 It's that time of the month, am I right? Yep, got my spooky period. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Reaction Corp. Oh, Rick. I've met a lot of girls in your house growing up. Yep. Well, your girls are growing up, not what you were growing up. Yes, no girls in my house when I was growing up, I was an only child, but yes, I had girls. And your wife and your daughter. I had girls growing up. Yes. Have a wreak havoc on the plumbing? No, they were very responsible. That's good. No. Don't flush your feminine products. Yeah, that's, you really ought not do that. But no, they're very good about that. Never had one instance. Yeah, same cycle, though. It is a really wonderful, mysterious thing. It's one of the most astonishing things I've ever learned. And I learned it as a, like, 13, 14? Yeah. I thought it was a joke. I did too. I thought there's no way this is true. I was like, how does that even happen? That makes no sense. Do you know the thing about species of coral? They have a period? No, that certain species of coral bloom at the exact same time, no matter where they are in the world, and only those species will do it. And it'll be on the day. It's not exactly the same time every year, but when, if you're in Papua New Guinea and that species of coral on October 1st at 11.10 a.m. starts to bloom, get on the phone anywhere in the world to a scientist watching that species, and it's blooming at the same time. So it's similar mystery, the way their cycles match. It's for the men that are watching that don't know, because all the women already know. Yeah, the men. The women know this. The women that are in a workspace together, at a home together, more than often than not. They will all be on the same cycle, meaning they're all gonna have their periods at the same time, just by being around each other for an extended period of time. It's an amazing. It's one of the most beautiful mysteries that I've ever seen in my life. It's incredible. I've not actually seen it. I've just heard about it. But it happened. I've heard it. Yeah, obviously we've never experienced it. Oh, yeah. Let me see. Don't do that. Today. Yeah, don't ever, when a girl mentions that, don't say, prove it. Today we got a Shower Con interview. This is actually a Shower Con interview in 2019 at the Critics Choice Film Awards, which I did not know. I did not know. I don't follow the Critics Choice Awards, but that's a big award. Yeah, that's a big award. Not as big as Golden Globes, Oscars, or Sags or anything. No, but it's like People's Choice. Actually, it's probably bigger than the Saga Awards, actually. I take that back. Saga Awards is only for actors. But this is a little speech he gave, I guess, at the 2019 Film Awards, which is after we started the channel, which is a surprise I haven't seen. Interesting. Cool. That is not Shower Con. I would like to call on stage a man who needs absolutely no introduction. So why are you introducing him? Just let him on stage. Don't introduce him then. Sure. And every time I see him come up on stage, I'm like, nah, that introduction just ain't good enough. A Critics favorite and somebody who needs, once again, absolutely no introduction. They've done it twice. If you can, man, get your hands together. Please welcome on stage, Shower Con. Put your hands together. I was told it was in English, I think it's just... Thank you very much, everyone. Thank you all, the Critics and all the friends, actually. For many years, they've been my friends for 20, 25 years. Some of them became very bad as they grew older. Some of them are good, just like my films. I make awfully bad films and awfully good films. They've been having me this night. So what did I do? I'm flying from China, so I'm a little affected and I'm a little jet-like. So I tried to write the speech. If you have patience, I'll take about three and a half minutes. I'll speak quickly. So I've written the way Critics talk. Hold on. The scene opens at an opulent award function with the main protagonist. Anubhama Chopra sitting in the first row, be jeweled and dressed in a best designer wear. Looking resplendent in a many varied shades of white. Off-white, on-white, off-white. She's whispering demioli in the ears of my old friend and colleague, Rajiv Masand. Now, this version of Masand is a far cry from the younger, moustached one. Whose complicated vocabulary we all were so convinced by back in the days when I played anti-hero. He's older now. A tad heavier, if I may add so. And his moustache has disappeared completely. A critic his age, as he would talk about other actors, might do better conserving roles more suited to himself. Rather than trying to manage fitting his new oversized fame. It was seen in white sofa. I didn't know this was going to be a roast. I'm simplifying on the exactness of the triangle as it closes on to Salman's career. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! If my friends are here, they won't mind. Or they'll decide to take it out and award me. Ha ha ha! We don't do this in the movies. That's kubra. That's kubra. No, it's not. Yeah, with the following of the two? Rajiv, I mean, judging MasterChef season three or three, might fetch him more kudos from a slightly bored and jaded audience. Anupama meanwhile could take on any Bollywood siren if you were to go just by the gushy tone in which she addresses male superstars while interviewing them, breaking into shot-shill-giggles, which could easily find place in a three-type horror movie actually. Anyway, as the scene progresses, the pilot begins, the plot begins to fall apart, the award function turns into yet another, six-hour long meandering extravaganza of badly choreographed dance numbers no one wants to watch. Not to mention an endless parade of has-been-critics-for-whom-lifetime unachievers awards have been awarded. It's a roast. It is. Luster, unimaginative disappointment, you wouldn't want to recommend to your worst enemy. Yet here we are. I'm going with one and a half star. Sorry about my five-star sense of humor. Thanks in beloved critics. Here we are at the critics' choice. And to sound relevant, I have written a speech. And the point is that the world is changing and is changing very, very fast, as we try to keep up with a new generation that is super-connected through social media, aware of itself like no generation before, and yet simultaneously fragile and impressionable. We also relate to art and the emotion and passion that drives it in new ways. For us artists, the challenge is to remain centered in our creative expression, while servicing shorter-vention spans, new psychological paradigms, and faster, more efficient communication networks. The future will bring tremendous learning and change both technologically and at the level of the artistic relevance of our work. This is so cool, isn't it? This will all come on digital mediums. I'll take some lines from them and write them all about me. While we, as artists, are now at the mercy of an audience who now have so many options at the disposal in order to form an impression of a film's quality, from unbelievably long and plot-revealing trailers to tweets, to opinions, to blogs, and what have you, even seen-to-seen reviews from the theatre as it goes on itself. And hence the role of the critic would simply now break down to the basic truth. And the basic truth is that the best film criticism is an art that can help to unfold the beauty of the film. A well-written heartfelt review can reveal new facets of a film to an audience and cause their thinking to depart on a new line of thought, instead of it becoming a rush to get your review declared as only positive or negative, coupled with the so-called outreach culture on social media. We may end up reducing our powers of nuance and ambiguity and finesse as a society. As critics, just like movie stars, I imagine that we will face one of the two possibilities, that social media and its capacity to create egalitarian platforms for sharing views and opinions renders us both irrelevant. Yay, for all the critics if they become irrelevant, are the relevance of your views in our cinema actually increases as the reach of ideas expands due to the same platforms. This of course would mean a new level of responsibility for both our sites. We all know and accept it's easy to critique art, but there really ought to be a deeper consciousness that drives the critique. Art forms often emanate from places that transcend analysis and critique. The best artists would really recognize one alive precisely for the same reason. It took the world to evolve before it recognized the likes of great masters such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Mozart, the list is endless. Art after all cannot become Picasso's overrated, deconstructed, explained, or be subject to the rigidity of logic. Have you ever read literary explanations of poetry of this Javed Savya, for example? They reduce the rhythm and beauty of words to complicated pieces that remove all the joy from the loveliest of verses. So I request you all present here, the senior journalists and filmmakers, let's not reduce the reviewer's job to provide an advisory service, a shopping guide, or a flip-card shopping cart option to the filmgoer. We need a full understanding of criticism, one that grants it more credit than a tweet or a user review. Film critics should be film lovers who have chosen this path because they believe in cinema as an art form. So I hope and pray that these awards here tonight truly recognize masters of the future tonight, and may these awards lead to their mastery being recognized and appreciated by larger and larger audience while they're present and working. I do also hope that these awards become more than just another opportunity for people like me who really don't do much as far as art and cinema is concerned, to breathe on the red carpet as handsome and as cool as I may look there. I hope that they inspire all of us to reach beyond ideas of what is acceptable or viable art within a limited framework towards what is new, splendid with the magic of imagination, and just plain brave. And more importantly, stars like me and filmmakers like me have to change myself as an actor and as a filmmaker. I have to promise myself to push the envelope as far as I can. It's what my love for art of acting demands of me and filmmaking demands of me. I would like to be a superhero, a midget, vertically challenged man, a fan with a prosthetic face, or the kind of lover most men are incapable of being. I'll be whichever lie reaches into the truest expression of my credibility. To become an actor, you need to deconstruct yourself, you need to discard the self. That's what the truth is when it comes to your art. We filmmakers have also far too long given more credibility to constructed and jaded ideas. We search for art, we search for form without searching the essence of our stories. We find logic in commerce and disregard the free spirit of storytelling. We have to remind ourselves that truth is formless, only untruths have formed. We as film fraternity have to be truer to ourselves and hence to the stories we set out to tell. So I request all my critics friends here, please don't be like us Bollywood film stars and get carried away by what Bollywood succumbed to many years ago, the star system. The star system cannot be the only way of summing up films by a critic. Three stars, three and a half stars, three and a quarter stars, five stars. It's a film, it's not a hotel for God's sake. With the advent of homegrown critics sprouting all over, film critique is becoming an endangered species. Please let it not perish to be replaced by a consumer service that has no brains and all thumbs. Meanwhile as actors and filmmakers, I will try not to keep sparing my arms and flash my dimples at every given opportunity. So I wish the whole film fraternity that is gathered here tonight. All the critics, all the journalists, Raja Sain who I really love because when I film is the biggest disaster, he's the only guy who likes it. Bhavna Sumaya ji, agar aapka Josh Jalva if she's here, I love the alliteration she uses all the time. Jalva, Josh, Jaspa, Jaspat. But I wish the whole fraternity here with all my love and goodness as a filmmaker, as a star that you've made me, the best of luck with these awards. May these awards encourage better filmmaking and may the critics here find enough films to like and encourage that better filmmaking. And now, I will quickly perform, chaya chaya. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. Thank you everyone for being here. And have a great, great night. And congratulations to all the winners and all the filmmakers who are present here. Thank you very much. I actually wish he would have performed. I love his wit. His wit is wonderful, but it was also, I really enjoyed the speech. What did you think about it? Yeah, he, I've said this before, I'll probably say it every time I ever hear the man talk. There are certain things that are always the same about Shah Rukh Khan. One, his intelligence. Very intelligent. Two, his mastery of the English language. And then three, he is the strangest duck I've ever encountered in the world of cinema. That's because he's a person. His, his, I so, not only do I want to talk to him hear and ask him questions so the stupid family could, could, could hear that conversation and the things that we would ask him about artistry and film, especially some of the things he said in there. There's so many things I would just like to ask him privately because I don't think he would feel comfortable giving full throated answers about those things publicly. And really, his is a mind that perceives the art form and says certain things that I've just never heard anybody else say. And it, it, he just always, he just always fascinates me in the same way that Stella Adler fascinates me, but I don't subscribe to a lot of what Stella Adler says, but I will tell people you got to read Stella Adler. And then I'll say, you know, but you need to be aware of the fact that she may say some things that you're going to read and go, what, because it's going to be unlike anything you've ever heard from anybody else in acting. He says stuff I've, I've just never heard anybody else say. It's one, obviously being an Indian cinema, Bollywood cinema, to be specific, is such a different beast, but also nobody else on the planet is outside of maybe the other two cons are in the situation he is in. Avatar Bakshana, I guess, right in the end. Yeah. And maybe Roshnakath in terms of the level of stardom you have and what the mammoths of the industries require as well. Yeah, but it's, he's one of the things I'd love to talk to him about is even in this speech, he seems to be a, he seems to have contradictions because at this one time, he will talk about, you know, don't do what we do and be focused on a star system more than you are artistry. And then he says at the end, and now I'm going to do Chaya Chaya for you. And he will say, I'm an artist and the art form means more to me and critics should review things not based on the ratings of the film and for box office, but then he'll make films that are just for box office. It's, it's, he's just the most interesting, complex with an approach to the art form of the industry unlike anybody I've ever. I think it's just because he understands the industry. And so I don't know if there's as much contradictions as opposed to just obviously he is an artist and all that, but he also understands who he is as a star. And those are two different things. And he can wear the two different hats. And I just think he's a very sarcastic person. And he's definitely a sarcastic person. Which I love. And I also think he does things, I've, there's, there's, I saw an interview, someone was asking, I think it was Karen Johar. I saw it was a real quick clip on a reel of Karen Johar asking Priyanka why she went to Hollywood. And he gave the, he gave an example of an SRK quote, when SRK quote, when he was asked why he didn't go to Hollywood, he said he was comfortable in, in Bollywood. And her response was, I'm not looking to be comfortable. I'm looking to be challenged. And I think there is a certain level of comfort he has. But again, those are questions I'd love to ask him, because on the one hand he will do, for example, like, oh, my name is Khan, and he'll talk about things in such an eloquent, artist-centric mindset. And then the next thing he will say is definitively supportive of the star system that he just a few seconds ago said, don't make the mistake of following a star system. It's very strange and intriguing to me. I just, I'm always interested in what he has to say. He's a great speaker. And you know, he's always wonderful to listen to. Yeah. So intelligent. Let us know what other interviews by the man, the myth and the legend, Shahrukh Khan, that we should watch. And we should be his next film that we should watch of his. Let us know down below.