Learn How This Camera Acting Art Can Make You a Star Actor

Acting for the camera in a Bollywood film

It is absolutely essential for actors know and understand movie camera, scenes, angles and shots and changes. The mistakes committed by actors in shot results in many retakes which results in waste of time, extra work for crew and co-actors and a loss of time and money.

The common mistakes made by actors: 

1. Forgetting how you have exactly you have done in the first shot-your dialogues, movements, gesture etc. Even minor changes (like adding "array", forgetting a few words  or changing gestures etc) in subsequent shots due to the change of the Angles of the original sheet may result in a re take which annoys everybody on the set.
2. Therefore an actor must remember what he/she has done in the first shot and must repeat exactly in another angle shot. Example: master shot to middle shot to close up shot to OTS shot. Many professional actors either write down what they have done in the first shot or remain in the character till the next shot. They never take any break or chit chat.
3. The objective angle is the most common in movies. It is the "fly on the wall" viewpoint where the audience sees what is happening, but as though they were there, invisible and enjoys what�s going on in a scene. In this kind of shot if an actor looks directly at the camera, even by a mistake (which means he is looking at the audience), the audience feels cheated. The actors must never look directly at the camera lens for that will destroy the illusion of the objective angle and require a re-take.
4. To know where the camera is and what kind of camera angle is important for actors to position one�s body and particularly face/looks. Lack of this knowledge may result in your poor visibility by a camera and consequently by an editor who may remove you from a final cut.

Key tips nobody will tell you about Camera Acting Art

1. Know where the camera is at all times and position yourself accordingly. Try, that your face is viewed by a camera.
2. Never look at the camera lens unless told so.
3. Never ask a director for anything related to camera e.g. Where to look, angle, face, whether you are in the frame of not. Ask cameraman.
4. Generally ignore camera lens. Let it find you
5. Keep an imaginary narrow path in front of a camera and be careful of your movements and gestures. Usually, shots are composed in depth, not width.
6. If you find difficult to hit a mark while moving, do quick rehearsals and count floor tiles or other props you cross to reach to your mark. Remember this count while walking and reaching to a mark as desired by the cameraman.
7. Do not stop if you mess up like forgetting lines or thinking that a shot is over. Keep going till director says "Cut". Let this be a director's decision.
8. Intensity in an emotion, on camera  can be increased by appropriate expressions and pace. NOT by  volume.
9. Remain in a character even when a shot is over. You may have to go for a retake immediately, not necessarily due to your fault but may due to some technical fault somewhere or by somebody else.
10. Always remember what you did in a shot. Write down. Shots in a scene may not be in order and you would be required to maintain continuity.
11. Listen attentively to your co-actors and react even if you don't have any dialogue. An editor loves this (Reaction shots).
12. When the camera is tracking you (moving) with you, you may talk fast but walk slowly. 

What an actor should know:

Cinematography 

It refers to the camera work, part of the production process. In other words, how is the camera used and what are the storytelling elements that can be controlled through a thorough understanding of how to use the film making camera.

Film Coverage

Coverage is a cinematography term that refers to shooting a scene from a variety of angles and distances, so you will have the raw material necessary to edit the scene together into an interesting visual and emotional experience for the audience. Each of the shots, or individual angles, requires a different setup.
A motion picture is made up of many shots. Each shot should be from the best angle to tell this part of the story the way you want your audience to experience it.
Usually this means the angle that shows the actors and setting most clearly, but sometimes you may want to fool the audience by not showing what's happening.
Every time the camera is moved for a new setup actors need to ask yourself if this is the best camera angle for telling this part of the story. The camera angles are an important part of what makes a film work.
It is important to understand the difference between scene, shot and sequence.

1. A scene
 Is the exact location where the action is happening.

2. A shot
Is a single continuous angle of view that probably only shows one part of the action at the scene. A sequence is a complete "chapter" of the story.
When the shot is filmed that is a take. If the "take" isn't good, then there will need to be another take, also known as a re-take.

This example may explain it better: 

A sequence starts with a teen girl arguing with her mother in the kitchen. The teen then goes to the living room where she has a heated discussion with her father. Finally, she goes to her bedroom where she calls her boyfriend to tell him she has decided to run away from home. This sequence tells a complete part of the story, but consists of three scenes, and no doubt, several shots in each scene. And unless the actors were amazingly good there would be a number of takes of each shot.

3. A sequence 
Typically consists of several scenes, and a scene typically consists of several shots. However, any combination is possible. It is possible for a sequence to have just one scene, and even for more than one sequence to happen in a single scene.
When describing different cinematic shots, different terms are used to indicate the amount of subject matter contained within a frame, how far away the camera is from the subject, and the perspective of the viewer. Each different shot has a different purpose and effect. A change between two different shots is called a CUT.

SHOTS

1 . Extreme long shot (Establishing Shot)

This can be taken from as much as a half of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot. It normally shows an EXTERIOR, e.g. The outside of a building, or a landscape, and is often used to show scenes of thrilling action, eg in a war film or disaster movie. There will be very little detail visible in the shot, it's meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.

2. The Master Shot 

Is wide enough to include all the actors. If you are shooting on film and have a very small budget this may be the only shot you can get. Some films consist of nothing but master shots.

3. Wide Shot

Wide Shot Shows whole body or space. Establish scene or setting, allow room for action. This may be a single grouping of a few of the actors in a larger crowd scene when you want to concentrate on a single conversation.
Two-Shot - shows two characters related to one another, usually from the waist up. A Three Shot is three actors, a Four-Shot is four actors and so on.

4. Over-the-Shoulder

Is a medium or close up shot, including 2 actors taken over the shoulder of one actor and showing the face of the other actor.

5. Medium Shot

Is a shot showing actors from the waist up.

6. Close-up

Author Kiran Pande  as an actor in a film in a close-up shot

Is a shot from the actor's neck up. Sometime a close-up is a little looser and includes the actor's shoulders.

7. Extreme Close-up

Is so close that only part of the actor's face is visible. This angle can be used very powerfully at highly emotional moments. Save the extreme close-up for such emotional moments.

8. P.O.V. 

It means Point Of View. This shot is intended to show the audience what one of the characters sees, i.e. From the character's point of view.

CAMERA ANGLES

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 A low angle shot  increases the height and useful for short actors. It gives a sense of speeded motion. Low angles help give a sense of confusion to a viewer, of powerlessness within the action of a scene.

CAMERA MOVEMENT

1. Pans

A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame.

2. Dolly Shots (Trolley Shots)

Sometimes called TRUCKING or TRACKING shots. The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object. Complicated dolly shots will involve a track being laid on set for the camera to follow, hence the name. The camera might be mounted on a car, a plane, or even a shopping trolley. A dolly shot may be a good way of portraying movement, the journey of a character for instance, or for moving from a long shot to a close-up, gradually focusing the audience on a particular object or character.

3. Crane Shots

Basically, dolly-shots-in-the-air. A crane (or jib), is a large, heavy piece of equipment, but is a useful way of moving a camera - it can move up, down, left, right, swooping in on the action or moving diagonally out of it. The camera operator and camera are counterbalanced by a heavy weight, and trust their safety to a skilled crane/jib operator.

4. Steadicam Shots

When removed from a tripod (its stand), a camera traditionally has to be wheeled about on a dolly, because the handheld camera gives a shaky 'photography' look that is unlike how we perceive the "world". The idea behind Steadicam is to let viewers see with camera movement, the way the eye sees, without going to the expense, or spending the time, to lay dolly (Trolly) track; but it has become much more useful. Using Steadicam, bold moving shots, that might have been impossible otherwise, can be achieved quickly and beautifully. The problems of negotiating cameras up staircases and through doorways have been resolved; difficulties of responding to unexpected occurrences, minimized; and the problems of shooting such as to not reveal dolly track, eliminated. In almost every feature film, and major television production, Steadicam has become an indispensable tool.
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New! 5 mins Exercise for Actors on Stage vs. Film Acting

Actor Rajat Kapoor,  Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee | A stage and film scene

I had been working a lot with young actors experienced in nothing but theater. They come to me fresh from their theater acting school with bad habits learned from teachers who haven�t acted in decades, and ask me to teach them the mysterious art of �film acting.�
I smile and ask �Why this simple question?�
Finding them looking embarrassed at my question, I explain them in simple words:

• The only difference between acting for film and stage is the venue.
• A film presents your performance to viewers at closer range. There�s nothing �deep� about the difference; it�s just like moving from outdoor Theater to a small room.
• In film, you are acting in front of a camera, and you need to speak in a normal voice with restrained body movements. And on stage, you are standing on a river bank talking to a group of people standing on the other side across the bank and trying to listen to you and understand your gestures. So you have to speak loudly with a bit of exaggerated gestures.

Stage Vs. Film

Stage Acting Vs. Film Acting Exercise
Emotion: Anger     Attitude: Frustrated

I gave them the following two liner to prepare

"Kya samzha hai mujhko? Dekh loonga teray ko! Meray khilaf zhoonti gavahi di! Kis se paisa khaya tooney? Beta nahin to yanhi tuzhe maar daloonga!"

When they memorized their lines, I told them to deliver in 2 different ways




Situation 1
Deliver your lines briskly walking 10 feet, shouting, eyes popping out with exaggerated hands and body gestures

Situation 2
Deliver your lines walking slowly 3 feet, speaking your lines hissing with teeth clenched and with  facial expressions without exaggeration. (Only your hand and fingers raised to, if need be, up to shoulders only).

Under Situation 1, it was Acting for Theatre
Under Situation 2, it was Acting for Film

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Why 90% Aspiring Actors for Bollywood Fail and Exceptions

The Fact File of Actors: Why you Fail And Solutions

1. "The only people who succeed as actors are those who have to be actors". This is something I have been telling people for years. If you can be happy doing anything else in life, you may fail to be an actor.
2. If you start on a doubtful note wondering if acting is what you should try to do, you will fail. Remember, those who have to be actors do not wonder or even care much about those things. They just go out and be actors because they must do that. If you have any reason why you may fail-- lack of money, attitude problems like oversensitive, angry young man/woman, worrying type who easily gets disturbed, language, diction, voice, height, weight color of your skin etc, you may fail. 
3. Many struggling actors keep doing the same thing over and over in spite of their techniques failing, expecting different results.  Those who have to be successful actors go out and be actors because they change themselves and their strategies, mostly on the advice of their personal coach or some industry guide.
4. Acting is not just a career choice; it is a lifestyle choice! It involves a great deal of self-motivation, sacrifice and continued effort. If you are not a good self-starter, if you cannot live without the common comforts and conveniences and/or if you cannot be persistent to stay with your desire for years to be an actor in spite of everything, then you will most likely fail. 
5. For an actor, success is not fame and fortune, success is an ultimate objective his existence.
6. Lastly, my strong views are:  Apart from getting trained from a school (if you choose so), have a coach (mentor) for a reasonable period of time. If you blindly try to become an actor on your own without guidance from someone who knows the Bollywood or TV Serials or Commercial casting game,  your chances for success are diminished.  
7. It won�t be wrong to point out that finding a coach who is willing to help you and then ignoring his/her advice is not only rude, but also is a way to fail. (Based on source)

Bollywood Super Stars Who Failed to Become Successful.

Here are the exceptions that understood their mistakes, persisted for a long period and changed themselves in every aspect of their craft and attitude reaching to the top:

1. As a nobody, Manoj Kumar worked as a ghostwriter at different studios for films and was paid Rs 11 per scene.

2. Much before becoming mega star, Amitabh Bachchan spent some nights on a bench on Marine Drive in Mumbai. It is also well known that he was rejected by a radio company more than once. Big B was not even given a chance to audition. Many a times he was rejected in auditions.

3. Former BCCI president PM Rungta paid for Dilip Kumar�s tram tickets as the struggling actor had no money to go to film studios from his home. After initial rejections he worked on his attitude and was a great star!

4. As a newcomer, Madhuri Dixit got plenty of negative feedback from the industry. Even then reigning star Meenakshi Sheshadri was among those would feel Madhuri did not have it in her material to succeed in Bollywood.

5. After tasting failures in her initially, Zeenat Aman was ready to pack her bag and return to Germany with her mother. She analyzed herself as per a coach and then it happened. She was selected in �Hare Rama Hare Krishna� (1972. The rest is a history!

6. Dharmendra was the winner of a talent hunt, yet he had to bear extreme hardships for a year till �Bandini� came his way. There were numerous days when Dharmendra did not even have a morsel of food, it has been reported. Another story goes that a producer once refused to pay for Dharmendra's taxi fare (His attitude?), following which the actor got very upset. Shashi Kapoor then took him home, and they had lunch.

7. Amjad Khan slogged for 10 years, did some insignificant roles and had virtually no money when �Sholay� came his way in 1973. The day Khan signed the film, his son Shadaab was born. There were also stories that Salim-Javed were unhappy with Amjad�s performance and wanted him replaced. Khan survived all that and went on to create.

8. Sanjeev Kumar, who is rated amongst the greatest actors of Indian cinema, had failed a screen test conducted for a Rajshri film. He was part of numerous C-grade stunt films before turning the tide with some amazement.

9. At a recent event, Shah Rukh Khan revealed that he had to struggle for 20 years to get his super hit. When he came to Mumbai he did not have money to eat. He even slept on the roads for many days near Oberoi Hotel. He and his friends used the Oberoi washroom, behaving as they stayed at the hotel itself. SRK also recalled that in those days he did not even know that there was Mumbai beyond Haji Ali.

10. Govinda, who used to stay in a Chawl in Virar, would go to Rajshri Studio every day, but was rejected on the basis of being too young and with a bad diction. Not disheartened, On an advice from an expert (Coach), Govinda  made a show reel in which he was seen acting and dancing, and showed it to the production house.
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4 Top Tips to Work on Your Role to Be A Great Actor

The "role" you got to play in a film or a play is called "Character"
The goal of any actor, is to be able to tell a story as a "character", so the main task from first reading to final performance is to develop that "character". This makes you a truly great actor!

Nothing thrills a casting director or a director more than a truly creative portrayal of a "Character" by an actor!.

From  a social and practical point of view what a "Character" in the role is which you intend portraying? And then, how to work and create your "Character" from the script?

Basically, his research shows that it�s you. And �you� are created from moment to moment from different circumstances. That�s what it is. That�s what creates different �you�s.�

• Hot Tea spilled on you at a restaurant. A different you is triggered.
• You ask your love mate to marry you. She declines. A different you is triggered.
• A stranger asks you for directions. A different you is triggered.

Let us try to analyze a "Character" and how  best to create within you  

A �Character� in a script which you are trying to create, then, is not what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It is NOT a fixed, easily identifiable set of closely related traits (attributes), and it only seems that way because of the way our thought processes are organized. Consequently, we built up a profile of a �Character� like a bundle of fixed habits which remain the same throughout the entire period of the �Character� in a script (Story). Seldom have we changed it based on tempo-rhythm of a story, circumstance and context.

1. One of the reasons of this could be our ignorance of the objective of the script and the �Character� and how this objective is achieved by a story writer. Perhaps a lack of analysis of changes in a story and how my �Character� will behave.
2. So just like in our personal life, circumstances and relevance in a script may evoke the many-sided traits (attitudes, emotions, attitudes etc) and reactions in a �Character� and we have to work on a character's profile, keeping in consideration how a character trait will change.  Personally, sometimes we like what we have created, sometimes we don�t. 
3. Learn our selves. If we can learn our own selves, our traits and how we behave in different life situations, we can explore  a �Character� better based on the changes in the script and become everything we want in our work: fearless, vulnerable, expressed, and transformative. Just like as we aspire to in life.
4. In my opinion, we have never to struggle hard on ourselves to be a particular and a non-dynamic �Character� as narrated in a script. That may not look real. Instead, create a vibrant profile of a �Character�, develop and sharpen those traits which match you and drop what doesn�t match you. Based on source

Some other simple tips

To facilitate the above, work on questions and  answers

While analyzing and creating your "Character" from the every change in the story (script), ask yourself

1. Who am I?

2. Where am I?

3. When is it?

4. Where have I just come from?

5. What do I want at this moment?

6. Why do I want it?

7. Is it different from what I did in earlier situation?

8. How will I get what I want and by doing what?

9. Is it creative and real about once what I have decided to do?

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What is an Actor? 50 Great Views by Celebrities!

Main Tera Hero: Bollywood heartthrob Varun Dhawan along with his bombshell co-stars - Ileana D'Cruz and Nargis Fakhri

Hi aspiring actor!

Your main goal as an actor, is to be the face (and body) of the human condition. Think of yourself as a diplomat for all mankind. The beauty of acting is the ability to "play" in the role of another human being, representing him/her to the best and most natural of our ability. The acting is communication. You, as an actor, have the honored task of creating (or recreating) life on the stage or in front of a camera. You must be able to reflect all sorts of characters, some of whom may even seem odd or distasteful to you. That's the challenge and the reward of acting!

One of the first actors is believed to be an ancient Greek called Thespis of Icaria (year 12 BC).

The skills required to be an actor

Acting requires a wide range of skills, including vocal projection, clarity of speech, physical expressivity, emotional facility, a well-developed imagination, and the ability to interpret drama or comedy. Acting also often demands an ability to employ dialects, accents and body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and training on stage/ film combat. Many actors train at length in special programs or coaches and schools to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors has undergone extensive combat practice. Even though one actor may have years of training, they always strive for more lessons; the cinematic and theatrical world is always changing and because of this, the actor must stay as up to date as possible. Actors and actresses will often have many coaches and teachers for a full range of training involving, but not limited to, singing, scene-work, monologue techniques, audition techniques, and working with  co-actors work.
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Here is what celebrities say about acting

1. The acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

~ Sanford Meisner

2. An actor is a fool for God.

~ Gerardine Clark

4. The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

~ Craig MacDonald

5. That's what makes acting so attractive. You get to break all your own rules.

~Gerardine Clark

6. Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

~ Bette Davis

7. Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

~ Rosalind Russell

Acting Quotes

8. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

~ Meryl Streep

9. Good acting -- real acting is impossible to spot. Do you ever catch talents like Robert Duvall or Kathy Bates acting? No. I defy you to show me where.

~ William Esper

10. Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

~ Craig MacDonald

Practical Acting Quotes

Acting quotes to remember when you're working.

11. Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

~ Sanford Meisner

12. The more personal, the more universal.

~ Gary Ballinger

13. An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

~ Michael Chekhov

14. Use what you know. Don't worry about what you don't know.

~ Michael Shurtleff

15. The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

~ Stella Adler

16. An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

~ Sanford Meisner

17. Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

~ Michael Shurtleff

18. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

~ Jack Lemmon

19. Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.

~ Michael Shurtleff

20. Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

~ Michael Shurtleff

21. Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

~ Michael Shurtleff

22. Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

~ Michael Shurtleff

23. Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

~ Michael Shurtleff

24. The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

~ Michael Shurtleff

25. Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

~ Michael Shurtleff

26. Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life -- that's exciting.

~ Gene Hackman

27. Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

~ Michael Shurtleff

28. There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

~ Michael Shurtleff

29. My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

~ Meryl Streep

30. I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

~ Meryl Streep

31. I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

~ Meryl Streep

32. I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

~ Meryl Streep

33. All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

~ Meryl Streep

34. The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

~ Miguel de Cervantes

35. Actors think more with their hearts than with their heads.

~ William Esper

Funny Acting Quotes

Acting quotes to make you laugh.

36. Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

~ W. C. Fields

37. Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

~ George Burns

38. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

~ W.H. Auden

39. Actors die so loud.

~ Henry Miller

40. I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

~ Oscar Wilde

41. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

~ Thornton Wilder

Even More Acting Quotes

42. The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

~ Stella Adler

43. I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

~ Michael Caine

44. Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

~ Michael Shurtleff

45. Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

~ George Bernard Shaw

46. There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

~ Tim Robbins

47. Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

~ Stella Adler

48. I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

~ Meryl Streep

49. I need to go where people are serious about acting.

~ Meryl Streep

50. The work will stand, no matter what.

~ Meryl Streep

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Wanna be in Films? Don't Miss Advice from Superstar SRK

An Inspiration to Aspiring Actors! Super Star Shah Rukh Khan

�It took me 20 years to be an overnight success�: Shah Rukh Khan (Source)

This shows how much of hard work, time, patience and perseverance is required to be a successful actor. This is a lesson to all struggling and aspiring actors. SRK may be perhaps the only superstar who in spite of the fame and tons of money works 14 hours a day or maybe more, even today!

So, dear aspiring actors, Don�t dream an overnight success.

An inspiration for many, Shah Rukh Khan says struggling actors should be concerned about their craft rather worrying about looks.
Asked whether he would like to give any tips to struggling actors, he said: �You have to work hard and focus on acting. Yes PR and portfolio are all important, but acting is more important. Focus on acting.� 

Now a superstar, Shah Rukh had entered the movies with �Deewana�, in which he played a second fiddle, and worked his way up to be a superstar.
�Nobody becomes an actor by planning things. Don�t focus on your clothes or make-up. Focus on your acting,� he said on the sidelines of his birthday celebrations. SRK turned 49 Sunday.

The actor rose so high in the firmament that he was given the title of �Bollywood Badshah�. The 49-year-old says he takes pride in being an outsider who made it big in filmdom.

Shah Rukh said: �I feel proud about the fact that I am an outsider. This industry has been harsh at times� at times it loves you and at times it punishes you.�

�There are a lot of people responsible for who I am today. I don�t think I can ever play character Shah Rukh Khan in any film because I don�t think my personal life is so important. I think I am too small a person and have a long way to go,� added Shah Rukh.
(Source) November 4, 2014 2:03 pm

Why Shah Rukh Khan focuses on "To be concerned about your craft?" Because, though developing your looks, body, voice and marketing and promotion is important, nothing can really replace excelling in the acting craft! Yes, to be a top professional actor! It's like a quality of a product and its beautiful packaging. Both may be essential for a product to sell, but obviously, quality comes first. Isn't it?

Therefore, it is strongly suggested that you develop your acting craft by getting professionally trained either by an acting coach or by a good acting school. 

And the final words; continue updating your craft periodically till you die!

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