Rajkumar Rao has always spoken of how much of a big fan he is of SRK. However, with that, the finest actor of Bollywood was once thrashed by 25 college boys in his college, and which too had an SRK connection.
Rajkumar Rao, all inspired by SRK’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, fell in love with a girl at his college (Class 11), however, the girl already had a boyfriend then. In a chat show with East India Comedy, EIC Vs Bollywood, the actor revealed the incident.
He said, “I moved to this new, really modern, fancy, Blue Bells school in Gurgaon and I was big, I’m still a big fan of Shah Rukh Khan. So I saw Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and I saw this one girl, playing basketball, same hair, and I was like ‘Anjali’. I was like, ‘I found her mother, I found her (imitating Shah Rukh).’ And then somehow, we started dating but she had a boyfriend.” he added, “It was a Jat boy and then, of course, they came to thrash me. Some 25 Jat boys from law college and by that time, I was a saint guy. I was like ‘Now no more fighting, this is enough. I have to be an actor.’ They were thrashing me, 25 boys were like, ‘Take out the gun, take out the gun, shoot him, take out the gun.’ I was sitting like (makes a gesture of being huddled up). My two Punjabi, cute friends were like ‘Don’t hit him, hit me if you want to’. The only thing I was screaming is, and trust me, it’s a true story, ‘Don’t hit my face, I want to be an actor.” as quoted by Koi Moi.