Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan turned 57 today. Speaking at a media event in 2012, he talked about why he'll always be the rowdy Delhi boy at heart.
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00:00I was from Delhi, so I used to walk like that.
00:02So I stood and I was… and I say,
00:04yes, what's that, he says,
00:05Petho nahi!
00:08Kade rao wahan pe…
00:10I said, what?
00:11Speaker 1 – Can you share with us the kind of college kid you were,
00:30tempestuous?
00:31I won't add on to the adjectives, you tell us yourself and how you've designed yourself
00:37as a superstar.
00:38Sadhguru – No, no.
00:39I was always like this, very elegant.
00:40I was always with a Dolce & Gabbana suit, extremely educated.
00:44St. Stephen's wanted me to study there, but I said, no, yeah, I'm not sure.
00:51No, I…
00:52I…
00:53You know, I don't know how to describe.
00:55I don't know how many of the people here at the ThinkFest are from Delhi, they will understand.
00:58Are there lots of Delhiites here?
01:02I'm a Delhi boy, so there is a bit of…
01:09A lot of Delhi in me and I think…
01:13In a nice sense, I say, please, I think I'm a Delhi ka gunda.
01:17Delhi mein jo bhi pehda hote hain, bade hote hain, wo gunde hi hote hain.
01:21Oye, idhar aaye saale, neeche ko aaye, saale ke dekh rahe hain, idhar aaye.
01:27So I was…
01:28I was kind of like that, brought up like that.
01:30I was in an Irish brother school, so I was having this strange dichotomy of being brought
01:35up where, you know, everything was rare, you know, everybody spoke like that and talk
01:39like that and, you know, in the morning we said the morning prayer and your shoes are
01:43not shined, Mr. Khan.
01:45So I was called Mr. Khan even…
01:46As a matter of fact, I was called Mr. Shah because, yeah, because we don't write Khan
01:51till you're eighteen, so my name was Shah Rukh and my Irish brothers thought that either
01:55my name is Mr. Shah, my parents' name or Mr. Rukh.
01:58So I was, yeah, so I was like, you know, Mr. Shah.
02:01So I was Gujarati for a part of my upbringing.
02:06So I…
02:07So I, you know, I used to play hockey and, you know, in Delhi everybody just fights for
02:13their rights and…
02:14Interviewer 1 – For their rights.
02:15Sadhguru – In a nice way and, you know, so I was brought up like that.
02:20When I came to Mumbai, I got into lot of fights, lot of fights and I didn't understand this
02:25stardom stuff.
02:26I'm from Delhi, you know, you talk nicely, everybody has to be well-mannered, I'm very
02:30well-mannered, I'm very courteous, I'm very, you know, that's the upbringing I have in
02:34the Irish brother school, St. Columbus.
02:37So I'm very well-mannered but battameezi mujhe samajh nahi aati.
02:40So the first time when I came, I remember there was a magazine which I was just talking
02:44about downstairs with Tarun and everyone, where they kind of put me on the cover of
02:50a magazine and had written a line that I had sort of been, how do you put it, decently
02:57been a think first, physical with a co-actress, yeah.
03:03And I hadn't been…
03:04Interviewer 1 – You don't have to get that decently.
03:05Sadhguru – Okay.
03:06So I was banging the shit out of this…
03:19Apologies to my Irish brother school.
03:22This is the Delhi wala part.
03:23So I, you know, so they had written… and I didn't understand this, you know.
03:28I've just been married and, you know, you have a young girl, I've known my wife when
03:32she was fourteen, I just got married, she was about twenty-two, for her, this guy becoming
03:36a movie star, what you think of Bollywood or in that time it was just the Indian film
03:40industry and, you know, she was so worried, will I be doing what supposedly movie stars
03:45will do and do in the films apart from acting and this whole thing came out and I'm like,
03:50you know, but this is not true and so I called up this lady and I said, you know, why have
03:55you written this?
03:56So she said, Shah Rukh, it's a joke, she said, it's a joke but it's not funny.
04:04Lady do you hear me talking, laughing?
04:06And I wasn't saying it like this, my Delhi wali said, teri p***y, tujhe hasi aa rahe
04:09hai, main has raha hoon pe.
04:13It wasn't her mistake I think but she didn't understand what I was talking because, you
04:17know, I was speaking in Delhi language, tum hain pe rukham, main aata hoon, main tumhe
04:20dekhta hoon and I went there, I fought, I beat up people and I did some really, really
04:25nasty stuff which is a natural thing that Delhiites do.
04:29They don't know in the other parts of the country it's considered nasty.
04:33So I behaved really badly and I was jailed and my father-in-law had given me as they
04:40do in Delhi in Punjabi weddings, a sword to carry on the ghori when I got married to my
04:46wife ghori and I carried that sword to that journalist's house.
04:52Yeah, my father-in-law had told me, he's an army officer, so he said, son, make sure you
04:59protect my daughter.
05:02Nobody was saying anything to her daughter but I thought this is a good weapon and it's
05:07sanctioned by the Indian Army so I went there and I remember that young boy, he's shifted
05:15to Vancouver since then, yeah, but I talk to him now, now that I've become a gentleman.
05:21So he was sitting there and, you know, in his shorts and the whole office was sitting
05:25there and I took, it was a kukri actually, it was not even a sword, so I took the kukri
05:29and I stuck it between his legs and I don't know why, like an idiot, now that I think
05:34of it, I looked at his parents and I said, you know, I'm going to cut him up and the
05:40poor, you know, this old couple were just sitting, they didn't understand anything.
05:45They were like, you know, so many other people have come for dinner and a chat, why is this
05:50gentleman behaving like this, beta?
05:53And why is he trying to do this with a sword between your legs?
05:57And so I got into a big fight and then one day, I was, next day, and I thought I've done
06:02the Delhi wali thing, ki peh***, agli baar kisi ne kiya na, kaat daalunga, toh daalunga,
06:07toh daalunga, kaat daalunga, kaat daalunga, toh daalunga, kaat daalunga, kaat daalunga,
06:08kaat daalunga, kaat daalunga.
06:09Like, kind of, I've repeated my dialogues at MCA, zinda gaad dunga zameen pe and all
06:13I did, all that stuff and then I went away thinking I've won this battle.
06:17Next evening I was shooting for a film called Kabhi Haan, Kabhi na, which is my favourite
06:20film and I was doing a, I was acting like a comic don, ironically, and cops came who
06:26were very sweet, they talked to me, they took pictures with me and then they said, you know,
06:31sahab ne aapko bulaya hai, so I said yeah, yeah, of course, I'll come yeah.
06:33My mother was a magistrate.
06:34I've been in jail in Delhi many times.
06:36And my mother, you know, these things work in Delhi.
06:38You can kind of make a call and say,
06:40meri mummy magistrate hai, so nice to meet you.
06:43So for a few fights and all,
06:45my mother had gotten me out of the lockup.
06:48So mom wasn't alive, but they took me,
06:50and they took me after six o'clock, so I can't get bail.
06:54And I remember there was this gentleman,
06:59Inspector Mr. Khan.
07:01And I went in, and you know, with my swagger,
07:03this was the chair, he was standing there,
07:05and I'm like, yeah.
07:08I was from Delhi, so I used to walk like that.
07:10So I stood, and I was, and I said,
07:12yes, what's this?
07:13He said,
07:14petho nahi!
07:14Cut it off wahan pe, all right.
07:18I said, what?
07:19And I'm like,
07:20aaj meri maa zinda hoti na.
07:22So he put me in a lockup.
07:31And then he said,
07:32you're allowed to make one phone call.
07:34And that's when I realized,
07:34I'm cut out to be a Hindi film hero.
07:37Because instead of making that one phone call
07:38to my family, friends, or any lawyer that I would have had,
07:42which I didn't,
07:43I made the call to that guy who had reported me.
07:48And I said,
07:49saale, ab tu jail bhi chala gaya hoon.
07:52Aur ab tu nikal ke aaunga, aur dir ko kaat ke hi jaaunga.
07:57I guess I do remember that I went back to the guy's house.
08:04There were cops outside his house.
08:06And I asked for a light from one of the cops,
08:08who was very still,
08:09Shah Rukh Khan, Shah Rukh Khan.
08:10He lit my cigarette.
08:11I opened the window,
08:12looked at the guy,
08:13I said, I'm coming and get you now.
08:15I'm gonna be very mean to you.
08:16I threatened everyone in their office.
08:20But then, you know,
08:21it so happened that I was,
08:23they put my fingerprints and,
08:24you know,
08:25then this Inspector Khan Sahib told me,
08:28revenge tastes the sweetest when it is served cold.
08:33So, wo unnis saal pehle ki baat hai.
08:35Main abhi bhi wait kar raha hoon,
08:36ki kab wo Vancouver se wapas aayega.