Mumbai: Actor Raghav Juyal, who was most recently seen in Aryan Khan’s directorial debut ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’, shared his experience of entering Shah Rukh Khan’s iconic Mannat for the first time, and it was anything but ordinary.
“The first time I entered Mannat, there was a scanner like the ones at the airport. I had to go through it because people were like, ‘Who is this guy? Has someone come to find work’?” Raghav told NDTV.
“By mistake, I asked Aryan which was his room. Then I realised, this is Shah Rukh Khan’s house — you don’t have rooms here, you have full floors. Aryan just laughed and said, ‘Come, let’s go up.’ We sat there and jammed, and later went out for dinner with his friends,” Raghav added.
Recalling his mother’s reaction on learning about his visit to Mannat, Raghav said, “I told her, ‘Mummy, I just came from Mannat.’ She got so excited and started asking, ‘How is it from inside? How is their bathroom? Did you see the library?’ I had to tell her, ‘Mummy, I didn’t go there as a broker, please relax!’”
Admitting that he comes from a family of Shah Rukh Khan fans, the actor said, “It’s a huge deal for me. I’m a jabra, diehard fan.”
Earlier, in an interview with SCREEN, Raghav had said, “All of us are fans, but I proudly claim I’m his biggest fan. I even belong to a family of SRKians. We’ve been making his fan accounts since Orkut days. Whenever I’ve worked with him, I’ve always felt it’s a surreal dream. This time was no different. I’m sure this will keep happening again and again.”
On the work front, Raghav is reportedly a part of Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming movie ‘King’.
“My first meeting with Shah Rukh sir was years ago when I did a dance in Happy New Year (2014). Then I used to keep meeting him in the shows I hosted. But this was the first time I was in direct contact with Aryan. I was selected after an audition, and the rest is history,” Raghav shared.