
Shah Rukh Khan's Hyderabad speech is now viral. (Image courtesy: DieHard Fan SRK)
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Everyone's quoting from SRK's speech on social media
The Internet finds SRK's speech in Hyderabad inspiring
SRK received an honorary doctorate from a Hyderabad university
Shah Rukh Khan continued, like the Internet said, to give an inspiring speech to the young students who received their degrees along with SRK. He talked about the importance of education and the aforementioned follow your heart strategy and why it's so cool.
Shah Rukh narrated an incident from his childhood about his father, who, the actor said, was highly educated but poor. "On my birthday, my father would give me one of his old possessions as he never had the money to buy me a gift. He used to make it sound very fancy. The first gift he gave me was a battered chess set, saying it teaches important things in life - like sacrifice, humility and work in cooperation. Another gift he gave me was a typewriter which made me realise practice makes you perfect." Shah Rukh Khan's speech was interjected with his patented humour and was greeted with tumultuous applause.
Watch Shah Rukh Khan's speech (the Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham reference at 1.10):
Also, watch Shah Rukh's monologue from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham:
This year, Shah Rukh Khan was seen in Maneesh Sharma's Fan and Gauri Shinde's Dear Zindagi. Next month, Shah Rukh will be seen as liquor baron Raees in Rahul Dholakia's film of the same name. He is also working on Aanand L Rai's untitled film and Imtiaz Ali's film with Anushka Sharma.