Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reported that Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan had messaged him asking for a call.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, the Assam CM said, “Shah Rukh Khan sent me a message introducing him and saying that he wanted to talk to me.”
Sarma claimed that he gave the famous person his word that there would be no unrest in the region when his movie was released.
“I had many requests for phone calls, so after completing my queues, we spoke at 2 am. He had messaged me at 7.40 pm asking to speak on the phone. He said that some problems have taken place regarding his film’s release. I asked the name of his film, to which he replied it was ‘Pathaan’. Then, I told him that there would not be any disturbance over the film in the state,” CM Sarma further said.
He continued by saying that he was not very interested in movies and that there were more urgent matters that needed his attention.
“I am not much interested in movies and only know film stars from my boyhood. I didn’t know Shah Rukh Khan. I saw that our phone call was trending on social media. So many ‘Pathaans’ come and go, we have more burning issues to care about,” CM Sarma said.
This comes a day after Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed to have given the Bollywood actor a phone assurance that the Assam Government would make sure that no unfortunate situations would take place during the state’s screening of his movie “Pathaan.”
The Assam chief minister refused to recognise Shah Rukh Khan on Sunday in response to questions regarding the disorderly event at a movie theatre in Guwahati’s Narengi when members of the Bajrang Dal tore down and burned posters for the upcoming movie Pathaan.
At a press conference on Saturday, CM Sarma said, “Who is Shah Rukh Khan? Why should we care? We already have many Shah Rukh Khans? I have not heard about any movie by the name of ‘Pathaan’ and neither do I have any time for it.”