While Shah Rukh Khan is one of the biggest superstars of Indian cinema, the actor has witnessed his fair share of failures. After a lull of four years post poor box-office (BO) performance of Zero (2018), Khan made a comeback last year with three releases — Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki — and they worked wonders at the BO.

In hindsight, he admitted that he has come to see failure in a different light. At Dubai’s Global Freight Summit, when asked whether he has ever been critical of his career, Khan said, “I am. And I hate feeling it and then I cry a lot in the bathroom. I don’t show it to anyone. Because I think you can wallow in self-pity for [only] about that much time. [But] you have to believe that the world is not against you or conspiring to destroy your work. No — You have to believe that you made it [the project] badly, and then you have to move on. There are moments of despair, but there are moments where you say, ‘Shut up, get up and get on with it’.”

The 59-year-old went on to add, “Imagine yourself as an ant; me a very good-looking ant (smiles) but nevertheless an ant! Sometimes the wind takes you away... [but] the wind is not working against you. It is just doing what it does. Life does what it does. You can’t start blaming life for the failure. You have to remember that it must be something that I did wrong or the business did wrong, or the strategy and marketing went wrong... and I need to figure it out (sic).”