Preeti Jhangiani reminisced about her debut in ‘Mohabbatein’, calling it a valuable learning experience. She praised Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan for their humility and equality on set, recalling how they made everyone feel comfortable. Preeti said the makers offered her unmatched professional training and a positive, respectful work environment. Preeti Jhangiani fondly recalled her early days in Bollywood, remembering her debut in the 2000 hit ‘Mohabbatein.’ The actress shared how working with Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan became a learning experience in itself. She praised the professional training and discipline, recalled the gracious equality maintained on set, and shared how the kindness of SRK and Big B helped shed her initial suppression.The actress opened up about how her interactions with Shah Rukh and Amitabh helped her gradually break out of her shell on the sets of ‘Mohabbatein.’ She shared, “I was very chill with Mr. Bachchan and with Shah Rukh Khan as well. I think they’re very charming. They’re so lovely and easy to talk to that they put you at ease. I obviously must have felt a little bit in awe. And of course, I was very young, and I was painfully shy also. I was very, very shy in general. But I always remember them as being very magnanimous and very humble and very easy to talk to and approach. It wasn’t hard to approach them. They didn’t have, like, a plethora of people around them, which I did see with other actors later on.”
A unique learning experience
She credited ‘Mohabbatein’ for providing her with a one-of-a-kind learning experience and said, “Yash Raj Films… I think nobody else could have given me the kind of training ground that they created for me. In spite of having done so much work before—I had done about 50–60 ad films already, 3–4 Telugu films, 1 Malayalam film, and 1 Tamil film before ‘Mohabbatein’—I feel that the training ground that ‘Mohabbatein’ set for me was something I wouldn’t have learned anywhere else. I’ll always be grateful to Adi and to Yash Ji for that.”