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TeaHere are three things underlying the legend of Shah Rukh Khan, one of India’s most famous cultural exports. This is the house the actor built for himself on the seaside of the city he swore he would own one day. This is the happy, bright, gleaming family he worked hard for, having lost his father at the age of 15 and his mother at the age of 26. And it is his reputation for honesty that builds up to a three-decade-long career in the public eye that has led to his numerous clashes with various figures of the right, starting with Jamia Millia Islamia, which made him an appearance. Not allowed to appear in his final examination due to deficiency.
In the last fortnight, efforts have been made to systematically eliminate all these elements.
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials have visited Mannat to complete the paperwork.raid‘. This is a house that Shah Rukh is proud of. Built on heritage property, every part of it is the result of years of hard work for a man who spent his childhood and youth in rented houses .
His family, his three children, his eyesight, and his wife, who was once a shining icon of family values, were celebrated on the show. splendid life of bollywood wives (Netflix). Now the ever gilded couple has been nationally shamed for their parenting style, their comments taken out of context, be it Shah Rukh Say Simi Garewal said that his son, who was then two years old, could do whatever he wanted, including drugs, or what his wife Gauri Khan was saying David Letterman That they were worried, but not the hysterical parent.
Above all, his reputation of a clean family man is tarnished. I am an employee of Shah Rukh Khan’s myth, he has often said. That myth has been shattered today.
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In a world where tall poppy syndrome is a default setting, it is natural that everyone should be on an equal footing. And Shah Rukh has indeed established himself as a very tall opium, rising to his stardom in his increasingly self-respecting films and his interviews with global celebrities from anchors like Letterman to billionaires like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. In. Along with that, his stardom, which is all-inclusive, is just as spread the famous pose. This includes Muslims, women, and the LGBTQ community. Bollywood, which has been on the radar of the Bharatiya Janata Party since it was granted industry status in 1998, has to ground the old symbols, and create new stars and stories, if it is to sell the idea of a new India to the world.
It’s been a tough time for the star, who has remained silent through it all, choosing to fight the battle legally, not seeking sympathy or screaming for support or for forgiveness. . But he is in the public eye, his misery and that of his wife, on display for all to consume, discuss, debate and digest.
And we all have one undeniable quality – we make decisions quickly, especially the celebrities we adore. We love celebrating Shah Rukh’s movies in theaters or watching Gauri’s latest home design in a dazzling lifestyle. It ticks all the boxes about how we expect the super-rich to behave, and when we aspire to that way of living, we even envy it. when you see splendid life of bollywood wivesIt’s hard not to cringe when “girls” talk about Gauri Khan. As his longtime friend Maheep Kapoor puts it: “He is the OG. She is the woman who is married to a man, a mega, mega superstar, and not overshadowed by him. “
Respect is poisoned by resentment and it becomes the fabric of our relationship with our dearest stars. Some of them, like Amitabh Bachchan, will come out to give VisitTweet, silently, or irreverently, and retreat into your gated bubble, literally and metaphorically. But Shahrukh has immortalized that fantasy billu (2009); he has captured Visit at the cinema, in fan (2016), and he even made fun of it like this year’s Disney+ Hotstar ad, leaving us yet again surprised at the actor’s versatility.
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Shahrukh Khan was India
Shahrukh was never an accidental star. It is a stardom that has been thoughtfully and brilliantly executed. He has always done this by measuring himself against the hottest star of modern Bollywood, Bachchan. He has done iconic remakes, be it Bachchan’s Don or Dilip Kumar devdas, to remind people of his self-proclaimed cinematic legacy. Of all his contemporaries, the most books have been written about him, be it books that analyze his cinema, him or his appeal to women around the world.
in the cinema Go win! India (2007), his colleague described Shahrukh’s character in the film, “One mistake is forgiven (everyone is allowed to make a mistake)”. Shahrukh smiles contemptuously and says: “everyone? (all?)” In the movie, this means that a Muslim has to be extra cautious in public life in India. There should be no trouble in his or her family’s armor.
Shah Rukh has already negotiated for a change. In the 90s, he told us how to deal with the three Ms of Mandir, Bazaar and Mandal. Love was everything. Love for oneself, for family, for country. But the world is in transition, and as the old certainties in the film industry fade away, the new is yet to be born. After the failure of his ambitious Zero (2018), Shah Rukh took a year off in self-imposed exile which, thanks to the Covid-induced lockdown, was extended for a three-year break. He was gearing up to put the audience on their feet with a series of releases starting with Yash Raj Films. pathanoRumored to be based on Atlee’s thriller money heist, and immigration drama by Rajkumar Hirani. The shooting of the first two has been put on hold due to his handling of his personal crisis. A friend says: “He says he’s fine. He doesn’t want any help. He will exhaust all legal options.”
Shah Rukh Khan is a product of the institutions and ethos that have made India a proud democracy: its missionary schools that teach egalitarianism, its subsidized college education that teaches inclusivity, its amateur theater where you can learn acting for hard work . It was a world in which education could take you into a world of privilege and you could close the doors of your afterlife. In New India, you are expected to keep the door open. If you don’t, nobody mind breaking it. And to do this he will use every rulebook, every law, every rule.
Kaveri Bamzai is a senior journalist, former editor of India Today and author of The Three Khans: And the Emergence of New India. Thoughts are personal.
(Edited by Neera Mazumdar)
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