‘Why did it all come to me? Why has it sustained for so long?’

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This was SRK, in Gurgaon, September 2010, a day after the anniversary of his father’s passing away, reflecting on the journey. He looked outside the window and said, “And I just remember roaming about the streets here,as a nobody… I’ve come here (Gurgaon) when this was a desolated space. ” And he spoke about why he thinks life happened the way it did. One part was about his parents. He paused, and then shared his answer. The other part, that has stayed constant in the years before that, and the years that followed, is the self-belief, to use the simplest word possible.

SRK is 60 today. For India, 60 was – is – a number you associate with retirement, with old age. You can associate neither sentiment with SRK. Throwback to 2006. Amitabh Bachchan was 62 and going strong