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Updated On: 08 May, 2026 07:40 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team
At Kartavya’s trailer launch, Saif Ali Khan revealed Shah Rukh Khan personally approached him for the film under Red Chillies Entertainment. Saif said SRK praised the script and later called the completed crime drama a lovely film

Saif Ali Khan. Pic/Yogen Shah; (right) Shah Rukh Khan. Pic/PTI
Make some noise for the boys
Actor Saif Ali Khan is set for his next project, ‘Kartavya’, backed by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment. At the trailer launch of the film in Mumbai on May 7, Saif opened up about how SRK approached him for the project. Saif said, “I had a short meeting with him. He said that there’s a lovely script and he would like me to hear it and do the film. Once we finished the shoot and Shah Rukh watched it, he said it’s a lovely film. He’s very happy with it.” The crime drama also stars Rasika Dugal and Sanjay Mishra.
Magic from the past
Saif Ali Khan and Shah Rukh Khan starred together in ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ (2003), directed by Nikkhil Advani. In the romantic drama, SRK played Aman Mathur, a cheerful man hiding a terminal illness, while Saif essayed Rohit Patel, Aman’s best friend who falls in love with Naina, played by Preity Zinta. The film went on to become one of the most loved Bollywood dramas of the 2000s.
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