Shah Rukh Khan is a certifiable Bollywood superstar, with over 80 films and hundreds of millions of fans. In April, he gave a sprawling talk at the 2017 TED conference in Vancouver that touched on everything from his reputation as the "King of Romance" to the ways the world has changed since the introduction of the internet.
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A Bollywood superstar delivered the next viral TED Talk — here's what he said
Check out the 2017 TED Talk by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Shah Rukh Khan at TED.
While he wasn't as tightly focused as some other speakers, Khan turned out to be the funniest person on stage at TED 2017 thus far. The talk will likely be a huge hit online, helped along by Khan's fan base.
Some of his choice (and very quotable) quotes:
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On Thursday, the talk went live online:
It wasn't just the audience inside the Vancouver Convention Center who enjoyed Khan's talk — his 24 million Twitter followers started a trending hashtag: #SRKLiveAtTEDTalks.
Khan's local Canadian fans also showed up outside the convention center during his talk. When I left the building about 20 minutes after it, dozens were still there.
There was an ulterior motive for getting Khan on the TED stage. Later this year, he'll host a TV version of TED Talks in India called "Nayi Soch," or "New Thinking." Khan's celebrity status — he was the eighth-highest-paid actor in the world in 2016 — could boost the TED brand's audience.
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