The 2 residing legends of the leisure business Shah Rukh Khan, who’ve labored collectively in movies like Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Brahmastra: Half 1 Shiva and others, just lately got here collectively for an advert shoot of a spice model.
The commercial was directed by the proficient filmmaker R Balki. It was for the primary time that Massive B and SRK had come collectively for a industrial and the mastermind behind it was Balki himself.
“The client had signed Amitabh and Shah Rukh for different parts of the portfolio, and they have many products. They wanted an idea, and I said the best is to get both of them together! I spoke to Amit ji and Shah Rukh and we discussed the scripts over the phone. On set, they were behaving like kids! Pulling each other’s legs, having a ball. One full day we had a blast! We shot five ads for 12 hours, from 2 in the noon till night!” stated Balki in an interview with Indianexpress.com.
The Shamitabh helmer additionally shared that he was snug with each the celebs as he labored with them earlier than. “I don’t suppose Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan realise how iconic it was after they had been taking pictures! Throughout one of many advertisements, I advised them that they need to simply run in direction of the digital camera! The slow-motion working shot. Amit ji joked, ‘Ok, how many kilometres do you want me to run?’
“Both of them are great runners and in slow motion I knew they’d look fantastic! It was also a dream moment because I wanted them together in Shamitabh. The film was called that because of ‘Shah’ Rukh and Ami’Tabh’. That didn’t happen due to various things in life, but this happened finally,” he added.
On the skilled entrance, R Balki’s latest launch Ghoomer that includes Abhishek Bachchan and Saiyami Kher garnered accolades from followers. It additionally had a cameo of Amitabh Bachchan.