Shah Rukh Khan Opens Up About Jab Harry Met Sejal Failure, Says ‘I Didn’t Want to Let Anyone Down’

Shah Rukh Khan never hesitates to experiment with his on-screen characters. He will willingly play a womaniser in Jab Harry Met Sejal and even an obsessed lover in Darr. Though the tag of King of Romance is unwillingly attached to his name, he likes to expand his horizon and try and beat his own self every time. The actor is quite clear in his approach and wants to sign movies that are entertaining enough. Disappointing is never the intention but mistakes happen and he has learnt to move on eventually. In his recent interaction with The Telegraph when the actor was asked to comment on the box office change in the recent months, he revealed why we need to go beyond that and appreciate films for the efforts taken behind them. Shah Rukh Khan Finally Confirms Signing Rakesh Sharma Biopic, Saare Jahaan Se Achcha.

SRK's last release, Jab Harry Met Sejal was a box office disaster and he's not naive to ignore it. Speaking about his failure in his same conversation, he said, "I let people down with Jab Harry Met Sejal, which was an utter flop. But I didn’t want to let anyone down; I just liked the fact that koi story nahin thi, sirf ek ring ke chakkar mein the two people (SRK’s Harry and Anushka Sharma’s Sejal) kheechey chale jaate hain… it was very organic, slice-of-life thi. The other day I met a director who mentioned the term ‘slice-of-life’ and I said, ‘nahin, poora pumpkin do mujhe iss baar’ (laughs)." Shah Rukh Khan’s First Song From Zero Will Be Out Within a Week and It’s Impossible to Keep Calm.

The conversation started when the interviewer asked him to explain why a big budget movie like Thugs of Hindostan struggled to mint money while the low budget one like Stree enjoyed a great run. The actor was quite clear in his reply. He said, "I think some people have been a little too harsh. It’s heartbreaking. It doesn’t mean that their spirit is broken, they are all amazing artists who will bounce back. But one needs to be a little less harsh. I think Stree was fabulous and we need to make 20,000 films like that. But I also think that Thugs of Hindostan is fantastic. Sometimes we do go wrong, but Aamir has never done a film in which he hasn’t put in his best." The actor understands the efforts taken behind any project and he relates TOH's failure to Ra One's outcome. Though the intentions weren't bad, these movies failed to strike gold at the box office but one needs to move on and that's part and parcel of life according to him.

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