Priyamani recently shared how she bagged Chennai Express song ‘One Two Three Four..,Get On The Dance Floor’ opposite Shah Rukh Khan. The actress also opened up on her working experience with the Bollywood star.
Priyamani set the dance floor on fire when she shook a leg with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in the popular ‘One Two Three Four’ song from Rohit Shetty’s 2013 film Chennai Express. In a recent interview with a news portal, the Paruthiveeran actress walked down the memory lane and shared how this prestigious project came her way.
Priyamani told Gulte.com that she was in Bengaluru when she received a call from Rohit Shetty’s office. She said that she initially thought that it was a prank call and asked her manager to check its veracity. When the actress was told that she would be a part of a song in a film starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, she had only one question for the film’s director Rohit Shetty.
“I said, ‘Sir, I have only one question. I hope I’m not like a background dancer you know because you have the biggest names Shah Rukh and Deepika’. He said, ‘No, the song is between only you both.” I said, ‘Where do I sign, please? Right now!,” Priyamani revealed, adding that the makers offered her the song after they were impressed with her dance performance alongside late Puneet Rajkumar in a Kannada song.
Further, the National Award-winning actress recalled, “When they [first] said Shah Rukh Khan, I died. My lifelong dream of at least just breathing the same air as that man is going to come true.”
She also spoke about her experience of filming the song with King Khan and told the portal, “Shah Rukh Khan was extremely sweet, a very down-to-earth person. I mean, he’s the sweetest person alive. So, he came to me at one point because there were some particular steps which we had to repeat a couple of times. He said, ‘No, no darling, you go sit down, I will do it.’ I said, ‘No, sir, I’m okay. I love dancing, so I don’t mind dancing how many times do you want me to dance…’ Those were the best five nights of my life. We did not sit down and chat, but we played Kaun Banega Crorepati on his iPad. He gave me ₹ 200 because my answers were right.”
Further, Priyamani was all praise for SRK’s work ethics and added, “For us, once you finish work at two in the morning or six in the morning, you want to go back and sleep. But this man, after the shoot, after the pack up, he takes one of the assistants, they go to the sets or maybe his room and they practice.”
A decade after Chennai Express, Priyamani and Shah Rukh Khan are now all set to reunite on screen in Atlee’s big Bollywood directorial debut Jawan which also stars Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi and Sanya Malhotra.
