When life becomes king size....

Well….A DISCLAIMER!…First of all, I am not a person who is living life king size. In fact I am nowhere near to it.(but surely I am one of the dreamers who longs for such a life some day). So read through and agree with me at your own risk ;) The things mentioned below are just small masterpieces of my boundless imagination.

Well I started thinking about this when I was going through one of the album collections of the king of Bollywood-SRK. It was titled “Shah Rukh Khan-Personal Album”. While going through the pictures I realised how much it takes to first of all achieve that "king size" life – living it comes only later.

We all want a life king size, isn’t it? But there is no limit to how large our life can get. And when it really gets that huge it is not in everyone’s might to handle it. Fame, money, popularity all go hand in hand. You need to manage them all, otherwise they will have their toll on you. And it’s not overnight that this would happen. In fact it should not happen overnight, otherwise you won’t be able to manage it. Mind you, the greatest art of SRK is not his acting, neither his looks or anything else. It is all about managing what you have and realistically dreaming and trying to achieve what you want.

Well, I am a die hard fan of SRK. So you can say that my opinions might be biased, but at the same time being a fan of his, I read a lot about him and hence feel that I have enough insight into what he might feel with his life.(well…I have seen only his pics and movies…nothing more eh..) Basically this article has nothing to do with SRK. I have no facts to support me, neither have I searched for any. It’s because by SRK I associate stardom and fame. And it is this fame that I wish to talk about. I am just taking his name so that we can relate. But it is all true for any famous person in general.

Carefully have a look at his pics. His bungalow is huge. Wonder how it would feel for a small family and supposedly many house keepers to live in such a huge house. I also wonder how many times is he even found at his house. He must always be busy with some shooting, if not shooting, attending some social functions or with some other matter. But more importantly what I feel is that after all this name and fame it is not easy to be happy. Each and every Indian knows you!! All of them have a right to express their opinions on you. And they actually do so. How many of such comments would he read and react to - just imagine! Tomorrow, if my friend tells me that some unknown persons have written something about me on the net or in a newspaper, I would jump out of my work and run to read what some unknown person has to say about me. But for SRK there might be lakhs of things said about him everyday - not all of which are a joy to read. This is how life changes when you long to live king size!! You might hear people giving their views on your personal life, some accusing you for doing something which you yourself might have heard for the first time and you can’t react to such things trying to make your point clear ’coz they happen everyday, and also suppose you try to clear any of such issue in public then the accuser becomes popular overnight! This is the weight your personality carries! So you realize how much prominence and weight your words have. Every step you take, every word you say has to be done with utmost caution. And in the midst of all this, when you can get totally engrossed in sorting out such things, how will you focus on your work? Still such people do work and that too with sincerity and come out with success (hit films for this case). This definitely tells you that this is no normal person but someone you must look up to - somebody awesome! In fact I feel, it is to get rid of all these tensions of life that these people try to keep themselves busy even if they have all the money in the world and have no need to work at all. Otherwise the world will literally eat them up!

With life getting bigger, everything gets king size! We brood a lot at times when say some hawker cheats us when he bargains and charges us Rs. 50 extra for some item. We feel angry and at a loss. What about the film stars who sign film contracts worth a few crores...and there is no fixed rate there!! There is open bargaining. And in fact the media is always on its toes to get such spicy news. Even a vague a thought of an actor being signed, and there is a huge hype that follows. Mind you, the film contract might not yet have been signed. Getting the actual cash is too far to think! And how many times have we complained that juniors ask for a chapo (treat) even before the seniors have got the money, say in cast of a good job, or a gr8 intern ;) Just imagine how would we feel when we are in the shoes of these famous men. Stardom is not always glittering. It comes with its dark shades.

So, what I feel is that king size life is not something well defined or something that can be got only by money. As they say - it’s all in the mind. Even SRK with all the money that he has would not be what he is today if it had not been for the mind that he has, for the way he thinks, the way he lives his life - or rather chooses to live his life. Same goes for us - even with all the problems we might be facing, we still can live king size if we want to….but first of all we need to convince ourself at the back of our mind and then it all follows in actions!! So, from today, I am nothing less than SRK!!