Shah Rukh Khan

Richard Quest: It's not often that I'm downright intimidated by the person I'm about to interview. Kristalina Gheorghiva, eh, easy for lunch. But SRK is a legend, aren't you?

Shah Rukh Khan: You're being very sweet, Richard. Like I told you I'm not a legend. I'm Bond, James Bond.

I told you that at the backstage, yeah. Richard Quest: Say that again. Go on. That'What's, what's your name?

Shah Rukh Khan: Bond. James Bond. Richard Quest: Would you like to play Bond? Shah Rukh Khan: I'd really wanted to, but I think I'm too short. Richard Quest: What about Bond baddie?

Shah Rukh Khan: Baddie, yes, of course. I'm brown enough. Richard Quest: If we look at your career, how many years? Shah Rukh Khan: Now, I think actively including television, 33 years now, I've been actively working as an actor.

Richard Quest: But to have reached the level of stardom that you have reached, and for the length of time, is quite an achievement. It's more than that, it's a huge achievement. But it just, it speaks to more than just the, obviously the raw talent, but it also speaks to perseverance, the ability to keep going, which is something that's so crucial.

Shah Rukh Khan: I yeah, I think it's, you know, perseverance is, I think it happens to some people. You don't have any option but to persevere.

So maybe when I was young, I lost my parents very early, and then you realize that, okay, there's no rewinding this. There's no coming back from death, and you have to continue, make the most of what you have. So I was kind of a youngish orphan, and I had to work my way through it.

Or it could be just part of nature, you know, it's the nature of the beast that you are just, with dogged determination, you keep on working. Richard Quest: Where does that come from? Shah Rukh Khan: I don't know. I've, I always try to analyze it that, you know, why do I do what I do?

Why do I wake up in the morning and just start doing it all over again, even when it's, I think it taught me, you know, the work that I do, making films, you know, the result happens very suddenly.

You think you made the best of films, you think it's the nicest of stories to tell, you think the world is going to love it, and you wake up on a Friday morning and realize it's the biggest flop of your career. Richard Quest: And Which happened. Shah Rukh Khan: Which happens, yeah. Which happens more often than not.

Or sometimes you don't like a film and that becomes the biggest hit of your career, and you say like, "How did this happen?" But what I've realized, and I want to say this to everyone, actually, and I say this to everyone who's working with me or people who know me, that on Thursday evening, because our films release on Fridays, mostly, or Thursday evenings here in Dubai.

So Thursday evening at home in Mumbai, I rinse myself with a two-hour bath and rinse myself of the work that I've done. Richard Quest: Because what Well, hang on. Yeah. Let's, let's talk about that bath.

Shah Rukh Khan: It's, it's a ritual, yeah. Richard Quest: Is it a ritual? I Yeah.

Do you put special oils and scents? Do you have bath salts? Do you prepare with candles?

Shah Rukh Khan: I'm not, I'm not telling you my secret. You come and take a bath with me. Easy. I show.