"I will have five releases in 2000. So the whole industry's future will be hanging by the thread of Shah Rukh's releases...

"As an actor, I've never been scared of a release.

"I bring excitement on the sets. I'm an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I'm not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better. In at least 10 of the 27 releases I've had so far, I knew that they were going wrong. But I've given my best to them. I don't want to feel guilty that I didn't give it my best shot and maybe, therefore, the film failed. I invariably hope that the star charisma may be able to pull a film through, despite the wrong things...

"But I also know that this is a wrong thing for an actor to believe -- that he can pull a bad film through. But I do it all the time...

"My films do well only because they are good, not because of me. Every actor should understand that he can never be greater than his film."

Shah Rukh Khan in January 2000, one day before the release of Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai and the emergence of another superstar, Hrithik Roshan.

2000 hasn't witnessed much in terms of the Shah Rukh fireworks. There were tiny sparks with Josh. That was pretty much it.

Which begs the question, will Mohabbatein and Aditya Chopra boost SRK's rating in the market?