When Nana Patekar became Shahrukh Khan’s ‘Messiah’, he angrily reached the journalist’s house with a sword and got ‘King Khan’ out of jail.


Bollywood’s ‘King Khan’ i.e. Shah Rukh Khan may be at the pinnacle of the film industry today and has millions of fans all over the world, but one such incident from his early days is going viral on social media these days, which everyone is surprised to know about. After the demise of veteran actor Nana Patekar, this old memoir related to Shahrukh Khan has come into discussion. Very few people know that at the beginning of his career, when Shahrukh Khan was stuck in a serious legal trouble, the veteran Hindi cinema actor Nana Patekar had helped him by becoming a messiah and got him out of jail.

When newly minted Shahrukh Khan got angry at the journalist

This incident happened in the early 1990s, when Shahrukh Khan was making new steps in Mumbai and the film industry and recently he was married to Gauri Khan. During an interview, Shahrukh Khan himself, while referring to this old incident, had said that a magazine had published an objectionable and false article about the relationship between him and a co-star. His wife Gauri Khan became very hurt and upset by this news, after which Shahrukh got extremely angry. Enraged, he decided to settle his score with the journalist and went straight to the journalist’s house with a ceremonial sword given to him by his father-in-law at the wedding.

The actor who arrived with a sword had to go to jail

Accepting his mistake, Shahrukh Khan, recalling that incident, had said, ‘I had behaved very badly then and I had to face the consequences, due to which I had to go to jail.’ He further told that his father-in-law is an army officer, who gave him that traditional sword to protect his daughter. Although no one had said anything to Gauri, at that time she felt that it was a right step. They went to the journalist’s house and threatened people and during this, a young man also got injured on his leg. Later, when he was shooting for his film ‘Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na’, the police reached the set and took him into custody. Due to the onset of evening, he could not get bail immediately.

This is how Nana Patekar came forward and saved the situation.

Actor Nana Patekar came forward to help Shahrukh Khan in that difficult time of police custody and jail. Shahrukh told that since the matter was serious and the normal courts were closed due to the weekend, Nana Patekar used his wisdom and influence to get his bail through the weekend court and got him out of jail. Shahrukh admitted that that incident taught him a big lesson in life and from then till today he has learned to control his anger. In later years, the two actors always maintained a very respectful and loving relationship, and Nana Patekar has openly praised Shahrukh’s simplicity and success on several occasions.