Main Hoon Na, the Bollywood cult, which featured Shah Rukh Khan, Zayed Khan, Sushmita Sen, Suniel Shetty, Amrita Rao and many other actors, was released nearly two decades ago, in 2004. Zayed Khan played Lucky, Ram’s rebellious half-brother and college heartthrob, opposite Amrita Rao’s Sanjana. The Main Hoon Na star, Zayed Khan, recently shared how he was never a part of the legendary movie and how just one meeting with Shah Rukh Khan got him the role.
Zayed Khan talked about his ‘popular story’ during an interview with Siddharth Kannan for Brut India and said, “Yaar, I think people know this story, but I was really lucky because the role was first given to Hrithik, and nothing happened there. Then the role was offered to Sohail Khan, but it didn’t stick there either. Then the role was offered to Abhishek (Bachchan), it didn’t stick there either. I don’t know what happened.”
Further, Zayed revealed that he had called Farah Khan, the director of Main Hoon Na, to ask her to choreograph a song from another movie. “I wanted her to choreograph Mohabbat Hai Mirchi, then she tells me ‘Where are you?’ I said, ‘I’m here.’ Then she’s like ‘Meet me in my office right now,’” he recounted. Zayed added, “I’m already on Cloud 9, I got dressed and went, and I walked into Shah Rukh’s office. And I’m looking around and thinking that this does not look like Farah’s office because there are only Shah Rukh’s pics everywhere, and I’m thinking what is Shah Rukh’s connection to Mohabbat Hai Mirchi.”
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Zayed Khan expressed that he was still confused and directly asked his friend Farah whether she will be doing the song for him or not. He revealed, “So I said, ‘Farah sun, are we doing the song?’ and she said, ‘Just shut up, Shah Rukh is coming and he wants to talk to you.’” The actor talked about his love for SRK and said, “I’ve been a big fan of Shah Rukh. When we were in boarding school, we used to stand in line at Natraj Cinema, Suicide Alley meh, to see his films.”
“Shah Rukh was so sweet. He comes with his aura and his charm. He said, ‘Zayed, you don’t listen to how she says, but we are making a film and we are considering you as the second lead of the film.’ So my heart stopped for a minute and I was like, what the hell is happening out here. He asked me, ‘Just one question… can you act?’ And then I looked at him and said, ‘I was born to act’. I think he was very amused by my answer,” the actor expressed. Zayed summed it up perfectly: “It was a pretty filmy moment.”