Can someone find me the interview where SRK said this ?? - Page 7

hotchoco, I would like to read this article but I don't want to subscrive.

Like with the "silent rebellion" essay in Caravan, is there a possibility to get the text of the article?

JW, I remember that I decided to write in the forum during the Aryan-case and I noticed what you described in your post.

The so-called blindness, I prefer to call narrow-minded because the view is restrained in a way one can't - or doesn't want - to see another perspective. It's like you have a position with a - for you - great view and doesn't want to move into another position to get an additional/another/a new view.

I feel that some members here just enjoy their - in my thinking - ridiculous hate for the filmstars discussed here or - at least - enjoy the bashing and their negative comments and to enter in fights with fellow members. But those people always are part of forums.

My choice is to try to concentrate on what I find positive and to enjoy my time here 😊 ... and I've the benefit - in case of negativity - to not understand Hindi 😉

I don’t blame SRK for being done with interviews when you’ve bigots like these just waiting to pounce on anything & everything he says!!!

Originally posted by: Stone-Cold

He's india's biggest star but he's muslim

Amitabh Bachchan is India’s the biggest star though.

Originally posted by: Clochette

hotchoco, I would like to read this article but I don't want to subscrive.

Here, I'm copy pasting it:

Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood blockbuster meets India’s culture wars:

Hardline Hindu nationalists have made the actor a target for harassment

BENJAMIN PARKIN

Outfit X, a cabal of terrorists-for-hire, are preparing an attack on India. Deployed to stop them is a grizzled, middle-aged agent with a man-bun and washboard abs. Between attending beach parties and skydiving into enemy lairs, he teams up with a fearsome, beautiful younger agent. A whirlwind of fist-fights, acrobatic near-misses and explosions ensues.

Aseem Chhabra, a film critic, isn’t convinced by the trailer for Pathaan, a big-budget Bollywood film out next week. But he’ll be watching because this marks the grand return, after a five-year hiatus, of India’s biggest actor: Shah Rukh Khan, the 57-year-old badshah, or king, of Bollywood. “He’s got such charm and charisma,” Chhabra says. “To see him dance and do the action scenes, it’ll be fun. I’ll go see the film just for that.”

Pathaan will be a test for Khan and Bollywood after a difficult few years. Not only does it follow a run of box office flops for one of the world’s biggest film industries. It is also a comeback for Khan, who has become a target for harassment from hardline Hindu groups, including members of prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party.

Khan achieved unparalleled adoration as a boyish heart-throb in the 1990s, eschewing macho-man stereotypes for sensitive, worldly characters in films that encapsulated the optimism of a globalising India, Chhabra says. But in recent years, several of the actor’s releases have underwhelmed.

Audiences appear to have tired of the cookie-cutter action and romance formats of leading Bollywood production houses. India’s box office was dominated last year by films from the long-overlooked southern Indian-language film industries, such as Golden Globe-winning Telugu-language hit RRR. “That earlier luxury of “‘let’s make what we want, let’s price it how we want, and people will come’ — that’s out of the window,” says Vikram Malhotra, a Bollywood producer.

Will Khan, who has two more big releases planned this year, revive the industry’s fortunes? Pathaan “has, on paper, all the ingredients that should make for a massive hit”, an industry executive says. Expectations “are unusually high, because it’s coming after such a dry patch”.

But the film has itself become the subject of a now-familiar pattern of outrage, as the BJP wages a culture war to remake Bollywood. BJP allies have railed against the film, and a group from the Bajrang Dal, a Hindu nationalist group linked to the BJP, ripped down posters at a mall in Ahmedabad this month. The controversy stems partly from a steamy dance scene in which actor Deepika Padukone wears an orange bikini, deemed perilously close to saffron which is a sacred colour in Hinduism.

To some, the industry is a bastion of a secular, liberal vision of India, thanks in part to its many Muslim stars, Khan included. But to its Hindu nationalist critics, it is a cosy club of condescending, nepotistic elites producing films that antagonise religious sensibilities and it needs reform.

A year after Modi came to office in 2014, Khan said that “not being secular is the worst kind of crime that you can do as a patriot”. Yogi Adityanath, now the BJP chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, compared the actor to a terrorist. Khan’s work, like that of other actors who have spoken out, has since faced calls for a boycott from rightwing groups.In 2021, Khan’s then 23-year-old son Aryan was arrested by India’s Narcotics Control Bureau and jailed for nearly a month, though the authorities didn’t find any drugs on him. The charges were later dropped for lack of evidence. Khan remained studiously silent throughout. But critics claimed the case was politically motivated and an NCB report found he was “deliberately targeted”.

“Bollywood is kind of in this identity crisis right now,” Suparna Sharma, a film writer, says. “It feels besieged by the government, and by bad box office returns.” But she argues that, when it comes to Khan, the public’s loyalties are clear. “This love that Shah Rukh enjoys,” she says, “he’s earned this.” Pathaan may not lift the industry out of its creative funk. But for fans around the world, King Khan’s reign is not over.

benjamin.parkin@ft.com

https://www.ft.com/content/3376967a-95de-4592-b9b2-850be6599b37

hotchoco, thank you very, very much ❤️

It's the last paragraph I find the most interesting when it comes to the Hindi filmindustry. It's exactly what I feel, too (“It feels besieged by the government, and by bad box office returns.”).

As for ShahRukh, it's this remark (by Suparna): “This love that Shah Rukh enjoys, ... he’s earned this.”

Concerning India, I always agreed with what ShahRukh said in both the interviews (Barkha and Sardesai), I've posted. It is something independent from ANY government or political affiliation, it is his basic belief that “not being secular is the worst kind of crime that you can do as a patriot” ... and he is acting on it. What he said, he didn't say to promote himself, he didn't talk as an actor/entertainer, he took a stand that basically is a deep wish for India (and maybe humanity at large).

I think, I'll never going conform with any debate that gives religion as an argument for crimes...for me, it's like SRK's Rizwan learned from his mother: When people are doing bad things, they are bad people (at least at that moment when doing them)...good people are doing good things.

I know that some here would like that SRK leaves India (either because they fear for him or they hate him), but I suppose that he is one of those persons who won't let fear determine the own life.

Originally posted by: Clochette

hotchoco, thank you very, very much ❤️

It's the last paragraph I find the most interesting when it comes to the Hindi filmindustry. It's exactly what I feel, too (“It feels besieged by the government, and by bad box office returns.”).

As for ShahRukh, it's this remark (by Suparna): “This love that Shah Rukh enjoys, ... he’s earned this.”

Concerning India, I always agreed with what ShahRukh said in both the interviews (Barkha and Sardesai), I've posted. It is something independent from ANY government or political affiliation, it is his basic belief that “not being secular is the worst kind of crime that you can do as a patriot” ... and he is acting on it. What he said, he didn't say to promote himself, he didn't talk as an actor/entertainer, he took a stand that basically is a deep wish for India (and maybe humanity at large).

I think, I'll never going conform with any debate that gives religion as an argument for crimes...for me, it's like SRK's Rizwan learned from his mother: When people are doing bad things, they are bad people (at least at that moment when doing them)...good people are doing good things.

I know that some here would like that SRK leaves India (either because they fear for him or they hate him), but I suppose that he is one of those persons who won't let fear determine the own life.

I want him to leave India and go to a place where he will be secure....because I fear for his family and him....this present govt is not going anywhere atleast for the next 10 years....

I know that you should not let fear determine your life....but SRK's life is not his own now....anyone who has kids should have the kids as their first priority...look what happened to Aryan....just because he is SRK's son...why not go to a place where he and his family won't be hated so much....what is so much ego for?? Sometimes people have to compromise a little for their loved ones....if he was alone ...I would be like...ki jo marzi hai karo....but when you have 4 other lives attached to your own...I have heard stories about how Gauri was not even eating while Aryan was in jail...how could she....no mother can....I just hope better sense prevails.....he keeps his ego and the love he has for India on the side and leaves......what will happen?? People will make fun of him....they do even now....such crap about him and his family...those who love him will understand...those who hate him....will say exactly what they are saying now...

BI, please don't worry... I don't think that his ego will be greater than his care for his family - in the contrary. You can bet on this. He would never jeopardise the wellfare of his beloved ones. I have this steadfest faith in him.

I deliberately wrote "own" life. If he really has to fear for the life of one of his beloved ones, he will act on that.

Originally posted by: Clochette

BI, please don't worry... I don't think that his ego will be greater than his care for his family - in the contrary. You can bet on this. He would never jeopardise the wellfare of his beloved ones. I have this steadfest faith in him.

I deliberately wrote "own" life. If he really has to fear for the life of one of his beloved ones, he will act on that.

I don't know what else is left to see after Aryan's fake case.....they tried to keep him in for years in the jail with the kind of charges they were putting on him....international drug peddler?? like really?? Well they didn't plan it well so Aryan was able to get out.....next time it will be well planned.....you don't know how many are sitting in jail for years without any fault but because they didn't bow down to this Govt.....all the agencies are puppets of this govt.....they are just waiting for the right opportunity...

I understand your fear, BI.