Mumbai: Actress Fatima Sana Shaikh has said she laughed off reports of her dating her Dangal co-star Sanya Malhotra. “We simply laughed about it. Just because we are good friends, they assumed the worst,” she said, talking about the rumour. “I would always prefer to date a man rather than a woman,” Fatima Sana Shaikh said. However, she also added that she felt very comfortable in the company of Sanya Malhotra.
She was asked about three things that she learnt from Sanya. “I have learnt a lot from her. For one, Sanya likes to keep everything clean which I cannot at times. While she is an introvert and I am an extrovert. From her I have learnt to hold myself back at times. I also learnt a lot from her dedication to work,” Fatima said. She also is very punctual and it has kind of rubbed on to me.
Fatima also talked about her diverse religious background and upbringing. “It makes me feel like the ideal poster girl for secular India. The beauty of our country is that we are so diverse. Yet all of us are okay with just being ourselves, follow our own religion and accept everybody,” Fatima pointed out.
Fatima clearly stated that she is a huge fan of Shah Rukh Khan. “I would love to see Shah Rukh Khan strip on the streets of Mumbai!” she said. “I think the perfect scene of a man proposing to his wife atop the Eiffel tower would be of Shah Rukh Khan and me. That would be so romantic,” she added.
Fatima was talking on the Zee Cafe show, Starry Nights Gen Y when she made the confession about Shah Rukh. She also stated that she would love to do a romantic movie with ‘King Khan’ some day. “That definitely is on my wish list,” Fatima said.