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| In the Doordarshan show Shahrukh Khan introduces budding singer Kumar Sanu, saying he sounds similar to Kishor Kumar (video below) |
July 1, 2016, NewsCrunch
After dishing out young Madhuri Dixit from its archives, Doordarshan has thrown light on early Shahrukh Khan.
A video showing Shahrukh Khan, close to his mid-20s, anchoring a music show and long way from his rise to super-stardom has gone viral.
Shahrukh Khan was active in television for three years between 1988 and 1990; the video was probably shot in late 1989 or 1990.
In the show he introduces budding singer Kumar Sanu, saying he sounds similar to Kishor Kumar. Shahrukh Khan's reading was correct and Kumar Sanu, would have agreed with it. The singer had shifted to Mumbai in 1989 and changed his name from Kedarnath Bhattacharya to Kumar Sanu to encourage such comparisons.
In the video, Shahrukh Khan stands out with his screen presence but acts a bit a bit wooden and is self conscious. He would overcome these limitations in later years with dollops of overacting.
Though Shahrukh Khan started shooting for a television series called Dil Dariya in 1988 it got delayed. It was the 1989 series Fauji, in which he played Army cadet Abhimanyu Rai, got him good recognition.
He went on to act in Aziz Mirza's television series Circus, and Mani Kaul's miniseries Idiot, besides bagging minor parts in Umeed and Wagle Ki Duniya.
His TV career took off earning him enough fame to draw comparisons with legend Dilip Kumar and making it easier to transition to films, which happened starting in 1991.
Kumar Sanu also got a major break in 1990 with the movie Aashiqui turning him into a popular playback singer.