Shah Rukh Khan & Kajol Talk Friendship and Fame

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Indian cinema icons Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol chat to Melissa Nathoo about how their friendship has evolved and the fame they've achieved, as they mark 30 years of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00In my whole career, this I think is the interview that means the most to me.

00:03You have played the biggest part in my whole childhood, so it means a lot.

00:0830 years of this film, how much has your friendship evolved since you filmed this all those years ago?

00:15I think we loved each other then, and it had to do with the fact that we got together,

00:21we were both very new and raw as far as even our profession was concerned,

00:26and we felt very supportive of each other, and I think that continues till date, and I think...

00:33I think Sharuk has covered my stomach more times than anybody else that I know of.

00:37And she's made me look more times than anybody else.

00:41And we all need that person. We all need that person.

00:44Absolutely, absolutely.

00:46We'll do that.

00:47Is Cheeky Sharuk still... because now I feel like we see cool Sharuk a lot.

00:53But is Cheeky Sharuk in there? Because that's what I saw in all the films growing up.

00:57Even in this film, he's cheeky all the way through.

01:00Oh, he's still cheeky.

01:02Ah, he's still cheeky.

01:03He's just cheeky off camera now.

01:05He's not doing it in front of camera anymore.

01:07On camera, they don't allow me to be too cheeky now.

01:09Did you ever imagine all those years ago, this level of worldwide fame and adoration from people,

01:18like the outpouring of love for you both?

01:21No.

01:21Even from me?

01:22No.

01:23I think Sharuk anticipated it.

01:24No, no, no, no.

01:25Sharuk definitely anticipated it.

01:26Now he's just being modest and all that.

01:29Like, he's just being modest and all.

01:32But I remember Sharuk earlier also.

01:35It's like, I'm Sharuk Khan.

01:37You know, it's that attitude.

01:38Please.

01:39That's what anticipation of this kind of love.

01:41That was anticipation of just being pompous.

01:43That was anticipation of this kind of adoration.

01:47Would be the reward for it.

01:49He didn't expect it to go on for so long though.

01:51Okay, let me put it in context.

01:53I may have imagined a lot of things and I must have thought no end of myself.

01:57But to be a statue with you on Leicester Square, no way in the wildest of the universe.

02:01That would have not happened.

02:02Right.

02:03But I may have even reached the moon in my dreams.

02:05But Leicester Square statue now.

02:07This is wonderful.

02:08Like, seeing the two of you together as well, I think it will mean so much to everyone.

02:13As well as Rani Mukherjee as well.

02:15Like, seeing the three of you for me, like, Kuch Kuch was just one of my favorite films growing up as well.

02:19But could we ever see you two doing another project together?

02:23Yes, inshallah.

02:24I mean, it would be really nice.

02:26We keep thinking about things.

02:28I mean, I always miss her and I'm sure she does.

02:30Likewise.

02:31Likewise.

02:32We think of films when her work is coming out and I want to call her in theater.

02:36It was so sweet to see.

02:37And I think we are a little more, how do you say, when we are biased, we don't even, I think, actually look at each other's work.

02:44We just love each other and we just want to work with each other.

02:47I think we did for whatever reason and I won't get into the craft of it.

02:51But I think the art of us working together helped each other a lot because of the love, comfort, security, happiness, goodness, a lot of things.

02:59I remember during Dilwale, actually.

03:02I remember during Dilwale, it was my first shot in Dilwale.

03:06And I remember I'm standing over there and we're doing this scene and Shah Rukh takes me aside.

03:09He's like, I just want to tell you, you're not supposed to look at me like as though you've known me for the last 20 years.

03:14We are supposed to do this scene like as though we haven't met.

03:17Oh, sorry, I forgot that.

03:20From that to, we were doing an, you know, sometimes you have to have these kind of over-the-top moments in films, especially in songs.

03:28And where we come from, we were not so well honed in the craft of dancing and expressing like that.

03:34But we worked very hard for that.

03:36We are the most hard-working people in that area, especially when we didn't know what we were doing.

03:41And there was a moment when I had to, she had to go like, like ish or hoo or something.

03:47Like that.

03:47And she couldn't do it and I had to, so ta-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.

03:51And I would actually pinch her so that she got the expression of, and I think it looked not so bad when I see it now.

03:58No, you see it.

03:59It was quite good.

04:00What do your children, like when they watch like this film back, like what do they make of it?

04:04That you've got a whole legacy behind you guys, like what's the next generation thinking to it all?

04:10I think both of my kids have, do they just keep looking at me, she's like, mom, you were so young.

04:15You were just so young.

04:17You haven't changed, casual, you haven't changed.

04:19At all.

04:20What are you talking about?

04:22No, but I think they both look at us, it's like we were, they look at me and they're like, mom, you were so young.

04:29And I think Nissa keeps telling me that, you know, mom, every time I see the movie, I only see myself.

04:35So there are so many expressions on my face, which are the same expressions that are on her face.

04:40You know, so she kind of sees herself in, in me.

04:45Yeah.

04:46Yeah.

04:46And it's like, I should be seeing that in her, but she sees it in me instead.

04:50No, I get that.

04:51I look in the mirror sometimes and I see like my mom and I'm like, yeah, that's normal, I think.

04:55I think Abram sees himself, I think Abram definitely sees himself as mini Shah Rukh Khan.

05:00He's, he's so much like Shah Rukh, can I answer this question for you?

05:04Can I please?

05:04Okay.

05:05Okay, I'm going to answer this question for you because this is just too cute.

05:08I think that, that infallible confidence that we were talking about like that, I'm Shah Rukh Khan,

05:14is there, I'm Abram Khan.

05:16For sure.

05:17No two ways about it.

05:19He's adorable.

05:20I think what is sweet about our kids, which I notice in her children and mine, we've known each other now for,

05:2530 years or more, is that they appreciate what we've done in a strange place, though we are their parents,

05:31but they don't fawn over us.

05:32I think they like and I think they are surprised at the simplicity of us off screen compared to what we have been able to

05:39with God's grace and the audience and what the achievements we have.

05:42Of course, it's shocking that they appreciate that part, I think, a lot.

05:47I see that in both of them.

05:48Thank you so much.

05:49Such an honor to meet you both.

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