Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has fond memories of his early collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan and Manoj Bajpayee, calling them rare talents.
He said, “Shah Rukh is a rare bird. He is an actor who is inexhaustible. He’s one actor on the set you can say, ‘Do it once again’. And he never gets tired. He has that abundant energy that will dazzle you and he genuinely has a king’s heart. I’m the only person who’s made two flops with Shah Rukh in his heyday. But irrespective of the box office, his relationship with me only got warmer and deeper. He has a gaze towards life, which is beyond the box office because movies are a part of our lives, they’re not our entire life. Manoj always wanted to be much more than what was being offered to him and I laid my eyes on him in Swabhiman. Then he made his foray