Shah Rukh Khan changed his image from a romantic hero to an action star when he took a sabbatical from the movies after 2018’s Zero. When he made a comeback with Pathaan in 2023, SRK was a changed man. With his style and his looks, SRK had turned over a new leaf and in a new interview, he spoke about his workout regime and his diet.
In a recent interview, the 58-year-old actor revealed he eats only one meal and works out for just half an hour. He clarified that it was his personal choice to cut down his meals and has nothing to do with intermittent fasting. “I go to sleep at five in the morning. When Mark Wahlberg gets up, I go off to sleep. And then I wake up about nine or 10 if I am shooting. But then I will come home at 2 am, take a bath and then work out before I go to sleep”, Shah Rukh Khan told The Guardian.
In his interview with Fardia Jalal back in the 1990s, Shah Rukh Khan had opened up about his Sunday routine. He said, “It’s Sunday morning. I sleep very late at night to I get up late in the morning. First thing I hear as soon as I get up is scolding from my wife…how much I have worked the last six days, how little time I spent at home, I didn’t give her any attention, and when I tell her ‘Look Gauri I am very tired’, I get a ‘Nothing! I don’t want to hear anything!'”
He further revealed, “I don’t shower at all on Sundays. I stay in bed, the chips and Thumbs Up arrive, the TV is turned on, I watch a film, then I bathe my dog Chewbacca and take out her tics.”
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The actor, who made his comeback with action films, also revealed his future plans. When asked whether he plans to turn fully into action star after the success of Pathaan and Jawan, the actor spoke about his initial days in the movies. “When I came into the industry I was an athlete. My life’s dream was to have a six-pack, wear a white vest, have a lady with my arm around her, blood on my face and a gun in my hand. My dream was to enter a room, someone says: ‘Who are you?’ and I shoot them.”
He further revealed, “At the age of 55, I took a kind of sabbatical. During the pandemic there was nothing else to do and I was telling everyone: learn Italian cooking and work out. I was working out. I built a body. After four years, people started missing me because before that I was too much in everybody’s face. People said: ‘Will you do a film?’ I said: ‘Only if it’s an action film!”
Shah Rukh Khan made a successful comeback with three films in 2023 – Siddharth Anand’s Pathaan followed by Atlee’s Jawan and Rajkumar Hirani’s comedy-drama, Dunki. While both his action films crossed Rs 1000 crore mark at the global box office, his comedy drama, made on a budget of Rs 120 crore, earned over Rs 470 crore at the box office. Shah Rukh Khan is currently working on another actioner–King, directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
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