For the industry, the Eid release of Salman Khan’s Sultan and Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees will be a clash of the Bollywood titans at the box office in 2016, but Shah Rukh says they are now both “good friends”.
The actor, who is back from his Dilwale shoot for five days, was at luxury watch brand Tag Heuer’s campaign Do Not Crack Under Pressure launch in Mumbai on Monday.
Asked how he takes simultaneous releases of Raees and Sultan, Shah Rukh said: “It’s not a clash. We both are good friends now, so we will do everything together...will also release films together.
“There is nothing like a clash as there will be films which will come together, release together. Aditya Chopra is producing Sultan and Salman is acting in it. Similarly, Excel Entertainment is producing Raees and I’m acting in it.”
This is not the first time that Khan and Shah Rukh will witness a box office clash. In 2006 too, the two had their releases Don -The Chase Begins Again and Jaan-E-Mann together and the former faired well.
The 49-year-old Shah Rukh says “clashes are bound to happen as there are only 365 days in a year and 54 Fridays and we make 200 films, so some films release on the same Friday”.
But Shah Rukh admits “business will get divided”.
