His love for food became evident when he could not stop himself from being all expressive about the process of making food, his pans and pots too. Yes, you read that right.
In an interview to HT, Shah Rukh explained his love for food and food-making with a smile on his face, “I genuinely want to cook. Imagine, if I open a chain of restaurants and stores, kitna business karunga main (I will do so much business). Having said that, Juhi (Chawla) once asked me, ‘Why have you named your company, Red Chillies?’ And I was like, ‘just in case film-making fails, I’ll open a restaurant by the same name. Red Chillies Restaurant toh chalega hi (laughs).
While food has always been considered as an art, the 51-year-old actor very aptly strikes a similarity between food and acting. He said, “I think of acting too as ‘serving’.
As an actor, when you serve and present your acting, you hope people like and enjoy it as much as you enjoyed making it [the film]. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. Plus, you don’t impose yourself on people and be like accha laga ya nahi? (did you like it or not?). You just serve. I like to serve people in the house.”
Isn’t that just the perfect answer? King Khan just knows the right meaning of food, it seems. In fact, he has plans for when he learns to cook, “I have been telling my friends and colleagues that once I learn cooking, I’d love to call them over and serve them, because I love doing that. I think of acting too as ‘serving’.”
