SHOWBIZ NEWS : ONE ON ONE SHAHRUKH KHAN PART 1




hello love him he's often called the king of Bollywood and almost everything he touches turns to gold but he certainly faced a lot of challenges on the path to his remarkable stardom this week on 101 meet the man long considered the Indian film industry's hottest property Shah Rukh Khan few could have predicted the incredible success of this baby born in India's capital New Delhi although Shahrukh Khan showed early promise as a performer at home his parents Mir Taj Mohamed and Latif Fatima a photogenic couple passed away while he
 was still young leaving him feeling a little lost Shah Rukh's passion for and ability in sports were never fully realized because of early injuries pushing him into other interests such as acting a trip to India's film capital Mumbai launched him quickly into Bollywood's limelight and he continued to knock out one blockbuster after another from Kuch Kuch Hota hey one of his many famous collaborations with his close producer friend Karan Johar two colorful epics such as Devdas in spite of his remarkable omnipresence at heart
 Shahrukh Khan remains a relatively private person and dedicated family man and remarkably down-to-earth not bad for a superstar who initially thought he'd just try out a little acting Shahrukh Khan what a delight to talk with you thank you is and thank you to call me on the show and really wonderful to see you again not to massage your ego because it's widely known you are pretty much at the top of the game your your your status as an actor is way beyond pretty much anyone else has globally because the way Indians are so loyal as well but
 you've managed to stay at the top for quite a long time now what is it what is it you think that you do that that keeps you so in tune with of the audience I don't know my wife tells me I should keep my mouth shut that will help her to maintain that position oh maybe that's it but honestly speaking I think I keep it very simple is I've always kept it very simple so I wake up in the morning and I'm like can I get that one shot right like I thought 20 years ago that I hope I get that shot right and I keep telling my wife you
 know I find it sting I'm 44 now and I wear makeup to work hey maybe it's a reason but but I find it that you know I've kept it so simple I'm not bothered about you know what I'm going to do through the world of cinema for the world no I just want to make a film in which I am able to tell you a good story so I think that really keeping it simple and keeping it real like everyone says a lot of people in America keep it simple keep it real I think that really is the mantra nothing else do you still feel
 challenge doesn't actually considering all the diverse roles you've done I do now because you know I've reached an age where I'm notice people are not giving me the kind of rules which were just run-of-the-mill and happy-go-lucky you know just come and let your hair fly in the air and sing a song into Dylan and take the girl in your arms and run suddenly I've passed that age I realized that and my friends and filmmakers now don't come with it's a love story or it's an action film I think they are they are
 challenging me let me take you back in time born in New Delhi one of those early years like I remember them post I think after I was six years old I remember it very vividly because daily beautiful cold fog and I remember sitting on the ledge of this you know Delhi houses a veranda small bungalows so I still sit on this wall and my father told me that girls used to pass by and I used to blow kisses to them and say sweetheart sighs do I remember that and I remember my father there's a girl who walked into a house
 this is my first memory and it's very very vivid a girl walked into a house from the convent of Jesus and Mary she must be nine to tenth and she walked in and told my dad that your son sits on this wall and blows kisses to me there was this young handsome man next to a house called Subhash I still remember him so much Bob used to call him and my dad thought she's come in the wrong house obviously is that young boy who's blowing kisses too he said wait let my son come and I was taking a bath and I
 came running in I was six years old and I walked in a my father like you know this is my kid darling and you made a fool of yourself by coming I walked in saying hey Sweden so he tells me one of the most embarrassing moments of my life when he was alive post that I I remember being with my parents only hearing that my dad was used to be successful I I was I was with my dad and I'm very proud of this I'm very proud of this I think my dad was the most successful failure in the world right I read yes because I I
 are so proud because he spent a lot of time with me and he would not have money we were traveling buses looking forward to buying a half ticket for me because he didn't have the money in a change he should take out these really really small five peso coins which were dirty and he would just pay that off and get me on the train then have food money so he would give me ground nuts peanuts and I'm not saying we were poor it's just that he was like that but he taught me really good things really really nice
 things just listening to you I know you he was a very very big influence to life and it comes out in the passion when you talk about him very sadly you lost him you're about 15 years old yeah what did that do to you um I I thought the world was very unfair and I mean if I talk about it I'll start crying because that was very young didn't expect it he was 52 and you know suddenly he had he had cancer and all kids think that their fathers are superheroes I never thought you die I thought you know because
you're a tough guy six feet two very good-looking and really tough he genuinely was a Pathan so way tough and I thought nothing can happen to him he was the only patient which I remember again who didn't lose his hair with chemotherapy so I you know we would walk into the hospital and was very scary because sometimes the door the bed's used to be empty was in a common board and you'd walk in and my dad would just look at us and you know it do this roll his eyes and say that he's gone and
 sometimes you walked in and I dad wasn't there but he'd gone for chemotherapy thought it was really harrowing and then one one fine evening he just died you know he went back to the hospital and he died and I remember a driver had left because of the odd hours a driver left the car and he went away and I had to see my father's dead body and drive my mom back home and I I didn't know dad I was 15 so I sat in the car and aside driving and very sure my mom said when did we learn how to drive and so I don't
 know I just did I'd never learned how to drive and it was the strange thing that my father had died I was driving a car and my sister was really shocked she fell sick she's never recovered she still hasn't recovered she's much better off but it was really really shocking really shocking and it's something I've never been able to get over and I tell everyone everyone asks me my belief in God so at the age of 15 I started getting angry with God I used to be like Allah why did he do this to me while I
 was still angry and fighting with God everyone does my mom died yeah soon after wasn't it so I continued still being angry with God that this is really unfair and then I last since she's died a year later and till now 20 years I'm the hugest are with so much love I've been thanking God so my relationship with God has been so long fighting anger disturbance thank you thank you thank you that I am I think certainly become a great believer in God you know your parents are a great influence in in many ways because they
 represent what India's about to so many people and that is that though you're a Muslim family they taught you to read other religions and understand other religions too well my father was really wonderful like that so was my mother he would take me for namaz he would take me to the eat gas we did everything that a Muslim is supposed to do we did Ava's ooh we did Animas we read the Quran everything we were a fairly strict proper Muslim family and everything was followed to the tea but in the same
 breath I was acting in Ram Leela's as as part of the Hanuman sena so I knew the Hindu culture and because I was in a Christian school I was learning the Bible also and my father would tell me and strangely what happened is when I read the Gita and that a Mayan it was in Hindi I understood it when I read the Bible it was in English I understood it and my father suddenly turned round and said you know what you got to understand Islam also in English so read it read all the books and make up your mind know
 that you are Muslim and Islam means tolerance so first thing is get tolerant towards all the religion so I I try to do that with my kids of course it's changed I make them read all this on the internet now you know it's all there but I try to treat them so that was really wonderful of them interesting you mentioned about Hindi because you're actually at was your worst subject in school wasn't it until your mother gave you the incentive of studying it's you could go to a movie yeah she told me
 that I used to get 0 or 1 out of 10 those marks are good in another subjects though I was good another subjects I was good I'm teaches you so lovely was my problem sumption he was pathetic hindi was pathetic and also I think I had this little you know being in an english-speaking school I had this superiority complex and I'd looked down upon you we were cooler way cooler than to learn Hindi and Urdu and stuff like that what you speak or do it at home Persian Arabic but I just never looked at it then mom said you get 10 on 10 and
 I'll take you to watch a movie and the movie was Jo Sheila with Damon and Sam and I just found out six months back that mr. Yash Chopra had directed it and it was an action film and he said I don't know why I had directed that foot I have no never done of action for much is did this for me it was shocking I didn't know he elected and I worked so closely with him he just told me six months back he had read in an interview so I got a mountain and it was a spelling exam and I went to see my first movie in
 vixeny Mahal in poo sorrowed near Delhi riding the Nagar and I was thrilled it's a grateful but it's interesting because then you the life change you went from from New Delhi to Bombay Mumbai as it is now mother died in 91 and 81 dad died 91 mom died exactly 10 years later and I was very depressed and by then television some work had happen how people started calling me and the first call came from Hema Malini Z and I wouldn't believe it she'd say hello this is him and I would like we can't be you know there's some
 buddies yeah pulling my leg and then after mom died I took one of those calls seriously and really asked is that Hema Malini G and she said yes I want you to do a film I didn't want to be in films and I say that with not being derogatory just that I didn't think I was cut out for Hindi films I wasn't that good but I came to Mumbai told my girlfriend then who's my wife now and my sister who wasn't who was very unwell very very unwell and I told a few of the family members that I couldn't Mumbai for change one year I
 told my friends in theatres I'm going for one year and I'll go there and just for I don't want to Delhi reminds me of my mom and dad small house I had nothing I'd nothing left and I'm like you know I just go for a year my wife was against it she saw you become movie star then you sleep around with her lines and you'll do nonsense so I'm like listen one year I just want to go so he's okay I got married - you will go so she got married to me I came for a year my friends are still waiting whenever I
 meet the end I say Shahrukh you said you're coming back after year and I'm like yeah as soon as they throw me out I'll go right now they employ me well things change I'm gonna ask you more about that in a moment take a very short break here more with Shahrukh Khan when we return you