“He is the best husband and father I could ever ask for. I always say that I am so fortunate to be with Shah Rukh Khan, the man,” Gauri Khan, wife of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, told Vogue in a 2018 interview while gushing about her loving husband. Shah Rukh, a doting father, also expressed his love for his wife and children. It wouldn’t be wrong to call Shah Rukh Khan a perfect ‘family man’, who despite his massive stardom and success spanning three decades, prioritises his loved ones, never missing a chance to celebrate them. One might argue that this dedication towards family comes with time and age, but this is Shah Rukh we are talking about. The Pathaan actor has always been the one to hail his loved ones and never neglect them for his career or stardom, never letting his profession overshadow his personal life. In an old from 1991, even before the actor made it big in Bollywood, told a magazine, “I have a personal life. I have friends, a girlfriend, an uncle, aunt, sister. And they are the most important people in my life (sic).” The pages from the magazine featuring a young and raw Shah Rukh were recently shared on Reddit.
The actor said that while some actors came to the industry to earn some money, fame and glory and are known to throw “their weight around,” he wanted to act and have a good work-life balance. “I am just trying to say that I do not much care for the frills that come along with this profession. I do not want to go astray and lose myself to this world like the others. I want to keep in touch with reality. I want to keep in touch with myself (sic),” shared Shah Rukh who had done only a couple of roles on TV back then. The actor worked in TV shows like Circus, Fauji, Dil Dariya, Dusra Keval, Umeed, Ahmaq and Wagle Ki Duniya.
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Unlike many actors who, gave in vanity and sacrificed their love and family in the quest to succeed, SRK emphasised the importance of having the best of both worlds — career and relationships. “And I really don’t understand this big sh*t about sacrificing this for my career and that for my career. I mean why can’t you have both? Why are you looking for excuses for your neglect towards your family or wife or girlfriend? And even if you have neglected your personal life for your professional one what makes you so proud of it?,” SRK asked, adding, “You have no right to hurt people who love you and you tom tom about it.”
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The actor, who was dating Gauri, in the report, critcised actors who dumped women in their lives after attaining success and for treating them like objects. Referring to an interview where a fellow actor boasted about leaving his girlfriend for film, SRK added, “Like I read somewhere, I think it was in ‘Stardust’, a guy saying that he gave up his woman because of his career. My work is more important to me than my woman or some sh*t like that… How crass can you get? What about the moments you shared with the woman? How ridiculous (sic).”
Shah Rukh and Gauri, who met in 1984, got married in 1991 in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony, after dating for six years. The couple welcomed their first child Aryan Khan in 1997, followed by their daughter, Suhana, in 2000. The power couple opted for surrogacy for their youngest child AbRam who was born in 2013.
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