Roamed the streets of Delhi a lot trying to impress Gauri: Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan are no doubt one of the most adored couples in Bollywood. For the past three decades, the couple has supported each other through thick and thin and faced life’s hurdles head-on, setting couple goals for many of their fans. 

Today the celebrity couple has completed 28 years of togetherness and SRK took to his official social media handle and shared their photo and captioned it, “Feels like forever, seems like yesterday... Nearly three Decades and Dearly three kids old. Beyond all fairy tales I tell, I believe this one, I have got as beautiful as beautiful can be!”

Recently, the superstar had attended the closing ceremony of the Delhi’s iconic cinema complex and India’s first multiplex, PVR Anupam at it closed for renovation on Thursday. Being born and brought up in Delhi, the 53-year-old actor got hit by nostalgia and opened up about his youthful days, him trying to impress Gauri by roaming the streets of Delhi with his uncle’s scooter, and so much more.

Talking about his journey from being a lower-middle-class boy to Bollywood’s Badshaah, SRK said, “Some of the things that you don’t think about will happen to you and they are the best things of life. You just don’t know it yet. I don’t want to show off but I’m genuinely a dream come true. I’m a lower-middle-class boy without his parents bound to the city of glamour and become a movie star. The world has showered me with their love. This happens in only dreams but I never thought of it. I haven’t believed it, I am still that Delhi boy.”

The actor also shared that he never thinks of himself as a star in Delhi but sometimes has to behave like one. He further adds, “It bores me to be a star that way. I love my job and promise to everybody that as Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev Kumar Bijli keep on making cinema theatres, I’ll keep on making movies to fill them.”

When asked about the first time he saw himself on the big screen, the Zero actor said it was the rushes of 1992 film Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman at Mumbai’s legendary RK Studios. 

“I found myself so ugly. I had such bad hair. I was doing such bad acting in front of Nana Patekar, Amrita Singh and Juhi Chawla. I took the late 4.15 am flight ticket that our producers used to get for us at 25 per cent off and went to the airport, thinking I can’t work in films. Aziz and Juhi convinced me that it’s not that bad. The final cut would be better. Just like Ajay Bijli lied and got Yes Boss to play at this theatre, those two lied to me. I never looked better, I looked just the same,” he recalled.

Getting nostalgic about his Delhi days and how he used to stand outside PVR Anupam to manage a ticket, he recalled, “I used to roam around on the roads as guys do... My wife Gauri used to live here in Panchsheel. I have roamed around this place a lot to impress her. When I had to really woo her, I borrowed my uncle’s Vespa (scooter).” 

Shah Rukh said he is fortunate to be so loved, especially by the people of the city. “I remember initially one of the big things for me was ‘Main Dilliwala hoon, dilwala hoon’ (‘I am a Delhiite, I have a big heart). Even today whoever meets me, it’s still the same. My team asks me, ‘You know him?’ I say ‘I don’t but I’m related to him 100 per cent somehow’. Because everybody treats me like their own,” he said.

Shah Rukh said he feels the most nostalgic when he visits his late parents’ resting place. “Whenever I sit in a plane from Mumbai to come to Delhi, I have one thought in my heart that my mom and dad are here. I visit them in their graveyard late at night. When they say I’ve become a Mumbai person, I don’t know how to express it... But as much as I can leave Delhi, Delhi can’t leave me because my parents are here. The biggest memory for me is here. Sometimes when I give it a miss or become lazy, I pray from afar because parents will understand. Going and seeing them whenever I come here is the most nostalgic (feeling) for me,” he concluded.

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