New Delhi:
Shah Rukh Khan has been in the limelight for all the right reasons. The actor received the prestigious Pardo Alla Carriera award at the Locarno Film Festival on August 10. NDTV was present at the event and captured the atmosphere, the moment and the fan frenzy around the superstar. After more than three decades in the limelight, Shah Rukh said stardom is like a t-shirt to him and not a tuxedo. During a fan interaction session, Shah Rukh Khan said, “I wear stardom like a T-shirt, not like a tuxedo. It’s not important and it’s there. I’m careless about it and it’s very comfortable and I hope it stays.” He also added that stardom is a byproduct of his work, not his ultimate goal.
Shah Rukh Khan also talked about the 2016 film Fan, in which he played the dual characters of a superstar and his obsessive fan. Recalling the importance of the character, Shah Rukh said at the event, “Usually when you play a superstar in a film, it’s all glitz and grandeur and people jump and shout your name. But I wanted this guy to be afraid of his stardom, which is very difficult to do because it’s like revealing a part of every star in the world.” He added that the process was “very schizophrenic, very strange, very awkward” and that he “actually started to feel like two people”. The actor also revealed that the prosthetic chin (used in Fan) was originally made for Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
When asked what drives superstardom after spending so many years in the industry, Shah Rukh Khan said that he loves to bring joy to his audience. “I think that film contains many aspects of life, so many emotions that it is very difficult and impossible for one person to express them all in one lifetime,” he said. “I live in the hope that maybe I can continue to do different films,” added Shah Rukh Khan.
