"If I'm ugly, I'll do bad guy roles.” Shah Rukh Khan revealed how he turned criticism into charm.
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00:00So, I went to meet a director who called me, a very famous director, and he said, you know,
00:04the most attractive part of you is that you're very ugly, you know, because all these heroes,
00:11they look really Swiss chocolate-like.
00:16While I was finishing that, I remember Mr. Yash Chopra telling me that I want to cast
00:20you in a love story.
00:22You don't look such a bad guy, and he made DDLJ with me.
00:27You weren't always the hero.
00:43So you started, you also played villains.
00:47So how did the switch happen?
00:49What clicked inside of you?
00:51So when I came to Mumbai, I was quite, I thought I was very old.
00:54I was, I think, 25, 26.
00:56I started late compared to what people start in films now.
01:00I started at the age of 26.
01:02And most of the films being made that time were about college love stories.
01:07So I found it strange to be sitting on a desk in a chair and behaving I'm in college.
01:12I found it awkward.
01:14But I didn't find it awkward enough that when I became 32, I did the same thing in Kuch Kuch
01:18Hota Hai.
01:21So I went to meet a director who called me, one very famous director, I won't take his
01:24name now.
01:25I won't mind, I know, but I won't take his name.
01:27And he said, you know, the most attractive part of you is that you're very ugly.
01:33You know, because all these heroes, they look really Swiss chocolate like.
01:41I didn't look like Swiss chocolate.
01:44So I said, okay, if I'm ugly, I'll do bad guy roles.
01:47So I did bad guy roles.
01:48And one of the bad films, bad guy roles I did was in Switzerland.
01:53It was a film called Dar.
01:59Just for everyone who's seen it, I love you.
02:06So I came here.
02:07And I think being in Switzerland and drinking your milk, I became chocolatey.
02:14Because as soon as, while I was finishing Dar, I remember Mr. Yash Chopra telling me
02:18that I want to cast you in a love story.
02:21You don't look such a bad guy.
02:23And he made DDLJ with me.
02:26Yeah, so then one thing led to the other, then I became the good guy.
02:40Now I'm the good guy sometimes, the bad guy sometimes, or a mix of both the guys sometimes.
02:48During COVID, my hair grew, there was nobody to cut them.
02:53And I was working out a lot.
02:55And one day, I saw myself in all my glory in the mirror.
02:59And I looked at my body and my hair and I said, I'm Tarzan.
03:05I have to do an action film.
03:08And it was so strange.
03:09Adi, who's made DDLJ with me, called one day and COVID was just kind of dissipating.
03:14People could meet each other in that two hours, three hours.
03:17And he dropped him and he said, you know, I have a film.
03:20And I said, yeah.
03:21And he said, a guy is beating you and you've got long hair.
03:25I said, yeah.
03:26And then he says, who are you?
03:30And he says, I'm so and so.
03:31And you say, Zinda hai.