Director Subhash Ghai, in a recent interview, gave his honest opinion about Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, and Shah Rukh Khan—actors he has frequently collaborated with.
In the promo of Arbaaz Khan’s chat show The Invincibles season 2, Ghai talked about the “various types of actors” there are: "Paanch kism ke actor hote hai sir. Ek hota hai non-actor, aur ek hota hai bad actor (There are five types of actors, one is non-actor and another is bad actor). Bad actor was Jackie Shroff. Actor is Anil Kapoor... joh overconfident the who hamesha Shatrughan Sinha the. Shatrughan ka sabse bada problem tha ki woh time pe kabhi nahi pahuchta tha (Overconfident actor was Shatrughan; his biggest issue was that he was never on time)."
Ghai has worked with both Anil and Jackie on Ram Lakhan (1989), among others. Shatrughan Sinha has starred in Ghai's films like Kalicharan (1976) and Vishwanath (1978).
Ghai also shared his experience working on the 1997 film Pardes with Shah Rukh Khan. “Jaise maine Pardes mein Shah Rukh ke saath kaam kiya, uska aur mera man-mutav chalta rehta tha, tu-tu main-main chalti rahti thi... phir Karz (1980) ke baad maine socha jitney bhi current stars hai unke saath picture nahi banani hai agar asli picture banani hai (I used to have tiffs with Shah Rukh during Pardes. After Karz I thought I will not work with current stars if I want to make a good film)."
Ghai, known as the showman of Indian cinema, has directed acclaimed films like Khalnayak (1993), Karma (1986), Taal (1999 and Hero (1983), among others.