"I don’t want to have all these baggages of anger and hatred." Throwback to 2011 when Shah Rukh Khan talked about how he learned to react to the controversies around him.
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00:00So only humanly impossible to ignore some of the things which are said about me. I don't deal in numbers
00:06I'm a person who deals with feelings you wake up with a feeling that Oh God to be Shahrukh Khan
00:12Yeah, and then that is when you get up with the feeling Oh God to be Shahrukh Khan
01:01There has been a phase of Shahrukh Khan silence around you, of course, there's been a lot of noise
01:06So we just thought we'd talk about the noise that surrounds you and how your silence is actually full of strength and superstardom
01:13So shall I begin please? All right. So why the silence, you know, there has been
01:18So much said so much. I never think anyone thinks negative about me
01:25But I've been feeling
01:27That with the kind of talk and things that I read or are said about me at times
01:32I start carrying different kind of emotions or
01:36manifestations of those emotions like anger jealousy hatred
01:40Disturbance sometimes even love longing
01:43Passion and I have realized this that with so many things to carry
01:48With so many attachments the journey of my life begins to sound and feel very heavy
01:54I don't want to have all these baggages of jealousy and anger and hatred and it's only humanly
02:00Impossible to ignore some of the things which are said about me. I noticed a lot of people using my name
02:05I think rather frivolously and just saying things and I'm like should I react to it?
02:10So I have now in constant myself into myself and I've decided not to have these baggages with me
02:15I have decided to do this journey free of luggage
02:19I want to just carry a handbag of my family my friends
02:23Keep very little stuff in it walk slowly
02:26happily and
02:28wonderfully on this beautiful life that Allah has given me so I
02:32think one of the steps towards those losing of that baggage is
02:36Even though it's Louis Vuitton
02:39Losing of that baggage is to just go a little quiet and be with myself for a while
02:44You see I mean that's an observation
02:46I've made that every time
02:47Another star success happens or another newcomer is the new kid on the block the first constant
02:54Comparison is with you say recently like anybody like a superstar say like Salman gives a dabang
02:59And Amir Khan gives a three idiots. Why the comparison immediately with Shahrukh Khan, you know
03:04You've had your huge fair share of box office. You've had the kind of global
03:08Acceptance that very few have seen in their lifetimes
03:11Does that on have there been jealous moments really when you kind of know about their box office success or these other films?
03:17That have that are called the biggest hits of Indian cinema lifetime blockbusters. No, not at all
03:22I I have never thought of you know that very well. I don't deal in numbers. I'm a person who deals with feelings
03:29But you know when I do a film Karan, I leave a part of me in it. I can't explain it
03:33It's an extension of myself
03:34And if my extension can be measured in some stupid number whether it falls in crores or in lakhs or in one two three
03:41It does not somehow make me feel very important about my own feelings
03:45So I have never really catered and got jealous and disturbed with that. I have never even thought of it
03:50Oh now I have something to look up to and try and beat this. I don't beat up anyone. I don't overtake anyone
03:55I have said this often enough and I say it once more
03:57I run my own race
03:59You want to try come on to the side lane go for it attempted do what you wish to but you can't touch this
04:05I am
04:07I'm blessed. I'm happy
04:09I'm thrilled and I believe in filmmaking in a very different way
04:13And when you talk about the comparisons, yes
04:18There are days when I you know, ah
04:20You wake up with a feeling that Oh God to be Shah Rukh Khan
04:24Yeah, and then that is when you get up with the feeling Oh God to be Shah Rukh Khan
04:29So, you know between these two extremes of Oh God to be Shah Rukh Khan as pompous as it sounds. I
04:37I have the most beautiful life in the world
04:39So there are days when sometimes I'm sure some other people also wake up with the same feeling
04:46Oh God to be Shah Rukh Khan. Oh
04:49God to be Shah Rukh Khan
04:51but they're not Shah Rukh Khan I
04:53have the
04:56Luxury of owning Shah Rukh Khan and that luxury very few have and I feel very happy and blessed that I can own him
05:02So I genuinely think like that. It's rationalization. It's stupid who a commander. It's my own pompous self-centered
05:11egoistic
05:12self-belief in my own
05:14Stardom, whatever it is. It keeps me happy and I don't think beyond that. I'm sure you've got a
05:20booby-dunia he but much money