Gulshan Grover Gives Credit To Shah Rukh Khan For His Hollywood Career!

Gulshan Grover has always been the ‘Bad Man’ of Bollywood. He is one of the most iconic villains that this industry has come across. Recently, he also released his autobiography and revealed many anecdotes from his life that had helped him become who he is today.

Well, there is one anecdote about his life which he says he could not add in his book. He said that he owes his Hollywood career to none other than King Khan, Shah Rukh Khan.

Talking about how he landed a role in The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo in 1997, Gulshan Grover revealed that he was shooting for Aziz Mirza’s Yes Boss when he was approached for the role of the main antagonist. He was worried that the repercussions of leaving Yes Boss in the middle would not be good. But it was Shah Rukh who reassured that he will take care of everything and that Grover should listen to his heart.

“Shah Rukh and I were working in director Aziz Mirza’s movie Yes Boss (1997) and that time, I had got selected for a Hollywood movie The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) to play the main antagonist. It was the final call for me to come to Hollywood and sign the film. I was in a big dilemma and before turning down the offer, I went to Shah Rukh and made him read the script. He insisted that I should take the first flight to Hollywood. I was so scared thinking the director would sue me for doing this or cut my salary for making the loss. But Shah Rukh said, ‘Tu ja, agar tereko kisika phone aaya bhi, you come and catch me. I will handle the situation here. You go my friend, sign this film and make us proud.”

In fact, after he had finished shooting for the film and returned to India, he was worried that Aziz Mirza would be angry at him. But thankfully, nothing of that sort happened. “I thought Aziz sir would be very angry with me and might take a drastic step against me. But to my utter surprise, he didn’t say anything. He was happy that I was back and asked me to resume the shooting,” the actor quipped.

Gulshan Grover has been a part of a number of Hollywood films like Beeper (2002), Blind Ambition (2008), Desperate Endeavours (2011) and Prisoners Of The Sun (2013). But he gives credit to SRK for kickstarting his career in the West. 

“I owe my Hollywood career to Shah Rukh Khan. He gave wings to my dreams. If he would not have pushed me that night to take the first flight for Hollywood, this would not have happened.”

Gulshan Grover will next be seen in Mogul and Sadak 2 in Bollywood.