Often more glamorous than the celebs she interviewed on Simi Garewal with Rendezvous, few would believe that the star of movies like Mera Naam Joker and Karz, in fact, had her roots in the Bengali avant-garde classics like Padatik and Aranyer Din Ratri.
In the wake of Aryan Khan’s arrest in a drugs-related case on October 2 and the media circus that followed, a newsworthy clip from father Shah Rukh Khan’s older TV interview instantly went viral. This was truly what you’d call a ‘blast from the past.’ Or more accurately, ‘past that comes back to bite you.’ In the interview, King Khan, flanked by his gracious wife Gauri, is seen irreverently declaring that when Aryan turns “three or four years old he can run after girls… he can do drugs.” Young and reckless, SRK may have been simply working his charm but viewed today in the controversial light the clip was used in, you can’t see the humour as much as the horror.