Imtiaz Ali's 2017 romantic comedy Jab Harry Met Sejal, offering Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma, did not perform as expected on the container office. The filmmaker, who both directed and wrote the movie, currently spoke back to speculation approximately whether or not Shah Rukh Khan’s star energy motivated his innovative imaginative and prescient for the challenge. He shared that 'Shah Rukh Khan never imposed himself at the film and admitted that he didn't remember Khan's scale of stardom at the same time as writing the script.' Imtiaz Ali was asked about the rumours suggesting that Shah Rukh Khan took control of Jab Harry Met Sejal, probably altering Ali's authentic imaginative and prescient for the movie. He firmly denied those claims, pointing out that they were absolutely unfaithful.

He said, “Shah Rukh in no way imposed himself on the movie. But he is a massive megastar with an sizeable fan base. He has a number of expectancies to fulfil and I wasn’t writing to serve that. I did no longer take into account the dimensions of his stardom," stated Imtiaz Ali. 

The filmmaker similarly mentioned capability changes that would were made to the film's script. He defined that positive factors want to be blanketed inside the script to make it work even as ensuring that the soul of the film stays intact.

He mentioned that with Jab Harry Met Sejal, extra readability concerning the man or woman's desires was needed. He suggested that the film benefited from additional exposition, possibly some flashbacks, and a greater traditional structure.Imtiaz Ali had shared that every now and then a film doesn’t carry out as expected, but that doesn’t necessarily suggest the whole thing approximately the film became wrong.

He pondered that with Jab Harry Met Sejal, he aimed to end up extra ‘handy and not unusual,’ most effective to later comprehend that this technique didn’t align together with his fashion. He emphasized that filmmakers have to focus on making the films they simply want to create.

In Jab Harry Met Sejal, Shah Rukh Khan portrayed Harinder Singh Nehra, a Punjabi guy, even as Anushka Sharma performed Sejal Parikh, a Gujarati woman. The movie marked their 1/3 collaboration following Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Jab Tak Hai Jaan.