Zayed Khan opened up recently about his working experience with Shah Rukh Khan on the sets of Main Hoon Na (2004). He said that the superstar gave him an advice and rehearsed with him for a scene which he was struggling to get right. The Farah Khan directorial also starred Sushmita Sen, Suniel Shetty and Amrita Rao.

In an interaction with Rohit Roy for RiteBite Maz Protein TV, Zayed said, “Shah Rukh Khan is well-prepared. He is an ocean of insight. When you are with him, you don’t feel that he is pressurising you to perform as well as he is. What he is doing is, he is always observing and he is giving you his best back.”

He added, “There was this lovely moment, when I was doing this scene where I had to give this long monologue when SRK’s character comes and he has a father and I don’t. It was my first time that I was doing a scene with Kirron Kher and Shah Rukh Khan. Farah was helming the film, Manikandan was taking care of the camera. I messed it up about three times. When you mess up a dialogue or scene, you can see the energy drop, As if people are losing hope and faith in you.”

He then recalled how Shah Rukh helped him and said, “I remember, Shah Rukh Khan came to me very sweetly. He said, ‘You want to do the lines and rehearse with me?’ I said, ‘Yeah man, I would really like that.’ And, we went to a room and so sweetly, he rehearsed with me and I came out there. He said, ‘Just do it your way, don’t do it the filmy way. And I went out there, I started to gain goosebumps and I went for it. I remember after the shot got cut, everyone went quiet and then they started clapping.”

The film met with positive reviews from critics upon its release and became the second-highest grossing films of 2004.