SRKs cockiness has mellowed over the years - Anupama Chopra : Bollywood News

What is interesting about the book is that itâ€™s not merely a book that goes on praising Shahrukh Khan. There are sections, passages where you are talking about whatâ€™s going on in Bollywood like the Gulshan Kumar incident, the transitions that Bollywood is going through. Itâ€™s not merely Shahrukh Khan is great kind of book.

Thank you, Iâ€™m so glad you enjoyed those parts because I was a bit worried that Shahrukh Khan fans may say why we are going in other things. But that was the whole point to tell many stories through his. It has been published by Warner books, an American publisher who wants it also for mainstream American readers many of whom do not know who Shahrukh Khan is. But they are interested in Hindi film Industry, they are interested in the popular Indian culture. It really is a popular Indian culture book. I always wanted to tell many things through Shahrukh.

One more very interesting aspect of the book is the underworld chapter. Shahrukh has never commented on it openly. But here one gets to know how he was told by Rakesh Maria that he was on the hit list of underworld and then how he tackles the abusive language of an underworld don.

That was actually an eye opener for me. We all have lived through the underworld years. Vinod (Anupama Chopraâ€™s husband, Vidhu Vinod Chopra) had threats as well. We lived with protection around the time when Mission Kashmir was released. Weâ€™ve all experienced it first hand. It was very unpleasant, very very terrifying time but I did not know to what extent they were involved in his life. For somebody like him getting calls dailyâ€¦.I remember when I visited him on the sets of Duplicate, I saw a guard with a gun. It was the first time I saw a bodyguard but after a point of time it became an accessory. It was an eye opener for me for the extent of harassment he went through and how frightened he was and how terrifying it was for his family.

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Abu Salem in one of the phone calls said to Shahrukh that we thought you are a proudy person but you are not. That is one persona that SRK carries. A lot of people find him arrogant but he is also a very simple person on other occasions.

Absolutely! I think there is certain cockiness though that has mellowed over the years. I used to see that a lot earlier. But I donâ€™t see that any more. I am completely amazed that how normal and down to earth he is. Iâ€™ve never had this experience of the old style megalomania that one associates with old fashioned film stars. Itâ€™s just not there.

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"SRK's cockiness has mellowed over the years" - Anupama Chopra