For more reasons than one. Including dicussions with my dear friend, who pointed many of these points to me..
Though I am not a huge fan of Shahrukh Khan's acting skills, his marriage to Gauri Khan, nee Chhibar, makes me smile each time I think about it.
She, the gentle, mild mannered Delhi girl, with those Kamakshi (the doe-eyed one, synonym for La Divine Feminine) eyes.
He, the fiery Pathan with angst and fire of a Shiva and the desert.
She breaks all moulds and social conventions to marry him, just like her namesake, Gauri/Parvati..the fiery Goddess who rebelled against the dictates of convention to marry the intoxicated Yogi, who lived up in the mountains with wild animals and his equally bohemian companions.
On a similar note, at that time,"King Khan" was an unknown, struggling actor working in TV serials to make it by.
From that time, she stood by him, helping him rise.. and seeing him through it all.
Putting her own comfort, career, parents and city/Delhi aside.
One cannot but respect such loyalty.
Better than those 'bahus' of the Indian serials, who flaunt their married status with expensive mangalsutras and sindoor, only for the material benefit and social status it brings them.
And he too has rewarded her love and how! With almost 20 years of pure loyalty.
Its amazing, in the decadent and materialistic world of Bollywood, that even today King Khan is probably the ONLY actor whose name has not been linked with a co-actress.
With names such as the "sexiest man in India" and millions of women swooning over him, he has eyes only for the doe-eyed girl from Delhi..
Of course there is that. And the fact that their marriage is a standing testament to the innate secularism of India..and a slap in the face of centuries of conservatism to hijack the land of Shiva-Shakti and the Sufis, makes it all the more remarkable.
