 Okay, so I just want to say I'll take a little bit of a time. So please excuse me. You guys have sat so long We've met such wonderful people such great achievers another few minutes Normally when you get an award of this caliber, I guess the regular way of acceptance is to first thank the organizers of this award and then show gratitude and a bit of humility and Also, thank the team behind The work that has made you get this award But I'm going to do none of it Honestly, I have two very good reasons for it. And if you have two very good minutes, I'd like to explain myself to you It's been a bloody long time since I won an award now, you know, I've started believing now I was doomed or destined to win one of these what lifetime achievement awards at these Loud and colorful TV award shows Which unfortunately I've also hosted lots of and I really want to keep this award to myself not share it with anyone at all And the second reason is, you know, because I've had Three highly successful films this year super-duper hits show off little bit Why not thousand cover club and stuff man? Yeah So there are thousands of people behind some of them present here like my friend Anirudh who are responsible for this success and To thank thousands of people will take a lot more than two minutes, so I'm not going to thank them either the other thing is That I believe that this award Should be devoured by me It should only be eaten by me Because in the voice of Vikram Rathore from Javan, I Am hungry And I've always been hungry and I'm hungry and now with this award in my hand because There is no other way you can be if you want to keep on doling out entertainment year after year for a hundred and forty-crore people For the last thirty-three plus years And I'm also very impetuous Impulsive like a modern actor should be modernistic futuristic Unbridled and innovative, so I just like to tell you how I sign my films at the spur of a moment. I hear a story And I say yes to it. I don't think about the box office I don't think about should I be playing this character even if it's vertically challenge. Should it be like Larger than life. No, I just say okay I'll do this film and then I keep awake all night because I'm futuristic and wait wait for someone from future to come and tell me Bro, this is a bad decision in the future More often than not nobody comes So I wake up in the morning and in a jiffy. I've signed this film and I'm doing it apart from being impetuous I'm also very very confident in my talent and hard work so confident that very often my wife tells me That you're overconfident and cocky Hubristic I also sometimes I'll just give you an example. It's not so My ten-year-old son has a Lego set and I finish it end-to-end in four days Yes full Look clearly on the box. It says six to twelve years But I finish it my son obviously explained to me that this is for the specification of the age It is not meant to be the time taken to make the Lego But you know what he's a young kid little entitled because your superstar son. What does he know? So I revel till this bubble bursts apart from this the good thing the saving grace That is there is that I am a guy Who's hopeful and Tells happy stories The heroes I play do good things They give hope and happiness if I play a bad guy. I make sure he suffers a lot. He dies a dog's death Because I believe goodness begets goodness And I believe badness deserves a kick in the backside But going to bubbles bursting the last four or five years have been a Bit of a right for me and my family. I'm sure some of you also because of COVID and stuff You know most of my films flopped a lot of specialists and analysts started writing my Detonel Some idiots is the same Which actually is the same thing analysts and idiots search not something that I really bothered about and then at a personal level a little bit of bothersome and unpleasant things also happen to say the least Which Made me learn a lesson That be quiet be very quiet and work hard with dignity and Still know it in your heart when you think that everything is good suddenly out of nowhere life may come and hit you and popular Apple Card But this is the time Do you need to be the hopeful? happy honest storyteller and Continue doing whatever you're doing and Kind of think this is an aberration. This is a nasty Plot twist it is not the story that you're living and hundred percent. It's not the story's end Because somebody somewhere told me That life may Film okay, I'm miss up to go to So I got a kick now, oh The one to me picture of ebaki a very good And I believe in him because I believe that goodness begets goodness So when I get an award like this one I'm reminded that I should remain the eternal optimist and hang on to the self-believe that I'm the fastest Lego maker in the world And I should play honest roles That give people courage to dream. I should keep working hard quietly with the hope That the life doesn't topple my Apple Card anytime soon. And yes, I should remain impulsive and impetuous So I started differently but impetuously I feel I should thank CNN News 18 for conferring me with this award. Thank you very much. I want to congratulate All the other winners here and I know your achievements are far greater than mine and mind you I'm only saying this to bring some humility in my speech. I don't really mean it here But seriously, I want to thank Siddharth Anand for making Pathan for me at the Tichopara for producing it Atley Kumar for making the biggest hit in Hindi cinema Javan Anirudh for giving the music for it and of course Raj Kumar Hina Hrani and Avija Joshi who gave me one of the most beautiful films of my life, Danky I Want to honor and dedicate this award to all the cast and crew members who were relentless to make this possible But I am not giving it to them I'm keeping it myself because I need 30 seconds mozaka I'll just tell you because some years back when I used to get a lot of awards. I decided that Every award that I give get I'll take it as a gift for one of my kids. It will bring cheer to their lives And I truly believe that the last four or five years That my family has seen my children has seen my wife has seen gauri. I think nobody Deserves a bigger cheer Right now than them. So I'm taking this award back home for them and I'd like to say something brash I've kept my speech written because it is checked three four times over that I don't say something stupid and wrong and I get Picked on for it But still I'd like to say this thing which is very very brash that I don't just feel like the Indian of the year. I feel I Have been the Indian of all the years gone by and I Will be The Indian for all the years to come. I am actually ladies and gentlemen the Indian for all ages But I I'd like to thank everyone here Genuinely and people are watching this on television Hodes of you who came this year to watch my films. Some of you may not have even liked them But I know deep down inside you came there to support me and my family. So I bow down to you and Thank you Thank you For bringing cheer to my family my children my loved ones and I thank you for making me the star. I am Yet again Please have a good night everybody and thank you once again. Love you all. Thank you I request you to join us here on center stage. All right, you have a mic Just a couple of quick questions. I do want to take you back to January of 2023 Just how nervous were you before Patan release? Like you said in your speech. These are not my words your words People were writing you off death. Nell, you know Sharuk doesn't deliver hits anymore How nervous were you before Patan release? I don't know if I was nervous But I was very scared Nervous is an easier word, you know, when you're nervous when you're coming here to say a speech You're nervous when you're going to a party that you're not invited to But you're scared, you know, because Honestly, this is all I know That I know only to act and entertain people and I've done it now for many many years more years than I remember I counted when I'm writing a speech is 33 years plus, but this is all I know how to do So you're scared that if this doesn't entertain people, it's not about the monies It's not about the box office. If this doesn't entertain people. What else am I going to do? So I was very scared in the interim during the covid times. Yeah, I even learned how to make Italian food Just in case Patan didn't work And thank God for that but but do tell me I mean at some point when the movie release Maybe on the first day of the pre-release you would have got that inkling. You would have got that instinct. Yeah picture When was that? so because of covid The people who made Patan Adi and Siddharth and everyone all of us formed a group because we used to play we play poker at night We don't gamble Just play Without money, okay Don't fool me for this and say this It's just love that we share I've lost a lot of love in the last two years so So we play poker and we sit down and the movie had released and we all got together and we said, okay We'll find out but genuinely Zaka. I'm not showing off They came on time because this is an unexpected kind of a business of a film Nobody had seen business like this even the Yashaj film people who made the biggest of it You know, nobody had seen how it will Go like this after about two three days it became just unbelievable and I'm like oh These are the numbers. No, no, no, no, no, no, this can't be Poker me 500,000 I Swear we don't play with money. Okay. This is a joke. This is a joke everyone Okay, no, and and one movie is incredible in and of itself But to have two thousand crore plus and then again donkey three big movies back to back in a single year I can't remember the last time you've had three big hits in a single year Was that planned or this is the mother of all comebacks you planned it this way or it just so happened No, this is this is just the simple truth Me bad show me bad show I've been told not to be arrogant and mean and stupid, but yeah, this is Unexpected but like I said, I honestly believe with all humility and genuine gratitude that Somewhere this is not about coming and watching a film. I think all the Indians I genuinely deserve this award because all the Indians came out in hoods I know people who don't even like me as an actor two three and one hundred and forty-four people but But there are some who would tell me, you know, I don't regularly watch your films But I know friends and people calling me from all over the world and said, you know We wanted to come out for Pathan. We wanted to come out for Javan and just be supportive of what you do as an actor and as As a person as a father as a family man as whatever. So I know this is way beyond The goodness of the films the Javan was lovely. I think Pathan is fantastic. Don't case beautiful But it is way beyond and I think my directors and producers recognize that so so it's with big gratitude It's not a comeback It is actually a reiteration of the fact that I belong and I should continue to act and not learn pasta That can wait, you know We are incredibly grateful that those movies worked and you made the comeback But like you said, it was not about Shah Rukh the individual alone. The industry itself was going through a bit of a crisis I mean people were saying oh Hindi film industry doesn't know how to make good movies anymore South is making better movies, you know scriptwriters are not grounded anymore and you changed all of that So it went beyond just an individual Shah Rukh Khan or one movie This was about putting confidence back in the industry because people had stopped coming to the theaters because of COVID Yeah, it was it was really bad times and you know, they call it the past post pandemic time when Theaters were running empty specifically the Hindi speaking theaters and yes, we had some wonderful people who are sending us to Chand and moon and also making films here in Hindi now the guys from the south and Yes, they do make larger-than-life films Hindi films perhaps had started making cinema, which was a little more middle of the road But there is now a youthful audience out in the country You know, we are one of the youngest or the youngest country in the world And I guess they just want things which are bigger better faster superior over the top and maybe a little noisy and Happier, you know and middle of the road real cinema may have because you know, this was years of Films which were lying in the cans had to come down post COVID So I think now we are finding the groove in Hindi cinema and I cannot take the responsibility of bringing Hindi cinema back I can just take I Can really just thank everyone that I happen to be in those films Which started the trend of Hindi cinema being watched again and we are extremely thankful I I say this on behalf of the whole Hindi film industry and the whole Indian film industry that It's really nice that people are coming back and doing this community watching. It's not just the OTT. It's not just the satellite stuff Please do keep watching CNN News 18, but Do watch Thank you for that You don't get seen in the news 18 in theaters yet. So till such time I think it's I think it's very humbling for all of us as workers as actors as producers and directors And I hope this trend continues you talked about bigger better fast superior South movies Mr. Money Rathnam is here and the last time you two worked was what 20 years ago 30 years ago Are you gonna make a pitch for another movie? When is he gonna direct you again? You can ask him use the forum of CNN News 18 Indian of the year Money sir what now it's all come out in the open now I'm requesting you I'm begging you. I'm telling you every time do a film with me. I Swear this time. I'll dance on top of a plane. Chaiya chaiya if you tell me What is that rain? Can somebody pass money sir a mic, please? Then good evening Svasni. I Told you that time tell him before sleeping But he said when are you going to cast Shah Rukh Khan and I buy a plane? Oh If I buy a plane if I buy a plane, I'll do it Money, let me just tell you the way my films are going This plane is not far away, huh? I I'll bring it down to earth. Don't worry. I'm coming. I'm coming on