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Shah Rukh Khan says his fame and
stardom will be of no use if he finds
himself getting affected by the success of
his contemporaries.
The 51-year-old actor shrugs when asked
how difficult it is to remain unfazed by
others' work after being in the industry
for over 25 years.
"What is the point of having become such
a huge star, if you are still going to follow
someone else? Or be bothered by
someone else, or think about someone
else or compare yourself to someone
else, he asks.
Shah Rukh says - "not out of
pompousness or ego that he has
everything going for him, which is why he
does not feel the need to look further than
his mirror.
"I am sure, I am being presumptuous, but
there are a lot of people out there who
say wish we become Shah Rukh Khan'. I
am Shah Rukh Khan, so why should I want
to be someone else? SRK stressed in an
interview with PTI that when he joined
the industry, he was a "nobody.
"With no money, no house, no future,
parents dead, I did what I felt like doing. I
had nothing to lose. Now I have
everything. One way to look at it is, Oh I
have so much to lose', he says.
But, the actor adds, there is another way
of looking at all that he has achieved.
"The other way is, I've gained so much,
even if I try to lose it, it won't go away.' If
we were so brave when we had nothing,
why should we not be equally brave in our
beliefs and thoughts in what we want to
do, when we have everything going for
us, he asks.
The superstar believes it is "silly not to do
what one wants, especially for someone
like him who has achieved a certain
status.
"I am not saying I am a path-breaking
guy and I will make people follow me,
make them see me as an example.' No, I
do what I feel like doing. I made the most
expensive film in the country ever,
knowing fully it won't recover the money.
But I had to do it, he says.
In the last two years, Shah Rukh has made
some unconventional choices - from
featuring in a double role in the
psychological thriller Fan to doing an
extended cameo in Dear Zindagi, a film
that predominantly belonged to Alia Bhatt.
The actor says he is excited by the work of
his contemporaries but eventually finds
solace in what he wants to do.
"My belief is, if someone else has already
done it, why do you want to do it? Go for
something else... So many people know
me, have me on their minds, they have
some good and bad things to say.
"I can't assimilate all and live my life. As an
artiste, actor, father, star, it has to be what
I feel like in the morning.
Shah Rukh also says he does not watch as
many movies as a person from a film
industry is often bound to.
"I don't watch films, my family has now
put a condition if I want to continue as an
actor, I have to watch two Hindi films in a
month. They are like but how can you not
watch films? You act, make films, run a
company, how can you not?'
The family, he adds, has made a list of
films that he needs to watch.
He will be next seen as a vertically-
challenged man in filmmaker Aanand L
Rai's untitled film, also featuring Katrina
Kaif and Anushka Sharma.
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stardom will be of no use if he finds
himself getting affected by the success of
his contemporaries.
The 51-year-old actor shrugs when asked
how difficult it is to remain unfazed by
others' work after being in the industry
for over 25 years.
"What is the point of having become such
a huge star, if you are still going to follow
someone else? Or be bothered by
someone else, or think about someone
else or compare yourself to someone
else, he asks.
Shah Rukh says - "not out of
pompousness or ego that he has
everything going for him, which is why he
does not feel the need to look further than
his mirror.
"I am sure, I am being presumptuous, but
there are a lot of people out there who
say wish we become Shah Rukh Khan'. I
am Shah Rukh Khan, so why should I want
to be someone else? SRK stressed in an
interview with PTI that when he joined
the industry, he was a "nobody.
"With no money, no house, no future,
parents dead, I did what I felt like doing. I
had nothing to lose. Now I have
everything. One way to look at it is, Oh I
have so much to lose', he says.
But, the actor adds, there is another way
of looking at all that he has achieved.
"The other way is, I've gained so much,
even if I try to lose it, it won't go away.' If
we were so brave when we had nothing,
why should we not be equally brave in our
beliefs and thoughts in what we want to
do, when we have everything going for
us, he asks.
The superstar believes it is "silly not to do
what one wants, especially for someone
like him who has achieved a certain
status.
"I am not saying I am a path-breaking
guy and I will make people follow me,
make them see me as an example.' No, I
do what I feel like doing. I made the most
expensive film in the country ever,
knowing fully it won't recover the money.
But I had to do it, he says.
In the last two years, Shah Rukh has made
some unconventional choices - from
featuring in a double role in the
psychological thriller Fan to doing an
extended cameo in Dear Zindagi, a film
that predominantly belonged to Alia Bhatt.
The actor says he is excited by the work of
his contemporaries but eventually finds
solace in what he wants to do.
"My belief is, if someone else has already
done it, why do you want to do it? Go for
something else... So many people know
me, have me on their minds, they have
some good and bad things to say.
"I can't assimilate all and live my life. As an
artiste, actor, father, star, it has to be what
I feel like in the morning.
Shah Rukh also says he does not watch as
many movies as a person from a film
industry is often bound to.
"I don't watch films, my family has now
put a condition if I want to continue as an
actor, I have to watch two Hindi films in a
month. They are like but how can you not
watch films? You act, make films, run a
company, how can you not?'
The family, he adds, has made a list of
films that he needs to watch.
He will be next seen as a vertically-
challenged man in filmmaker Aanand L
Rai's untitled film, also featuring Katrina
Kaif and Anushka Sharma.
http://m.desimartini.com/news/htcity/entertainment/i-am-shah-rukh-khan-so-why-should-i-want-to-be-someone-else-srk/article65446.htm?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=twitter_martinishots.
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