When Jawan’s “hacker” and Shah Rukh Khan bonded over chaat

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“The ice broke between us because…” Jawan actor Sanjeeta Bhattacharya talked about what she had in common with Shah Rukh Khan.

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00:00He greeted us with like hugs and like forehead kisses.

00:06I didn't notice him until suddenly I spotted like a guy in a red t-shirt and I was like

00:12holy s**t that's MS Dhoni.

00:14He brought in a guitar and a mic on set for me to play and sing and he was like, gaa ke

00:20sunao.

00:21Yeah, so the first day when I met Shahrukh Sir on set was actually on a set in Film City

00:35when we were shooting the Metro heist sequence and everyone was on edge you know they were

00:42all like Shahrukh Sir's gonna come, Shahrukh Sir's gonna come and I didn't know what to

00:45expect because of course I knew of Shahrukh Khan as the icon, the star but never knew

00:53what he is like the man himself you know.

00:56Of course I'd heard amazing things like he's charming, he's witty, he's spontaneous, I've

01:01seen his interviews, I found him to be very very funny and intelligent but once he walked

01:11on to set he saw us and you know the six he greeted us with like hugs and like forehead

01:18kisses and that immediately melted any you know intimidation.

01:25The ice broke between the two of us because he asked me where I am from and so I said

01:31Delhi and that's when we started talking like you know he said oh I'm from Delhi too, where

01:37in Delhi are you from?

01:39I said Rajendra Nagar and he's like oh my gosh I grew up in the same you know locality

01:45and then we spoke about chaat, we spoke about coffee, he got to know that I'm a musician

01:51and the next day he brought in a guitar and a mic on set for me to play and sing and he

01:57was like Ga Ke Sunao you know and that Ga Ke Sunao moment was ice-breaking for everyone

02:04involved.

02:05Yeah it was I think my fifth or sixth ad was with MS Dhoni.

02:13I didn't know that it was going to be with him until I reached set.

02:16When I saw him in the room I honestly like there were so many people in the room I didn't

02:21notice him until suddenly I spotted like a guy in a red t-shirt and I was like holy sh**

02:27that's MS Dhoni.

02:28I unfortunately don't know much about sports at all so I didn't have much to say to him

02:33about cricket or anything so someone had told me that apparently he grows strawberries

02:40in his hometown so that's what that was my first question to him.

02:43I asked so how are the strawberry like how's the strawberry farming going and he's like

02:48interesting that you know it's going really well actually we're exporting now and stuff

02:52like that so he's not talking about that so anything other than sports is what we spoke

02:57of and he's very humble and he's very easy to speak with just like Shahrukh sir.

03:04DMs are flooded, followers have shot up, my like people that I had no you know connection

03:15with for the for the last like decade or so are reconnecting with me they're like we've

03:20seen you in this we're so proud of you.

03:23It is so heartwarming to like know that my school friends and my teachers and everybody

03:28have seen the film have spotted me and a lot of people are saying Helena the hacker

03:34of hearts so that's that's really cute.

03:41Berklee Indian Ensemble performed a concert called A.R. Rahman meets Berklee in the year

03:482015 at the Boston Symphony Hall that the video of that entire concert split into 16

03:55parts went viral all over the country as well as the rest of the world you know so

04:01when I came back to India after college people would recognize me on the metro or on a trek

04:07or you know randomly they'd be like oh you're that girl from the video you know so it really

04:13was huge.

04:18I honestly never thought that I would act I never took lessons in acting I'm not trying

04:23to brag about that I'm just it's just a fact basically said why not you know if I'm if

04:28someone's asking me I just was like it's the middle of the pandemic I'm not doing much

04:33yeah I'll give it a go.

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