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on 2007/12/2 23:13:38
From cars to watches, he can sell it all. So when Shah Rukh Khan descended on Delhi to launch a brand of luxury watches, the city was left yearning for more. CNN-IBN’s Iram Mirza caught up with the actor to find out more about his marketing skills and a few controversies.
CNN-IBN: Nothing can define this man except that he's King Khan of Bollywood. SRK is in the Capital for one of his many endorsements, a watch this time. So this one is also going to add to your ever-growing wardrobe?
SRK: This is a Calibre-S Chronograph Link watch. Now when I endorse things, I don’t think of them professionally. I think of them very personally because the attachment has been for many years.
CNN-IBN: Is there anything that Shah Rukh Khan cannot sell?
SRK: Well, you'll have to ask the people who make the products. I have never been offered anything outlandish. I think there's a car that's nice, clothes that are good. Also, the kind of job I do as an actor lends itself to lot of eyeballs. So if there are companies that come and tell me, "Okay this is an outlandish thing. We want you to sell a rocket," I'll do it if I am good enough for it.
CNN-IBN: It's been a great year for you Shah Rukh, there was Chak De! and then Om Shanti Om Have you started preparing your thank you speeches already?
SRK: No, I have a thank you speech for life. It's not been a great year, it's been a great life. I have a thank you speech for people and God who've given me this much and I think at every function when I am called to do so, I take the life out of it and put the year in it.
CNN-IBN: You recently said in an interview that you are jobless. Is that the reason why we are seeing you more on TV shows? You haven't signed any other film.
SRK: On TV shows I went for promotion of Om Shanti Om. We had a tie up. I am not being able to get an interesting idea for a film or a story to tell right now. As soon as I get that, I'd be back to work. It might just take a while.
CNN-IBN: It's also been a year of controversies - first there was the Manoj Kumar controversy and then the BCCI.
SRK: Everyone asked me if I'd go to see a match again. I go to see things which I want to see and when I want to see. So I won't say,"No I won't go," and I won't say, "Yes, I will." When I feel like doing something, I'll do it. It's a personal thing. I love Team India and Pakistan. They are personal friends, some of them. They come home, I go visit them. I like their company.
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