Shah Rukh Khan on Raees

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Shah Rukh Khan on Raees. Shah Rukh Khan chats with Gulf News tabloid! about his latest film, Raees, and shares his thoughts on likeable bad guys and his inability to swear on camera.  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00There won't be any attempt to glorify, morally that would be wrong, and more so if it was

00:14a real character.

00:15So this is fiction, one can extend it a bit, but all of us, I think, have a little bit

00:20of good in us, and all of us have a little bit of bad in us.

00:26Raees is a bad guy, I think.

00:28He does bad business, a bad business, and he's mean, yeah, of course, and he'll clean

00:34up anything that comes in his way, but the good trait is that he can stand up and take

00:39responsibility for his actions, and I think that kind of shines through just in the character,

00:44not in the storytelling that we will force you in the end, but you know, you gotta like

00:48him because he's a good guy, no.

00:49I think it's actually that's what makes it interesting and maybe chancy, that we're not

00:55taking a side, we'll keep it open-ended, and you may go back thinking, I like him or

01:00I don't like him, and that's absolutely alright, you don't have to love him at all.

01:03It's not that kind of film.

01:05It's not Chennai Express where you have to love the guy, no, you don't have to.

01:13I just can't do it in front of camera.

01:14I mean, they've caught me secretly on camera, abusing people, I can do it in real life,

01:19but on films, I find it awkward.

01:20It's like, you know, a few things, I have problems laughing on screen as an actor.

01:24It's as much of an issue or lack of it, but I just think, it's just difficult for me to

01:33do it.

01:34I tried a couple of times in films, you know, I can't even say dog, I find it awkward to

01:41say it, yeah.

01:42So, it's not me trying to play it up that, oh, I'm a family hero now, it's just difficult

01:47for me as an actor to do it, and you can avoid it.

01:49It does not define my acting, I mean, I think I'll still be able to express anger without

01:53really being abusive.

01:59Just because you're interested in a bad person's story, does not make you a bad person, necessarily.

02:04It's not like likes attract, as a matter of fact, opposites attract, they say, universally.

02:08So, if you like a bad guy's story, you're really a good person.

02:16I think each one has to have their own way of expressing who, what, where they want to

02:21be.

02:22I think we have to stop being, not only as journalists, but everything is an editorial.

02:28Everything's got a point of view, everything's taking a side now.

02:31We make it subjective.

02:32Yeah, we make it too subjective.

02:33I think, you know, you can't judge people, their way of thinking, their way of being

02:39genuinely.

02:40I mean, I think each one has his or her own circumstances, their own way of thinking,

02:45believing, and you've got to allow everyone to have the freedom of being their own person.

02:51If I don't agree with you, it does not mean you are wrong.

02:54We just don't agree.

02:55That's all.

02:56You live your life and I live mine.

03:02The marketing of this film is being done the way we designed it.

03:06I mean, I like to believe I market every film differently, according to the film.

03:09So, this film need not have been marketed like that.

03:12And the role that the protagonist, Asiya, plays in the film is very different from how

03:19Deepika is in Om Shanti Om.

03:21So, the launches have to be different.

03:22That's not been affected at all.

03:23And it won't be because, you know, the whole idea of launching a film is to inform people

03:28about what's happening.

03:29And I think we've been doing that through the trailers, through the songs.

03:32And this is it.

03:33I mean, we're two days before and I think I'm still overdoing it.

03:35I should have actually stopped it two days ago.

03:37But I think old, old, old habits die hard.

03:40You're like, oh, well, let me just go to Dubai once.

03:43But no, see, I think it's too often, it's too long a subject spoken about.

03:49I'm actually bored of this discussion, to be really honest.

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