After taking My Name is Khan all over New York City, Shah Rukh Khan is currently in London, promoting his next release. The actor has spent the past 48 hours preparing England and most of Europe for his much awaited film, which also stars Kajol.
But with the Shiv Sena issuing all sorts of threats against the King Khan, it would have been impossible for SRK to interact with the press without being questioned about the Sena and Thackeray.
At the press conference in central London on Wednesday, Shah Rukh, who has made it quite clear that he is in no mood to apologize to any political party, did offer an apology to someone else.
“I am sorry to director Karan Johar and actress Kajol. I’m also immensely sorry to all the other business partners that – because of what I say and believe in – the film and their work is going to be affected. I have no idea how to change that,” said Khan – the actor and businessman, “I’m very happy when a film is about to be released. I am very happy about taking my film to the world and interacting with the audiences, but I’m very sad right now, as this is a very special film.”
Khan spoke quite candidly to the press about Shiv Sena’s reaction and threats to the superstar.
“I just request everybody to leave the film alone and deal with what I have said as an individual. I have no idea what I am supposed to apologise for. If I am in the wrong, I would like to apologise, but someone needs to explain to me what is wrong,” he told the huge turnout. “I’ve no idea why there is so much confusion about what I’ve said and, if you have differences in ideology, why should that not be allowed?,” he questioned.
And for all of us who have known Shah Rukh to pull at our emotions on the screen, how could he not achieve it when this time he was fighting for a cause that most of his city-men were supporting?
“I won’t comment on this on a larger scale not because it’s not nice for a Hindi film hero who is thought of as a hero to say this, but it scares me to say anything now because the stakes are very high,” he said as he signed off.
