Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone at WAVES Summit 2025
Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone spoke at a session titled "The Journey: From Outsider to Ruler" during WAVES Summit 2025. Moderated by Karan Johar, the session was a hit, with Shah Rukh Khan delivering an important statement towards the end.
Image: Shah Rukh Khan at WAVES Summit 2025
Shah Rukh Khan said, "It’s outstanding that the initiative for WAVES has come from the honourable Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) himself. Otherwise, film industry members keep crying, ‘Humko industry status kab doge’! It’s a time when filmmaking has become more and more difficult and it has become challenging to get the audience to cinemas due to so many other platforms. With WAVES, 2-3 things should happen. Firstly, the shooting process in India should become easier not only for us Indian filmmakers but those who want to come to shoot here from abroad. This is because India has so much to offer – it is so culturally rich and so beautiful. We also go abroad and shoot but can we invite atithis (guests) to come here and give them all the infrastructure."
He added, "Secondly, the festivals have markets where films are sold all over the world. That should happen with WAVES."
Shah Rukh Khan further said, "Lastly, the call of the day is a lot more theatres, simpler theatres and cheaper theatres in smaller towns and cities so that we can showcase Indian films, made in various languages, to a larger majority of Indians at cheaper rates. Otherwise, it is becoming very expensive and also, our cinemas are mostly concentrated in big towns. We keep talking about the China model with regard to the number of theatres; that can happen here as well. (Once we have more cinemas), it’ll increase footfall. Thus, we’ll be able to give entertainment at a cheaper price and in every corner of the country."
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