Originally posted by: atominis
...So why will he not have connection to masses looking for mindless timepass? His audience is the type that does not analyse acting or subject of film either and is superficial and does not look for anything deeper.
I can agree with everything you wrote before these two closing lines, atominis.
The bold things are simply an insult...and I wonder why exactly you think so.
Only because SRK openly admits to fulfil wishes of the audience because the audience gives him the position he enjoys, doesn't demean his work as an actor and doesn't reflect a poor niveau of the audience.
Also he has done a lot of movie-characters that don't put romance in the foreground but the love/respect for the woman (with latter being more important than the romancing)... and this is one of the reasons so many women relate to the characters (and SRK).
Also he has something innocent, childlike that shines through many of the characters he enacted...and this is one of the reasons that already tiny kids get connected to him (in my family the kids from a 3 year old boy to a 12 year old girl).
Also he likes to do action...and gosh! he is good at that...he has a body that moves well and he isn't shy to visibly get beaten up, not always being/looking like a winner...and this is relatable to men, too...he may win in the end but he has a hard time for that...he is macho without being macho.
I could enumerate a lot of scenes in many movies where SRK's acting is superb (but I suppose, this won't change your opinion).
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