SRK's career without KJo and YRF - what would it be? - Page 2

YRF gave movies to Uday Chopra as well.. I don’t see him being on the same level as SRK..

His movies with YRF and dharma being hit shows his caliber as much as they show yrf and dharmas.. it was a relationship that worked for both parties..

YRF nhi to koi aur hota.. the drive that he has and the hard work that SRK has done, he would have found a way to be successful!!

Chopra Johar Gang picked him up after he proved to be successful at the box office.

SRK was let down by YRF and Dharma productions whose stories became stale. They had absolutely no connection with the small town India. Even overseas audience got bored by the films made by these two PHs.

He would have taken longer time to reach the top tier but would have reached there with critically acclaimed films with better performances.

He definitely wouldn't have become a romantic hero.

It was a symbiotic relationship IMO. They both benefitted from each other.

I used to be a huge SRK fan. I have watched some of these films ONLY coz they had SRK in it. I wouldve skipped them otherwise.

Worst experience was dragging family and family friends to watch KANK without proper research. I wanted to dig a hole and die in the theatre only.😆

Take the whole career, Khan Saab has yet to give any film bigger than DDLJ & KKHH, ek YRF and ek DHARMA.

He would have been nothing without those 2 films.

I can't believe after so many years, we are still debating who made Shah the star he is😆

It's my feeling, too, zehreeli...I thought, that someone who still thinks that SRK wouldn't have become a prominent figure in the Hindi filmindustry and a globally recognized person without KJo and YRF banner still has a one-sided look.

I also think that SRK was meant to become the megastar he is...and it was also a choice he made...he wanted to have success (in another thread someone posted a motivation video done with SRK's voice where he speaks about that drive to be successful)... he would have succeeded with other directors, other banners because it was always a relation between him and the audience. Deewana was his first connection with the film-theatre audience...would it have been Dil Ashna Hai, the impact he made with his first appearance on the big screen would't have been that sensational but he would have connected in the long run... it may have taken more time to make the audience love him. Without Fauji, even the Deewana impact would have been less.

There is a path...for every person, I believe. SRK's one has a lot to do with love. He wanted to be loved, he loves to be loved...and he gave/gives it back. Some other would have persuaded him that he should play romantic roles because of his charme, because of his caring nature.

His work with KJo and YashUncle, with Yashji and Aditya was based on a mutual relationship. SRK proved to even exceed their respective expectations.

HearMeRoar wrote: "Frankly, I think SRK, the actor, lost to the star because of YRF and Dharma. I wish he'd continued his unconventional path."

She is right as he got stereotyped as the "king of romance" (typical media-parlance) through his collaboration with KJo and YRF...and when he tried to explore his talent as an actor/ doing roles against this image, it got rejected by the domestic audience more than once (the appreciation sometimes coming later).

semantic, I think he has more than three pillars ...and no, I don't think that any person of the filmindustry is one of these pillars although there are some that undeniably play a major role in his (acting) life. I feel that his pillars belong to his structure as a person (like the pillars of the old villa he bought as his home belong to its structure): among them are perseverance, drive, talent, industry (hard working), an adventurous and rebellious mind, curiosity, intelligence, charme, loving his work et cetera...

Originally posted by: Ahana_Sehgal21

SRK made KJO and to some extent Yash Raj too ..

Karan Johar directed SOTY which grossed only 60 crore and was an average grosser .. Ae dil hai mushkil just touched 100 crore and was an average grosser ..

SRK made Yashraj? u got any idea how big diverse and successful company it is

SRK did not "make" them but he gave them successful movies and earned a lot of money for them.

KJo would have inherited Dharma in any way but SRK clearly helped him in getting a positive reputation...that this reputation - during the last decade - got less positive, that credit belongs to KJo himself.

I really don't understand this - "Shah without Dharma and YRF", are we changing his name or names of these production houses? It's like asking Shah without Raj and Rahul, if not Raj and Rahul it would have been some other name

For example - In a film titled, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Salman played a character named "Raj Malhotra"

Hrithik Roshan played "Raj Khanna" in a YRF movie titled "Mujhse Dosti Karoge"

Is it as iconic as "Raj Malhotra" of DDLJ?

If it isn't Shah then every Raj under every YRF movie would have been as successful as DDLJ

Point being, naysayers will come up with ridiculous reasons to discredit Shah's hardwork and success but Billions work hard to get the fraction of success and stardom this man has, There are many actors who work under Dharma and YRF, Are they as successful as Shah?