Shah Rukh Khan. At once contradictory, at once oozingwarmth, at once stand-offish. The hallmark of showbiz, the hallmark of amaverick actor. Taking a five-month sabbatical, SRK is zipping around the worldand working on his autobiography.
Sowhat is Shah Rukh Khan thinking right now?A hundred things,namely what you will ask me, when will I finish my autobiography, how to say noto more films, how to say yes to money.
You are writing an autobiographyeven before you''re 40. Isn''t that a bit megalomaniacal? Am Ia megalomaniac? For sure, I am. But those who know me well enough, say I''m asimple guy with simple needs.
Yes?Nowadays you even refer to yourself in the third person. In one interview, youkept saying, ''Shah Rukh Khan believes in this...'' I play tothe gallery. I decide what the interviewer wants, and give it to him straight.You want me on the couch, right? So Shah Rukh Khan will now play the shrink. Ha!
Umm, er, ulp,okay. So what''s Shah Rukh Khan''s most over-rated virtue? I''mtold I''m kind-hearted and over-rated.
You think your acting skills areover-rated? If my acting skills are over-rated, so are yourwriting skills.
Next Page: ''Womenshould see me early morning''Does SRK have a lot ofenemies? I dunno. Success has a lot of fathers and someenemies too I guess.
You can''thandle competition? I have no competition. Every year thenames I''m pitted against keep changing. You can''t cream the competition, youhave to kill it. Some of the guys I was pitted against have more or less stoppedacting. Ha!
What''s this bisexualtalk thing about Shah Rukh Khan? That''s rubbish. I don''t domen, I don''t do women. I''m happily in love with my wife. Hey, I like that linefrom Sex and the City – I''m try-sexual. I try anything that''s sexual.Okay, I''m try-sexual (laughs). No, hey, cut that out.
Will not. Women find SRK sexy...Blame it on good taste. I think they find my characters Raj,Rahul, Devdas sexy, not me. They should see me early in the morning when Ihaven''t brushed my teeth, with dishevelled hair and bleary eyes.
So what makes you so special?Nothing really. I guess my tears on screen are real. You knowsomething? Actors are like healers. In the turbulent darkness of a theatre, theygive hope, joy to so many millions. They touch lives. You know what makes mespecial? I''m just an ordinary man in an extraordinary world.
Next Page: ''My a...e is notfor sale''So what will SRK do duringthe long sabbatical after Ashutosh Gowariker''sSwades?Watch my kids grow, borrow some of my son''s expressions. He''sreally funny at times. Twenty years down the line I don''t want to say I neverhad the time to see my kids grow up. I want to chauffeur my son on his dates, Iwant to beat up the boys who will date mydaughter.
So you don''t mind dancingat weddings? I don''t. Even you would, if you made the kind ofmoney I did. Only no one would want you to. Ha!
And movies? I''lldance in the movies only when I want to. I''m not a "my a---e is for sale actor".Make no mistake.
When will you doother kinds of cinema, better cinema? When you start askingme other questions, better questions.
So what would your epitaph read?He was a good guy... at least he tried. Come back tomorrow,I''ll give you another quote.