New Delhi | Jagran Entertainment Desk: Bollywood actor Shah Ruk Khan, who is commonly known as ‘King Khan’, has never been a overblown man and has always been honest about his success and failures. The actor also has a reputation for cracking people up with his wit. Recently, he along with Zoya Akhtar, shared stage with Amazon chief Jeff Bezos.
While chatting with SRK and Akhtar, Bezos called him the ‘most humble man’. “I was talking to them backstage and he's one of the most humble people I have ever met,” he said.
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The audience cheered to this a lot. SRK, then, almost choked Bezos with his reply. “That's because my last few films haven't done well,” SRK said. Bezos on hearing this almost choked trying to control his laughter.
Bezos also shared a clip of the interaction on Twitter. “Lots of fun on stage with Shah Rukh Khan and Zoya Akhtar,” he wrote.
Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar, who were present at the meeting, can be seen laughing in the audience in the video.
Jeff Bezos, who is world’s richest man, met denizens of tinsel town as part of his three-day visit to the country. He met Shah Rukh and Zoya at an event in a suburban hotel, where media was not allowed. Bollywood stars and directors, including Riteish Deshmukh and his wife Genelia, Vidya Balan and her husband Siddharth Roy Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Rajkummar Rao, Kamal Haasan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Manoj Baypayee, Sayani Gupta, Farhan Akhtar, Shibani Dandekar, Zoya Akhtar, Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi, Kabir Khan, Mini Mathur and were present at the event.
The Amazon chief recently had said that the e-commerce giant will create 10 lakh jobs in India by 2025 through continuous investments in infrastructure, technology and logistics.
Hailing the Indian democracy, Bezos said, “I predict that the 21st century is going to be the Indian century... Apart from the dynamism it has, India is a democracy which is a major characteristic of the country.”