At TED 2017, Shah Rukh Khan recalled the simple earlier times when an apple meant a fruit and nothing else
Shah Rukh Khan has done it again. At TED 2017, the actor delivered his maiden TED Talk and laced his motivational and inspirational words with a pinch of laughter, jokes, and sarcasm. The actor was delivering his first-ever TED Talk in Vancouver, Canada on Thursday. And he left the audience charmed.
Presenting himself as a person who sells dreams and peddles love to millions of people, Shah Rukh in his trademark style talked like a self-obsessed actor without feeling guilty about it. “I’ve been made to understand there are lots of you here who have never seen my work, and I feel really sad for you,” said Shah Rukh and left the audience in splits with his wit. Adding to it, the Raees actor said, “That doesn’t take away from the fact that I’m completely self-obsessed, as a movie star should be.”
Shah Rukh took to Twitter to express his feelings of speaking at the platform for the first time and thanked the organisers on his Twitter handle. “Thank u @TEDTalks @TEDchris @julietrblake for a wonderful time. All who came to lov me in Vancouver…my lov 2 u,”wrote Shah Rukh.
Thank u @TEDTalks @TEDchris @julietrblake for a wonderful time. All who came to lov me in Vancouver…my lov 2 u.
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Also, the actor compared humanity to himself — an aging actor trying to adapt to changes. “Humanity is a lot like me, it’s an ageing movie star, grappling with all the newness around it, wondering whether it got it right in the first place and still trying to find a way to keep on shining regardless,” opined SRK. Referring to the night when he lost his father at the age of 14, Shah Rukh said, “From that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival.”
"We had expected an expansion of ideas and dreams; we had not bargained for the enclosure of judgment." @iamsrk on the Internet #TED2017
"Humanity is a lot like me. It's an aging movie star, grappling with all the newness, wondering whether she got it right." @iamsrk#TED2017
Shah Rukh also recalled how life was simpler in the earlier times, unlike the present which is complicated. “The framework of life was simple then. You ate what you could find, and you did what you were told to do. You married the first girl you dated, and you were a techie if you could fix the carburetor in your car. You went wherever life took you for work, and people were mostly welcoming of you … Most important, you were who you were, and you said what you thought.”
And as the crowd was engrossed in Shah Rukh’s articulate speech, he tried to spread positivity with his life story. He told the audience how he shifted to Mumbai to make a career in acting and met many people who changed his perceptions and his ideas. He also recounted how his creativity met the right resources and made way for his stardom. “By the time I was 40, I was really flying. I had done 50 films by then, and 200 songs and I’d been knighted by the Malaysians and given the highest civil honor by the French government. Humanity was soaring with me, we were both flying off the handle, actually,” said SRK who has received the honorary doctorate at the University of Edinburgh.
See some pictures from Shah Rukh Khan’s TED Talks in Vancouver
Reflecting upon the introduction of internet, Shah Rukh said, “Everything I said took a new meaning; everything I did — good, bad, ugly — was there for the world to comment upon and judge. Everything I didn’t say or do was also met with the same fate.”
Seeming not very happy with this technology-ridden world, where ‘apple’ is no longer a fruit but a company founded by Steve Jobs, SRK said, “I started to feel that I couldn’t be who I wanted to be or say what I actually thought. And humanity at this time completely identified with me. Both of us were going through our midlife crisis. Humanity, like me, was becoming an over-exposed prima donna. The whole world and all of the humanity seemed as lost as I was.”
Finding the audience completely relating to every word he spoke, the 51-year-old actor tried his best to motivate people with his experiences. He said, “The present you is brave. The present you is hopeful. The present you is innovative and resourceful. And, of course, the present you is annoyingly indefinable.”
Shah Rukh Khan is one of the funniest people I've seen speak. #TED2017
“I’ve learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love. You may use your power to build walls and keep people outside or you may use it to break barriers and welcome them in. You may use your faith to make people afraid and terrify them into submission. Or you can use it to give courage to people, so they rise to the greatest heights of enlightenment.” continued Shah Rukh.
Concluding his speech, SRK said, “The future you, has to be like an aging movie star, who has been made to believe that there is a possibility of a world which is completely, wholly, self-obsessively in love with itself.”
Apart from his inspirational words, Shah Rukh gifted the audience a brief Lungi Dance.
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