In the 19th minute of the interview, in the context of Farid Zakariah mentioning the Newsweek poll which said Shah Rukh Khan is among the 50 most powerful people in the world, he, Shah Rukh Khan turns modest about his power and says that a movie star can hardly be a powerful person because so many things about a movie are in others’ hands. He further adds, “If I was not in such a vulnerable position of being a movie star, I am going to show power. I am a thinking bloody Indian. I will show power then.”
Was Shah Rukh Khan displaying his secular license in using the phrase “bloody Indian”? Is it not akin to M.F.Hussain displaying his secular license in drawing a nude Saraswati? Would Hussain have drawn a nude Ayesha or Shah Rukh Khan have so casually said “bloody Islam”?
Some food for thought?
