Shah Rukh Khan completed 28 years in Bollywood today. In 2017, he spoke about why his fandom extends to nearly every single continent.
Thanks ConnectedtoIndia.com for the footage.
Thanks ConnectedtoIndia.com for the footage.
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00:00I got to know they have things named after me and I think Kuch Kuch Hota is something
00:07which had touched their hearts there.
00:08I have no idea.
00:09There are certain countries in the world which I myself get quite surprised, pleasantly surprised
00:14that they like me so much.
00:17I'm going to start a question about your fandom.
00:26How does it feel to be loved by so many millions of people across the world and now your fanbase
00:31seems to be growing beyond Indian diaspora?
00:34I just feel extremely grateful.
00:36There are a lot of, I don't know the exact reason for it but I think the whole way so
00:45many beautiful directors, producers, actors, actresses have worked with me over the years.
00:50I think the timing that I came in and the fact that so much of the diaspora has spread
00:54so far and wide and doing so well for themselves, I'm glad that I could be born in these times
01:00where they can all afford to, they can all feel proud of the country and give me so much
01:07to cherish my life about.
01:10I know this for a fact.
01:11I truly believe this that a lot of the stardom is basically dependent because everyone from
01:17across the world has loved my films for so many years.
01:19So thank you very much.
01:20I feel extremely grateful and very very humble by the fact that somehow people around the
01:26world like me so much.
01:28With your market expanding and more and more non-Indians also watching your movies now,
01:32have you analysed some of the work you do?
01:35Have you changed your personal approach to the films you do?
01:39No, no.
01:40Given the kind of films that I've been doing lately, maybe barring a fan, which could be
01:45designed in a way because it's songless, I think there's a whole format if you're trying
01:51to really cater to an international audience which is not diaspora.
01:54Our cinema, Indian cinema, has its own language.
01:58It's based in different kind of acts.
02:00It's got a song and dances.
02:02It is longer than what international cinema normally expects to see, international audience
02:09expects to see.
02:10So I've never really gone down that road as yet where let's make a film which is screenplayed
02:17and designed so that the non-diaspora also can enjoy it.
02:21Of course, I think somewhere down the line the language will also be an aspect of it.
02:25You will have to do it in an English language or a language which is more wider spoken than
02:30Hindi perhaps.
02:31It can't be just subtitled.
02:33So no, I really haven't gone down that road.
02:35Having said that, one does try to marry the two at times, you know, like with fan, perhaps
02:41not succeed completely.
02:43But the attempt is there that you keep on taking.
02:46The most important attempt from my side is that even if it's diaspora or the people who
02:51are not comprising of the diaspora, when they see an Indian film, they should take pride
02:56in it.
02:57So I keep attempting that through my production and my films that I say technologically something
03:03more advanced, try and make it of a quality.
03:06How did your love affair with Malaysia start and when did you start hearing about it the
03:11first time that they love you there?
03:14I have no idea.
03:15There are certain countries in the world which I myself get quite surprised, pleasantly surprised
03:20that they like me so much.
03:21Malaysia is one of them.
03:22I am Datuk there.
03:23They have given me an honorary honour there.
03:26And Germany, Suriname, Poland I made to understand, Morocco, you know, some places, you know our
03:33culture, you know, kind of crisscrosses.
03:38Some of the countries there is no really take including the language and then people love
03:42you so much.
03:43So I remember I had gone down to Malaysia once to shoot a film One Tukka Four and I
03:47was very tired while waiting for the shot to be devised in a small little place somewhere
03:52in Malaysia.
03:53You know, you take like a holding area.
03:56So I just sat on the sofa and went to sleep.
03:58And when I woke up, this whole set of people sitting, 20, 30 young girls and women were
04:03sitting around me.
04:05And I felt very awkward that maybe I am, you know, sat in their house space.
04:08And they were looking at me and I had no idea.
04:10And they turned me around and in the corner of the house, they took my pictures.
04:14I didn't see them earlier.
04:15And they all knew me.
04:18And they called me little differently, they called me Shaukhan.
04:21They don't say my name as I say it.
04:24And it was quite amazing.
04:25I got to know they have things named after me and I think Kuch Kuch Hota is something
04:30which had touched their hearts there.
04:31So it's pleasantly surprising even in Germany.
04:36I have no understanding why they would love me so much there.
04:40But somehow, I have made a place in their hearts and I'm glad it's happened rather
04:45than it's not happened.
04:46So it's very sweet.