Not Anil Kapoor, Shahrukh was the hero of ‘Nayak’, he/she signed it for Rs 1, told where things went wrong

Do you know that initially Shahrukh Khan and not Anil Kapoor was the hero of the film ‘Nayak’? Shahrukh had even signed this film and had taken only one rupee as fee. Then what happened that Shahrukh left this film and Anil Kapoor became the ‘Nayak’? Shahrukh himself revealed this in an interview. Rani Mukherjee and Amrish Puri were also in the film. ‘Nayak’ was released in the year 2001, which was a political thriller and it was directed by Shankar. It was the Hindi remake of his/her Tamil film Mudhalvan released in the year 1999. The story was about a TV presenter, who is given the challenge of becoming the Chief Minister for a day. In that one day, that TV presenter changes everything by becoming the Chief Minister. This film was a flop when it was released, but later it was praised a lot on TV and became a cult movie.

Shahrukh Khan signed ‘Nayak’ for Rs 1

Shah Rukh Khan had told in an interview to ‘Rediff’ that he/she had signed ‘Nayak’, but things did not work out. Shah Rukh had also told that he/she was ready to give a lot of dates to the director at once and had taken only one rupee as fee. Shah Rukh had said, ‘Did he/she (Shankar) also tell you that I signed for him/her and took a signing amount? Do you know how much? One rupee. I took one rupee from him/her and told him/her that whenever he/she wants, I will give him/her dates in bulk.’

Because of this, things went wrong and Shahrukh did not do ‘Nayak’

Shahrukh further said, ‘But I saw the original Tamil film and I liked it very much. But I was not comfortable doing the Hindi version. I told Shankar that in the Tamil version, the thing about Chief Minister for a day worked brilliantly, but I did not think it was such a big issue in North India. I did not think the concept would work like this. So, we had some issues with that film (Nayak). Nothing big, just we did not think the same on some things, so there was no point in doing it.’

Shahrukh still has the signing amount, wants to work together

Shah Rukh then added, ‘But I still have that signing amount. he/she still has my promise of dates. he/she is someone I definitely want to work with. For me, he/she is like James Cameron. he/she makes big-scale entertaining films and things like that can be huge.’

Shahrukh and Shankar were also going to work together in ‘Robot’

Interestingly, Shah Rukh and Shankar were supposed to work together again for the film ‘Enthiran’ (Robot), but due to creative differences, they could not do this film as well. Shankar had approached Shah Rukh last year for a script, but nothing happened on that film as well. Shah Rukh will now be seen in the film ‘The King’, which he/she is shooting for. It also stars his/her daughter Suhana Khan.