SRK Openly Hitting On Priyanka - Page 8

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

I don't see how this was a mistake. He was given a script to perform which he did. Completely ordinary joke that most people wouldn't even care to remember or talk about if it was any other actor or actress involved but because this particular skit involved SRK and PC, it becomes a defamation case against him. Very interesting too that some comments are saying how poor PC must have been traumatized by this, as if she isn't reacting the way any ordinary woman would if SRK proposed to them on national TV.

Some things are not dirty or unclean at all, but people project their own feelings onto rather innocent scenes. In fact, while PC may have started the smoke that there was a relationship going on for publicity sakes, the fact is that she's not even as much at fault as the people who took the bait and turned that smoke into fire.

PC traumatized by this??? PC has used SRK's name forever and wouldn't let it go......with this cringy act......PC's paancho ungliyaan were in ghee and sir in kadahi.....

I agree with you that in hindsight it looks more bad because it was PC.....maybe people wouldn't have thought anything if it was Kajol or Rani or even Deepika......

But I still stand by what I said.......SRK should have refused it......and maybe if he had seen the future he would have.....

Originally posted by: SriRani

Sometimes I don’t know what is more cringy ? His cringy acts or fans who defend anything.

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

I stopped reading after this......obviously it is scripted.....but when u are Shahrukh khan......u reserve the right to say NO......This was cringy....and he should have said......I am not saying this....period....He is THE superstar....koi kya ukhaad leta SRK ka??

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

PC traumatized by this??? PC has used SRK's name forever and wouldn't let it go......with this cringy act......PC's paancho ungliyaan were in ghee and sir in kadahi.....

I agree with you that in hindsight it looks more bad because it was PC.....maybe people wouldn't have thought anything if it was Kajol or Rani or even Deepika......

But I still stand by what I said.......SRK should have refused it......and maybe if he had seen the future he would have.....

Some of the comments on the link said that lol. That's going way too far when somehow SRK is being painted as a predator and PC as an unwilling party subjected to this. You can tell she's gushing it up. I don't think PC has ever been a victim in her life for better or for worse. I feel more sorry for the people around her though because they do have a tendency to be victimized, as we saw with Sophie Turner.

There was a recent thread about SRK and Deepika where people were commenting that they seemed too close and overly friendly and were trying to buy into a romantic relationship between the two. SRK is touchy feely with his heroines but it's important to note that he's like that once a bond has been established and they reciprocate or initiate physical contact first. He won't go up to random women and start touching them. He's like this with his close co-stars because that trust level is there. It was there with PC too only unlike previous heroines, she used this in the media to try and paint a different picture. Notice that even then, he never demeaned her in public or attacked her. I think after the Aishwarya incident, he realized the effect his actions could have on PC if he did speak out, which is also why he didn't like KJo going after her.

Whether KJo and Gauri were justified in going after PC or not, I think one must also point out that she burnt a lot of her own bridges. It wasn't just being blacklisted by KJo's crowd that ruined her chances in Bollywood. She had already turned off Akshay. Then her feud with Salman which he even forgave and wanted to work with her again, but she rejected his film again and started a second feud. So this is also why when PC fans bemoan the fact that she's been unfairly banished from BW, I have to question how can she be a victim when she's repeatedly angered multiple parties. At some point one has to realize there's only one common denominator here and that's PC.

I still don't see anything tasteless about this joke here. Like I said, if it wasn't PC, I don't think people would see anything wrong with it. Even if it was PC, how is this different from romancing her on the Don movies? What he's doing at the show is also scripted and a marriage proposal is much tamer than what he does as Don to both PC's Roma and other characters, so why is one skit more problematic than playing a villainous character? But your comments that you wouldn't have liked to have seen SRK do this make me wonder if this is something he looks back on and regrets. If maybe he wonders this skit wasn't in good taste and something he wouldn't do if asked to do again.

Seeing Vikrant Massey have to go back and apologize for tweets he did years ago reminds me that public figures seem to have to constantly apologize for anything they've ever done in the past. At what point do audiences realize that just as easily as we can dig through old tweets and videos about problematic behavior which may or may not have been considered problematic back then, shouldn't we hold ourselves to the same standards? Why should we be let off the hook for stuff we may have done or said that would also be considered offensive now. If we say stars should be treated like human beings and not put on a pedestal, then the best leveling field here is to inspect our own past behavior the exact same way as we do to the stars. And also recall that we might be doing stuff today that is considered acceptable and even appropriate in society but a decade from now, or even a few years from now, might be considered just as intolerant.

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

I don't see how this was a mistake. He was given a script to perform which he did. Completely ordinary joke that most people wouldn't even care to remember or talk about if it was any other actor or actress involved but because this particular skit involved SRK and PC, it becomes a defamation case against him. Very interesting too that some comments are saying how poor PC must have been traumatized by this, as if she isn't reacting the way any ordinary woman would if SRK proposed to them on national TV.

Some things are not dirty or unclean at all, but people project their own feelings onto rather innocent scenes. In fact, while PC may have started the smoke that there was a relationship going on for publicity sakes, the fact is that she's not even as much at fault as the people who took the bait and turned that smoke into fire.

Originally posted by: Beautyful_Mess

I genuinely don’t understand why some SRK fans always jump to defend him when it comes to this particular topic. Whatever might have or may have not happened between these two SRK is as much to blame for the drama as Priyanka. As fans we should just let this one be cause let’s face it he doesn’t deserve to be defended cause look at his behavior.

How is he to blame? If he rejects her friendship, he gets accused of being cold. Not helping cultivate new talent and being too arrogant. If he accepts her friendship and she tries to turn it into something else, either on a personal level and/or publicly to raise her own profile, then he gets accused of being lecherous and a cheat. If he speaks out against her for making up false allegations, he gets accused of using his power and privilege to silence a woman without as many connections in the industry as him. If he doesn't speak out against her, he gets accused of being complicit in an affair and silently admitting guilt. It's a no-win situation for him.

Meanwhile, let's look at histories. SRK is considered to have the most chemistry with most of his actresses. Dozens of female co-stars and leading ladies, and while there have always been rumors about so-called affairs (Kajol, Juhi, etc.), none have ever been taken seriously until PC. Meanwhile, PC was linked to Akshay who is a notorious cheat and known for his affairs. She is known for using PR to throw her name in the media and being a clout-chaser. It was SRK in BW. When she went to HW, she did the same thing, using PR to suggest she and Tom Hiddleston (Taylor Swift's ex-bf) were a couple. Then she befriended Meghan Markle when she was dating Harry so she could be linked to the royal family and it worked to get her an invite to the wedding. She throws her name after powerful people to be visible and she's proven this over and over.

So between the two histories, I'm seeing that PC is continuously linked to situations like this. SRK has never been seriously implicated except for when PC came up. The common denominator in all this is PC.

Originally posted by: Beautyful_Mess

If he could refuse kissing on screen at the beginning of his career until he himself decided to allow it later on what makes you think SRK couldn’t have said “look I’m a married man and my wife will be in the audience and I don’t feel comfortable doing what you’re asking me of” do you believe he would’ve been replaced as a host and do you think he would’ve lost much if he had lost to do this?? Listen as fans we all love SRK but there are things that shouldn’t be excused just cause we love him. As a fan I couldn’t sit through the clip then as I can’t do it now and I believe he deserves whatever bashing he gets for something like this. Did he mean to disrespect his wife?? Probably not. Did he actually disrespect his wife by doing that?? Yeah, he kinda did. Whatever his intentions this could’ve been and should’ve been avoided simple as that. As fans we should let some things go it’s not the end of the world if people make fun of him for his foolish behavior sometimes.

Once more, why is a skit for an awards show so offensive when he's playing a part that is scripted and meant to entertain and make people laugh? He does the exact same thing everyday on movie sets but there it's suddenly acceptable? By your logic, some might argue that as a married man, he shouldn't have the right to even play roles where he's romancing other women who aren't his wife. That means he should never have starred in any of his movies then because he's always breaking the rules. There's a reason acting is considered acting and not reality.

I think people also forget that when we see actors in public appearances, 90% of the time, we're still seeing them act. Only now they're playing a very different, but equally important role, which is their public persona. Like Salman Khan's public persona is everyone's bhai and an eternal virgin. Anyone who knows anything about his messy private life knows what he's really been up to and done, but he plays the part of his public persona as THE Salman Khan everyday. SRK plays the role of SRK everyday too, even when he's not on a film set. The real SRK has admitted that he's a private person and can be cranky and negative. In public, he has to play that he's always dashing and charming and social because that's his star persona. Gauri herself has admitted that the real SRK she's married to is not like the Raj or Rahuls he plays onscreen. It's not even like the SRK we the public see on social media or interviews. That's true for all the stars. Now sometimes some stars do have star personas close to their real life personalities or their real life personalities slip through more often than we would like to see. But usually they are heavily embellished.

Rani is a chain smoker in real life but we certainly don't see that on her public appearances. Deepika and Preity are two actresses tied to drug use but they don't go around making that part of their star personas. Ranveer I think plays more over the top in public than he is in real life where he seems to be more sensitive. Ranbir plays the part of model husband and father yet those brief lapses where his true personality has slipped through, like wiping away his wife's kiss, show something else. Rishi Kapoor portrayed himself as a romantic offscreen but in his real life, we know he was abusive and a cheat. Stories about Amitabh Bachchan in real life are very different from his public persona, maybe the most cultivated out of all the actors because his is the one the public responds to most. Rekha has a female partner in real life but you'll never see that in her real life appearances. Many say her "obsession" with Big B is also just part of her public persona to keep her relevant and mentioned in the media. Jaya is one of the few cases where it seems she's given up on trying to keep any personable front up and basically doesn't bother to hide who she is or what she's become. Many more examples exist like when Oprah asked Abhishek what it's like to wake up to the most beautiful woman in the world every morning and Abhishek jokes that we should see her in the morning. Or Cary Grant whose entire movie star career was based on him playing his Cary Grant persona over and over (which SRK haters accuse him of doing by playing the same romantic hero onscreen over and over). People used to ask Cary Grant what his secret was, and Cary Grant would say that he wished he knew because even he wishes he could be like Cary Grant. Anyone who knows about his real life story knows he was as far away from his movie star persona as possible. Rita Hayworth said the same thing that men would go to bed with her expecting Gilda (her iconic film), only to wake up with the real Rita who wasn't the bombshell they knew from onscreen or in the media but a rather vulnerable woman.

So I don't see how SRK playing this skit is disrespectful to Gauri. The only imbalance here comes from the fact that she's not an actor and he is, so we don't get to see her do something like this onscreen or in public. It's different than say if Ranveer did this scene by proposing to Kiara and then Deepika did it by proposing to Hrithik, because Ranveer and Deepika are both on equal levels being both actors in the same profession asked to do the same things. Similarly, I don't get how this mock proposal, which no one should take seriously, is considered so offensive when he's playing a skit for an awards show, but his actual proposals onscreen in films would not considered offensive to his wife? When he proposes to Rani at the end of KANK, how is that not disrespectful to Gauri then? Some might argue that acting is blurring the lines between reality and drama. Everytime he touches Kajol sensually, that isn't offensive? I see comments from people on videos like that saying it must be weird if you are SRK or Kajol's kids watching these scenes of them onscreen romance each other. Or being Karishma's children and watching some of her more sensual dances from songs. Is what SRK is doing in the skit somehow more offensive because he's not using the name Raj or Rahul even though he's acting just the same? He might be using his real name for this skit so that makes it more real than if he's called something else? Even though what he's playing in that skit might be less close to his real personality than some of the actual movie roles he's played, like his Aryan Khanna character in Fan.

If Don had said that to Roma ....Marry me....it would have been totally fine......but even though it was scripted.....It was SRK asking PC to marry him........big difference....

I believe that there were certain links between them at that time, but it's been decades now, so what's the point of discussing it further? I think both should have faced consequences for their actions.

Perhaps PC received harsher consequences, like being sidelined in Bollywood.

I also think SRK should have faced some form of consequence, as it seems Gauri now has full control over him after the incident. He still faces backlash for it, and it appears that both of their elder children are more attached to Gauri than to SRK (though Abram seems more attached to SRK). It's clear that he fears the impact on his children if Gauri were to leave him, as he loves them more than anything else. So, perhaps his punishment is the confusion and family issues he's facing.

But now, they both seem happy, so I don't see any need to dwell on this topic any longer.

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

If Don had said that to Roma ....Marry me....it would have been totally fine......but even though it was scripted.....It was SRK asking PC to marry him........big difference....

Not really but I see my previous post didn't make any impact.

If this is the mentality, not only should actors not be allowed to act, they shouldn't be allowed to leave their homes ever either. Anything they say or do could be misconstrued, especially if it's filmed for the public.

Meanwhile let's ignore all the 90s/early 2000s skits and scenes SRK performed where he did similar romantic gestures but it was okay because he was doing it with Juhi or Kajol.