There are no two ways that the year 2023 belonged to Shah Rukh Khan, the superstar gave three back to back hits in Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki. While he faced no issues during the release of Pathaan and Jawan, things got a bit tricky during the release of Dunki on Christmas weekend, as it ended up clashing with
Prashanth Neel
, Prabhas and Prithviraj’s
Salaar: Part 1- Ceasefire
.
However, not many are aware that the Christmas weekend was first booked by
Vashu Bhagnani
for his Ali Abbas Zafar directed film
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
with
Akshay Kumar
and
Tiger Shroff
.
We at ETimes have exclusively learnt that last year, Vashu Bhagnani and Ali Abbas Zafar got on a call with Shah Rukh Khan. Our sources reveal that the legendary producer of films like Coolie No.1 , Hero No. 1 etc, made a call to Shah Rukh Khan sometime last year, to ask if he would surely release his film during Christmas. If not, then Vashu will release the Akshay starrer on Christmas, else on Eid next year (2024). However, King Khan assured him that he will surely release his movie during Christmas.Khan even assured Bhagnani that if he misses December date, he would not come on Eid to clash with his film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.
In fact, our source also revealed that the call which lasted for 30 minutes, had all three of them discussing many things under the sun , including a possibility of doing a collaboration at some point in future.