Dev Patel admits that this Shah Rukh Khan movie had a big impact on him: “I saw it when I was very little.”

Dev Patel admits that this Shah Rukh Khan movie had a big impact on him: “I saw it when I was very little.”

Dev Patel is a gigantic fan of Shah Rukh Khan. The Oscar candidate, who is doing the limited-time rounds for his directorial debut, Monkey Man, uncovered that a 1997 film featuring Shah Rukh Khan had a gigantic effect on him as a watcher. The film was Koyla, which was coordinated by Rakesh Roshan and featured Shah Rukh as a quiet character.

Speaking with Draw Your Box in a meet, a bit of which was transferred on X by fan pages, Dev shared his recollections of observing the film and how its pictures remained with him long after. He said, “I keep in mind a motion picture. You know, I do not indeed keep in mind the plot as well, since I observed it when I was truly youthful, but it was Shah Rukh Khan and this motion picture, Koyla. And he was like, at these ruddy eyes, he was soaked in sweat, and he had this, like, kind of mullet hairstyle and this sword, and it was like, you know, a brutal exact retribution epic where he’d misplaced his voice by being constrained to swallow hot coals, and it was like, it’s kind of got it all. It’s kind of, you know, like me in a way.

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My character is kind of shaped by all of these influences.” It featured Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, and Amrish Puri in lead roles. If this is not verification sufficient of Dev’s love for the Bollywood star, he had specified Shah Rukh’s movies a few days prior amid a fan interaction. It was during the later Reddit AMA session that a fan inquired, “What are your favorite Bollywood movies? Any of them rouse your writing or direction for Monkey Man?” To this, Dev answered, “Anything Shah Rukh Khan does.” Monkey Man stars Dev in the lead, along with Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, and Makarand Deshpande, among others. The official summation of the film reads, “After a long time of smothered seethe, Kid finds a way to invade the enclave of the city’s vile first class. As his childhood injury bubbles over, his bafflingly scarred hands unleash a dangerous campaign of revenge to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.”