I am the single most boring person this world has produced: SRK

Even in the quiet and secure area of Jebel Ali Free Zone, a big crowd was waiting patiently since 3pm to catch a glimpse of Shah Rukh Khan who finally made a stylish entry around 7.30 pm for the opening of Pravarthi headquarters and Pravarthi fire protection last Thursday. He danced his heart out for the invited guests at the event, rattled off many of his popular dialogues from Don, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Baazigar and many of his other movies. But Shah Rukh was his pure self when he spoke to a few kids from Delhi Public School and answered their questions as honestly and innocently as they were asked. He urged them to study more and respect their parents. "People think if you are educated you should not become an actor, you should become a structural engineer or something. The honest truth is, your profession and your job will one day choose you but education is an overall development and you should do that. You excel at physics or chemistry or maths, whatever maybe your subject of love or desire. Your parents will also sometimes push you to do something that you don't want to pursue. My parents did that too. But don't shirk away from studies, just keep doing it. Your profession will eventually choose you and you will come to know one day that whatever you learnt will come handy in whatever profession that you will participate. I honestly feel a lot of acting, whatever little I know and whatever little I have done in 25 years, stems from the fact that I have evolved, learning from others and reading and watching others. My education is helping me understand things that I did not know before as an actor. I have this desire for knowledge. And like all of you, I also Google around the clock if I don't know something and pick up things from there. But if I wasn't educated, the one thing I would have missed was the desire for knowledge. My education gave me that and it comes in handy being an actor. You can speak with people and when you are educated it gives you a sense of confidence. That's very important. I wanted to act only for one year and then make films. It's been 25 years and I am still acting. Nobody is throwing me out. So I am waiting to leave it and start doing what I really want to do which is to make films and Inshallah I will do that in the next 25 years."
FIRST 'SLICE OF LIFE' FILM FOR SHAH RUKH
"Dear Zindagi is a slice of life film about youngsters and especially girls and the things that they need to face to succeed in life and in whichever field they want to. I think it's a very interesting take because Gauri Shinde, a lady, is making the film and it stars Alia Bhatt. I have seen the film and it's a very sweet film and I hope people like it. I have a bit part in it where I kind of help Alia's character Kaira deal with life. It is something very new for me also. I have never played a role which is slice of life, quiet and little more mature in terms of what I have done over the years."
SRK tells CT about Raees
"We still have a lot of shooting left for Raees. My knee is hurt, not lots, but I couldn't shoot for a year. So we still have bits and pieces left. I have no idea when and where we are shooting. I just got back yesterday from Europe. I am meeting Farhan Akhtar tomorrow to discuss things about the movie."
'Abram in the last 3 months has grown 3 inches'
"Today is a special day for me because it's my father's birthday. I firmly believe that the simplest things in life are the nicest. I work for 20 hours in a day. I was shooting till 7am and then I got on to the plane and came here. Whatever little time I get apart from work. I spend it with my family. I am hardly a role model. I have as many good and bad habits as everyone else. I lose my temper and I have my sense of humour just like everybody else. I think just because I am an actor, the good aspects is exaggerated. So if I am taking my child for a walk, everybody sees the picture on social media and thinks that I am a good father. But I am sure every father, including mine, had taken me out for a walk. Children grow up quickly, my son is 19, my daughter is 17 and I have a little one, who in the last 3 months has grown 3 inches. If your parents get angry, don't allow you to go for parties or take away your telephone, please forgive them. They really love you the most in the world. So be good to your parents."
 
'For my therapeutic exercises, I am learning how to cook Italian food'
"I find writing very therapeutic. I spend a lot of time alone. Normally people think that a movie star must be finishing work, then wearing leather pants and taking a Harley Davidson to go out for a party and then getting drunk and fighting in the pub. But, no, actually. Most of the actors when they finish work, they just want to go back home and sleep or read a book. The powerful therapy that I find is being able to write. I write when I feel like and not as a writer. That's why my book has taken twenty years to write. I don't think I will be able to teach people how to be successful. I think my book can teach people on how to deal with failures. The other thing that I have started doing with my therapeutic exercises is to learn how to cook Italian food now. I have been shooting three months abroad; I came here directly from a shoot. I am very boring after shooting. If people were to spend time with me, all the excitement they have (sic) and they so sweetly call me King Khan and say that I can entertain people... I am perhaps the single most boring person this world has produced in my time. I just write, learn how to cook, so it's hardly multi-tasking. Whenever I am stuck in the traffic in Dubai or Mumbai, I take out my laptop and work." arti@khaleejtimes.com