Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan is on a rampage breaking records at the Box office one after another. The much-anticipated spy-thriller has brought in a breath of fresh air in Bollywood and it’s indeed a grand celebration for SRK fans. While industry peers have heaped praise on the ‘Pathaan’ makers for their huge success recently Neha Dhupia revisited an old statement of her when Neha’s bold film Julie was released in 2014. Back then she had claimed ‘either sex sells or Shah Rukh Khan’ and it raised quite a few eyebrows at that time.
On Saturday, Neha Dhupia came up with a hilarious tweet when responding to one of the Twitterati’s comment on ‘Pathaan’s box office collection. The user quoted Neha Dhupia and wrote, “Almost 2 decade back @NehaDhupia had given a statement ‘only sex or #ShahRukhKhan sells ‘ and that stays true even today!” Neha Dhupia was quick to react to this as she responded, “20 years on, my statement rings true. This is not an “actor’s career” but a “King’s reign”! #KingKhan @iamsrk !”
For the unversed, the actress made this comment back in 2004 when her film ‘Julie’ also starring Priyanshu Chatterjee and Sanjay Kapoor was released. She played the role of a sex-worker in the film which made headlines for the way the love-making scenes were shot in the film. She had told in an interview, “Julie has love-making scenes and shots exposing my bare back… I’m not affected by the sex symbol tag. It doesn’t bother me if people say I have overshadowed Mallika Sherawat and Bipasha Basu by exposing in Julie. In today’s time, either sex sells or Shah Rukh Khan. So I would rather be a sex prop in my next five films.”
Neha had earlier reviewed Pathaan after watching it on the big screen on Republic Day. She wrote on her Twitter handle, “iamsrk The love we have for you is hard to explain. @deepikapadukone u set the screen on fire with ur gaze n ur kicks and tricks #JohnAbraham u make bad look so good! @BeingSalmanKhan we would go back to the cinemas to watch the best cameo in history #pathan is here to stay!!!”
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