Shahrukh played the role of a gay college student in a film 35 years ago, the film won the National Award, video goes viral

These days people call Shahrukh Khan the biggest superstar of India. Shahrukh, who gave two record-breaking blockbusters to Bollywood last year, rules the big screen and the hearts of the people today. But he started his career in acting with a lot of struggle.

Shahrukh, who was launched in the industry as a lead hero with ‘Deewana’ released in 1992, had earlier played many small roles. Now the video of one such early film of Shahrukh is going viral on social media.

When Shahrukh became a gay college student on the big screen
Even today there are many things about superstar Shah Rukh Khan that many people do not know. Do you know that Shah Rukh played the supporting character of a gay college student in a National Award winning film?

A video clip of the 1989 English TV film ‘In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones’ is going viral on social media platforms. In this video, Shahrukh is seen in the role of a college student. In the film, he played the role of senior to the lead characters Arjun Raina and Arundhati Roy. His character was gay in this film.

The writer of ‘In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones’ was the famous author Arundhati Roy and she also acted in the film. And Arundhati’s ex-husband Pradeep Kishore directed this film. This film received two National Awards.

Apart from Shahrukh, actors like Roshan Seth, Rituraj Singh and Manoj Bajpayee were also in supporting roles in the film. All of them later became big names in the film industry. A year before this film, he made his acting debut in the TV serial ‘Fauji’. Apart from these two, Shahrukh did small roles in many projects like ‘Umeed’, ‘Wagle Ki Duniya’, ‘Dil Dariya’, ‘Mahaan Karz’ and ‘Idiot’. The TV show ‘Circus’ brought a lot of popularity to Shahrukh, after which he started getting film offers.

Shahrukh was not afraid of changing his gender on screen
Right from the beginning of his career, SRK never shied away from taking risks and in the 90s, experimenting with the gender of his characters was a big deal. While SRK played the role of a gay college student in Pradeep Kishore’s film, he was also very excited to play the role of a transgender in Kalpana Lajmi’s film ‘Darmiyan’ (1997). He called Kalpana herself and expressed his desire to do this role.

Shahrukh himself told in an interview that at that time he had become a big star and used to do four films a year. Therefore, he was not able to manage time according to Kalpana Lajmi.

Shahrukh had told, ‘She came to meet me, she thought I was capable. She told me the story and everything was fixed that we will do it. But I requested her only one thing, because I will do this film out of turn, I normally do four films in a year. I said you just start it in September, this is my request to you. I am not requesting you for any other money. I want to do the role, if you think I can do it. If you wait till September, I will give you seven days. So she said okay.’ But this game of time could not be managed and Arif Zakaria played this character instead of Shahrukh.