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Why I love Shahrukh Khan…
“I need bodyguards to make sure I don’t hug everyone I see around me. I can be very crushing with love to my fans. Its to protect them.. ..ha ha!”
— Shahrukh Khan 😉
I’ve been a Shahrukh Khan fan as long as I can remember. My first movie in a theatre was ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.’ Since then SRK has never disappointed me. I really have not caught up with his old movies though.
I love Shahrukh Khan for his wit and charm. He is extremely intelligent and forever entertaining. I love reading his interviews. Even his casual remarks amuse me. So you can only imagine how much I love him on twitter. I love reading him, watching him, listening to him. His sense of humor is amazingly wicked and sarcastic. He is my mood controller. If I am sad, I just have to watch Shahrukh Khan and I’m normal and giggly again. If I’m not able to catch his shows or films, I get really angry and am rude to people for no reason. Shahrukh Khan can make me cry too. I can cry with the same intensity even now when I watch ‘Kal Ho Na Ho.’ That is the reason I don’t go to watch Shahrukh movies with anyone. Watching SRK is private and I hate anyone seeing me cry [Crying means losing control and I hate losing control]. So that’s how SRK controls me.
I love his dimples. But more than looks I love the way he’s so young and mad and witty. Shahrukh is a sure shot on success. Even if he sports a crappy brand, the brand will still make money. That even his critics have to agree with. I love it when he does voiceovers or hosts shows. I love to see him in new classy advertisements. I definitely don’t think Shahrukh Khan is a bad actor. Whatever Shahrukh does automatically becomes my favorite. My eyes twinkle for him. I’m hopelessly in love. I’m screaming or blowing flying kisses when he’s on TV.
Typical teenage -ish of me!!
I am completely biased for Shahrukh Khan. I can’t hear people criticizing him. When someone does that to annoy me, I take it hard with a pinch of salt. I can overlook the fact that Shahrukh Khan smokes, or is so insecure sometimes. But which successful person doesn’t have some vices? At least he doesn’t cheat his wife nor has some stupid body tattoo!
Imagine my state if I ever bump into him. I swear to god, I’ll have a glimpse of him from far and run in the opposite direction. It’s so obvious that I will feel so intimidated by him. And I’ll be smiling like a jerk the whole day and maybe write one more blog on him. Hahaha… I’m such a coward when it comes to interacting with anyone I admire and love. 😉
Shahrukh Khan has taught me how important it is to speak well, have progressive views and be modern but yet conventional. How religion is not a criteria to judge someone and how love is the only thing that makes the world go round!!!
Quotin g him again , “If you have to ask what love is… You will never understand the meaning. don’t ask or understand… just feel it… and define it for yourself.”
I could go on and on but I am not going to brag too much today because everybody rubbishes my madness for Shahrukh Khan. And I don’t want my craziness to hurt sentiments of people close to me. But I love you Shahrukh and you are one crush that would never fade away! So SRK, even My Name Is Khan, but just not yet!!
Dizzy In love,
Signing off,
Tame She Wolf!
WORDLY WISE:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learnt that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— tweeted by SRK, my love
Yeha, Whatever 
That is the reason I don’t go to watch Shahrukh movies with anyone.hellooo….u furgot to mention my name…
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i love him too..hahahahahahahhaha..u wanted me to say dat???ur gettin bettr wid bloggin now..keep it up..but dnt waste too much time on it !! -AGI
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i forgot to mention, "Shahrukh knows no boundaries. he's a global citizen… i love him!" well, guess i said the last part!
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In the depth of winter, I finally learnt that within me there lay an invincible summer-Albert Camus.
SRK’s strictly okay for me.:)
anyhoo!may thy love blossom!:D
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TL;DR : I was anti-Shahrukh, but Swades and Chak De! India changed me into a Shahrukh fan.
Since childhood, my cousins have filled me with hatred for Shahrukh Khan. They were all fans of Aamir Khan and I was expected to follow suit. And I did! What do you expect when it’s drilled into you that Aamir rocks and Shahrukh sucks?
the hatred was so deeply rooted that I used to avoid watching Shah Rukh’s movies and loathed it when he came on screen for a commercial. I used to only drink coca cola, because that was the brand Aamir supported and never Pepsi (Shahrukh).
My sister is a maverick though, and she’s a die-hard Shahrukh fan. She got me to watch Dil Toh Pagal Hai and I really liked the movie, thanks to Madhuri. But I still didn’t like Shahrukh (in fact, my derision grew because of his confused and weak character in the movie).
Then after one my cousin’s wedding, my jijaji took all of us cousins for a movie. Turned out it was a Shahrukh flick, Mohabbatein. What followed was two and half hours of jeering and making fun of him when he came on screen. I actively took part in this and enjoyed it.
But I thought that he wasn’t that bad, and I even like Mohabbatein. So later, I watched other Shahrukh movies like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. That movie really struck a chord and I really liked how he was so effortlessly charming! Thanks to that movie, Kajol became my favorite actress for a long time, and mere khwabon mein jo aaye, my favorite song. But I still had a thing against liking Shahrukh, so I gave him my grudging admiration instead (never in public).
Enter Swades, perhaps the defining movie of my life. The movie totally changed my attitude towards Shahrukh and a lot of other things. After watching the movie, I wanted to just get up, go to a village and help them set up a hydel power plant (notwithstanding that I hadn’t the expertise to do so). The actress Gayatri Joshi was so amazing as that elusive, witty and mischievous educated village damsel, that she became the benchmark for my girlfriend. I still love watching the movie and the romance, the feeling of patriotism (love for people, not country) and the feeling of guilt when the old woman says ‘Bijlee!‘ as her eyes lit up in the reflection of the bulb.. whoa! Gets me every time.
Even today, when I listen to Yeh Jo Des Hai Mera, I can imagine Shahrukh struggling with homesickness in USA and I tear up. This movie put him up there with Aamir as the actors that I admired most.
After that, came Chak De! India and damn them if someone says that Kabir Khan’s sattar minute speech didn’t give them goosebumps (despite being a rip off from a Hollywood movie almost verbatim; off topic, this is a classic case of shredded frogs in delicious meals) or that they did not feel their eyes getting wet when the boy shouts ‘gaddar!‘ atop his father’s shoulders. Or that they didn’t whoop in joy when Vidya Sharma successfully fended off the strike and saved the goal, thus giving India the world cup!
After this I watched a lot of Shahrukh movies (all the old ones too) and in each, I found that he was the honest actor and quite charming. His acting is not phenomenal in those movies, but not for a lack of trying. In Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, he talks about the concept of unrealized feelings (way ahead of it’s time) and yearning for someone who you’ll never get and pulls off the role amazingly well. In Kal Ho Na Ho he just breaks your heart with his never say die attitude and the truest embodiment of YOLO I have ever seen (I often try to emulate that Shahrukh). In phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and Main Hoon Na, he entertains the hell out of you!
I had now become a fan of Shahrukh. And after seeing him in various award shows and seeing how nice a person he is, I became an even bigger one.
Aamir Khan is a great actor, no doubt, but I think he isn’t as great a human being as Shahrukh (personal opinion, don’t want arguments). I think Aamir is the better actor, in fact, and Shahrukh the better superstar.
Over the past few years, Shahrukh and Aamir have both done really crappy movies and shows (Satyameva Jayate) that has caused me to lose some respect for them, but knowing that Shahrukh had always been about entertaining the masses, the respect lost for him was not so much as Aamir, who has suddenly become a self-obsessed narcissistic money-minded bastard.
That’s my story.
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Wow. 🙂 Thank you for sharing your story!
My madness has sobered down. I see him as more human, I guess. Fallible.
But, I have this thing: I can never un-love a person I have loved. So, maybe I don’t have a giddy crush anymore, but he can still make me smile.
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