Shah Rukh Khan believes in gender equality and respect
Last updated on: 29 December,2018 11:42 pm
I’ve been married for 30 years, I’ve never looked into my wife’s purse.
(Web-Desk)- Shah Rukh Khan the Badshah Of Bollywood, true gentleman that he is spoke about how respect, love, romance and equality are all inter connected. Being a father he feels responsible to teach his son the basic ethos that are going wrong in our fast paced society.
Respect is of utmost importance to the actor, he also gave his views on the #Metoo movement, “Three things: Respect, respect, and respect. I really believe that. Some of my women friends, whom I have known for years, find me too formal at times. But there is no romance and love without respect. Respect means equality, and I don’t mean the social media’s #equality. To me, equality is letting you know how weak I am, equality is asking you, can you take care of me? This is what I’ve done with my wife and my women friends because I genuinely love them, he said.
Khan discussed the importance equality and space play in a relationship, he wants his son to be respectful human being, "I teach my 21-year-old son that disrespecting a person is not okay, and I don’t mean beating or the kind of things that #MeToo has brought out. I’m talking about basic respect. I’ve been married for 30 years I’ve never looked into my wife’s purse. I still knock on the bedroom door if she’s changing; I knock on my daughter’s bedroom door. They know it’s me, but this is their space," he added.
The actor was recently seen in the movie Zero, the movie didn’t do that well but his performance was applauded.