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Anu<\/strong>: Shah Rukh what is the hardest thing about being a super hero?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: First let me just tell you what I think a super hero is, obviously they are in tights and they fly. I think the reason and the need when it spread there and anywhere else in the world, comes out from a great desire of the heart and mind to be protected and rescued. I think all of us have that, we don\u2019t accept it and that\u2019s why the birth of super heroes.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve grown up reading all the comics; Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and some strange ones which never made it to be popular either. I had a red towel, blue swimming trunks. I used to wear them and I used to sit on the bed and fly. I had my own vehicle- Batmobile, so I always wanted to look at this genre and I did with Ra.One. I think in India, one of the research teams told me when we were making this film, we were too far gone to retract, but they told me that there are 10 genres in terms of popularity in India and science fiction and super heroes is the last one.<\/p>\n Anu: Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: Because I think super heroes are still the artistic parallel cinema in commercial cinema .When you make an art film, we keep a low budget because it means that you have 10 people to watch the film and just enough money to make it for those ten.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the same thing for a super hero film in the commercial sense. You have just enough money to make it for that many audiences who are ready to watch it. So it\u2019s an art film, in the commercial sphere. \u00a0I mean, you go and suggest to one of the big directors who has made a super hero film, \u2018Now Spider-Man\u2019s got to dance\u2019\u2026 he\u2019s not going to put a dance to it. But we need to put a dance in it because the film is so expensive you need to be able to attract every aspect. You need to have comedy in it. You can\u2019t make it very linear about this one person who has one weakness and then grows to save the world.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: You said to me a couple of years ago that, \u201cOur concern is not whether we can ever make a crossover film, our concern is whether we can even hold on to our audiences.\u201d So when you have a film like \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises\u201d which is the film event of the year, how does Bollywood actually battle that? We don\u2019t have the bucks, we don\u2019t have the infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: I think we don\u2019t have the acceptance, we have the bucks.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: You think so?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK:<\/strong>\u00a0I have the bucks, I have the infrastructure, Karan Johar has it, Mr. Yash Chopra has it, all of them have it. It\u2019s 10 times cheaper to make a film like this in our country. I\u2019m not being the prophet of doom here, I\u2019m telling you what\u2019s there to be seen. You know with the access into the digital world, the exposure, Hollywood films are releasing a week before they are releasing in London or in America, so the kids want to see that.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: You can\u2019t fight The Dark Knight?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: You can\u2019t fight The Dark Knight. When a film comes out and makes a billion dollars all over the world, it\u2019s a billion dollars anywhere in the world. And a big part of that business is from India.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: So does that worry you Shah Rukh? Do you think about 10 years from now, what?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: I mean I made a superhero film and I\u2019m okay. Everyone else out there they are going to suffer .You can laugh at my Ra.One now but when I come out with Ra.One 7 on a wheelchair then you see. (smiles)<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: Shah Rukh last month you finished 20 years in movies. What are you hungry for now?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: The 20 years have passed away really fast. I think I\u2019ve been in about 70 films now. I think the main thing is I still haven\u2019t found out what turns me on about doing this.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: So you\u2019re still searching?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: And that\u2019s why I keep going on. I have never gone on a set and felt, \u201cOkay now I know I have to do that\u201d.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: You\u2019re still nervous?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: I\u2019m very nervous. Nervous means I\u2019m not like nervous-nervous, I know my lines I know my stuff, I feel very comfortable with cameras. But I\u2019m not at all confident that I\u2019ve done this. When I see actors in other films they like ooze confidence, they look like they own the space.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: Like who?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: So many of them, most of them. I think the fact that I\u2019m still ill at ease of knowing what I\u2019m supposed to do just makes me keep on going. It doesn\u2019t feel like 20 years. I always tell this to my daughter and my son that you know every morning I wake up and think of the same thing, that this is the first shot of my life so I better make it stick and this is the last shot of my life and I won\u2019t get another chance so I better make it stick.<\/p>\n So in both cases I\u2019m just, like, I better make it stick. I know I make a lot of mistakes in acting. I can sense them, I can feel them. So it\u2019s also not looking for excellence. I\u2019m not looking for perfection, that\u2019s extremely boring.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: It\u2019s overrated.<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: I don\u2019t even know what it is. I don\u2019t know what is perfect. How should it be perfect? And I say all this and it may sound like spiel but I really don\u2019t know how you encase acting? How do you compartmentalize performances? How do you do it right? How do you do it better than last time? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n Anu:<\/strong> Shah Rukh, are there any regrets? Is there anything you wish you had done differently?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: No it\u2019s been good. Like I say it\u2019s the great Indian dream. I\u2019ve done everything right, I think especially now I think with my cricket win also. I don\u2019t get time, Anupama, so sometimes I wish I could have done that film also. I wish I had worked with that person also when I got the chance but there were reasons that it didn\u2019t happen and if it\u2019s not mine then it\u2019s not the best.<\/p>\n It\u2019s how I think and I know it\u2019s wrong to think like that but that\u2019s the way you survive every morning and I\u2019m really happy with the way I\u2019ve done. At this point no regrets except for the fact that I\u2019ve injured myself a lot physically so that hurts. Even in romantic scenes now you hug a girl and your shoulder is not rising and the girls have become taller so it\u2019s a big problem hugging them. But no regrets.<\/p>\n I do wish I was physically as good as I was 10 years ago before my spine surgery though it doesn\u2019t come in the way of my working. I can still wear tights and fly. I think it\u2019s time you wrote the second part of that book (King of Bollywood) or should I have some regrets and then you\u2019ll write it?<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: We have got to spice up the story<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: Like I said, I can do any act, so if you tell me to make it spicy I can do it very rock star-like with heavy doses of substance abuse and aggression and orgies. I can give you that, too. Sometimes I feel I\u2019ve led too sedate a life.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: Too tame?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: Yes, too tame. When I read about myself, whether it\u2019s a business achievement, whether it\u2019s in terms of some mad behavior somewhere, I am like, \u201cShould I turn around and say I didn\u2019t do that or should I let it be and let them feel it\u2019s alright he\u2019s a little mean like that and he is a little sensual like that?\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know how to react. And I\u2019m too shy to even clarify it, so I just keep quiet. But yes. I think I\u2019ve led a very tame life. I\u2019ve worked a lot, about 15-16 hours a day, never seemed like work. I\u2019ve really enjoyed it. The kids are a great boon. They are the central, focal point of my life. I hope my daughter becomes an actor. I really hope she becomes an actor. That would be regretful if she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: And you said you would have figured out how to act by then, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: Oh yes. I want to do some exciting films. I really want to spend the next five years doing cinema which can make me fail. But to do that, I have to first do safe films.<\/p>\n I think the time has come when I can open up, get out of my own shy shell and comfort zone, so to say, and try and do new stuff and still make it commercially viable because that is important. I want to work with directors who make cinema which is really wonderful and push, you know, the bar a little more so that the youngsters do not look down upon our films.<\/p>\n Because if we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t have anyone to blame 20 years from now. I think it\u2019ll be really sad if I\u2019m sitting down 20 years from now and saying \u2018hamaare zamaanein mein hum kitni achi picture banathe the.\u2019 I think that will be the saddest comment that any of the leading Indian film personalities can have 20 years from now.<\/p>\n If God has given you so much and if the film industry and the audience has given you so much, it\u2019s your duty to work for the future. I\u2019ve been working for 20 years. I\u2019d be a loser if I didn\u2019t do something in terms of work, apart from making the next big hit.<\/p>\n Anu<\/strong>: Sounds fabulous Shah Rukh. Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n SRK<\/strong>: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n Read More at:https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2012\/07\/20\/the-front-row-shah-rukh-khan-on-batman-his-future\/<\/p>\n Show features on Star World tonight at 8:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anu: Shah Rukh what is the hardest thing about being a super hero? SRK: First let me just tell you what I think a super hero is, obviously they are in tights and they fly. 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