The Women Who Made SRK What He Is

Brut India

“I don't spend time in the company of men.” Shah Rukh Khan on how women have shaped his life...

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00:00You have to be gentler, you have to be sweeter,

00:02you have to be kinder, you can't sit with your legs open,

00:05and you have to, most of it, most of the definitions

00:08were subservient to the other gender.

00:14I try to speak in a larger perspective,

00:15not just in Indian context.

00:16I think it's the methods of oppressing women

00:20are different in different parts of the world,

00:22but the oppression is what is common.

00:24Categorizing people according to their biological differences

00:27is perhaps the oldest and the most primitive, so to say.

00:32I think we are so scared of things that happen to us

00:36which are not familiar, we as human beings,

00:38even as specialized corporators and everything,

00:40we are so keen on putting things into boxes

00:44so that we understand them, and somewhere,

00:47because we were not so familiar or we were threatened

00:50by this biologically different creature called woman,

00:53we quickly put definitions and categorize.

00:56You have to be gentler, you have to be sweeter,

00:59you have to be kinder, you can't sit with your legs open,

01:01and you have to, most of it, most of the definitions

01:05were subservient to the other gender.

01:08I think this categorization is going to fall through

01:11in some time.

01:12Have women played a very important role in your life,

01:15do you think?

01:16Actually, I,

01:20how do I say this without sounding wrong?

01:23I don't spend time in the company of men.

01:26I,

01:27Okay.

01:28I don't, I,

01:28I'm sorry, gentlemen, but you won't be spending time

01:32with me today.

01:33Yeah, well, I, like, you know, I was 14 when my father died,

01:37so I had a mother, my mother had no brothers,

01:40and her father was, had passed away,

01:42so I had three aunts and a grandmother,

01:45and then my mother passed away.

01:47I have a sister,

01:48who's unmarried, lives with me even now.

01:50Then I had a wife, and then I had a daughter,

01:53and in between these two, I started working with

01:56all the girls in the country, when I became an actor.

02:00So, I've not had the chance to be with men.

02:03Yeah.

02:04So, I am naturally inclined towards women.

02:06I'm choosing my words very, very carefully,

02:08unless they are misconstrued.

02:10Yes.

02:11And the whole idea is that women are the most important

02:15Yes.

02:16And the whole idea of what a woman is changed,

02:19when I started working with all the girls

02:21that I worked with.

02:23On the exterior, they're the most beautiful women,

02:26physically charming, attractive,

02:27they work harder than I do,

02:29they come four, five hours before I even land on the sets.

02:34They are, and I'll say this, I've seen it with my own eyes,

02:39or felt it, not seen it, maybe,

02:41they are somehow considered secondary

02:44in the scheme of things of this film world,

02:46it's a man's world.

02:48Like I said, they work harder at everything,

02:51and at the end of it all, when the film ends,

02:52I take all the credit and become

02:54the biggest superstar in the world.

02:55And they don't, genuinely, they don't get anything out of it.

02:58You know, they're just Shah Rukh Khan heroines.

03:00And the beauty of it is, that knowing how unfair it is,

03:07they have not reduced themselves and gone into victimhood.

03:11I think that's something that I love about

03:14most of the women that I've spent time with.

03:16There is no giving in to victimhood.

03:18They are not turning around and saying,

03:20you know, God, what I can do, this world,

03:22this is a man's world, and I do, none of them care.

03:26They have the courage, the bravery, the strength

03:29to realize that, you know what,

03:32this is how it's going right now,

03:33I do work harder than Shah Rukh,

03:35I am better than Shah Rukh, and I include my wife in it,

03:38my daughter in it, my sister in it,

03:40and all the girls I work with,

03:41and yes, all right, if he's sitting at Davos right now

03:44and giving the speech, we are not there.

03:47But they know they are the real strength,

03:49and because they know, I know that they know,

03:53I just love them and respect them so much.

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