At the recently held Critics Choice Film Awards (CCFA) in Mumbai, Shah Rukh Khan gave a speech addressing the star system in the industry and how actors and filmmakers need to change. He joked about how people expected him to dance and perform at an event like this but instead he chose to speak about filmmaking and film criticism.
“I like to be superhero, a midget, a fan with a prosthetic face. To become an actor you need to deconstruct yourselves, you need to discard the self,” he added.
Shah Rukh went on to say, “We filmmakers have fought along to give more credit to constructive and jaded ideas. We search for art, we search for form without searching the essence of the stories. We find logic and disregard the free-spirit of story telling. We have to remind ourselves that truth is formless, only untruths are formed. We as film fraternity have to be truer to ourselves, and hence to the stories we set out to tell.”
Finally, he had this to say to film critics.
Watch the full speech below in which SRK also roasts film critics Anupama Chopra and Rajeev Masand:
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