Shah Rukh Khan is an inspiration to every person who wants to make it big in Bollywood. He's the King Khan and has reached that status without any nepotism whatsoever. Even star kids can't imagine having as successful a career as him.

To put it simply, his life is a dream come true for anyone and he's fully aware of it. He was recently in Delhi for the closing ceremony of the India's first multiplex, PVR Anupam which has been shut for renovation. At the venue, SRK got nostalgic about Delhi and well, his words are the kind of motivation everyone needs in their life.

"Some of the things that you don't think about will happen to you and they are the best things of life. You just don't know it yet," he said recollecting the inception of his journey. I don't want to show off but I'm genuinely a dream come true. I'm a lower-middle-class boy without his parents bound to the city of glamour and become a movie star. The world has showered me with their love. This happens only in dreams but I never thought of it. I haven't believed it, I am still that Delhi boy."

Still so humble and down to earth - now that's how you become one of the most loved people in the world. He took a chance and it paid off (kind of an understatement but you get the point). And he's now encouraging everyone to always, always have faith in their dreams, because no one knows when it will become a reality.

He also said he never sees himself as a 'star' in Delhi, "It bores me to be a star that way. I love my job and promise to everybody that as Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev Kumar Bijli keep on making cinema theatres, I'll keep on making movies to fill them."

With so much 'dream talk', he also mentioned another dream he had - to own a theatre in a five-star hotel. He said, "This was the business I wanted to do, I didn't think I'll become a movie actor."

Even SRK doubts himself, and that should make everyone feel so much better about themselves, tbh. He also talked about how much he hated seeing himself on the big screen for the first time. It was the 1992 film Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and talking about it, he recalled, "I found myself so ugly. I had such bad hair. I was doing such bad acting in front of Nana Patekar, Amrita Singh and Juhi Chawla." 

He went on to add, "I took the late 4.15 am flight ticket that our producers used to get for us at 25 per cent off and went to the airport, thinking I can't work in films. Aziz and Juhi convinced me that it's not that bad. The final cut would be better. Just like Ajay Bijli lied and got Yes Boss to play at this theatre, those two lied to me. I never looked better, I looked just the same."

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Then, he moved on to reminiscing about Delhi, because even though he doesn't live here, he's still a Delhi boy out and out. He said, "I used to roam around on the roads like guys do... My wife Gauri used to live here in Panchsheel. I have roamed around this place a lot to impress her. When I had to really woo her, I borrowed my uncle's Vespa. I remember initially one of the big things for me was 'Main Dilliwala hoon, dilwala hoon'."

I love how SRK was literally like every Delhi boy ever at one point in life, that's honestly very refreshing to see.

Now, with Diwali upon us, he soon has to get back to Mumbai for some family time, but he knows that "the way Dussehra, Diwali and Holi are celebrated in Delhi, they aren't celebrated anywhere else."

Lastly, the biggest tie he has with Delhi is his parents, of course. Their resting place is here and getting nostalgic about the same, SRK said, "Whenever I sit in a plane from Mumbai to come to Delhi, I have one thought in my heart that my mom and dad are here. I visit them in their graveyard late at night. When they say I've become a Mumbai person, I don't know how to express it... But as much as I can leave Delhi, Delhi can't leave me because my parents are here."