Tigmanshu Dhulia recalls making tea in microwave for Shah Rukh Khan in 1994: 'I think I made horrible...'

Actor and filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia recently recalled an incident of 1994 where he served ‘bohot ghatiya (very bad)’ tea to actor Shah Rukh Khan. The Gangs of Wasseypur & Zero star shared that at that time Shekhar Kapur was staying in Mumbai and had started working on a film starring Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, and Suniel Shetty. “Many films were started but later shelved.

One of them was Maut Se Jo Darte Nahin with Shah Rukh, Nasser Bhai, and Sunil Shetty...



Toh humne script likhna shuru kiya. Shah Rukh Shekhar ji ke flat mein bhi aaye the. Mujhe yaad hai, maine Shah Rukh ko chai banake pilayi thi (We started writing the script.

Shah Rukh also came to Shekhar’s flat. I remember making tea for Shah Rukh),” Dhulia recalled while talking to ANI. “Microwave mein banayi thi.

.. mujhe aata bhi nahi tha ki microwave kaise chalta hai.

Shekhar ji ne kaha, ‘Ja yaar, chai bana de.’ Pehli baar maine dekha tha ki microwave kaisa hota hai. Yeh main aapko 94 ki baat bata raha hoon.

Phir bhi mujhe lagta hai ki maine Shah Rukh ko bohot ghatiya chai banake pilayi hogi (I made it in microwave...

I didn’t know how to operate it. Shekhar said, ‘Go and make tea’. It was the first time I saw how a microwave looks.

I’m talking about ‘94. Still, I think I made horrible tea for Shah Rukh),” he added. Shah Rukh Khan and Tigmanshu Dhulia shared screen space in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, where the latter played SRK’s father.

On the professional front, Shah Rukh Khan is busy with King, which marks his reunion with Pathaan director Siddharth Anand. The film features Abhishek Bachchan and SRK’s daughter Suhana Khan in prominent roles and is expected to hit the screens in 2026. The film will roll in June 2025 and is will be filmed on a massive scale.

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