Its been only 2 days since we are seeing SRk as the host of KBC, and the comparisions have already started. Here is what the actor feels about the whole issue.
So, you nervous, confident or over confident?
I am anxious. Everybody thinks I am pompous but that’s a just a front for me. Inside, I’m anxious. For me it’s the creative process. You create something in isolation ? alone with your thoughts in the moment ? and when it is exposed, there is a huge explosion of public opinion. In the film industry, I know where I’m headed and whether it’s the right direction. Here, I don’t know.
Are you coping with the obvious comparisons?
There has been hype, pressure, comparisons with this other gentleman that I am not comfortable talking about. Because all this negative and positive carries to the children, and I’m wary about that. However what really hurts me are the SMSes.
The SMSes?
That newspapers carry in reader’s polls. When a Geetika from Bhayander says ‘SRK sucks’ that really hurts me. I read them all. The good and the bad. It’s like a pimple on the face. You don’t notice the rest of the face, but the pimple you notice. I remember the nasty ones. Some are very rude.
So, is there any truth to ‘SRK vs Mr Bachchan’?
He’s an accomplished gentleman who’s 64, and I am where I am, and at the stage where I am the comparison is not fair to him at all.