“…It Need Not Moralise” Shah Rukh Khan Melt Heart At Locarno Film Festival with Career Achievement Award Speech
Awarding a career accomplishment honor at the 77th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland was Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan, who will next be seen in the film “King.”
As reported by Variety, the celebrity, who is as well-known for his wit as for his on-screen persona, gave an acceptance speech that mixed his signature comedy with poignant criticism on the film industry.
Khan started his speech by thanking the enthusiastic 8,000-person crowd gathered in Piazza Grande in Locarno.
Speaking about his well-known open-armed stance, he stated:
“Thank you all for welcoming me with such wide arms – wider than the ones I do on screen.”
As per Variety, the actor went on to praise the festival’s location. He said: “It’s a very beautiful, very cultural, very artistic, and extremely hot city of Locarno. So many people stuffed up in a little square and so hot. It’s just like being home in India.”
Piazza Grande and Locarno were humid, and the temperature approached thirty-five degrees Celsius.
When he started talking about his ideas on creativity and film, his speech became more somber.
He proceeded, saying: “I truly believe cinema has been the most profound and influential artistic medium of our age. I’ve had the privilege of being part of this for many years, and this journey has taught me a few lessons.”
The performer highlighted how art and cinema are universal. He added, “Art is the act of affirming life above all. It goes beyond every man-made boundary into a space of liberation. It need not be political. It need not be polemical. It need not sermonise. It need not intellectualise. It need not moralise.”“Art and cinema only need to say what it feels from the heart, to express its own truth. And that, to me, is the biggest creativity, honestly.”
