollywood, Kabir Khan labored as a cameraman and documentary filmmaker. The director shared that when he first landed in Mumbai, he solely knew one particular person, Shah Rukh Khan. However, their connection goes again to their faculty when Shah Rukh was Kabir’s senior at Jamia Millia Islamia college. Kabir solely knew the actor as Gauri Khan’s boyfriend on the time. He and Shah Rukh’s spouse Gauri have been each dancers in a musical play, West Side Story. (Also learn: Kabir Khan on how he feels when trolls ask him to go to Pakistan: ‘One couldn’t say to you in particular person. It does really feel unhealthy’)
Kabir made his directorial debut with the documentary The Forgotten Army (1999) which revolves across the Indian National Army based by Subhas Chandra Bose. He made his characteristic movie debut with Yash Raj Films’ Kabul Express (2006) starring John Abraham and Arshad Warsi. The writer-director had earlier mentioned that when he got here to Mumbai on the lookout for work, he didn’t know anybody and did not assume Shah Rukh would ever comply with be in a challenge of his as he was already an enormous star.
In an interview with Humans of Bombay, Kabir shared how he is aware of Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri for many years from their Delhi days. He mentioned, “Shah Rukh was my senior in Jamia but I did not know him as that. I met Shah Rukh more as Gauri’s boyfriend. Gauri and I did a production of the musical West Side Story where we were both dancers. West Side Story is the story of the two gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. We were both in the Sharks. Gauri is a fabulous dancer. I was probably not too bad. We practiced for six months and Shah Rukh would come and meet her. That’s how I got to meet [him].”
He continued, “At that point in time, he was in Jamia. I had not yet decided to join Jamia. I was doing economics and if I remember correctly, Shah Rukh was also doing economics. Later, when I decided to join Jamia, he gave me his notes because he was a brilliant student. I studied a lot from his notes. They were very valuable notes. That’s how I got to know Shah Rukh. The one person when I landed in Bombay, I’ve often said that I knew nobody in the film industry, needs a slight correction. The only person I knew was Shah Rukh Khan.”
Kabir’s final movie was the sports activities drama 83 (2021) which delivered to life the occasions of the 1983 Cricket World Cup when India gained its maiden title. Starring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Jiiva, Pankaj Tripathi, Tahir Raj Bhasin and Saqib Saleem, the movie was extra of a hit internationally than on the Indian field workplace.
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