Shah Rukh Khan, whose sole focus for decades has been Hindi cinema, maybe going to Hollywood or rather, he may be bringing Hollywood to India. According to multiple reports, Khan has said yes to Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour.
Shah Rukh Khan, whose sole focus for decades has been Hindi cinema, maybe going to Hollywood or rather, he may be bringing Hollywood to India. According to multiple reports, Khan has said yes to Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour. King Khan was in the United States recently where he emerged at a film festival in San Francisco and met with the Hollywood director, both onstage and off it. Ratner, who has directed the Rush Hour films and the mutant heavy X Men - The Last Stand, even danced with SRK on stage during a tribute talk at the festival.
Postscript it is being reported that Ratner will direct this film while Khan wants Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker to join him in the film and make the whole thing in India. This isn’t the first time Khan has been approached but it looks like this maybe the first time that SRK is actually considering such a production. Speaking to Hindustan Times about the matter, Khan noted, “He (Brett Ratner) asked me, ‘What role should I pen you in?’ And I said, ‘it can be whichever role and I’ll do it’. But we’ll see how things go. But one thing I did request him to do — whether it’s with me or not – is to get Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker to shoot in India because Rush Hour is all over the world. And it’s high time that such a wonderful and beautiful action-comedy film came to India. I’ll get involved in some way or the other. I’ll do the production for him if I am not acting.”
Hollywood’s interest in India is no longer a passing ship. While actors like Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra have entered mainstream consciousness with projects like XXX: Return of Xander Cage and Quantico respectively, the likes of Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have struck deals with Netflix so this is but natural progression. Time will tell just what role Khan will play in Rush Hour but as Bob Dylan once sang, the times, they are a-changin’.
