My kids are my best friends: Shah Rukh Khan

In an exclusive chat with Tarana on Zee Cinema’s 'Buzz of the Week', Shah Rukh Khan talks about his best friends and more…

Tarana: How does it feel now that your movie is set to release?
SRK: The release of the movie is like a daughter’s wedding day. While you have taken real good care of her for a very long time and love her utmost, you have to let go of her one day. And all you could do is wish and pray that everything will go very well for her.

Tarana: Do you wonder what happened to all those actors like Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Gayatri Joshi etc who started their big screen journeys with your movie? Are you in touch with them?
SRK: Honestly I don’t feel responsible for launching any actor. I work for myself and I don’t want to take credit for any of their work. Deepika started her career with OSO and is doing very well now. If tomorrow she goes ahead and wins Oscar awards, I wouldn’t want to take credit for that. Having said that, I am very much in touch with Suchitra. Our kids go to the same school.

Tarana: Who is your best friend?
SRK: I could say that my kids are my best friends. I have a good time with them.

Tarana: You have been recently writing on social networking sites…
SRK: Yeah, honestly I never wanted to write or blog because I didn’t know what to write. I have read celebrities who write on these sites and I find it extremely redundant and boring. Then Karan told me that it’s important to blog because people want to know about the actor behind the screen.

Tarana: You recently got a migraine problem…
SRK: My character in my movie needs to keep my eyes in a particular angle and with a blank look for which I had to stretch my eyebrows and keep them stuck upwards physically. I stretched that look for hours during the shoot and got so used to it that I started doing it even when I wasn’t shooting.

Tarana: There was a snake on the sets…
SRK: There were rumours on the set that there are snakes around. I was very scared of them but didn’t want others to panic so I kept quiet. But who knew it was going to come in the water tank I was shooting in.