‘Shah Rukh Khan helped with my homework, taught me how to ride a bike’: Ananya Panday calls SRK ‘the definition of an emotionally available man’

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Opening up further about the kind of attention that he pays to his children, she said, “He’s just the most amazing father. He has given his children, and not just his immediate children but all of us, so much time. Even though he may be the busiest man, he will always take that time out for his kids, for their education, for their sports. He’s come for every single sports day of ours, he’s taught me for my relay races, he used to practice taekwondo with us, he taught me and Shanaya how to ride a bike, he’d play football with us, help us with our homework. Any problem we had, we could call him up. He’s the definition of an emotionally available man.”

Ananya also highlighted Shah Rukh’s influence over women, and said, “The respect that he has given women in real life and in his films… Or the way that he has treated mother figures. Any woman in his life… And that makes a huge difference. You can’t fake it after a point, that’s just who he is as a person.”

Shah Rukh has three children with wife Gauri Khan – sons Aryan and AbRam, and daughter Suhana. While Suhana made her acting debut last year with the Netflix film The Archies, Aryan is gearing up for the release of his first series as filmmaker.