Bollywood News
While everybody drive their way to a barber, hairstylist or hairdresser, our SRK has his stylist come to his home. SRK has a dressing room at his home Mannat, where his stylist Dilshad Pastakia style’s his hair. So check out what the duo are talking about…
SRK: I don’t understand how the word barber is casteist… but I understand the emotions of the association. Hair dressers and stylists, they are creative people…
Dilshad: Yes, we create hairstyles for you…
SRK: But the film is not about the barber’s profession, the profession is incidental, Billu is about love and friendship, it’s about environment, so much fun… it’s the least controversial film.
Dilshad: I have no problem being called a barber. We’re cutting hair, that’s what the profession is about. If you call a barber a hair-stylist, you’re just changing the term, not giving him a different profession.
SRK: The associations issue is that the Hindi word nai, when translated into English, becomes barber. And nai is a caste. Which makes barber a caste. But then so is hair-dresser!
Dilshad: Hajam would have been closer… I’ve been called a hajam for years. Actually, the profession ought to be happy to be acknowledged in a Shah Rukh Khan film…
SRK: Aren’t barbers only for men? And stylists for women?
Dilshad: Barbering is a male technique in which the barber works with clippers and employs the scissors over comb. All over England, you have barber shops… there is dignity in labour there.
SRK: But people do use words to demean professions. It’s like calling Manish Malhotra a tailor.
Dilshad: That mindset should be curtailed.
SRK: Maybe after the film, it would have been… because Billu (Barber) has such a simple message. Whichever world you belong to, as long as you’re true to your emotions and your goodness, you’re a better person already. Your profession does not make you a special person. Your ordinariness is special.
Dilshad: It’s a fab profession, and people are proud to be barbers.
SRK: Are you a real barber?
Dilshad: I am a real barber!
SRK: … Unless you’ve been lying to me for 15 years and are really a choreographer and cutting my hair!
