EXCLUSIVE: Malavika Mohanan reveals being starstruck after meeting Shah Rukh Khan for the FIRST time on Don set: “I couldn’t get up from my chair”

Malavika Mohanan made her Bollywood debut with Siddhant Chaturvedi starrer Yudhra. Malavika hoped to emulate her father, K.U. Mohanan, as a cinematographer or as a director. She has since played the leading lady in the Malayalam thriller film The Great Father, and the Tamil action films Petta and Master. In an exclusive chat with Bollywood Bubble, Malavika Mohanan recalls her first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and remembers being starstruck.

Malavika Mohanan recalls her first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan

When asked about Malavika Mohanan’s first memories of the Hindi film industry, she shared her first encounter with Shah Rukh Khan. She said, “I believe it was when my dad was shooting Shah Rukh’s Don, not Don 2. They were shooting together and I am a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan, I mean who isn’t? And I wanted to see him, my father has worked in the industry but I have like, our family has been removed. We have never been part of the industry in that sense. We were in school, and we had our little community.”

Continuing the conversation, she said, “But we wanted to meet Shah Rukh, so Dad was like shoot late one night. That’s when we went to the film city in Mumbai. They were shooting the scene where Shah Rukh is holding the other Shah Rukh, the climax part. We didn’t know what sequence it was back then, and it was very late like 12- 1 am.”

Malavika Mohanan was nervous and overwhelmed

Malavika added, “My mother, brother and I were there waiting for them. But my brother and I were very sleepy I remember. We waited for an hour almost and someone said hello to me, and when I looked up it was Shah Rukh Sir. I was so nervous and overwhelmed just by looking at him, I could only say hello and couldn’t get up from my chair. I realised I was starstruck, and then he said what are you studying, how old are you, and then he also spoke to my family.”

In the same interview, the Yudhra actress said, “Later, my family scolded me saying Shah Rukh Khan came to say Hello to you and you couldn’t get up from your chair, that must have been rude, I was like no I wasn’t intending to be rude or anything. My legs had stopped functioning at that point which is why I couldn’t get up. That’s happened to me a few times in life, but yes I am a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan.”

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