Talking face-to-face with Shah Rukh Khan is hypnotic. If you aren’t paying attention, he will know and you’ll hardly ever find yourself in a conversation with him where your attention deviates. In an industry cluttered with actors handing out drearily generic quotes, Khan has mastered the art of making every interaction unique.
With him, the experience is so personalised (he makes sure to keep repeating your name at regular intervals), that you leave thinking that you’ve managed to capture the man like nobody yet, extracted something so deep and profound that it’s going to stir up a stream of emotions in the reader by offering a philosophical insight into the superstar's meditative space.
And that’s where his talent really lies. He can quote verses from the Bhagwad Gita and then jump to someone as removed from Hindu mythology as Apple’s Tim Cook, and yet his analogy will make complete sense.
When I meet him at his Mumbai bungalow, Mannat, the 50-year-old superstar, who recently completed 24 years in the film industry — his debut film Deewana released on June 25, 1992 — looks like he’s had a rough night and an early start. He is dressed casually, in blue denims and a navy blue tee. Smoke covers his face as he sits in his dimly-lit library, a sprawling space with titles ranging from Bill Bryson and Haruki Murakami to Paulo Coelho and Woody Allen; to Khaled Hosseini and Gabriel García Márquez.Read More
With him, the experience is so personalised (he makes sure to keep repeating your name at regular intervals), that you leave thinking that you’ve managed to capture the man like nobody yet, extracted something so deep and profound that it’s going to stir up a stream of emotions in the reader by offering a philosophical insight into the superstar's meditative space.
And that’s where his talent really lies. He can quote verses from the Bhagwad Gita and then jump to someone as removed from Hindu mythology as Apple’s Tim Cook, and yet his analogy will make complete sense.
When I meet him at his Mumbai bungalow, Mannat, the 50-year-old superstar, who recently completed 24 years in the film industry — his debut film Deewana released on June 25, 1992 — looks like he’s had a rough night and an early start. He is dressed casually, in blue denims and a navy blue tee. Smoke covers his face as he sits in his dimly-lit library, a sprawling space with titles ranging from Bill Bryson and Haruki Murakami to Paulo Coelho and Woody Allen; to Khaled Hosseini and Gabriel García Márquez.Read More
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