Here's what you can expect from Shah Rukh Khan's autobiography!

Ritambhara Dixit | May 23, 2017, 21:15 IST
Shah Rukh Khan opens up about the delay in writing of his autobiography and what his fans can expect from it!
Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan recently announced that he will soon begin working on his autobiography. While the actor has always expressed keen interest in putting together his biography, he has often stated that he hasn't owing to time constraints. When prodded about the same in a recent interview SRK revealed that his autobiography will certainly be different.

Talking about the same Shah Rukh said, "It was meant to be an autobiography, but I found it really boring talking only about myself. So now, it’s just become a collection of very amusing, selective memories of the journey that I had, although I don’t know if people will like it."

When quizzed about the delay, SRK added, "It was meant to be for 10 years, but now I guess it has to be 20 years, since I started writing the book. So, I got delayed exactly by 10 years. New chapters kept on getting added. The earlier book ended with Aryan’s birth, but now, it will have to end with AbRam’s birth."

Shah Rukh also revealed that only a few chapters will talk about his work as he got stuck with it. SRK also gives you the liberty of skipping a few chapters. Talking about his style of writing and format of the book, SRK added, "Other chapters are about life and my experiences — some of the chapters are completely random and you can leave them. I have written, 'You don’t have to read this'. There is no continuity in the book. Of course, it is like a movie — it has a beginning, an end with flashbacks and flash forwards. Maybe a song or two, too. I am thinking about having a section of my favourite jokes in the middle — the jokes that I have always loved. It’s become a mixture, it’s not the classical format."

When asked if the book will also touch on some rather unheard experiences in his life, SRK concluded saying, "A lot of it maybe are things that I’ve spoken about, but I would like to add that there are certain things, which I don’t know how to speak to people about. Because one, they don’t ask me. Second, sometimes there’s not enough time. You can put it in a five-page chapter. There will be things which very few people know about me and some, of course, are things which generically people will know — how my mum and dad died and all that stuff. How I felt exactly when she died, nobody knows, so there’s a chapter on that. I don’t know how interesting it will be to others. Maybe, it will just be extra-sentimental."

CREDITS: DNA

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