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New Delhi: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan says creative people need to be dissatisfied to move on to new paths and advised the youth not to be satisfied with past achievements.
Shah Rukh became the first Indian film personality to be honoured with the Pardo alla Carriera Award—the Locarno Tourism or Carrier Leopard Award—at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.
The actor, who returned to the big screen last year after a gap of five years with three back-to-back films “Pathan”, “Jawan” and “Dunky”, was speaking at a Q&A session at the film festival on Sunday.
“Satisfaction is overrated. You should always keep questioning yourself. It doesn’t mean you should be anxious, but as a creative person you should always be dissatisfied, so I am never satisfied. I don’t think I have achieved anything. I don’t think it’s all over and I’m successful. I think all that is irrelevant. What is relevant is can I do something new tomorrow?
“Whatever I did yesterday is over. When my film is over, I take a bath for two hours. After that, I don’t think about success or failure. I start working on the next film. If I am not able to start working on the next film, I think I will get tired and I will finish the film. I would like to tell all the youth that please don’t rest on your laurels,” Shah Rukh told the festival’s artistic director Ziona A Nazzaro in this session.
The 58-year-old actor said people often ask him to do “more meaningful cinema” that symbolises something, but he doesn’t want his films to be mere statements.
“My cinema represents everything to someone, because it should have a bit of joy, colour. I don’t want my cinema to be just a statement. I want it to be a testimony to the beauty of life, the good and the bad. So sometimes it is a testimony to the right things.
“Sometimes it’s about corruption, bad things and love. It shouldn’t just be a statement. All these things limit you, divide you into different parts. I like to keep it open and believe that what I have done today is the first day I am doing this.”
Shah Rukh, who has worked with Tamil filmmakers such as Mani Ratnam and Atlee, said south cinema is “cinematically and technically” brilliant.
“With recent hits like ‘Jawaan’, ‘RRR’ and ‘Baahubali’, the world has finally started paying attention to what we have always known in India. South cinema has a distinctive style, with big heroes and lots of music. I really liked it.
“It was a new experience for me and I even asked my kids if I looked okay on screen as it felt like I was part of something grand. ‘Jawaan’ was the first true amalgamation of Hindi and South Indian cinema that crossed borders and was loved across the country,” he added.
When one of the audience members present at the session asked how her iconic open arms pose was invented, the actor said she had no idea about it but the late great choreographer Saroj Khan had invented the step.
“In the 90s, it was important that you knew how to dance. We were shooting for a song and I couldn’t do a step called the dip. I was so embarrassed and I kept doing it all night.”
Shah Rukh recalled, “In the morning I came and the choreographer, I remember, it was Saroj ji. I said, ‘Ma’am, are you ready?’ She said, ‘Yes son, you can’t do that so just stand there and spread your arms.’ I said, ‘But I can do this’, she said, ‘No, no, we don’t need that, it won’t look good.'”
When he went to another set, things got a little difficult for him again and he asked the choreographer, “Can we cut this out? Can I stick my arms out?”
“And I kept sticking my arms out and I guess because I was sticking my arms out so much, I had to do it more intensely. Then I made it scientific… I’m just fooling you all. It’s nothing, it’s just sticking my arms out.”
The Bollywood star also revealed how he taught his elder son Aryan the martial art Taekwondo, thinking he would grow up to be like Jackie Chan.
“Jackie Chan is physically amazing and does things very well. He keeps inspiring me. When my first son Aryan was born, I thought he really looked like Jackie Chan. I trained my son in taekwondo, assuming he would grow up to be Jackie Chan.
“I had the good fortune of meeting him in Saudi Arabia, I think three or four years ago. And he was as wonderful and sweet as I expected him to be. He promised me to open a Chinese restaurant in partnership, but he hasn’t done it yet,” he said.
Shah Rukh, who has shot hits like “Darr” and “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” in Switzerland, said being honoured with Locarno’s Career Leopard Award is like life coming full circle.
He joked, “Either give me Swiss citizenship or introduce me to Roger Federer.”
The Locarno Film Festival will end on August 17.
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