New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan is not allowed to do much in his own house, he told Karan Johar in Dubai. According to him, Gauri Khan has a rule for just about everything.
The actor was speaking at the launch of Shahrukhz Residences by Danube in Dubai on Wednesday, when Johar asked him what he still wasn’t allowed to do at home. Khan’s answer was simple.
“Nothing. I’m not allowed to do anything.”
Johar was hosting the event at Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena, where Khan was joined by Gauri, Danube Group chairman Rizwan Sajan, and Danube Group Managing Director Adel Sajan. The event marked the launch of a new residential tower named after the actor, with Gauri designing the penthouses.
Khan joked that Gauri wouldn’t let anyone in the family comment on anything in their house. Not the Wi-Fi, the colours, the paintings, the stairs, the lifts, or even the lights. Eating in bed was apparently out of the question too.
“We can’t say anything. We just sit quietly and enjoy the house,” he said in Hindi.
There is only one thing family members are allowed to say. “When I leave here, I’ll have to say, ‘Gauri, what a penthouse you’ve made!’” Khan joked.
Khan also spoke about why owning a home had always been important to him. Growing up, he said, he didn’t have the kind of home he wanted. Buying his first house, and later Mannat in Mumbai, hadn’t necessarily been the most sensible financial decisions, but he wanted somewhere he could call his own.
He told the audience that if they wanted a home badly enough, the universe and Allah would help make it happen.
Sajan also joined in the fun. When Johar asked the businessman what he would like to borrow from Khan’s personality, he picked the actor’s dimples.
“If I got Shah Rukh’s dimples, I swear to god I’d sell twice as much property,” he said.
Khan wondered who would watch his films if he no longer had his dimples.
Johar then asked what people could expect when Khan and Sajan came together. Khan had a few new words to offer.
“You should expect bigger, biggest,” he said, before adding, “fantastic, fantastical, fantasticalest” and “magnificent, magnificenter, magnificentest”.
‘Give your employees a holiday’
When Johar asked what Khan would do if he became chairman of Danube Properties for a day, the actor joked that the company should stay out of filmmaking. It was putting up buildings so quickly, he pointed out, while filmmakers could spend four years without even finishing a sequel.
He also had a suggestion for the company’s employees. Khan said Sajan worked extremely hard and should give his staff a 15-day holiday in the Maldives or Thailand once the new residences were sold.
“Go enjoy your holidays. Enough work, you’ve made them work too much,” he joked in Hindi.
Shahrukhz Residences is a 60-storey waterfront tower coming up in Dubai Maritime City. It will have fully furnished studios and one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments starting at Dh 1.65 million (approximately Rs 4.2 crore). The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2029.
Gauri, who has designed the penthouses, also spoke about working on the project with her team in India.
“We put so much of our heart and soul in it together,” she said.
Adel added that Gauri had been involved in every Zoom meeting, right down to choosing the materials and deciding how individual corners of the penthouses would look.
This is the second Danube project named after Shah Rukh. The first, Shahrukhz by Danube, is a 55-storey commercial tower on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, launched in December 2025.
(Edited by Prasanna Bachchhav)
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