Interview: Shah Rukh Khan

**sheem** · 16-05-2008, 05:13 AM

Date of Birth
2 November 1965, New Delhi, India

Nickname

King Khan SRK

Badshah of Bollywood

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

W e all love SRK. How about we find out about who the man really is! Shahrukh Khan was born on 2nd November 1965. He was brought up in Delhi. He has a sister named Shehnaaz, wife Gauri Khan, and a dog named Chewbacca. Shah Rukh Khan has won several awards for his outstanding performance in Darr (1993), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). Right now he is the top most actor in India. His latest hits are Chak De! India (2007), and Om Shanti Om (2007).

Shahrukh started his career in a TV serial called Fauji (1988), that won him instant recognition. He also acted in another TV soap called "Circus" (1989). He was born and raised in Delhi, and he was equally brilliant in studies and sports. He fell in love with a girl called Gauri Chibba who was then studying in Loreto Delhi. He later married her before he got his break in Bollywood. Being a Muslim man married to a Hindu woman, he and his wife combine both religious backgrounds into their children's education.

Currently, he is the most sought after actor in India. He has two children - son Aryan Khan and daughter Suhana Khan. His son, Aryan Khan, portrayed SRK as an infant in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001).

He is one of the three Khans who have been ruling Bollywood from the 90s. The other two are Aamir Khan and Salman Khan.

About His Parent

Shahrukh was never really good at Hindi in school, until his mother promised to take him to the cinema if he passed. As he loved films, he got top marks from then on. His father ran a transport company and his mother was a magistrate.

is parents died before he entered movies. Shahrukh considers it a big regret that they couldn't see what their son was to become.

Self Projection

SRK has a mannequin of himself in Madam Tussaud's Museum in England along with Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan and Salman Khan.

Personal Quotes

(December 2001, about Hrithik Roshan): I wish I looked as good as he does. And I wish I danced as well as he does!

"Yes, I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?"

"I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else"

"I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today; the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop working, and to do films till the very end, it is the only way I can express my love for them."

"To me, Devdas is the end of love stories. I've portrayed an obsessed lover, a nice lover, an angry lover, a romantic lover. And now I've played Devdas. For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. Personally speaking, I wouldn't see any of the romantic films I've acted in."

"I'm the luckiest man in the world and I don't want to hide from the faces I'm acting for. So I don't surround myself with guards, I've never given an interview in which I've said I feel bad that I can't go shopping or I can't go to Chowpatty and eat bhelpuri without being mobbed. I'm not the kind of guy who goes out wearing dark glasses (I don't think I'm a big enough star to hide behind them, honestly). I go to see movies in the cinema theatres, I go to restaurants with my family and friends even though I know people are going to disturb me there."

"God has become a generic term like `mind blowing.' It is embarrassing. I would have said that to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar. I used to tell them I want to stand in the same space as you. I've told Kamal Haasan, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go."

(August 2004): I have no competition. Every year the names I'm pitted against keep changing. You can't cream the competition, you have to kill it.

"I keep hearing that our films are escapist and unreal but I find our films the most real in the world. We don't have people going up in a rocket and single-handedly blowing up a meteor. We don't have a president on Air Force One saving the world or things coming out of people's stomachs. Our fantasies and escapism are real. It's just people singing and dancing in the street. If England had won the World Cup you would have seen people singing and dancing like that."

"I was supposed to have done Rang De Basanti (2006), the guy on the motorbike. I didn't have the dates. They were shooting in Delhi and the dates were clashing with Paheli."

**sheem** · 16-05-2008, 05:14 AM

"Shah Rukh is the Badshah of the box office. Abhishek and I can come nowhere near him.- Amitabh Bachchan"

The latecomer
Shah Rukh Khan
At 43, and despite a back problem, SRK has wrought something of a medical miracle with his latest, burnished, six pack look. Denying rumours of artificial aids, his trainer says that The Khan worked on a punishing regimen for three months.

For the longest time, he remained unaffected with the general image of a bodybuilder for a hero. Now it’s hard to miss him in bare-chested glory - six packs abs and a lean, mean, toned body. How did he do it? Cosmetic Surgery? His trainer, Prashant Sawant, pooh-poohs the allegation. It was sheer hard work -- two hours of rigorous training four times a week, low carb, high protein diet and supplements -- that did the trick, it seems. Meanwhile, Shah Rukh has followed Madonna and bought a ‘magic’ Power Plate machine for Rs 7.5 lakh, to tone up his muscles with high-speed vibration. Didn’t his back problem get in the way? No, his back has healed. “Those who think it’s impossible to achieve what he has at his age, I can only say that you have to meet him to believe the level of energy he has.” The buffed-up look is here to stay.

It was a sight guaranteed to make Lalit Modi and Shah Rukh Khan burst into a duet, no trees required. Shortly before the opening of the Indian Premier League (IPL), two men marched up Bangalore’s Brigade Road carrying a handmade poster with the sketch of a golden helmet and the words “Knight Riders” scrawled on it in English and Bengali. Victory in the first match and the prospects of sighting Shah Rukh sent sales soaring in Kolkata, clubs receiving only 10 complimentaries each.