Like most people in the world, actress Taapsee Pannu is a fan of Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The actress recently spoke about her experience working with King Khan, as his fans fondly call him. Taapsee described Shah Rukh as smart, funny and said that he has a different kind of aura and charisma that makes him different from other film celebrities.

Speaking to ANI, Taapsee said, “Shah Rukh Khan is not just an icon in front of the camera. Some of his roles and dialogues will be remembered for generations. But even behind the camera, he is a person. That wit, that cleverness, that spontaneity. Wow. You can just keep watching and listening to him like a fly on the wall, because the man has so much aura, charisma.”

Taapsee said, “You don’t have to look a certain way to have that aura. He is very well-read, very good in his reasoning. Once, I was telling him that I don’t believe in buying people to say nice things about you, and he was like, ‘There are billboards, right? And you pay for them for your advertisements, where you want to show something to the audience. So, people who want to be paid to write or say something nice about you should also be treated like a billboard. They should be used as a marketing tool.'”

The actor said Shah Rukh Khan has the ability to influence anyone because he is ‘extremely smart’, “For a person who doesn’t believe in buying people like that, even I kept thinking, ‘Yeah, they are billboards.’ So he changed my perspective so quickly, which only a very smart person can do.”

Shah Rukh Khan and Taapsee Pannu worked together in Rajkumar Hirani’s film Donkey, which was released late last year. Taapsee has also worked in the film Badla, directed by Shah Rukh Khan, in which she was accompanied by Amitabh Bachchan.