‘Your son looks just like a monkey’ | ‘Your son looks exactly like a monkey’: The actress of the army said to Shahrukh’s mother; Roll was found in the show due to poor look

Shah Rukh Khan was a popular face of TV before becoming a star in Bollywood. He starred in the television serial ‘Fauji’ in 1988. Amina Sherwani, who played the role of Kiran Kochhar in ‘Fauji’, recently said that Shah Rukh had actually got a role due to his bad look. But in Sheeba Podcast, Amina said that Shah Rukh was never to come on the show, but things changed after his talk to her mother.

She remembers and says- ‘Her mother called me. Latif Fatima … she was a very good woman. He told me that if you are casting for the military, then I have a very handsome son. I told him that if your son is handsome then he has no chance. Because the film industry of our India is special that our women have to be very beautiful, to become an actress.

But the boy is like a monkey, our Dilip Kumar. If you feel like a giraffe, our Amitabh Bachchan ji. If it sounds like a chhokre, as Rajesh Khanna. If there is handsome like Vishwajit, then nothing will happen. So if your son is handsome, then make him some more career. If his face is like a monkey, a horse, then send it. He then said that my child is very handsome. Then I told him that do not waste aunt’s time. Then he said that well I am sending him.

Shahrukh Khan with his co-actor in army (Amina Sherwani in Green Suit)

Amina further states- ‘She sent Shahrukh. As soon as I saw Shahrukh called the aunt and said that your son’s face is exactly like a monkey. It can become a very successful hero. On this, Shah Rukh’s mother told me that the beware who called my child a monkey. Then I explained that his face is an expressive like monkeys. Who told you that the appearance of monkeys is not good.

Amina says that after listening to her words, Shah Rukh immediately turned back and said that you look like Bandaria. I told him that I am at all but I am a woman. I can never successfully in the film line. Women have to feel exactly like dolls.

Please tell that Shah Rukh started working in TV after doing theater. In 1988, the article Tandon’s television series ‘Dil Darya’ was Shah Rukh Khan’s first TV show but due to the delay in production, Raj Kumar Kapoor’s series ‘Fauji’ became his TV debut. After this, he was also acted in Aziz Mirza’s television series ‘Circus’ and Mani Kaul’s mini series ‘Idiot’.

Apart from this, Shah Rukh also played small roles in the serials ‘Asha’ and ‘Wagle Ki Duniya’. He also played a small role in the English -language television film ‘In Witch Annie Gives It Doz Once’. After working on TV for two years, Shah Rukh decided to work in films and then he moved from Delhi to Mumbai.