Frustrated and tired, a young boy in his late 20’s stopped near Marine Drive which is a popular hangout spot in Mumbai. It had been a tiring day and the money was soon getting over. He was accompanied by few of his friends who had been with him from the day he had come from Delhi, where he had been born and brought up. The frustrated chap cried and said,’ I will rule this city one day’. Most of them would  have laughed it off on hearing this and dismissed it as every struggler’s pledge to this city. But little did they know that this Delhi lad will indeed rule the city with his sheer dedication and hard work and become one of the greatest Bollywood superstars in this tinsel town.


He has been conferred many titles; SRK, Baadshah, King Khan and more will follow. But Shah Rukh Khan has indeed fulfilled the promise that he made on that particular day almost two decades ago. A career spanning over twenty years has seen him doing everything, right from playing an obsessive lover boy as he did in Darr to a superhero in the upcoming flick Ra.One which will hit the theatres in Diwali this year. Ever since he arrived on the silver screen on a motorcycle in his debut flick Deewana (1992), Shah Rukh Khan continues to entertain the audience as well as make the cash registers ringing for the film producers and the distributors alike. Most of them would remember the tremendous response he had generated in the film Baazigar inspite of having played a negative character. It was a first time in the history of Hindi cinema when the lead actor had gathered sympathy from the audience inspite of having a negative shade.

As Khan completes his twenty years in Bollywood, I found it the right time to express my honour to the man who made into the elite in Bollywood through sheer hard work and determination. I was barely 5 when he had made the viewers crazy with his performance in the blockbuster flick Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, commonly referred to as DDLJ. Though his larger than life image might have been challenged by the arrival of the actors almost half his age or he might face a tough challenge from his counterparts, yet he still enjoys a superstar status amongst everyone. I wish Khan continues to thrill the audience with more of such performances in the future.