More SRK
More gems from Mayank Shekhar’s interview with Shahrukh Khan:
MS: How do you explain being the prime draw among NRIs?SRK: The technical reason is the return of the cinema in the ’90s after VCRs became outdated. We did ‘yuppie’ films that featured English-speaking actors. However, let me also tell you that NRIs are the villagers of India. You meet them and they go, “What you are doing yaar; I don’t know what the f*** is happening, yaar”. They went abroad from Amritsar, Pind; and even now, 90 per cent of NRIs are from the villages of Gujarat’. The South Indians are the only educated people you will find abroad and they are not the greatest audience we have. We have a South Indian film audience but they are not our NRI audience. The bottom-line is that we are again catering to the same people.
…MS: Would you consider yourself the last of the old-world filmstars, who owns a bungalow that becomes an address in Mumbai; gets anointed ‘King’; usually plays a romantic hero…
SRK: People tell me I could be the last of the superstars. It’s nice to hear that. But I don’t think so. I’m sure there won’t be any actor who would buy my bungalow from me; but maybe construct a triplex or a building. I have got a bungalow, because I’m from Delhi, I don’t understand apartments. I always thought people in Mumbai who lived in these apartments were poor. Also, I’m very flamboyant as a person. I’m not very attached to money, so I don’t like getting into calculations; I spend freely, being extravagant in all areas of my life, whether it concerns production or any other aspect. I would like to believe I’m the last superstar, but that would be like believing that I’m going to live forever.
Well, it seems to me SRK can build himself another little bungalow with the bricks he drops every time he says anything.
Uma, the first answer is spot-on. It’s a topic of conversation among us NRIs too. I left India in 2002, and frankly, I’m caught in a time-warp with my ideas about India and life there, and every trip back is a surprise. The majority of the NRI audience genuinely doesn’t want Omkara but the feel-good cinema of K-Jo variety.
Comment by Ajay — August 10, 2006 @ 6:50 am
What I don’t understand is the intention of this post! Do you mean the reply was not sensible?
Well, though SRK’s style of explainig something seems to waver between unrelated points, it still makes sense to me.
I mean, the individual points are true!
Nithya
Comment by Well... — August 10, 2006 @ 8:10 am
What I don’t understand is the intention of this post! Do you mean the reply was not sensible?
Well, though SRK’s style of explainig something seems to waver between unrelated points, it still makes sense to me.
I mean, the individual points are true!
Nithya
Comment by Well... — August 10, 2006 @ 8:11 am
What I don’t understand is the intention of this post! Do you mean the reply was not sensible?
Well, though SRK’s style of explainig something seems to waver between unrelated points, it still makes sense to me.
I mean, the individual points are true!
Nithya
Comment by Well... — August 10, 2006 @ 8:11 am