The Vogue Beauty Awards 2018 celebrated some of the very best from the country's beauty industry and from Bollywood, which is where beauty reaches its culmination point. From Katrina Kaif and Kangana Ranaut to Saif Ali Khan, we saw everyone bringing their best face to the event yesterday. As the evening came to a close this year, we ended the celebration with a very special moment: the reveal of Vogue India's August 2018 cover. In case you haven't checked it out yet, this month marks Suhana Khan's first magazine shoot ever, and who better to share the first look with the world than our cover star's father, Shah Rukh Khan?
After accepting his Most Beautiful Man of the Decade award last night, Shah Rukh presented Suhana's cover to all the guests at the Vogue Beauty Awards with the sweetest speech a father could make. The actor spoke not only about what life is like for celebrity kids, but also shared his hopes for Suhana in the future. In this month's cover story, the actor reveals that he wants to see his children work their way up to achieve their goals. “We have friends who are very well-meaning and think of my kids as their own, and they're all happy and keen to launch her. Like Karan [Johar]. But I keep insisting that I don't want them designed as stars, I want them to be launched when they are good enough actors.”
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Missed Shah Rukh Khan's speech from last night? Here are some edited excerpts.
"I think star kids have their own personal issues, of course they're entitled and in today's world with social media it's nice that you're recognised, but where I come from, a middle class background, where someone has worked with some of the most beautiful and loveliest of people like Katrina [Kaif], and all the other people here present, I got this opportunity, and things went well for me. But kids are kids, children are children, changing the world. And sometimes, you need assistance of friends to give them a little more confidence, self-belief and self worth. So I want to thank Vogue for taking my little daughter and putting her on the cover of Vogue. I'm extremely thankful.
"I hope it's not taken as ‘entitled' just because she happens to be Shah Rukh Khan's daughter. I just hope it's taken as a responsibility that she has if she's being given a platform like this, a solo cover for Vogue, which I incidentally have never gotten (I'm just going to keep pointing that out, I just have to look at [model's] knees and say ‘Oh I'm so sexy!' [In reference to his own shoot in Vogue India]). I just want to say thank you very much for putting her in a place where the responsibility you've put on her is going to remove some of the entitlement she has because she happens to be my daughter. And Inshallah she'll work hard towards that.
"I'm very proud of women who work, like I mentioned, all the ladies here, and I hope it doesn't sound patronising. I'm inspired by women who work… all the ladies that I've worked with in the films that I've done. 53 years of age, from mother to sister to wife to daughter, and all the girls who've worked with me, it's an inspiration how hard they work, how selflessly they work and how many conditions, which perhaps are not the best for women in the world, not only in this country, how wonderfully happy they are. I never see them lose their smile, I never see them lose their temper, I never see them lose their professionalism. I think I've been gifted to be in the company of so many fantastic women. And I hope my daughter can join and be one of them. I'll be proud of her when she's proud of herself with the job she does so Inshallah she'll do well. I feel very honoured to be here, this is strange!"
During the awards ceremony, Khan also took the time to join philanthropist Kulsum Shadab in spotlighting the Hothur Foundation, an organisation that supports acid attack survivors. “I'm sure all of us agree that a project of this stature needs a booster rocket to propel it forward at warp speed and who better to do it than [Shah Rukh Khan]?” Shadab said. Khan was part of a special video for Hothur Foundation that was also revealed at the event. Check it out below.
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