MUMBAI:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Shah Rukh Khan enjoys a legion of fans in India and certainly knows how to floor the masses, but confesses that politics is simply not for him. One reason – he is not “selfless” enough.<\/p>\n
“Oh, I love to do everything for the country in terms of the job that I do, as an entertainer. But you know, politics is a specialised field, and I don’t have that much knowledge of being part of politics,” said the Hindi film superstar, speaking exclusively to NDTV in Mumbai.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old candidly lists why he thinks he is unsuitable for the job.<\/p>\n
“…you need to be an expert. Also I believe you need to be completely selfless, dedicated and working towards making the part of your people have a better life. So I don’t know if I am strongly selfless about it as yet or not. So, I don’t think, I doubt if I’d be part of politics.”<\/p>\n
On a lighter note, he wonders, if he were to start a party, what would be his\u00a0chinh<\/em>\u00a0(party symbol).<\/p>\n Any guesses? “Outstretched arms,” he grins, referring to his trademark pose on the silver screen.<\/p>\n “Okay no, no, jokes of politics apart, I don’t think I have it to be a politician, and it requires a lot more commitment than I have at this point of time to be honest.”<\/p>\n That said, SRK does see why others in his fraternity – like mega south stars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan – would “take the plunge” into politics. For them, he says, it’s natural progression.<\/p>\n “Rajni sir I know feels for it, (and) Kamal sir. I have had chats with them over the years, and I genuinely feel – and even before they joined politics, I think both of them were in the public field of helping people socially. I think they were more aware of that aspect a lot earlier, than even now when there’s talk about them joining politics. So I think for them it seems like a natural progression, and they are loved by people and they want to do things for people. Not that I don’t want to, and not that I am not loved by people!”<\/p>\n True. Not that he doesn’t want to do his bit. SRK recently\u00a0donated\u00a0Rs.<\/span>\u00a021 lakh towards rehabilitation efforts\u00a0in flood-wrecked Kerala.<\/p>\n “I think as public figures, I mean the monetary part of it is embarrassing, I think one should not even talk about it. I don’t, I don’t want to. But, having said that, anything that we are called upon to do, I think we should lend support.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MUMBAI:\u00a0 Shah Rukh Khan enjoys a legion of fans in India and certainly knows how to floor the masses, but confesses that politics is simply not for him. One reason – he is not “selfless” enough. “Oh, I love to do everything for the country in terms of the job that I do, as an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimealert24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}