Shah Rukh Khan: We don’t hold the audience at gunpoint to like every movie
Shah Rukh Khan recently wrote an article for a leading daily where he answered questions people had been repeatedly asking him off late, ‘Why don’t Indian actors address issues that affect all?’. SRK expressed that he can chose to be silent about an issue that doesn’t affect him or is something he has no knowledge
Sakshma Srivastav | Jan 26, 2017, 21:02 IST
Shah Rukh Khan recently wrote an article for a leading daily where he answered questions people had been repeatedly asking him off late, ‘Why don’t Indian actors address issues that affect all?’. SRK expressed that he can chose to be silent about an issue that doesn’t affect him or is something he has no knowledge of. He said that maintaining one’s silence doesn’t mean one is less aware or less of a person.
He further said that people pick quotes from the statements made by actors in public and produce an article from any point of view which might not throw light on the real context from which the statements were said. He wrote about playing Muslim characters consecutively in his last three films ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’, ‘Dear Zindagi’ and ‘Raees’:
You may write a piece from the point of view that I am doing three back-to-back Muslim characters. With due respect to my professionalism as an actor, I did not even know what my name was in Karan Johar’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’. I just went for two hours, did some shots and had fun with my friends, Karan, Ranbir (Kapoor) and Aishwarya (Rai Bachchan). I wrapped up around 2 am and partied till 6 am before flying back to Lisbon.
Don’t create a point of view. These are films which were postponed for two years. I would still like to believe that in this day and age, an artist is there to put across entertainment in the best way he or she thinks is possible. We don’t hold the audience responsible or at gun-point that they have to like every movie and point of view.
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