With 25 years in the industry, Shah Rukh Khan has seen moments of rising and downfalls in his film career. The man remained undeterred by failures, and his stardom remains unaffected. Ask Shah Rukh about the insecurities that he had since the industry is competitive, the actor talking to a leading daily asserted, “I have never been an insecure person. I have been in this business for long as an actor and personally as well. I feel actors and films are like water, they will find their level. I have never made a film in 25 years, except perhaps one, for any other reason than to just entertain people and make them happy. To me, the bottom line is, there’s no point doing a film if people don’t like it. I have never had reasons to be insecure. There will be a film which will do badly, but there are so many of them which have done so well, too.”
Shah Rukh further adds, “So when you look at it, yes you hear smatterings of conversations. But I have been hearing it for 22 years that my career is over. Everyone keeps saying it, but people don’t understand the business, the intensity that most actors and actresses use to entertain people. I am just very happy releasing my films. If they like it, they will do well. If they don’t, then I feel sad that I wasn’t able to deliver my prime goal which is to touch your life for two-and-a-half hours.”
When asked about being constantly pitted against Salman Khan and Aamir Khan, and whether is the intention of doing a film is misunderstood, the actor continues, “My intention is not important, your entertainment is. If I was to keep on saying, ‘Please understand the intention behind my cinema and respect it for that, it won’t happen. Just because my intention is X, I don’t believe that 20-crore people will have the same intention and respect it. They should just be entertained. The best challenge is when your intention and the entertainment matches. I don’t think I can really go up to people and ask them to respect my intentions over their entertainment. My intention is for me to know, for me to do, for me to believe in. It’s supposed to entertain you; if it did, good, if it didn’t, too bad. I will try and make the combinations work together.”
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