Lehar Khan reminisced about the time she got the opportunity to work with Bollywood’s bigwigs: Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor.
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00:00He fixed my collar. He even like did a little bit with my hair and he would
00:05randomly be talking like swag. And I'm like okay. I have the most sweetest
00:11memory with Tandir. When I was looking at him it was my entire childhood like it
00:20was just going through like right in front of my eyes and I was like oh my
00:23like it's really happening he's really standing in front of me and and I am
00:28gonna like should soon be on screen with him. I think it was his way of
00:31breaking the ice or I don't know but he just hugged and he he gave a kiss on my
00:36forehead and and that was more than enough to be welcomed on set you know by
00:41by him like the man himself. That was the first scene I was having with him
00:45directly like the first shot in which it was a two shot of both of us and I was
00:50quite nervous because it was so right next to me and I was like I have to give
00:54my best performance. Everybody's talking about my collar being uneven and it was
00:58like a little but I had so many props that I was just a little uncomfortable
01:01to like do anything about it and the best thing was he just sweetly turned me
01:06he picked up all my props he fixed my collar he even like did a little bit
01:11with my hair and he's like okay. And for me it was like thank you thank you so
01:18much and he's like come on just focus on your shot. Don't worry. It's all good.
01:25Usually it's the other way around it's it's you give an audition and then you
01:29get a meeting with the director if you're shortlisted and then you get the
01:32film. With me I first got a meeting directly with Atlee sir and so I was
01:38called for a meeting and I knew that Atlee sir was making a film with Shah Rukh sir so it
01:42was quite in the news you know during those days. I just directly got a call
01:46from Mukesh sir's team and they told me that there's a meeting with Atlee sir
01:52at Red Chillies and I was like hold on what? Three days after that I got the call
01:58for audition. In the audition basically I had to you know do the Kalki's flashback.
02:03Next day I got a call from Mukesh sir saying that you got it and it was just
02:07like 24 hours I was being like okay thank you sir I was being very
02:10sophisticated I kept the call and then after keeping the call the actual side
02:15of me came out when I started jumping and I was like I'm working with Shah Rukh Khan!
02:23The first time I interacted with him was I just went directly I just touched his feet
02:27and I was like and he was like no, you can't touch a girl's feet and I was like no sir I really
02:31I it's just coming from a place where I can't explain you it just comes from so
02:35much of respect I want to enter by touching your feet and I'm glad that I'm
02:40getting to do that honestly he's the most fun person like the most amazing thing about him is
02:46that he wants to you know like know what is going on nowadays with the younger kids
02:52like he would he would know more short forms like even I don't know but he would be like
02:57and he would randomly be talking like swag and I'm like okay and he would randomly give me
03:03like this is the full-form layer where are you what time are you living in I know more than you
03:08like he had that childish energy in him that he's like what's going on tell me now
03:12and then he would just always get disappointed by the fact that you don't know anything
03:16why are you in this new gen Z
03:22for me getting a chance to work with him was also fangirling him a lot like
03:26oh my god that's Ranbir Kapoor okay so so uh you know so that was definitely in my mind and at
03:33the same time I think he's such a he's such a humble person the moment like he would remember
03:38things you know like if I met him in the schedule and we talked about something the next schedule
03:43he would just remember like that that's what we were talking about so what about your exams how
03:49were they and I was like you you don't really need to remember all of this but he was sweet
03:53enough to put in that effort I have the most sweetest memory with Ranbir that was that after
03:58the last schedule that I finished with him on that schedule we were talking about what are you
04:02planning because I was finishing my college and I was doing BA in film filmmaking and he's also
04:07done filmmaking so he was just talking about it and that we were just discussing and he was like
04:12do you want to you know like do you want to assist somebody should I should I give your name to
04:17someone and I was like yeah why not I mean it's a good experience after a month of that conversation
04:23I was in Gujarat and I got a message from Ranbir saying that there we couldn't finish
04:28that conversation but tomorrow I'm going to meet Anurag sir, Anurag Kashyap sir
04:33should I give you a name and I was like wait what it's been a month to that conversation
04:39he remembered and now he's really putting an effort to even do that
04:46now for me Jalpari in a way was a fun experience and more like a vacation because I was like okay
04:52you know I'm not going to school for a month I'm just going to this village we're going to shoot
04:56I'm meeting actors I'm going to chill so at that time I think the understanding of acting itself
05:03wasn't there because I was just 11 years old in school like I was like a little popular that way
05:08because everybody knew me that I am that girl who's in Jalpari and especially the nursery kids
05:13they would come to my basketball courts I used to play basketball and they used to come and they
05:19used to stand in a line and they used to wait and all they want is my autograph on their palm
05:24like small little little palms and they're like just here and I don't even know how to sign so I
05:28would just write leher I would make a heart I would make those smiley faces how teachers do that