Shah Rukh Khan: I’m no longer a lover, I am love

And today, if one asks the actor about how it all happened, he first jokes, “Should I say something controversial? I love making love, I don’t like watching it. It’s good no? Making love is happier than watching it,” and later adds, “I feel these things. By some chance, some of the love stories that I’ve done have done so well, people have loved them for years, so ek maahol sa ban gaya hai (there’s a feeling about it). I love doing love stories… I am no longer a lover. I am love. I feel it in a good way, not being pompous. I feel it, understand, like to analyse it, sense it and somehow that comes through movies.”

See| Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma during the launch of Jab Harry Met Sejal song, “Hawayein”. 

(Picture: Varinder Chawla)

(Picture: Varinder Chawla)

(Picture: Varinder Chawla)

(Picture: Varinder Chawla)

The superstar really wants people to believe this because he feels given his shy, recluse real self, it can only be his understanding of the emotion called love, which can make him appear a natural at on screen romance. In fact, he maintains that it is also people, he collaborates with, who help him “open up”. The actor recently teamed up with director Imtiaz Ali and actor Anushka Sharma for another romance, Jab Harry Met Sejal. “I am very fortunate that I have a director like Imtiaz, friend like Anushka—because I am shy, it helps to open up— you have music directors and lyricist who are giving it (to romance genre) so much more than perhaps I can.”

There’s another person to share credit for turning the non-expressive Shah Rukh, who confesses he is pathetic at relationships, into the desire of millions. His daughter, Suhana. “Because of my daughter, I see a lot of love stories too and like it.” Otherwise, the king of romance is a fan of comedies. “It’s not that I don’t like love stories, but the kind of person I am, I enjoy comedy more, I love action.”