Superstar Shah Rukh Khan was received the prestigious
Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos recently.
Sir Elton John and Cate Blanchett were also bestowed with the same award for
their contribution in making the world a better place.
Shah Rukh Khan gave an inspiring speech in which he spoke
about the need for power reversal, the significance of service of others and
about women empowerment.
Shah Rukh told, “Actors are renowned narcissists. No matter
how much we pretend to not to believe in external beauty, we tend to be
obsessed by it, one way or another. Perhaps being surrounded by this obsession
of beauty, a few years ago I came across a lady who had been brutalized by an
acid attack and it kind of changed my life, or the perspective of it at least.
To disfigure a woman by throwing acid on her face, to me, is one of the crudest
acts of subjugation imaginable.”
Shah Rukh also told about his interactions with the victims
of acid attack and revealed that he had learnt “how courage can catalyse
victimhood into heroism, how solidarity rather than charity enables the human
will to overcome, how equality is not a concept, but a truth that encompasses
all living beings and how the service of others is not a choice anymore for any
of us. It is a duty that all of us must fulfill,” from them.
He also stated his son AbRam in the speech and gave an
analogy about the need to reverse power. He further added, “I want to thank my
sister, my wife and my little daughter for bringing me up well and teaching me
the value of requesting, sometimes imploring and begging a yes from a woman,
instead of forcing it upon her.”
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