Shah Rukh Khan: I’m a father who didn’t have toys in his childhood

Shah Rukh Khan‘s bond with his kids is famous. The man is immensely attached to his sons Aryan and AbRam and daughter Suhana. You can often spot him taking them for drives or just lazying around at home with cola, potato chips and films.

Fatherly love, which is unparalleled of course, is certainly there. But the actor probably tries to relive his own childhood as well, when he spends time with his kids.

SRK, who belongs to a very humble background, recalled his own early days, during a conversation with GQ magazine. (Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Raees’ to release in Egypt and Jordan)

‘I’m 51. I lost my dad when I was 14 or 15, and my mother when I was 25. That void never gets filled. If you lose your parents too early, you have to grow up too fast. You can’t play with toys, you have to start playing in the real world. I play with my children’s toys now. People find it odd and think perhaps I’m just a good father, but that’s not true. I’m just a father who didn’t have toys,”  he said.

Strikes a chord, right?

Ranjini Maitra

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