Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Chunky Pandey’s friendship goes back to the 1980s, and now their daughters Suhana Khan and Ananya Panday are thick friends.

Mega star Shah Rukh, or SRK, has said he owes much to Chunky, who he counts as one of his closest and oldest friends in Bollywood.

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On a TV reality show, ‘India Poochega Sabse Shaana Kaun’ that he hosted on &TV a few years ago, SRK had shared that when he arrived in Mumbai in the 80s, Chunky Pandey gave him shelter and even introduced him to his friends in the flm industry. 

Chunky Pandey was already an established actor and a popular name at the time, and Shah Rukh was emotional as he recounted the story.  Shah Rukh Khan, 55, and Chunky Pandey, 59, have kept that bond intact through the years. Their wives Gauri Khan and Bhavna Pandey are friends too.

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Ananya Panday, 22, a popular actress, was summoned twice this week for questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the drugs case in which Shah Rukh’s son Aryan was arrested. The 23-year-old was arrested on October 3  and continues to stay in judicial custody at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail.

Ananya was interrogated for more than an hour by agency officers on Thursday about WhatsApp chats she had with Aryan.

She arrived at the NCB office in Mumbai accompanied by her father and amid heavy police deployment and media glare, hours after a team of officers searched her home, seized her mobile phone and laptop and summoned her to record her statement. 

Ananya Pande made her acting debut in 2019 with  Karan Johar’s film “Student of the Year 2” ,which also starred Tiger Shroff and Tara Sutaria. Panday later starred in “Pati Patni Aur Woh (2019)”, a remake of the 1978 film of the same name, alongside Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar. She took up the role of Ranjeeta Kaur, who played a secretary who had an affair with a married man.