During a recent interview with Rajeev Masand, Shah Rukh Khan revealed that when he met Anushka Sharma for the first time, she wasn’t in awe of him at all, contrary to what the actress had said recently. In fact, SRK said asserted that it’s a lie. He said:
She lies. I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again… Right in the beginning of the shoot, she came up to me and said, ‘You can’t act’… I was really appreciative of her because she can learn lines just like I do, she is fantastic with lines. And she was doing such a great job… And I was really in love with her, with the way she worked and I was telling Adi that she’s fantastic and we wanted to make this film really very fast. And so she was like, ‘I really like you and you’re really nice… I’ve never liked you as an actor.’ So I said, chalo yaar aisa hota hai na naye hote hai log toh shayad nervous hote hai toh shayad nervousness mein bechari ne bol dia. Last shot when I was giving with her for Tujhmein Rab Dikhta Hai Yara Main Kya Karu… last shot on the motorcycle, and she hugged me from the back and she said, ‘You know I wanna say something to you.’ Toh main smajha ye picture abhi khatam hogai, now she must have realised the depth of my acting. So I turned and said, ‘What you think I am a good actor?’ So she said, ‘No, you’re really a good person.’
Here’s the full interview: