MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan spent his formative years in Delhi. He frequently speaks about how Delhi mannerisms won't leave him, especially in tense situations.
During an interview, the actor revealed how he had once confronted a journalist for publishing a rumour of his affair with a co-star. He said that when he was filming for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa in 1993, and it had been just two years since his wedding to Gauri Khan.
Talking to the interviewer, Shah Rukh said that Gauri grew concerned if she had made a mistake marrying an actor and if she'd have to worry about him mingling with female actors now. A furious Shah Rukh called up the journalist who had written the piece about it. While she said that it was a joke, he gave used the choicest of curse words.
He then showed up at the journalist's door and fought with people. “I behaved very badly. I was jailed. My father-in-law had given me a sword, as they do in Punjabi weddings. I carried that sword to that journalist's house. My father-in-law, who is an army officer, said, ‘Son, you have to protect my daughter’. Nobody was saying anything to his daughter but I thought this is a good weapon, sanctioned by the Indian Army,” he said.
At the house, he met a young man and stabbed him in his legs with the ‘sword’ which was actually a type of a dagger. He came back after the incident and returned to Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa sets. A day later, a few cops showed up there, and took him to the station.
At the station, he arrived with his starry swagger but the senior officer scolded him for trying to sit in a chair. “Baitho nahi! Khade raho wahan pe (Don't sit. Keep standing there),” the officer told Shah Rukh. Because he was brought in after 6pm, he couldn't get bail either.
Nana Patekar then helped him get him out of jail.
Credits: Hindustan Times
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