The King of Bollywood and Romance is undubiously the 51-year old Shah Rukh Khan. He might look super dashing but this doesn’t deter him from believing and confessing that he has become old now.
Infusing exemplary romantic scenes in films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayege, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dilwale, etc has navigated him to the helm of Bollywood actors for more than two decades now.
On being asked if he would still do uber-romantic films in the coming years, the King Khan replied: I think the times have changed a lot in terms of the language. Romance hasn’t changed. I think people have less time. I also find this whole rightly-so pushed for equality I think creates more buddy-feel between men and women. When you are buddies, you can’t romance. There is a whole wave which I notice with youngsters, because I have kids and some young actors and actresses talk to each other very differently.
While promoting his upcoming film “Raees” in August Kranti Rajdhani train. He said “Romance has to have a little formality. Whether it’s ‘tehzeeb,’ going down on your knees, whether it is saying couplets in praise of a girl. I am from that school, I still believe in it. “I think romance has to be formal. ‘Aur phir kya kar rahi hai?’ It can’t work like that, even if there is equality.”
Reflecting on what finds he finds appropriate to do is a blend of both worlds of Romance. Throwing sa double shot on one arrow, Shah Rukh spelled out that his new film with Imtiaz Ali and Anushka Sharma is all about tweo worlds of Romance. “I think I am too old for a romantic film now, of that genre. May be the youngsters will have to find language which has formality but still of today.
“May be in Imtiaz’s film it might be there because I am playing kind of my age, 40s, the lady of course Anushka is younger than me. There is this formality because he (Ali) belongs to that world, but the language is very Imtiaz. He is very modern thinking, has a different take on romance,” the star added.
Directed by Rahul Dholakia, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Mahira Khan, “Raees”, is set to release tomorrow, January 25.
