Updated On: 08 March, 2026 08:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Sharma
Aparshakti Khurana instantly agreed to star in Jab Khuli Kitaab after his first meeting with director Saurabh Shukla. The actor says the script felt so pure and compelling that none of the cast needed time to think before saying yes

(L-R) Aparshakti Khurana, Saurabh Shukla, and Pankaj Kapur on the set of ‘Jab Khuli Kitaab’
Aparshakti Khurana was sold on the script in his very first meeting with Saurabh Shukla, who approached the actor for his latest directorial, Jab Khuli Kitaab. Khurana tells mid-day that the process was quite an anomaly compared to what usually happens when a director narrates a script to an actor. “Normally, it is a process of 5-10 days. But in the very first meeting with sir, I said, ‘Count me in, I’m all yours.’ What he had written was so pure that no actor attached to the film had to think twice to say yes,” he shares.

Aparshakti Khurana