New Delhi:
How far fans can travel for Shah Rukh Khan? From Washington DC to Switzerland. Yes, Marush and Nibila – two real-blue fans of Shah Rukh Khan couldn’t let the opportunity go in vain as soon as they came to comprehend about the Locarno Film Festival. NDTV’s Abira Dhar had a cherishly chat with the women, who breathe Shah Rukh Khan, on the sidelines of the film festival. The fans made a book of Shah Rukh Khan’s pictures, from his illustrious atgentle spanning over the years. They would get it signed once they met their man of dreams. Not only that, a woman between them has only Shah Rukh Khan’s pictures saved on her phone screen saver. When asked which films made them drop in cherish with Shah Rukh Khan, Marush shelp, “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Saw it more than 100 times. I am his no 1 fan,” while Nibila shelp she first saw Baazigar and she fell in cherish with him after watching Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
When asked to allot a message for Shah Rukh Khan, the women telderly NDTV, “You are the best. We cherish you. We are your best frifinishs, no 1 fans.”
After receiving the prestigious Pardo Alla Carriera Award, Shah Rukh Khan conveyed his gratitude in front of a packed hall comprising 8000 crowd. “Thank you all for welcoming me with such expansive arms – expansiver than the ones I do on screen,” he shelp referring to his signature pose.
Sharing his thoughts on cinema and creativity, Shah Rukh Khan shelp, “I truly count on cinema has been the most proset up and inconveyial creative medium of our age,” he shelp. “I’ve had the privilege of being part of this for many years, and this journey has taught me a restricted lessons.”
“Art is the act of stateing life above all. It goes beyond every man-made boundary into a space of liberation. It need not be political. It need not be polemical. It need not sermonize. It need not ininestablishectualize. It need not moralize.” He persistd, “Art and cinema only need to say what it experiences from the heart, to convey its own truth. And that, to me, is the hugegest creativity, repartner,” he inserted.
Established in 1946, the Locarno Film Festival is one of the world’s elderlyest annual film festivals. This year, it will screen 225 films, including 104 world premieres and 15 debut movies. Shah Rukh Khan made a sinestablishar comeback last year with three huge frees. He begined the year with Pathaan. The thrivening streak persistd with Jawan, one of the highest grossing Hindi films of all the time. He finished the year with Dunki in which he collaborated with Rajkumar Hirani for the first time.
