Sharmin Segal REFUSED To Sit in Shah Rukh Khan's Lap on Devdas Sets: 'I Only Want Aishwarya Rai...'

Sharmin Segal revealed she was four years old when her uncle, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was filming Devdas. Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit, Devdas was released in 2002. In an old video which has surfaced online and gone viral, the Heeramandi actress revealed she was on sets of the iconic film when she was a child and was fond of Aishwarya.

In the video shared on Reddit, Sharmin confessed she liked spending time with Aishwarya and would fight for a chance to sit in Aish’s lap. “I was four years old when I was on the sets of Devdas. I used to move around the props and would want to sit in Aishwarya’s lap. ‘I want to sit in Aishwarya’s lap, mama please, please, please…’ I would request. ‘I don’t want to sit in Shah Rukh’s lap, I only want to sit in Aishwarya’s lap’ (I would say),” Sharmin recalled.

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Sharmin grew up to assist Bhansali on Bajirao Mastani. Speaking with News18, Sharmin said she could have worked on Ram-Leela as well but she did not feel she deserved a chance to work with him at the time.

“I could’ve worked in Ram-Leela but I felt like I didn’t deserve that chance of assisting Sanjay Leela Bhansali at that point. I was completely new and I knew nothing about filmmaking. So, I thought of hanging around in the back on the sets of Mary Kom and see what I can pick up, understand and take away and then maybe I could go to assist Sanjay, sir, with something,” she said.

“The first film I assisted him on was Bajirao Mastani but the first film I ever assisted was on Mary Kom. And while I was working on Mary Kom, he was shooting for Ram-Leela. I basically told him that I would want to work in films but I know nothing about them. Mary Kom was my first job and I received my first salary while working on it. It was Rs 7,500,” she added.