Memoirs of Another Day

Shah Rukh Khan’s ready wit and humour are not acquired with success. It is something that he possessed even as a newcomer. He displayed it in our first meeting at Kamalistan studio.

At that time my magazine had just carried a snippet about his 'flying high' after hitting it off with Deewana and how he would soon come down with a thud! “So why don't you come after I land with a thud?” he had grinned wickedly when I asked him for an interview.

Another time during a photo shoot he asked me to iron his jeans, saying that I would remember the incident when he became a superstar. He was not wrong!

More recently during the promotions of Don he said to all the journalists present at his place that the Pepsi was on him, after all it came free!

But when it comes to work Shah Rukh was and till date remains very serious. And that includes keeping a journalist waiting for hours, whether it was during the shooting of Baazigar or the more recent Om Shanti Om, Shah Rukh will not sit down for an interview till he feels he is mentally free from his work to do so.

Geety Sahgal, ScreenIndia