SRK: I feel like I am still struggling, doing the same thing since 25 years
| Dec 6, 2016, 16:41 IST
Shah Rukh Khan has been ruling the Indian film industry for over twenty-five years now. The superstar was recently asked if he ever felt like stardom has spoiled him. To this, Shah Rukh said, "It will sound really arrogant on print! But I don’t find it surprising that I am successful or great. I am, I was always meant to be. To me, it was a natural course of things. I worked very hard then, I work very hard now. And I am really going to be good at this. So it might sound arrogant, but it's an innocent belief of a child. So if you put it across like that, that could be the reason. But this was meant to happen. God had ordained it for me and I expected it in the nicest, humblest of ways."
The actor continued, "The second way to look at it is: I am detached from material things and am very emotional about people. But it's simultaneous, that's why I coined the term. I am not attached to anything and am very emotional about my success, my work and getting it right. And the third part to it is that I still don't think I have achieved the kind of success I need to. I still feel I'm struggling and I'm still doing the same thing I was doing 25 years ago.
I sit in a car, Mohan drives me, I go to shooting, I wear make-up. I'm as excited today because the teaser has released as I'm on any other day. If there’s a scene that goes wrong, I have to get it right. Then the Friday comes and the movie is out. I take a bath for two hours. And then, if the film is a big hit, I get back working harder. So that I can make a bigger hit. If it's a big flop, I get back working harder so that I can make a hit again. At the end of it all, I just end up taking that bath on Friday and getting back to my job. So, I don't know what else to feel proud of or look up to. I have not been able to count the number of T-shirts that I bought in my last outing from New York. I don't have the time. I don't even have time to stand and stare and I'm okay being like that. I don't want that. I can't look back upon something and say, 'Oh, I have achieved it'."
The actor continued, "The second way to look at it is: I am detached from material things and am very emotional about people. But it's simultaneous, that's why I coined the term. I am not attached to anything and am very emotional about my success, my work and getting it right. And the third part to it is that I still don't think I have achieved the kind of success I need to. I still feel I'm struggling and I'm still doing the same thing I was doing 25 years ago.
I sit in a car, Mohan drives me, I go to shooting, I wear make-up. I'm as excited today because the teaser has released as I'm on any other day. If there’s a scene that goes wrong, I have to get it right. Then the Friday comes and the movie is out. I take a bath for two hours. And then, if the film is a big hit, I get back working harder. So that I can make a bigger hit. If it's a big flop, I get back working harder so that I can make a hit again. At the end of it all, I just end up taking that bath on Friday and getting back to my job. So, I don't know what else to feel proud of or look up to. I have not been able to count the number of T-shirts that I bought in my last outing from New York. I don't have the time. I don't even have time to stand and stare and I'm okay being like that. I don't want that. I can't look back upon something and say, 'Oh, I have achieved it'."