The 25-year-old badminton star took to Twitter, when she learnt that Shah Rukh was in her hometown filming the Rohit Shetty-directed comedy-drama.
"@iamsrk Hello sir got to know you are shooting for your film in Hyderabad would love to meet you," she tweeted.
The "Chennai Express" actor replied, "Please say when you are free will fix up immediately."
Nehwal further wrote, "Sir can we meet tomorrow let me know I will come. I live in Hyderabad."
To which, Shah Rukh, 49, said, "Will call you at night and fix up a good time for you to come. Will be lovely to see you."
"Dilwale" also stars Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, Boman Irani, Vinod Khanna, Sanjay Mishra, Johnny Lever among others.
The film is scheduled to release on December 18.