Actor Shah Rukh Khan at the launch of the first look of his film Ra. One in Mumbai on Tuesday. (Fotocorp)

Mumbai, May 31: Shah Rukh Khan today said his personal relations with Karim Morani, the Bollywood financier jailed in connection with the 2G scam, would remain unchanged.

“I don’t think my personal relation with Morani will change nor the equations when you consider someone a friend,” the star said at a promotional for his film, Ra.One.

Morani is the associate producer of Ra.One. Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainment is launching Morani’s daughter Zoa in Roshan Abbas’s film, Always Kabhie Kabhie.

“The Moranis have been a part of the film industry even before I came in. A lot of actors and actresses are very friendly with him. They are good people. But the matter is sub judice now and whatever the law has to do it will do. We are all law-abiding people but on a personal level relations don’t change,” he said.

Shah Rukh explained that Morani had come in as Ra.One associate producer in place of Bobby Chawla, who had taken ill. Bobby is Juhi Chawla’s brother and used to head Red Chillies Entertainment till he suffered a cerebral stroke.

“Karim Morani replaced my associate producer Bobby Chawla, who is unwell. Karim has done a great job…. About his (Morani’s) personal investments, I don’t know. I hardly know anything about my own personal investments.”

The actor initially refused to get drawn into the 2G row, asking the media not to “drag” his name into it. But when asked if the account Morani allegedly used to funnel money to Kalaignar TV was used to transfer funds to Red Chillies also, he replied: “I don’t think this is being said.”

He added: “Unnecessarily, do not try to drag my name into this. So that this becomes a piece of better news for you. I know you people have been showing a lot of all this on TV. I think it is all bakwaas. By involving me or any other actor/actress and by sensationalising, the news will not be true.”

Told that investigative agencies would probe Morani’s financial transactions over the last five years, he said: “ED is better informed than you. We will do whatever we have to do.”

Asked if Morani, a regular on the KKR table during Indian Premier League options, had a stake in the company, Shah Rukh said: “No darling, no stakes.”

An event management company owned by the Morani brothers — Muhammad, Ali and Karim — has handled all Shah Rukh’s international shows.