SRK Made TED An Mind Blowing Event

Source-TOI

There was none of that K-K-K-Kiran stuff that he stammered through in Darr. There was no fear, and no second and third take. No dubbing or ad-libbing. Shahrukh Khan simply hit it out of the park. Aced it. Wowed everyone.

Of course he would. Those who go beyond tinsel town and celluloid would know that before and beyond Bollywood, this most celebrated of movie stars (a mere 24.5 million Twitter followers; just five million shy of Narendra Modi and Donald Trump) was part of a Delhi theater group. It showed in the ease of delivery -- sans prompter and cues -- on arguably the world's toughest stage, in front of an intellectual powerhouse: the annual TED conference of nerdy brainiacs and highbrow geeks.

Calling him a ''renaissance man,'' as host Chris Anderson did, might be stretching it a bit, but King Khan showed that he's no mug with words or witticisms as he delivered TED's customary 18-minute talk with panache, laced with self-deprecating humor and thoughtful musings on TED2017's theme -- The Future You.

After drolly telling an eclectic audience that he is a seller of dreams and a peddler of love from India, and joking that he is completely self-obsessed as a movie star should be, he ruminated at length about the Internet Age, observing, ''Humanity is a lot like me. It's an aging movie star, grappling with all the newness, wondering whether she got it right.'