Thread by @Namrata_Joshi

I too have one SRK story. The special one of the many...

Nobody may want to listen but am gonna tell phir bhi... #SRKStory

So its his Eid party at Taj Lands End Bandra for the journalists where he first gives the sound bytes to the several thousands of flashing still and video cameras and then comes to our room and sits on each of our tables, one by one... #SRKStory continues ...

*at sorry
I am with @alakasahani and like the good, polite and friendly but still consciously professional, distanced journalists we are, we shake hands and wish him a Happy Eid and do some random conversation ... He is charming as usual ... #SRKStoryContinues

Then he goes up and walks towards the next table & we get back to our usual chatter ... But hello NO ... After a few steps he turns around and walks back towards us ... #SRKStoryContinues ...

*gets sorry again
He looks me in my eyes. I swear I love men who look directly in your eyes. Most are shifty & unable to meet your gaze. Ok so he looks at me & says: “Eid ke din handshake nahin karte, Gale Milte hain”. And I get one unsolicited hug ... 🤩

If I may add I haven’t recovered from that one encounter as yet. Am sure neither has @alakasahani ... I will keep narrating to whoever wants to listen (or not) till such time as I can... And even if you say 👇🏾

Even when he has had issues. And one has given him good number of reasons for that ... “I give you good interviews, you give me bad reviews” ... “Shabana Azmi type ke questions pooch rahi Ho” ... It has been in a good humoured way, at least with lucky me ... #SRKStoryContinues

Ditto for us bearing with his “punctuality”. 12.30am interview @ Mannat for Fan. Can’t claim the kind of access to him to be able to text “hang in there buddy”. I don’t “know” him. Vice versa. But am hard-nosed enough to figure people from how they think, feel, reflect, talk...

And the very fact that he has a mind and “gives the best interviews” and “talks so well” is now a cross to bear what with the kind of muck that dominates the public discourse. Is SRK of any relevance in the times when Arnab is the hero?

I wondered about it while watching a documentary on Maria Ressa & Duterte’s supposed war against drugs. It’s the same shit everywhere. Same playbook of lies & mass hypnosis. As I wrote to @radhikasan time is out of joint for us. And for those we admire. Lets learn to deal with it

Itna Kuchh likh daala yahan. Could have been a column in itself. But tweet threads ka joy alag hi hota hai.
#EOM
Now I had better disappear for my own good & for the good of SRK