BLOCKBUSTER KRRISH clocks 200cr - Page 36

Who did you share your happiness with?
I share my happiness with every single person I come across. I share it with myself and my alone moments and give myself a pat on my back. And then it is about going to the next challenge. It's important for you to recognise what you have done and have achieved and have a true sense of yourself. I have done it through my hard work, my struggle, through my pain, by overcoming my issues, my disadvantages and I know that this is a great victory in every sense.

Did you cry at the end of your achievement in the last few days? I understand the overwhelming feeling and allowing yourself to let go and breathing that sigh of relief. But I have had so many such moments that now, it is about the journey. The greatest victory ofKrrish 3 is the fact that we have been enthusiastic about it for 365 days for the last three years. How long can you live to enjoy that peak? Once you reach the Everest, yes it goes down in history, but you have to come down again and find the next mountain to conquer. Life goes on. It's to focus on your next step and make the best of life no matter what happens. It's true that life is a journey and the journey of the film has been its greatest victory.

Javed Akhtar and Sanjay Leela Bhansali believe that you are a true-blue superstar of our industry who has not been given his due?
I disagree with that. You get exactly what you deserve to get. If you start seeing your life based on what labels are put on you, be it good or bad, it is of little importance. What is important is how you see yourself. A person on the street can see himself as a superstar if he truly decides to. I see myself as an aspiring superstar and superhero. I want to live by those values and codes. To tirelessly be in contribution to the world and to be able to love like no other. But to do that you need to recognise your weaknesses and the aspirations of a superhero that make you a superstar. There is a story behind every successful man. And that story inevitably starts off with weaknesses. Those weaknesses need to be put through fire and you need to go through that fire to come out with infinite possibilities. Once you have learnt that lesson, then you are not afraid of any other fire as you know that the more fire you go through, the stronger it makes you.

Is there an added emotion in this film for you due to your father being the director?Of course. I am so proud and so happy. He is the only director who has had four historic hits in a row. From Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai to Koi Mil Gaya to Krrish to Krrish 3. He is unstoppable and I can lay a bet that he is going to go on for 20 years giving more historical hits.

In the few days, has Rakeshji said anything to you to share his happiness?
Nothing needs to be said as there is perfect understanding between me and my father. But yes, we have had some amazing moments in silence. It's that feeling of warmth you feel in your heart that is reciprocated and we both know we have done this together as a team. We are still in the process of achieving that victory and there is still a need to nurture the baby and the process is on. We have still not abandoned that effort in making it fly.

Where would you like to see it?
No one can foretell the numbers but there is no limit. The idea is to discover the limit and that discovery process is on. We will discover its potential once it reaches that limit. It's like your child going up and achieving success and you want him to do better and better and grow powerful and more successful.

One of your friends, Shah Rukh Khan's film Chennai Express holds the highest box office record so far. How does it feel to compete with your own friend's record?
Not just Shah Rukh, but every single person who is trying to push our cinema forward, is a part of this brigade and we stand hand-in-hand pushing ourselves to contribute to our cinema. I congratulate every single one of us. It is not about beating the other. It's about getting inspired by the other and hoping that the next person will be inspired by you and will break your record.

Did your sons like it?
They were very excited and loved it. I was concerned while they were watching whether it would stimulate their minds and it did. They were constantly trying to analyse what will happen next and when you have that kind of involvement from the kids, you know you have a good product. The best part is that they involve Krrish in their imagination when they are playing with their friends just like they involve other superheroes. When they play with action figures they are assigned some figures. Recently, they were playing where one of their friends was Batman and the other Superman. And suddenly one of them became Krrish and said, 'But I am Krrish and can beat you all.'

How Krrish are you in real life?
I want to be. It's easy to be a superhero. You just have to decide. Keep moving forward no matter what happens in your life. Contribute to the world. That's what life is about. Anybody who has been successful in their life has contributed in someway to a bunch of people who have then given back to others. Your service, however, cannot be self-indulgent. If you are making a film, it cannot be something that only you can watch in your drawing room. It must make people happy.

How have you managed to remain so humble?
You have to be stupid to not be humble. We are all mortals. And whatever power is bestowed upon us has been done by others. Yes, it may be because of your hard work, but if you think you can be great in isolation, you are the stupidest person in the world. Not being humble does not have an advantage at all. So even if you look at it from an intelligent point of view, being humble will create a nicer environment around you. It's the easiest thing to be and is common sense.