He doesn’t believe that he’s King Khan but admits that he likes “the smartness behind the alliteration.” As he sees it, you can call him Kangal Khan and he’ll be the same because “I’m much below King Khan and I’m much beyond King Khan.” 

For somebody who seems so secure in his space it’s disconcerting to see this rising wave of ‘Everybody Says I Hate SRK’ in the industry. The famous spat with Salman Khan apart, Khan has fought off digs from Aamir Khan (who claimed to have a dog named Shah Rukh), Amitabh Bachchan (in his blog, he mentioned how his Unforgettable shows were being sabotaged by a top star) and Akshay Kumar (who said that negative stories are being circulated by insecure people whom he’d never Knight (Khan’s IPL team was Kolkata Knight Riders). Quiz the actor on this and he says, “The reason everybody is making digs at me is because I allow them to. If I want I can wipe off their smiles. See, the thing is that when you don’t understand things, the first instance is to make fun of it. Maybe all these people don’t understand me.” But does he get disturbed by this negative wave? “The more fun people make about me, the more negative and untrue things they say about me, the more resolute I get,” he says. To all his fighting friends, he says, “I invite them to pray to Allah that they get one day to be me and experience what I have. Maybe then they’ll realise how amazing it is to be here. And this I say with no ego.”

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