Rohit Shetty Denies Alleged Fight With Shah Rukh Khan, Comments on End of Khan Era in Bollywood

Rohit was asked in a recent interview about his take on the current thought doing the rounds among Bollywood lovers that the era of Khans has now ended

Despite having worked with Shah Rukh Khan in his blockbuster Chennai Express, director Rohit Shetty was rumoured to be on ill terms with King Khan. The duo’s 2015 release, Dilwale, starring Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon alongside SRK, underperformed and the Box Office which sprouted this rumour of a rift between the two. In the heat of this speculation, Rohit was asked in a recent interview about his take on the current thought doing the rounds among Bollywood lovers that the era of Khans has now ended given Salman Khan‘s Race 3, Aamir Khan‘s Thugs of Hindostan and SRK’s Zero all failed to impress fans and Box Office alike.

Speaking on this, Rohit, who is currently reeling in the colossal success of his this year’s release Simmba, said, “It depends on the film- whether they work or they don’t work. Last year when I was making Golmaal Again, people said commercial films are not going to work because Tubelight had not done well. Golmaal Again came, Judwa 2 came, everyone forgot that. After Tubelight, Salman has given Tiger Zinda Hai but people completely forgot that and now just because a film… and it happens with the industry and the media that if a film doesn’t do well, they have to write something to keep their websites going even though the audience is not thinking that way.”

Rohit elaborated on the last point and said that people will not read celeb articles if they mentioned only good things about the stars or their achievements only hence, media writes that they are not going to do well or they are finished but it’s nothing like this. Citing the example from last year where after Salman’s Tubelight underperformed, Salma’s Tiger Zinda Hai ruled the Box Office, Rohit said, “Just because a film doesn’t do well it doesn’t mean that their time is over. A film works or a film doesn’t work. It happens to the directors and the story. So it’s nothing like their era is over. That is never going to happen. Nobody is going to get over.”

Considering that Amitabh Bachchan is still considered a superstar, despite some flop movies, Rohit brushed aside the Khan rumour as a talking point. “They’ve worked for 30-40 years for god sake whether it is Shah Rukh, whether it is Salman, whether it is Aamir. Just because one film has not done well, you can’t write them off. They have 30 years of hard work, they are here to stay and they will be here till the time they are alive and working. It’s just that their genres, presentations, characters will change but it’s not that they are over or they are done. That’s never going to happen. When Salman Khan’s next film will do well, Aamir Khan’s film will do well, Shah Rukh’s film will do well, everyone will be like ‘Khans are back’ and people will get another article to write on. They (the Khan superstars) are there. They have not gone anywhere for god’s sake,” asserted Rohit.