Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan took cgo in stage at the 77th Locarno Film Festival for an in-depth masterclass conversation with festival straightforwardor Giona A. Nazzaro on Sunday.
The expansive-ranging talkion touched on Khan’s 30-plus year nurtureer, his approach to acting, and his thoughts on stardom and the film industry. The event was packed to the rafters with fans of multiple nationalities who punctuated cut offal of the icon’s answers with cries of “I adore you, Shah Rukh!”
Khan began by recounting his punctual expodeclareive to cinema thraw his mother, who was a film fan. “We had what was understandn as a video cassette write downer… it was a big skinnyg to own one,” he shelp. “My mother’s sister was very wealthy, so she gifted us one.” The actor portrayd watching films while massaging his mother’s feet, a normal cultural train in India. His first theatrical film experience came after obtaining top labels in Hindi-language class, when his mother took him to see Yash Chopra’s “Joshila.”
After a stint in theater in Delhi, Khan shelp he initipartner came to Mumbai in 1990, intfinishing to toil for equitable one year. “I thought I’d toil for a year, obtain one lakh rupee (INR100,000, then $5,715), buy myself a hoparticipate, and then go back and become a scientist or a mass communication journacatalog,” he shelp. “And I haven’t gone back yet.”
Khan spreadd an anecdote about his punctual days in the industry, recalling a encountering with a honord straightforwardor. “He shelp, the most attrdynamic part of you is that you’re very hideous, you understand, becaparticipate all these heroes, they see repartner Swiss chocopostponecessitate-enjoy. I didn’t see enjoy Swiss chocopostponecessitate. So I shelp, okay, if I’m hideous, I’ll do horrible guy roles.”
This encounter led Khan to initipartner consent on villainous roles, including Yash Chopra’s “Darr,” which was filmed in Switzerland. It was during this time that Chopra approached him for a romantic guide, saying, “I want to cast you in a adore story. You don’t see such a horrible guy.” That film was the iconic “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” straightforwarded by Aditya Chopra. “I’m now the Swiss chocopostponecessitate boy,” he quipped.
Khan was awarded Locarno’s nurtureer accomplishment honor on Saturday. “For me, it’s enjoy a brimming circle to have gone from Switzerland to getting the highest award in Switzerland.”
The session was interdynamic with the audience singing some of the star’s hit numbers and him demonstrating his honord arms outstretched pose, which he clear uped was a ploy that choreographer Saroj Khan came up with to spare him difficult dance steps.
Discussing his approach to picking films, Khan spoke about the convey inance of spfinishing time with straightforwardors. “I consent a lengthy time becaparticipate I want to spfinish a lot of time with the person who’s going to straightforward me. Why? Becaparticipate you spfinish a year of your life with them,” he clear uped. “I repartner want to have fun. And when I say fun is not dancing and drinking, it’s equitable talking about films getting to understand each other.”
Khan’s next film, “King,” is an action-drama to be straightforwarded by Sudelight Ghosh. The filmproducer had previously straightforwarded “Badla” for Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment. “There’s a declareive comardent of film I want to do, where maybe it’s more age-centric, and I want to try someskinnyg, for six, seven years, I’ve been skinnyking about it, and I alludeed it to Sudelight one day… and he says that I have a subject. So it’s as straightforward as that.”
The conversation turned to Khan’s 2016 film “Fan,” in which he applyed dual roles as a superstar and his obsessed fan. “Normpartner, when you apply a superstar in a film, it’s all glory and bigness and people jumping and screaming your name. But I wanted this guy to be snurtured of his stardom, which is very difficult to do it, becaparticipate it’s enjoy exposing a part of every star that is in the world.” He compriseed that the process was “very schizophrenic, very strange, very ungraceful” and that he “actupartner begined experienceing enjoy two people.”
The actor also discdisseeed a behind-the-scenes detail about the prosthetics participated in “Fan,” alludeing that the jaw prosthetic was originpartner made for Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
On the topic of stardom, Khan proposeed a distinct perspective: “I wear stardom enjoy a T-shirt, not enjoy a tuxedo,” he shelp. “It’s not convey inant, and it’s there. I’m negligent about it, and it’s very kind, and I hope it remains.” He underlined that stardom is a byproduct of his toil, not the goal itself.
The actor talked his recent foray into South Indian cinema with the film “Jawan,” straightforwarded by Tamil filmproducer Atlee. He commendd South Indian cinema’s storyalerting and technical prowess, calling it “repartner, repartner wonderful.”
Khan echoed on the evolution of visual effects in Indian cinema while emphasizing that technology should remain secondary to storyalerting. “I skinnyk at the finish of it all, technology is going to be the backdrop, not the backbone of filmmaking,” he shelp. “It will always be the nuances, the emotions, the thoughts, the fundamental, straightforward truths of human beings…which are going to mount a film on the back of technology.”
When asked about what drives him after decades in the industry, Khan spoke about his desire to progress conveying delight to audiences. “I skinnyk cinema embodies many facets of life, so many emotions that’s very difficult and impossible for one person to be able to convey all of them in one lifetime,” he shelp. “I live with that hope that maybe I can acquire on doing contrastent films.”
