June 02, 2016
He gave people goosebumps as Kabir Khan from Chak De and he manged to do even more as he spoke to a group of graduating students at the Dirubhai Ambani International School on Wednesday. Shah Rukh Khan left the auditorium inspired.
In the 20-minute long speech he spoke from the heart. This time there was no script writer who did the magic. “Take what u can from this & ignore whatever. This is from the heart.” tweeted the superstar.
Take what u can from this & ignore whatever. This is from the heart. https://t.co/0ZU5FarXzm
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) June 1, 2016
The 50-year-old actor made an incredibly inspiring speech dented with bouts of laughter from the auditorium. He spoke of his journey to becoming the most famous star of Bollywood and to the graduating students he said, “be yourself, be free.”
“Feeling free.. the freedom to be yourself. To listen to your inner voice and never let anyone tell you who you are and who you ought to be. These are the only years in life in which you will be allowed to make regret free mistakes and as you do so, you will chance upon your dreams,” he said.
He spoke about life, about the gifts his father gave him as a child, jokes about himself as a lesson in how one should always be able to laugh at themselves and even a little dig at the US presidential candidate Donald Trump. “Learn to laugh at yourself, and wear it like a vulgar tattoo.
He ended the speech with what he called another one of his ‘rubbish poetry.’ a non-rhyming verse at the end of which had the entire audience into giggles. "Exams and rules that sometimes hound you... let me tell you, you all will be successful, let me 'remound' you.”