SRK: “I want to thank my sister, wife & daughter for bringing me up well”

Shah Rukh Khan was recently honored with the Crystal Award, organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. He was recognized for his ‘Leadership in Championing Children’s and Women’s Rights in India’. Khan gave an empowering speech on equality, and thanked the women in his life for giving him perspective.

In his speech, Filmfare reports Khan saying, “Actors are renowned narcissists. No matter how much we pretend to not to believe in external beauty, we tend to be obsessed by it, one way or another. Perhaps being surrounded by this obsession of beauty, a few years ago I came across a lady who had been brutalized by an acid attack and it kind of changed my life, or the perspective of it at least. To disfigure a woman by throwing acid on her face, to me, is one of the crudest acts of subjugation imaginable. I want to thank my sister, my wife and my little daughter for bringing me up well and teaching me the value of requesting, sometimes imploring and begging a yes from a woman, instead of forcing it upon her.”

Khan was honored on Monday evening.