• Rajkumar Hirani will collaborate with Khan for the first time.
• He mentioned Shah Rukh makes everyone around him happy.
• Shah Rukh has the entire script memorized in his mind.

In Dunki, director Rajkumar Hirani will collaborate with actor Shah Rukh Khan for the first time. He discussed his thoughts on the project. The director also described how the actor surprised him by showing up to the filming locations prepared and with a strong work ethic.

He also mentioned how Shah Rukh makes everyone around him happy, which made the director wish he had collaborated with him earlier in his career.

In a similar vein to Shah Rukh, Rajkumar is making a comeback in the movies. 2018 saw the release of his most recent movie, Sanju, a biopic of actor Sanjay Dutt. Together with co-writers Kanika Dhillon and Abhijat Joshi, Dunki also features Taapsee Pannu and Boman Irani.

Shah Rukh has the entire script memorised in his mind, despite the director’s previous claim that Dunki is ‘a very high-performance film with a lot of monologues and long scenes’  He continued by expressing how much he enjoyed working with the actor.

In a conversation with India Today, the director stated: “He shoots videos of a scene at his home and sends them to me. There will be 15 ways of how he is going to do this. Before I go on the set, I know what he is going to do.

Sometimes I have kept two days for a shoot and he finishes it in two hours. He’s a complete charmer and has great control over the language. He surprised me completely by coming at 7 am to shoot.”

He added, “He is also aware that I sleep early. Pooja [Dadlani] (Shah Rukh’s manager) tells him not to keep me up late. So, he calls me early. He keeps teasing me that by the time the shoot is done, he will have converted me. ‘Subah kaun uthta hai?’ (Who wakes up in the morning?) He keeps his team happy. They eat and party together. They are a big family for him. I wish I had worked earlier with him.”

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