Shah Rukh Khan confesses he plays with his kids’ toys and the reason will melt your heart

It is not everyday that you see the King himself talk about his days when he was 'poor', right?

 

If there are few stars in Bollywood who need no introduction, Shah Rukh Khan has to be one of them. A man who has well built a place for himself in the industry with years of hard work and dedication and has kept us entertained for almost three decades. He is Bollywood’s undisputed king Shah Rukh Khan and undoubtedly is one of the few who took his experiences of failure seriously and defeated it with his dedication and hard work. He is also the man who gives his children the best of everything — be it education, luxury or any other thing or even toys.

Recently the ‘Raees’ actor gave an interview to GQ, and like every other interview of his, he was at his best. But in this interview, he revealed details about him and his childhood that is sure to melt your heart. A father who gives the best of everything to his kids because he had nothing, not even toys to play with, when he was a kid. It is not everyday that you see the King himself talk about his days when he was ‘poor’, right?

“I’m 51. I lost my dad when I was 14 or 15, and my mother when I was 25. That void never gets filled. If you lose your parents too early, you have to grow up too fast. You can’t play with toys, you have to start playing in the real world. I play with my children’s toys now. People find it odd and think perhaps I’m just a good father, but that’s not true. I’m just a father who didn’t have toys,” he said in the interview. 
 
Not just this, he also talked at length about his failures during his 25 year long stint in Bollywood. When he was asked about the first failure in his life, he recalled, “I remember running a 100-metre race in school (at St Columba’s, Delhi), against boys who were a little older than me. Till that point, I’d been running with boys my age and I was used to being in the lead. In that race, though, I came fifth out of six or seven boys. As soon as the race was over, the school officials rushed over to the winners and whisked them off to the podium. There were people around, but no one came to me. It was the emptiest feeling.
”He also admitted that failures feel like crap, but they are inevitable!