M en don’t find it manly to jump into a tub and talk about ‘the secret behind their beauty’, as the Lux punchline goes. Aastha Saxena, a real estate broker in Mumbai, says, ‘I don’t get why men are so horridly insecure of their manliness. The one time I suggested to my boyfriend that he join me in the tub, he said he would rather watch football.
Somehow, a man in a tub becomes about their sexuality. Shah Rukh himself was deemed girly after this commercial. I hate the fact that men can’t openly pamper themselves till date.
Imagine what a dismal life it is that men can’t allow themselves a day of sipping some wine, covered in bubbles and listening to nice jazz music.’ Shah Rukh is aware of his sex appeal. ‘I’m too sexy to lust.
I think people who don’t feel sexy from within are the ones who lust. I genuinely believe that I am a very, very sexy guy,’ he said in a 2006 interview. And in true global superstar style, this sex appeal of Shah Rukh goes beyond borders.
Maedhbh Keating- Fitzpatrick, an Irish woman who lives in London, first discovered Bollywood when Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif were shooting in Trinity College, Dublin, for a song sequence in Ek Tha Tiger. This led her to watch a Shah Rukh Khan film—and there was no going back. I was charmed.
My friend Jameela took it upon herself to show me more movies and they were all 90s Shah Rukh Khan ones. I started watching them, and I love them. I have watched DDLJ, Dilwale, K3G, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and .
