A ‘self aware’ actor will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality, believes superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who refrains from saying or doing certain things.
“I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality,” Shah Rukh, who has acted in more than 75 films, including romantic, action thrillers and dramas, said.
He shared his views while in conversation with lyricist Prasoon Joshi at an event where he was honoured with Rajasthan Patrika Concerned Communicator Award.
“No matter how good I am as an actor..I can do this role also, that also, I can also prepare…lot of things I can do to change my personality and be in the role that I want to be. But as hard as I will try, I don’t think it can ever go beyond my upbringing,” he said.
“So, somewhere I feel that my upbringing is very simple. My parents have taught me good things, personally I shy away from talking something wrong,” he said.
In his glorious career Shah Rukh has essayed negative roles in “Darr”, “Baazigar” and “Anjaam”, and later earned the tag of ‘Badshah of Romance’ by playing a perfect lover boy in romantic films like “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”, “Dil To Pagal Hai” and “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”.
He was also lauded for doing films like “Swades” and “Chak De! India”.
The actor said that his personality reflects in the kinds of films he does.
“I can’t say some things in the films. I feel that it will not look good when I will watch them with my kids, even alone. There is a natural censorship inside my system,” the 47-year-old said.
“But having said that, I don’t know if that censorship is so personal that it may happen, especially my sense of humour, that people get me wrong, it hurts some sentiments, it disturbs lot of people,” added the actor, who has been involved in many controversies also.
Currently, the actor is busy promoting his forthcoming film “Chennai Express”. Directed by Rohit Shetty, it features Deepika Padukone as the female lead.
@Day. I know what the term “Risk” means u dont need to explain to me. Aamir khan took risk only with 1 movie ie lagaan. Apart from Lagaan he never took huge risk in his entire career. Doing less movie means less risk, take hrithik roshan example, what happened to him when he did more movies after Kaho Na Pyar hai, he retained his success back when he started doing less movies. Aamir is not spantaneous like sharukh , he need more time that’s why he do less movies. First u shud to know that, it is in the begining of the career most actors hesitate to take risk, however, sharukh did. Now I will tell u some movies sharukh took risk after he became successful
1. Ashoka : Sharukh was the first actor to do a period film among his contemperories, later Mangal Pnadey, Veer, Jodha Akbar came.
2. Paheli : it’s a completely different film, have u ever seen any film something in the line of paheli?
3. Swadesh : It has strong message, tell me any movie before swadesh which had strong message
4. Chak de India : without any lead heroines
5. MNIK
6. Ra one : First ever indian film in the line of terminator, Iron man etc
These all are hugely risky film apart from MNIK. And sharukh never took precaution like Aamir, saying to people that this movies are different movie like Aamir did with Dhobi Ghat and Talaash to protect his star power.
one side he says he dont like to talk about his personal life anotherside he is talking about his upbringing… why he always try to take sympathy from public by talking about parents and kids?
@being,
just because aamir rejected darr and srk did it doesn’t mean, srk took risk…..srk had just started his career and darr came along, with a negative role, and he accepted it. srk didn’t have choice at that time, he had to take anything that came his way, being a new comer.
aamir made lot of mistakes in the early 90s, and hence he rejected many films and finally he got his career right by late 90s.
@soroop, if you think the roles of tapori in ghulam and others are similar, then you need to learn a bit on what characterisation is all about. I don’t want to comment on this.
to make more clear, i still remember guys watching the film Deewana said the new boy is overacting, but somehow he connected to the audience, and it is true. Srk is an overactor and he always overdoes every emotion. But yes he connected to a group of audience in the 90s well, and became a star, but it doesn’t mean is not overacting. He is, and always will.
MNIK was a copy of Forrest Gump and if you watch Forrest Gump you will never watch MNIK. Period.
@day…sorry..i m jumping in between as ur conversation was continued wid “soroop”….but let me ask one thing….is an actor declare as a risk taker only if he will direct a movie????
for ur info…aamir has started this production business 4-5 yrs ago…but srk established his production house in 90’s itself and he is more intelligent and business minded than aamir…
moreover….if u r saying that srk took risk in darr and baazigar only, then i wud like to remind u that for a new-comer, that risk was too big…but he took it and now u can see , where he is….but u r wrong at that point too, bcoz has taken too many risks in his career not only darr/baazigar…the best example is ra-one …he did it only for ur personal emotions without caring about b.o. success or his image…. i think, even jthj was a risk for him….bcoz if he is playing a romantic role in age of 47, then u can understand, how risky it was…
but look the magic of the king…that he still managed to collect 123 cr at b.o. , which is more than 30 cr. from “talaash”…i guess ur mathematics is strong….
@jc
it wasnt a mistake buddy, aamir wanted to play safe and thats it. and i thought u r holding a neutral view, bt ur comments seems as if u r unable to keep ur hatred behind to judge srk as an actor, so no point arguing with u.
@DAY
There was no risk in doing a movie like talaash.What is so difficult in playing a policemen?And if you are talking about bhoot type character played by Kareena Kapoor, then SRK also did this type of movie called “CHAMATKAR” which was a “HIT” & not “SEMI-HIT” like Talaash.Although he was not a police officer in that.
@xzone ha ha… u say jthj a risky movie bt seriously jthj was yet another romantic film from srk
but… what u said ABOUT RA1 I AGREE WID DAT HE DARED 2 PRODUCE A BIG SCI FI FILM WID FAB VFX
BT AGAIN I DISAGREE WID U COMPARING TALSH WID JTHJ.
I mean TALASH WS NOT A UNIVRSL FILM AS SAID BY AAMIR B4 D RELEASE OF TALAASH STILL IT DID aBOUT 93.crs
@day…i said jthj as risky bcoz it was tough for him to act in a romantic muvi at the age of 47….and wat u r saying abt talash is so irrelevant…
In this multiplex era, if u r declaring talash as non-universal, then u shud study that acceptance theory once again..as atleast talash was more universal than barfi, which collected 106 cr..
Its funny how people forget to mention the real reasons for why Aamir refused to DARR which is Aamir at that point of his career didnt feel like playing second fiddle to Sunny Deol…! Both were established stars and in their right mind felt they should always be the LEAD Actor. Neither man were on good friendly terms or fond of one another so Aamir doing Darr was never an option.
PS Im glad Srk did Darr as it was a real joy to see a Real Mard ‘dushum dushum’ Thakur all over the woodlands and boat. Great scenes and Sunny bhai ji was awesome in the movie and Thakur too rocked because the bashing/ beating he took looked so Authentic. Respects to him but crediting him for taking a ‘risk’ is out of the question as at the time supporting roles were being offered to newbies so he needed work so took it. Hardly a risk taker but more like a ‘job taker’.
@soroop Stop trying to compare Aamir with Srk- both are poles apart, Srk may be more popular but Aamir is the superior actor. Be content with that.
@danish Risk is never about playing a particular character.RISKY ARE SCRIPTS.IF U COMPARE between LAGAAN AND RA1 In RELATN 2 WHICH HS NT BEEN ATTMPTD EARLIER.
LAGAAN IS DAT FILM
I MEAN A FILM ABOUT CRICKET AND DAT WID A HISTORICL BACKDROP.WHILE RA1 LYK SUPRHERO WS ATTEMPTED IN BOLLYWOOD WID KRRISH.
AND IF U ASK ME BOUT SRK PLAYING POLICEMAN IN A FILM LET ME REMIND U BOUT ‘ONE 2 KA 4’ WHICH WS A F L O P ! !
@danish and can SRK ATTEMPT A FILM A VERY LOW BUDGET FILM LYK DHOBI GHAT AFTR CE IF IT BECOMES A BLOCKBUSTER ????
@danish, @XZONE,@soroop
aftr posting so many comments still u won’t get my point becoz U ALL R DIE HARD FAN OF SHAHRUKH JUS LYK ME WHEN I WAS A CHILD BT WHEN I UNDERSTOOD CINEMA I BECAME AN AAMIR,HRITHK,AND
NAWAAZUDDIN FAN.
C fllwng an Actor madly is nt a bad thing BT BLINDLY Following someone is not a good thing.
@day
u must b knowing that a film called billu & paheli were produced by srk, if the risk has not paid of, it doesnt mean that risk was nt taken. and in films like lagaan & rdb the script was more praised than aamir’s acting & on the other hand srk’s acting was highlight in films like swadesh & cdi. yes, there is no match to aamir’s script selection, but that doesnt make him a better actor.
@xzone u reside in which zone of the earth I don’t knw
but ur knwldge about cinema shows dat u r confind to only srk’s films it seems.
@Day. I am putting the fact then how come I am a blind fan. U have nothing to say so ur accusing. I agreed in producer view Lagaan was a huge risk so is Paheli, Ashoka, and Ra one. And Darr, CDI, Swadesh is risky movies as an actor for sharukh khan. Paheli was considered as sharukh’s last flop but Dobhi ghat is not considered as Aamir’s flop, tell me why is that?. It’s bcuz Aamir warned audience that the film is for a certain section of audience, he cooked up lot of stories like his wife didnt considered him instead he have to request his wife n all, nice story but he didnt told 1 thing which anybody can sense that he did movie only for 1 reason that is to get an award which he didnt got eventually, poor guy. Tell me 5 movie where Aamir took risk as an producer or as an actor apart from Lagaan. If ur going to tell RDB or earth 1947 then I would say all of shyam benegal, rakesh om mehra, meera nair, nasruddin shah, OM puri, shabana azmi’s etc etc etc films are Highly risky movies
Nw’ this is what i lyk. . The comments on this page are too good nd’ no fight going on here . . Jst a healthy debate. . Really i hate cmmnts of @navin or of @sachin11. . This is hw’ it should be. . Goodgoing guys. .
Nd’ ya boti aamir nd’ srk take risks @day. . U asked can srk do a risky movie after a sucessful movie?. . Well ya he can cuz’ remember in 2004 mai hoon na nd’ veer zaara were sucessful bt’ he went on 2 do swades nd’ paheli risky movies. . I think this says it all. .
@Day
If you are talking about Lagaan being a risky film,then what you have to say about “CHAKDE INDIA,SWADES,MNIK”.These were also too risky films.CDI about women”s hockey,SWADES about a nasa scientist & MNIK about autistic patient/relgious attacks.Also not to forget RA.ONE which collected 240 crore gross worldwide.
@Xzone
Well said bro!Talaash was 1000 times more universal than Barfi.Still Talaash collected 90 crores whereas Barfi collected 106 crores.
@DAY
SRK attempted a low budget movie called “BILLU BARBER” which was a semi-hit after RNBDJ becamed a blockbuster.
@danish ha ha… u r comparing a moderate budget film billu wid low budget art cinema lyk DHOBI GHAT.
1.I wud have consdrd Billu a low bUDGET FILM ONLY IF IT DID not HAD any HIT SONGS AND SRK DANCING WID HEROINES KAREENA,DEPIKA,
PRIYANKA AND ALSO LARA DUTTA.
2. d cast of billu ws so huge how come it is a low budget???
3.priyadarshan is a COMMERCIAL FILM MAKER AND KIRAN RAO IS MORE INCLIND 2WARDS ART CINEMA.
BT..WHAT U SAID ABOUT PAHELI I AGREE WID DAT…bt Comparing Dhobi ghat wid Billu is just not fair.
DHOBI GHAT DIDNT HAD ANY MASALA IN IT.
SRK was the only star whose films were clean and family friendly since 90s. Simple entertainment that can be enjoyed by all. This is why he became the King of a billion hearts!
Some people here will never understand how much effort it takes to become king of bollywood from a local delhi boy , so debating from them is a waste of time . keep hating SRK ! You have no other work to do