Naseeruddin Shah-Ratna Pathak’s son Vivaan jokes about nepotism, says Shah Rukh Khan’s Happy New Year team accepted him ‘because they love my parents’

Vivaan Shah said that his father Naseeruddin Shah and Shah Rukh Khan share a relationship of mutual love and respect and recalled how SRK would tease him on the sets of Happy New Year. “He (Shah Rukh Khan) joked about it also. He had done this film with my dad called Chaahat and I don’t think my dad particularly wanted to be in that film. Shah Rukh used to joke a lot about that with me. He used to be like, ‘Your dad gave me a tough time in Chaahat, now I am also going to give you a tough time.’ He told everyone, ‘Give Vivaan a tough time because his dad gave me a tough time in Chaahat.’ Obviously, he said that jokingly. They treated me like a member of the family. He gave me the opposite of a tough time. He gave me the greatest time of my life,” Vivaan said. Naseeruddin and Shah Rukh also worked together on Chamatkar, which Vivaan described as ‘awesome’ and ‘brilliant’.

Speaking about SRK, Vivaan also said that the Pathaan actor is “one of the most brilliant minds I have ever encountered.”

Vivaan Shah has Vishal Bhardwaj’s Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley, and another web series on Voot in the pipeline.