TIL Desk Bollywood/ His glorious 25-year run in the film industry may suggest that Shah Rukh Khan has a meticulous process of choosing his projects but the superstar says his lone requirement to get onboard a film has always been to find a connect with the filmmaker.
“I don’t connect to stories, I just connect to people. Ashutosh (Gowariker) is a friend, he made ‘Lagaan’, I could have gone ahead with it but I chose ‘Swades’. I didn’t choose the film, I chose him because of his feeling of wanting to make ‘Swades’.
“People think ‘I will make a film with him because he will make a superhit’. It is not like that, I never ever listen to stories and people think I am lying when I say it, but I am not,” Shah Rukh told in an interview.
The actor says director Aanand L Rai, with whom he is collaborating next, wants to narrate him the script of the film but he has declined. SRK believes it is an inconsequential exercise since he connected with Rai already and does not need to hear the story.