Vishal Punjabi On Shah Rukh Khan: Shahrukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra have worked together in many films. But do you know that in the year 2007, both of them were going to be seen together in a film which could never be made. The reason for this has been revealed years later by film maker Vishal Punjabi. He has told that they were expelled from India.
In a recent interview given to Brown Game Strong YouTube channel, Vishal Punjabi said Shahrukh Khan He said- ‘In 2007, I was about to make a big Bollywood film. I had written the script with a friend of mine named Zoya Akhtar. She is a big director now, but at that time she was struggling to make her first film.’
Because of this Shahrukh-Priyanka’s film could not be made
Vishal further said- ‘Priyanka Chopra had said yes to my film, Shahrukh had said yes to my film. Me and Reema and Zoya were scolded about it and then I was thrown out of India because I did not have an OCI. I had a tourist visa and technically I was not allowed to work on a tourist visa. I was very stupid because I thought this is India, they will fix it.’
‘My case got worse because…’
The filmmaker further said, ‘I was fired and nobody could do anything. The fact that I worked with Shah Rukh made my case worse because he was under investigation. For some reason, the governments were not very kind to him, I think it has to do with his religion. It was a matter of regret for them too because I was in charge of many big projects for them. They tried every possible way to bring me back. I went through a very difficult time, but they tried very hard to bring me back.’
