Meet Visharukh: SRK's only Superfan
Lucknow, Sept. 17: To many he may seem like just another crazy fan but when you step into Vishal Singh's sprawling Lucknow house, you realise that he is not just another fan of a Bollywood superstar, he is something much, much more.Vishal, now called Visharukh, is a very special fan of actor ShahRukh Khan.
Every conceivable corner in Vishal's house and office is plastered with Shah Rukh's photographs and posters. The ceilings, the walls, doors, windows, tables, drawers, wardrobes are plastered with aesthetically prepared collages of the superstar's photographs. He has even got special vinyl curtains printed with Shah Rukh's blow-ups for his drawing room.
The outer wall of his house is plastered with posters that have been chemically treated to withstand the vagaries of the weather, and his home is, quite naturally, called the "Shah Rukh House". "I spend an average of Rs 10,000-15,000 every month in buying posters, photographs and postcards of Shah Rukh and my wife and I sit together to cut and paste them together. I am glad that my wife Ruchi also shares my passion for Shah Rukh and does not resent my fondness for the actor," says the 32-year-old businessman.
However, initially, Vishal's family did resent his "madness" for the actor but later accepted it. "They realised that I had no other vices — I don't smoke, don't drink — so they accepted this," he says. Vishal first saw ShahRukh Khan in the teleserial Fauji and instantly took a liking for the actor. "I was younger so I began aping Shah Rukh.
I copied his hairstyle and even started speaking like him. Later, I realised that there was much more to the actor than just his looks. My adoration for him did not wane with the passage of time — it just grew deeper as the years rolled by," he says. Vishal says that it was because of ShahRukh Khan that he could get to marry the girl he loved. "I have seen Darr more than 500 times and there is a dialogue in the film where Shah Rukh says 'Kya karoon ki tumhe yakeen aa jaye ki main tumhe kitna chahta hoon.'
This dialogue gave me the determination to pursue the girl I loved till she relented and we got married," he recalls. In fact, it was this determination which also gave Vishal the courage to fight back cancer two years ago. "I was found to be suffering from cancer of the kidney. From Shah Rukh, I have learnt to fight in adversity and so I fought the disease till I recovered," he says with moist eyes. Vishal's devotion to ShahRukh Khan is so great that he once waited all night with his wife outside the star's residence in Mumbai to meet him.
"In 1996, we went for our honeymoon to Mumbai to meet ShahRukh Khan, but could not. We had run out of money and were scheduled to return the next day. So we decided we would meet Shah Rukh at any cost. We waited all night outside his residence and finally managed to catch his eye when he returned home at 2 am. In 2001, Shah Rukh was in Lucknow for a programme and we stood outside his hotel all night in January.
Finally, he was informed the next morning about our presence and he called us in," says Vishal. Vishal, who was voted as "Sabse Bada Deewana" by a television channel last month, has a flourishing business in homeopathic medicines and his company is called — yes, you've guessed it — Shah Rukh Force. "I want to build a hospital and a multiplex in Shah Rukh's name and then start a Shah Rukh Airlines. God willing, I will fulfil my dreams," he says.
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