Fan Story: Shahrukh The Energizing Superstar

This is one of the very rare experiences that has made me write and in my writing I am making an effort to convey a learning that just emerged out of this experience.

7th December 2009 It was one of my usual flight for my meetings and I was on my favorite aisle seat in Club Premier class of Jet Airways from Mumbai to New Delhi, as usual I was browsing through the papers, magazines, looking at my agenda and mails in my Blackberry.

As usual I pray before all my flights expressing my gratitude to god for giving me the most comfortable mode of travel and for travelling ahead.

Figuring out to read the latest e-book on my laptop a best past time during air travel and following all the mandatory checks of putting all my mobile devises in flight mode.

Passengers started arriving in the aircraft, and crew with the same welcoming gesture of Jet Airways hospitality. Premier class started filling up and suddenly a strange energetic feeling in the aircraft started building up a special feeling that you experience before some one sensational arriving and suddenly between the people from the security, airport VVIP escort and Jet Airways ground personals a charismatic Super Star simply dressed with blue denim, white tshirt, black leather jacket and sunglasses walks in graciously and it was King of Bollywood the King Khan Sharukh Khan and takes his seat just at a very close visual proximity to my seat, He very generously expressed gratitude to all the people who escorted him to his seat and the smiles and happiness on their faces where just too hard to replicate.

Just before settling down on his seat King Khan spots another VIP on board who was in his mid 70’s or early 80’s, walks up to him bends down broadens his smile and extending his hand humbly introducing himself said “Hello Sir I am Shahrukh Khan, how are you, it is very nice to see you” greets him and returns back to his seat.

My breath and my eyes paused for a while and was just gazing at King Khan pinching myself to feel whether the moment was a reality. Suddenly a seat belt fasten sign with a chime turned on and suddenly gathering my composure I buckled up for take off.

Noticed King Khan carefully switching his Nokia communicator and another emailing device to flight mode/offline mode also asks his manager who was also using the same Nokia and other device switched to offline mode.

SRK’s presence felt like a lot of positive energy around his aura was so powerful that every one in the premier class including the crew felt very energetic, happy and seemed like have forgotten the external world it was like happiness around. Definitely and undoubtedly SRK in some way had a little bit of divine attraction towards him looking at his calmness with a smile on his face and his bright shiny eyes.

His manager brought up some of his correspondence and was briefing him on his agenda, SRK wears his TAG Heuer red and chrome semi frame glasses and writes on the correspondences and returns to his manager and manager suddenly asks SRK on some setting on his phone and tech savvy SRK shows those options on the phone to his manager and teaches him how to use them and tells him in case of any other quarry non technical asks his manager to take it from Airtel customer care.

SRK is definitely very tech savvy and is passionate about the technology and gadgets stay’s update with the latest technology gadgets and uses them for communication and other work. I noticed SRK holding a latest newly launched popular e-book reader with e-ink technology which still has not been launched in India. I presume he might have some e-books and may be his future scripts loaded in it for his reference.

Crew started giving out food menu as a part of premier class for passengers to select their desired dish and SRK asks for a glass of Pepsi and orders a normal meal and never asked for any special requirement, through out the flight SRK had over 3 glasses of Pepsi.

I asked SRK for an autograph he smilingly said ya sure and asked my name and wrote me an autograph and I said to him “keep entertaining the world for ever” he said “ Thank you I will do my best”, few other passengers asked for autographs and he gave them with a same smile and expressed gratitude to them. Between all that a lady walks up to him and said “I am from London, My son is your fan and wants to be in movies could you please write him some inspirations” SRK with the same smile, wrote a message and expressed gratitude. One of the crew members walks up to SRK and says sir thank you for being in the movies and entertaining us.

I asked his manager “How does it feel to be with SRK?” he with a proud smile said “I have been with him since 15 years and he is still the same down to earth super star who I saw 15 years ago”

I asked for a picture with SRK, he said yes and stayed till I to got a right pictures on my phone. My happiness had no limits.

Just before the descend crew walks up SRK and asks “Mr. Khan would you like a glass of Pepsi before landing” and SRK happily said “yes please”. By now it was very clear to me that whether it is Jet Airways or Airtel or Nokia or TAG heuer or Pepsi brands that SRK promoted used them himself too and this is a very rare in case of celebrities.

To me King Khan looked like the real and the most deserved custodian of the name King Khan, King of Bollywood, Super Star and the fame that he has gathered. Through out the flight and later in the airport King Khan was just spreading love to each and every one who spoke to him. He looked to be expressing gratitude to every one he met, he was the most calm and humble person with the unchanged kind and welcoming smile which clearly conveyed that constant fame and success has made him more humble, kind and people loving person.

For me this was a great learning experience probably some thing beyond Management books, self help books or sayings from the spiritual speakers. I have often heard famous people claiming to be humble and kind, but SRK is the one practicing these qualities diligently. He is the star sent to earth with all the right qualities, right attitude and probably there might not be any one in Bollywood or anywhere for that matter, who could out perform SRK.

SRK is that one special person for whom success and fame means being more humble, kind, expressing love and kindness to all. This is a very rare attitude that brings him more success and fame and yet keeps his feet firmly grounded.

I might never run out of words about Shahrukh Khan but for Now Shahrukh Khan is the rightful and only one King of Bollywood and no one can even think of that place.

Let this story inspire every one to be a good human being a humble and a kind one.

--- K. Vignesh Kamath | kvkblogs.blogspot.com ---