shah rukh khan, welcome to hardtalk.hank you very much, zeinab, and thank you very much for having me over at hardtalk. very glad to have you. look, after graduating from the university of delhi, you dropped out of a masters degree in communications to become an actor. i take it you have no regrets? it was either being a journalist or being an actor, so i, i was actually training to be a film—maker. they didn't have a film—making course there. i'm really an actor by accident. i'm really an actor by accident because i went down and i said, ok, i'll start working in front of the camera because some people offered me a film. but behind the scenes i learned how to make ad films, i wanted to make advertising films. and when my wife, now wife, then just about to be wife, and my friends asked me, how long are you gone for? i said a year. that's it. and it's been 30 years now. the accidental actor. i'm the accidental actor. all right, well, your debut movie was romantic drama deewana in the early 1990s. and thereafter you very q

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couple of years ago when you made a movie, raees, which was a classic big budget bollywood movie with shah rukhorribly wrong. how gravely disappointing has your experience of the tensions between india and pakistan as they affect the movie industry been? to be honest, i was more excited about raees being released in pakistan than anywhere else, because i wanted was to sit there with my best friends, and my child, azlan, and the audience, and watch this. and i didn't get to. you couldn't. but you know why you couldn't — because the pakistani censorship board deemed that raees was an ugly, horrible, unacceptable depiction of muslims. i think that if raees was released at any other time, i think this would not have been banned. because again, these are a handful of people deciding it, and i think their decisions are sometimes based on things that don't even concern the film, sometimes. so, you know, i don't think that was the reason. they said it was the reason. they said it, but i don't know — if raees was released today, would it have been released? well, in a way, things have got even worse sin

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