Jackie Shroff Recalls Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Akelapan’ on Devdas, King Uncle Sets: ‘Akele Kone Mein Baitha Tha’

Jackie Shroff Recalls Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Akelapan’ on Devdas, King Uncle Sets: Jackie Shroff and Shah Rukh Khan are the few non-starters who have made it big in the Bollywood. They also collaborated in a number of successful movies such as Happy New Year, Devdas and so on.

Jackie in an interview to Vickey Lalwani described that he found Shah Rukh aloof on the shoot of King Uncle. He also discussed the subject of loneliness at the top.

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Speaking of what he has seen in the development of Shah Rukh since King Uncle to Devdas, Jackie remembered SRK playing the younger brother in the movie King Uncle and said, "Akelapan. Har actor ko ek lonely feel hona chahiye, mere ko bola tha ye kisi ne. So I saw him sitting out there, on his own. He was playing my younger brother. And he was respectful, focused on his work, he was charismatic, he was charming. But aloof. Like I was aloof, he also aloof. I liked those vibes (Loneliness. Every actor should experience a sense of loneliness, someone once told me that. I saw him sitting there alone. He was playing my younger brother. He was respectful, focused, charismatic, but aloof. Just like I was aloof, he was too. I liked that vibe)."

He then spoke about working with him on Devdas and said, "Devdas se pehle bhi humne kayi films ki. One 2 Ka Four kiya aur ek-do films aur. Par Devdas mein normal tha. Mere liye toh mera bhai tha, chhota bhai jo maine dekha. Wohi ladka jo maine dekha tha ki akele kone mein baitha hai. Role bhi waisa tha Devdas ka, aur main jaisa hoon waisa hi tha uske saath (We had done several films before Devdas, One 2 Ka Four and a couple of others. But on Devdas, he was the same. For me, he was still my younger brother. The same boy I had once seen sitting quietly in a corner. Even the role of Devdas suited that vibe. And I was the same with him as I always had been)," admiting that it's lonely at top.

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Shah Rukh and Jackie have collaborated in a number of movies including Trimurti, King Uncle, One 2 Ka 4, Devdas and Happy New Year among others. It is being speculated that Jackie and SRK will be teaming up once again in a film directed by Siddharth Anand, titled as King. Suhana Khan, Jaideep Ahlawat Saurabh Shukla also starred in the movie and it is said that Anil Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Deepika Padukone have also signed in for the movie. The movie is still at the production phase.

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