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Swades – is my second favourite movie beside 'Veer Zaara' and one of the best, when not even the best and most significant role of Shah Rukh Khan. I have seen all his movies and I can say Shah Rukh is like a good wine, with the years it becomes better and better. I guess the new millennium and his break, brought out a new Shah Rukh Khan, a much better one than ever.

He dominates Swades. He is the central point of this movie - the soul of it and he act completely credible. Never before Shah Rukh’s eyes shows so much pain. To say he feels for his character is an understatement. To say that the film allows him to finally come into his own as an actor is more like it.

I love this silent, sensitive, respectfully and loving completely and whole-heartedly human with a sweet natural shyness - playing himself in a movie. In Swades I don’t see an actor in a role; I can see only Shah Rukh in its own kind of human being – so credible and authentic – he is really brilliant.

If you have seen "The Inner World Of Shah Rukh Khan" or have read his Autobiography you realize, that all the feelings he plays in Swades – are his own feelings. He loves India and he is proud to be an Indian, but beside his idealism he also knows, that its country has a lot of problems too. In India his heart is at home and I guess, he will never leave its country, when that will not be really necessary.

He loves his parents, his family and people whom have done a lot for him dearly and from the bottom of his heart – this part is real too. He respects them and will never forget them. He misses his beloveds, when they are not around him, he feels lost, lonely and incomplete.

It was so easy for me, to understand his homesickness, when he is talking to Vinod and I desired to put my arms around him and just hold him, take care of him, not let him fall … He looks so lost and it’s painful to see him like that, because I felt the same longing …

I have leaved with my parents the place I was born, when I was 16. I know they are thinking to do their best, to bring me in a world where life seems to be easier, the chances for young people better and I’m really thankful for that, but in my heart, I’ll be never here at home. I’ve spend there my whole childhood and I was a really happy child. Many times I was thinking to go back, but a lot of people are gone for the same reason, so now I will be there a stranger too.


I love the charm of simple life and the people there were simply at heart and honest and I feel much more closed to that kind of human being and living, that’s why I feel closed to this wonderful human Shah Rukh Khan.

He is a simple man in heart related things, honest and he has honour. There is in his way of thinking a lot of grey, but in his heart only black or white. This is my way to feel, too. When I love somebody I do it, with all my heart and my soul, I don't ask to get anything back and I'll do everything to make a person I love happy, even to let someone go, when this is the best for him … I don’t love somebody, because he looks good, he is reach, has a good name or whatever, I love him or I don’t, that’s it – there is no reason.

I love the human Shah Rukh Khan, from the bottom of my heart and to say it with Amitabh Bachchan words in 'Veer-Zaara': I salute the values the parents of Shah Rukh put into their son. I don’t know any other human like him and I wish with all my heart and soul, he will ever be happy and get back the respect and the love he gives to others.

What makes me cry in Swades was the scene, when he is talking to Vinod about its parents and Kaveriamma and when Mohan was coming into the house of that really poor Indian and its family. That peoples had nearly nothing, but they share it with a guest. This remember me too, of the country I was born. Peoples there are the same, they are poor but a guest is like God and hospitality there is not just a word.

I love the Indian peoples, traditions and culture, the small gestueres. Not all things are good and some things needs to get changed, but the values of the simple man in India, are the values I most appreciate and that my parents teach me. Honesty, respect, honour, proud, pure love – these things are hard to find in the world I live, maybe because money destroys the good character of a human.

Knowing Shah Rukh Khan, a human beloved by millions of peoples, has remain down-to-earth, wide-hearted, respectfully, silent, sensitive, with so much good values in it and seeing Swades shows me once more, that all money, luxury and a good material life is nothing, when you loose your humanity or you feel lost in world what is not yours and that there is ever a point to return to the important values of life. Shah Rukh says once: "Home is where the heart is" and I guess, everybody search for that special place called "home" ...

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