"My English is not good." Here’s a flashback of Shah Rukh Khan saying he would rather take Indian films abroad than work in a foreign film himself. #TBT
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00:00These ladies told me we have a button to go up the escalators, we have a button to drive the car, we have the button to make the juice, we don't have a button to cry, so we watch your movies because you are a button to cry.
00:12You are the greatest Bollywood star, but what's about Hollywood? Have you ever planned to work in the Dream Factory and would it be also interesting for you to work in a European film production as an actor?
00:32My English is not good. If they give me a role of a dumb person who doesn't speak maybe, but with all, I mean I'm not trying to be modest, but I think, I'm 42 years old, I'm a little brown, I don't have any special USP as an actor, I don't have any speciality as an actor, I don't know Kung Fu, I don't dance the Latin Salsa, I'm not tall enough,
00:59I think anyone who's my age in the western world, I've seen some of the films of, recent films in Europe, I've seen a lot of films of what you call the Dream Factory, I think there is no space for me, there is no place for me, because I don't think I'm that talented, so I would like to continue doing work in India and hopefully take Indian cinema to the world, that's the ambition I have.
01:25I've been working for long and I would like people to see Indian movies and because I have been put in a place where I have become important in my world of cinema, I would like through me, you know, people in Germany or in America or in areas which are not popular, popularly watch Indian films, perhaps in my lifetime I can take it there, but I have no, and it's also not my choice, it's not like I land up in LaGuardia or I land up at the LA airport in Steven Spielberg,
01:55Steven Spielberg is waiting for me there, he's not, so I don't think I'd be turning there, I'd just like to make some nice Indian movies, that's all.
02:03What do you think, what is, that has made you so popular in the West? In your own opinion, what part of your acting is liked so much in the West that you are so popular? And why Om Shanti Om this time to Balina Ali Bal, because this kind of movies are very common in Bollywood. Thank you.
02:25First, these kind of movies are not common anywhere in the world. This is the most unique, uncommon film ever made in the history of mankind. And it has to do a little with the fact that I produced it, so I'm.
02:41I really don't know, I've wondered myself, so I always quote this all over the world, my friend is here, she'd remember, I say this everywhere, I had these ladies from Germany and I asked them once that, you know, what is there, what is that so special that you like about the movies that I do?
02:59And they said, which I think stands for a lot of the Western world, in no which way am I deriding, but I think, you know, as you progress in the world, a lot of things become mechanized. And these ladies told me, we have a button to go up the escalators, we have a button to drive the car, we have the button to make the juice, we don't have a button to cry.
03:18So we watch your movies because you are a button to cry. So I guess, you know, it's the kind of emotional content that the movies are worked and have provided, whether it's comic relief, whether it's drama, whether it's, you know, just crying out loud, you know, I guess that sort of is attractive.
03:37Plus, I think somewhere down the line, as the generations are progressing, I would really like to say it's not because of me that people have liked the movies and I'm not being modest, I'm not modest by nature. But honestly, I believe that as the world is progressing, there is this unification, you know, amongst the hearts and minds of people that, you know, it's cinema, it's storytelling, so what if we don't know the language, but it's a story, let's hear it.
04:01You know, when I was young, I used to use, read Grimm's fairy tales, which have nothing to do with my country, or Anderson, Hans Anderson, you know, fairy tales, which have nothing to do with my country. And if you read Panchatantra, which is from my country, you would still find some interesting stories that you read.
04:17So, I guess the world is changing, the younger people, the new generation which is coming in, they do want to, you know, sort of take on the rest of the world just for the stories they tell. So, I guess that could be the reason, it's not, I would have liked to believe it's because of me, but that's really not true.