Shah Rukh Khan: “I Am Not an Insecure Person”

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, never fails to win the hearts of his fans with his charm. He’s a true gentleman, because of which many girls still fall for him even today! SRK, in spite of being the ‘KING’ of Bollywood, is down to earth and humble in his attitude. He always knows whenever his fans are waiting for him outside his house and he makes sure he smiles at them instead of hiding his face. Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan Plans To Open A Restaurant! While giving an interview to a leading daily, he spoke a lot about himself. People have always been curious about Shah Rukh’s insecurities. On being asked about it he said, “I have never been an insecure person. I have been in this business for long as an actor and personally as well. I feel actors and films are like water, they will find their level. I have never made a film in 25 years, except perhaps one, for any other reason than to just entertain people and make them happy. To me, the bottom line is, there’s no point doing a film if people don’t like it. The biggest goal is, can I change your mood for two-and-a-half hours when you are in the theatre and you come out walking saying that it enveloped me for these two hours in whichever way — happy, sad, intense or thinking! Besides that, there have been no other insecurities. And I have never had reasons to be insecure. There will be a film which will do badly, but there are so many of them which have done so well, too. So, when you look at it, yes you hear smatterings of conversations." "But I have been hearing it for 22 years that my career is over." Everyone keeps saying it, but people don’t understand the business, the intensity that most actors and actresses use to entertain people. I am just very happy releasing my films. If they like it, they will do well. If they don’t, then I feel sad that I wasn’t able to deliver my prime goal which is to touch your life for two-and-a-half hours.” Despite being a Box Office Superstar, Shah Rukh Khan also gets apprehensive about his releases just like any normal actor would. On being asked about his movie failures he said, “There’s an automatic shut-off system. You release the film and you know this is it. On Friday, you get to know the outcome and you can do nothing about it. I have done all that I can and that’s the best part. Did I put my best foot forward making this film? If I know that, then the hurt is a little less. It’s not for want of trying. You try. It’s like you wear a suit and you go out and not everybody will like it. Nobody’s come out wearing it for it not to work. Some are wearing it to look pretty, handsome and some are wearing it to shock you with the newness of it all. Movies are exactly like that. Sometimes, they don’t work. There’s nothing more to it than that. But if it doesn’t work personally, I get very disturbed and sad. I wish somehow I knew which story to tell. I am also not prone to doing the right thing, to try and make a safe film. It may seem so because people keep on picking up my safest thing and giving that as an example. My whole career, from when it started, whether it was with Ketan Mehta to Gauri Shinde or Rahul Dholakia, it’s never been a stayed step into films thinking ki I will make a regular film. The first film I produced was Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani which was a black comedy on news and communication. Those are not subjects people touch upon in commercial cinema. You can touch on it in a small film. Another example would be RA.One and everybody told me that science fiction doesn’t work in this country. But I spent so much money, created a VFX studio to do it. I don’t want to make a safe film. I have always said this — I’d rather go wrong doing something new than go right doing something which has been done.” Shah Rukh feels people don’t get his intentions on doing a film. He does films keeping in mind the audience and especially his fans. What looms large over his thoughts is whether his movie will change the audience’s mood for two and a half-hour? He says, “Bottom line is, my intention is not important, your entertainment is. If I was to keep on saying, ‘Please understand the intention behind my cinema and respect it for that, it won’t happen. Just because my intention is X, I don’t believe that 20-crore people will have the same intention and respect it. They should just be entertained. The best challenge is when your intention and the entertainment matches. I don’t think I can really go up to people and ask them to respect my intentions over their entertainment. My intention is for me to know, for me to do, for me to believe in. It’s supposed to entertain you; if it did, good, if it didn’t, too bad. I will try and make the combinations work together. For people who keep talking so much about what I say, what I do, what business I should have, they have not been here for 51 years and I don’t want to question their intention either. But they don’t know what they say. How can I take it seriously? I am not going to get swayed, wavered, disturbed, worried, angsty or threatened by somebody who doesn’t even know what it is. When I’m on social media, everyone seems to know the numbers and which theatres the movie should release, which holiday period is best, which film will work and which won’t. Come work with me, do it for another 25 years with me and tell me whether your points-of-view work? Does it have any basis or reasonable thought behind it? Or is it just what you are reading and saying it. It doesn’t make a difference, what people say, how they say. ‘Oh, Shah Rukh’s doing this because of this and that.’ No, it’s nothing like that. I’d never be able to walk in to this house, travel in a good plane or wear good suits and feel so proud and happy about it if I didn’t know my intentions were good, to bring about change, newness or modernity within the given parameters of Indian cinema. I know why I do what I do and if I start questioning that myself, I would never be able to enjoy the trappings of stardom. I would be guilty, but I am not. It goes wrong often and it goes right sometimes. I sometimes gloat over it and I don’t get completely disturbed by it.” For King Khan, the script has always been more important that with whom he is sharing the screen. “It’s actually more difficult to get a script like that. If you have one, I’m sure most actors will work together. You need to have a director who’s clear about what he wants to do. I don’t think that would be a problem. But you have to get a script. It’s difficult anyway to find one. Everyone doesn’t make an Ocean’s Eleven. It’s a difficult genre to work in. I guess they are making the next one with ladies now. I haven’t heard a story or nobody has narrated a story, which has a lot of actors or stars. The budgets will be big, but I’m sure if somebody has the gumption and the story, it can happen! SRK is known for his hard work. His commitment towards his work is the reason why millions of people look up to him. And hence his work is always appreciated and almost all his movies are Blockbusters! There is absolutely no doubt as to why he is called the King of Bollywood. Do you think Shah Rukh's career is over? Let us know in the comments bellow. Also watch: Shah Rukh Khan Vs Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Raees | Filmymantra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpo-Ukuxko&t=7s