There are many good directors in Bollywood who have given many hit movies but there are only two directors who have been given the title of “Showman”, the first one is Raj Kapoor and the second is Subhash Ghai.
Subhash Ghai started his career as an actor but he didn’t achieve much success and in 1976, he made his debut as a director with “Kalicharan”. He worked with almost all the big actors of his times including Dilip Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Rajkumar, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sanjay Dutt, Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, etc.
Recently, Subhash Ghai appeared in Arbaaz Khan’s podcast The Invincibles Series Season 2 in which he talked about his experience of working with Shah Rukh Khan. He also talked about the five types of actors and categorized Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor and Shatrughan Sinha as per his opinion.
During the podcast, Subhash Ghai revealed that he used to have differences with Shah Rukh Khan while working in “Pardes” (1997). He said, “Jaise maine Pardes mein Shah Rukh ke saath kaam kiya, uska aur mera man-mutav chalta rehta tha, tu-tu main-main chalti rahti thi… phir Karz (1980) ke baad maine socha jitney bhi current stars hai unke saath picture nahi banani hai agar picture asli banani hai (I used to have tiffs with Shah Rukh during Pardes. After Karz I thought I will not work with current stars if I want to make a good film).”
This is what he said about the types of actors, “Paanch kism ke actor hote hai sir. Ek hota hai non-actor, aur ek hota hai bad actor (There are five types of actors, one is non-actor and another is bad actor). Bad actor was Jackie Shroff. Actor is Anil Kapoor… joh overconfident the woh hamesha Shatrughan Sinha the. Shatrughan ka sabse bada problem tha ki woh time pe kabhi nahi pahuchta tha (Shatrughan was overconfident one and his biggest problem was that he never used to reach on time).”
Here is the teaser of the episode which was aired by the makers:
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Are you looking forward to the full episode to hear more of Subhash Ghai?
