Shah Rukh Khan photographed at the preview launch event of Dilwale.
New Delhi:
It was 1.30 in the afternoon of December 11. Actor Shah Rukh Khan was about to launch the Shah Rukh Khan Film Festival at a Mumbai multiplex. He was also supposed to unveil the latest trailer of his upcoming release, Dilwale. Sha Rukh has just topped the Forbes India Celebrity 100 list for 2015, and was asked to comment on it at the event.
"Mummy mummy main phir se ameer ho gaya," quipped Shah Rukh. "I don't know I get really embarrassed about it but there are people behind me who take care of the business and take it forward. In films, the director makes the film but the hero takes all the credit. In business as well, there are other people who work at it and it's my face that gets plastered in Forbes instead," he added. (Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan is Top-Earning Indian Celeb, Outranks Salman, Big B)
Now that remark would have people believe that the King Khan's men are solely responsible for his millions, but a few hours later Shah Rukh addressed the alumni of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). SRK, who has previously talked at the Yale University and the University of Edinburgh, had some gems for the business graduates as well.
"No matter how hard we work, leadership implies being prepared for disaster. And it will come. If it doesn't hit you like a tsunami washing away your house and home, it'll show up some other way; as failure maybe, or by taking away something or someone you loved and believed in. So what are you going to do about it?" he said.
"You can cry and wallow. I do that often and I am not ashamed to admit it. I do that in a special corner reserved for tears in my huge golden bathroom. Somewhere between the jacuzzi and the steam room, I sit on the floor and shed huge tears of self-pity, persecution and how the world doesn't understand my genius and efforts. But then I take a hot and cold shower and walk out wearing my limited edition cologne, ready to embrace disaster. So a bit of wallowing and crying is okay. But the thing to understand is that if you learn how to welcome disaster you overcome it," he concluded.
Dilwale is produced by SRK's Red Chillies. Though there's no way we can tell how the film will fare in the critics' department, it surely looks like a great product for the box office. The film also stars Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, and releases on December 18.
"Mummy mummy main phir se ameer ho gaya," quipped Shah Rukh. "I don't know I get really embarrassed about it but there are people behind me who take care of the business and take it forward. In films, the director makes the film but the hero takes all the credit. In business as well, there are other people who work at it and it's my face that gets plastered in Forbes instead," he added. (Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan is Top-Earning Indian Celeb, Outranks Salman, Big B)
Now that remark would have people believe that the King Khan's men are solely responsible for his millions, but a few hours later Shah Rukh addressed the alumni of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). SRK, who has previously talked at the Yale University and the University of Edinburgh, had some gems for the business graduates as well.
"No matter how hard we work, leadership implies being prepared for disaster. And it will come. If it doesn't hit you like a tsunami washing away your house and home, it'll show up some other way; as failure maybe, or by taking away something or someone you loved and believed in. So what are you going to do about it?" he said.
"You can cry and wallow. I do that often and I am not ashamed to admit it. I do that in a special corner reserved for tears in my huge golden bathroom. Somewhere between the jacuzzi and the steam room, I sit on the floor and shed huge tears of self-pity, persecution and how the world doesn't understand my genius and efforts. But then I take a hot and cold shower and walk out wearing my limited edition cologne, ready to embrace disaster. So a bit of wallowing and crying is okay. But the thing to understand is that if you learn how to welcome disaster you overcome it," he concluded.
Dilwale is produced by SRK's Red Chillies. Though there's no way we can tell how the film will fare in the critics' department, it surely looks like a great product for the box office. The film also stars Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, and releases on December 18.
