Shah Rukh Khan on his insecurity, films and more…

Shah Rukh Khan is undoubtedly the best thing Bollywood has ever had. He rules the industry like none other and he is loved for the same. But at times, even this superstar is at tenterhooks. Of late, SRK’s films have been doing fare business, but it is not equivalent to what his contemporaries like Salman Khan and Aamir Khan are making. So does this make him insecure? He gives the answer.

Talking to DNA, he stated, “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 bottomline 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.”

So is he trying to play safe? To this he said, “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.”

But what about box office numbers? Shah Rukh Khan reveals that bad box office numbers do disturb him and he gets sad, but then there is a way to deal with it. He said, “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.”

SRK will next be seen in Imtiaz Ali’s film with Anushka Sharma. (Also Check: This is how Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma will look in their upcoming Imtiaz Ali film)

Nikita Thakkar

A strongly opinionated, free-spirited, budding Bollywood journalist, she likes to write anything in her own quirky style. When not running around to get assigned tasks completed, you will find her either painting, indulging in photography or dreaming in the la la land.