‘Shah Rukh Khan held my hand and kissed it, Salman Khan praised me so much that I was in tears’: Siddhant Chaturvedi

Siddhant Chaturvedi shared the story behind his first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.

Actor Siddhant Chaturvedi, who was recently seen in the action film Yudhra, was taken by surprise during his first meeting with Shah Rukh Khan. In a recent interview, Siddhant recalled the interaction, and said that after the success of his breakout film Gully Boy, he was at a party at director Zoya Akhtar’s house when somebody grabbed his hand. When he turned around, they kissed his hand and praised him. “It was Shah Rukh Khan,” he recalled in a chat with Mashable India.

Siddhant shared, “I was at Zoya’s house and someone held my hand. I turned around and they kissed my hand, and said ‘You have done such great work.’ It was Shah Rukh Khan. And I was like… this was the first time I was seeing him in person.” Siddhant also recalled another incident, when he bumped into the star at a restaurant, after which Shah Rukh invited him and his friends to his house, Mannat. “I was just chilling at Soho house with a few friends. Shah Rukh sir was there and my friends said, ‘Please take us to him to say hello’. He asked, ‘What are you doing later?’ I said ‘nothing’ so he invited me to his home, Mannat. I told him that I am with friends, so he invited them too,” he recalled, and quoted Shah Rukh as saying, “Voh launde hain toh hum bhi jawan hain.”

Siddhant also recalled when Salman Khan’s praise left him in tears. It was during Bigg Boss, when Siddhant was promoting his film Bunty Aur Babli 2. As soon as he went up on stage, he started crying. He shared, “I went up on stage and I started crying because before going on the stage he said, ‘He does such good work’, and he praised me a lot. At one point, he wasn’t even telling me directly that I do good work, he was telling Rani Mukerji that he will go ahead in life. So that thing really touched me.”

Talking about meeting his idols, Siddhant shared that he was also very touched when he received a letter from Amitabh Bachchan, praising his performance after Gully Boy. “Bachchan saab sent me a letter after Gully Boy. That was also very special for me,” he shared.

Siddhant’s film Yudhra did not work at the box office. He will next be seen in Dharma Productions’ Dhadak 2, which also stars Triptii Dimri.