Last Updated:December 12, 2025, 12:46 IST

Preeti said that both Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan were extremely approachable and kind.

The film was released in 2000.

Preeti Jhangiani made her Bollywood debut with Yash Raj Films’ Mohabbatein in 2000. She worked alongside stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in her very first film and left a memorable impression on the audience. Years later, in a recent chat with The Fress Press Journal, she recalled what it was like to work with the two stalwarts.

Preeti said, “Absolutely no distinction between anybody on the set. Everybody received exactly the same thing. There were many other actors in the film, and in fact, Mr Shah Rukh Khan and Mr Amitabh Bachchan themselves are so humble. They don’t let you feel that you’re talking to a big superstar. They’re so down-to-earth. I remember Shah Rukh sitting on the floor with a spot boy and chatting with him about his life and everything. I remember he was just sitting there and chatting with him.”

She added, “Nobody had a chair with their name on it or anything. There was no such thing. Later on, with other stars that this happened and when I saw it, and I said, ‘Oh my God.’ So that showbaazi is something that people who need to show it, show it. But in Yash Raj, they don’t need to do that, and I don’t think anybody feels the need to do that either. And I really liked that because I came from a school of thought and a kind of place where all of this was not appreciated, and I didn’t like it.”

“I never liked this whole idea of having my spot boy stand over me and offer me and my mom juice. We were so uncomfortable with that whole side of it till we realised that this is what people expect and this is what they do on the set. I come from a different school of thought. I was born and brought up in Mumbai, and till date, I don’t appreciate that kind of thing that people expect you to do,” the actress mentioned.

“I was very chill with Mr Bachchan and with Shah Rukh Khan as well. I think they’re very charming. They’re so lovely and easy to talk to that they put you at ease. I obviously must have felt a little bit in awe. And of course, I was very young, and I was painfully shy also. I was very, very shy in general. But I always remember them as being very magnanimous and very humble and very easy to talk to and approach. It wasn’t hard to approach them. They didn’t have, like, a plethora of people around them, which I did see with other actors later on,” the actress concluded.

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