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06:37 pm - Khan is working on his memoirs, and this session is going to be the story of his incredible journey. He talks about his roots in lower middle class roots and his father, who never let him feel poor. His mother, on the other hand, was pragmatic, he says.
06:37 pm - Khan is working on his memoirs, and this session is going to be the story of his incredible journey. He talks about his roots in lower middle class roots and his father, who never let him feel poor. His mother, on the other hand, was pragmatic, he says.
06:39 pm - He says his father's failure as a lawyer instilled a fear of failure in him and a need to make sure his children live better than he did. "I am a survivor," he says, adding that he is a capitalist at heart.
06:45 pm - His father's death was extremely hard on his sister, he says, as she went into shock for two years. She couldn't handle the loss of her parents, he says, but he developed a sense of detachment, sense of humour and flamboyance to hide his true feelings. "To avoid depression, I act," he says.
06:52 pm - Khan is now reading from his upcoming memoir, talking about travelling to Pakistan with his father and the pains of Partition. His father often told him that everything was better in Pakistan, he says, adding that his failures in India probably compounded that. Coming back from Pakistan, he says, made him realise that his father had died inside, and that is a major reason he never goes to Pakistan.
06:58 pm - "I am a Delhi boy," he says, and therefore a goonda. That is why he used to pick a lot of fights on moving to Mumbai, he adds. He's matured, he says, but the Delhi boy in him comes out at times. Casein point: Stadium, Wankhede.
07:05 pm - Khan says that despite being a Muslim, he has often acted in Ramlilas and studied in a Catholic school. "I am very secular," he says. "My wife is a Hindu and neither of us tries to impose our religion on each other." He says that what he does want to get across is that Islam is a peaceful religion. He's tried to teach that to his kids, and the fact that they can joke about Islam now means that they are on the right track.
07:11 pm - Khan is reading the last chapter of his book, a grand summing up of his life and his many achievements ("Madhuri Dixit has danced in front of me for nine nights.").
07:20 pm - "There is something wrong with me. i sense it, I feel it, but I don't know what it is," says Khan, talking about the gulf between his public and private lives. He says all he wants to carry on doing what he does. "The only reason I do this is because a mother somewhere with a strange child is watching my films," he says. But there is something wrong somewhere, he says. But what he has decided to do whatever the people want from him and not care. "I don't want to be a successful failure like my father; I just want to be bloody successful," he says.
Edited by -ricky- - 13 years ago
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