Shahrukh Khan
Bollywood actor.
The audience's preferences for films are in black and white. They either like a film or they don't.
The essence is that I leave something of me in every role — not 100 per cent.
Right from the start, director Aziz Mirza wanted Rani. She heard a full narration of the script before me. But she was doing what she thought was a similar film [Saathiya]. Though I had worked with her in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, I had never done a full-fledged role with her. She began her career with me in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. She was supposed to do Dil Se with me as well. Chalte Chalte has given her a role worthy of her talent.
I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father’s name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star’s children.
Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.
I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.
My biggest enemy, incidentally, is my ‘next time.’ I’m neither being immodest when I say that my next will be even better nor am I being humble when I say that this is less than what my next film will be.
When I get up in the morning and have to go to work and jump off things that may be quite dangerous, the payback isn’t the bigger car, but it’s that someone somewhere will smile a lot.
I am like a Rolls Royce which can run without an engine, just on reputation.
I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.