Notes from the heart

As a star, Shah Rukh Khan says he is reclusive and happy, but the actor believes if he ever turns to direction he will become lonely and sad. The actor, 54, said directing films is the “singular most lonely job”. “Here you are kind of playing God, you are making a film, you are telling actors how to act, choosing the dialogues, making the script, selling it to the audience, going into theatres, editing it in dark rooms... when the film comes out you are all alone in the success and failure of it. I think being a director is an extremely lonely job,” Shah Rukh said in an interview.

“I always worry that if I become a director I will genuinely get lonely, and more and more removed from the regular way of living. Being a star already has made me very reclusive. Right now I feel alone and happy. “ he added. The actor, however, is a huge Christopher Nolan fan and would like to direct an action movie. “I would like to direct an action film. I want to grow up and be Christopher Nolan. But I don’t know if I have the gumption. The big problem with me is I don’t know when to say okay. And the director’s big job is a roll, camera, action, cut, okay. I don’t know how to say okay. I feel it can be better or was it good enough. So I am a little wary of being a director.”

Personal time

He addressed his self-imposed sabbatical saying he is taking his time to decide on his next project.  “I am getting better skin, I don’t know if I will get a better film or not,” he quipped. Citing the example of his last two releases, Jab Harry Met Sejal and Zero, which didn’t do well, Shah Rukh said while working on these movies too he thought he was making “the film”.  “There are days when I am discussing films and am really thinking this is the film. Then I feel this is how I felt for the last two ones that this is the film. I don’t know if I will be able to do a better film. That nobody can guarantee.  — PTI