Last Updated on 13/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
A new achievement has been registered in the account of Indian superstar Shahrukh Khan. Recently Shahrukh was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Locarno Film Festival. With this, he became the first Indian celebrity to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at this prestigious international film festival.
People go crazy on seeing Shahrukh, who is called the ‘King of Romance’, on the big screen. His romantic style is so popular not only in India but also among the international audience that people are always ready to see him on screen in this avatar. But this thing still surprises people that in the beginning of his Bollywood career, he played the role of a villain in films like ‘Darr’, ‘Anjaam’ and ‘Baazigar’.
Speaking at the Locarno Film Festival, Shah Rukh said that he had decided to play the role of a ‘bad man’ after a director’s comment. This director had called Shah Rukh ‘bad looking’.
Related news
- Ampox is once again raising concerns, WHO has declared it a public health emergency for the second time in two years
- LIVE: Angry crowd entered the hospital after doing RG in Kolkata, protesters vandalized it
- Genocide case filed against Sheikh Hasina in International Criminal Tribunal, interim government will conduct investigation under UN supervision
- Mahindra Thar Roxx: Mahindra’s blast! 5 door Thar Roxx launched at a very low price, features are amazing
- Jharkhand: Lightning struck the ground during a match in Simdega, 3 hockey players died
Why did Shahrukh not want to do romantic films?
Shahrukh said, ‘When I came to Mumbai, I felt I had grown up a lot. I was 25-26 years old. I started late compared to the age at which people start today. Most of the films made at that time were college love stories. I felt very strange at that time to sit on a desk, in a chair and behave like a college student. I found it awkward.’
Then Shahrukh, mocking himself in his trademark style, said, ‘But I did not find it that awkward, so I did the same thing in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ after turning 36!’
When the director called Shahrukh ‘bad looking’
Without naming a Hindi film director, Shah Rukh Khan mentioned his meeting with him and said, ‘He said, “The most attractive thing about you is that you look very bad. Because all these heroes look too much like Swiss chocolate.” I did not look like Swiss chocolate. So I said okay, if I look bad, I will play the role of bad men. One of the films in which I played the role of a bad man, ‘Darr’, was shot here in Switzerland.’
Shahrukh made his fans happy sitting in Locarno, Switzerland by saying, ‘I think that by staying here, by drinking the milk of you people, I have also become a chocolate person. Because when the shoot of ‘Darr’ was about to end here, Yash Chopra sahab called me and said that ‘I want to cast you in a love story. You don’t look that bad. And he made ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ with me.’
In his charming style, he again repeated his iconic dialogue in front of the fans and said, ‘Such small things keep happening in big countries... So this way one thing led to another and I became a good man (onscreen). Now sometimes I am a good man, sometimes a bad man and sometimes a mix of both.’
In the same interview, Shahrukh also officially announced his next project. He said that now he wants to play more roles that suit his age and now he will be seen in the film ‘King’ with his daughter Suhana Khan.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)