Yashji felt JTHJ would be his last

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Shah Rukh Khan is pleased with his latest film Jab Tak Hai Jaan. For the superstar the movie started on the right foot as his son loved it during its technical screening. “My son said, ‘Wow dad, you’ve done a great job and looked great’. Coming from my son it makes me feel happy.”

While talking about JTHJ, the subject of Yash Chopra has to come up. “Yashji would always take a gap of two and a half to three years before starting his next venture. Unlike other directors/ producers he would never have a script ready. He would say, ‘Ab dekhte hai kaun si film karni hai…. script taiyyar karni padegi (will have to see what film we will be making and for that we need to complete a script).’ But this time he seemed slightly unhappy. Somehow he had the feeling lately that this would be his last film. Yashji always thought that relationships were complicated and thus by the end of the movie, he made the relationships look simple.”
The actor also has some definite views about love. “Love has to go through so many obstacles… parental, social and personal. One feels happy while courting a girl and at the same time is saddened when they fight and stop talking. Love brings up interesting feelings in those who share it. My different films like Darr, which showcased hatred was actually love… it’s the point of view; and in Chak De… love for the game is the driving force. In some films love represents dhokha. All in all, overcoming obstacles and still going strong in a relationship is love.”
SRK says that he is where he is in the industry because of his hard work. “I am a hard working guy. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I came up the hard way in an industry where I had no godfather.”
Shah Rukh was a good hockey and soccer player in school and his teachers never expected that he would end up being an actor. “I had chosen football over cricket. I played right out regularly and as a centre-back at times. The game would keep me healthy and fit during my college days.”
He confesses, however, that he was always with the “girls’ gang”. “I have always been with my sister. I would accompany her as a chaperone. I respect women a lot. My grandmother nurtured me during my childhood. She had inculcated this value in me and made me understand that it was the duty of a man. I will just order my son around but to my daughter, I will address her as ‘aap’. I belonged to the girls’ gang always.
“Recently while shooting for JTHJ I was supposed to say ‘tu’ to my beloved and I ended up saying ‘tum’. I finally completed it in the tenth shot,” ends the superstar whose next films are Chennai Express and Happy New Year with Farah Khan.