"I Would Ride Back On My Cycle To Tell My Mom, I Managed To get a ticket," - Shah Rukh Khan On His Love For Movies

In Netflix's docuseries The Romantics, Shah Rukh Khan is seen speaking about how he fell in love with cinema and his first memories of watching a Hindi film in the theater. Smrithi Mundhra's docuseries is a tribute to Yash Chopra, and as we all know, SRK and Yash Ji shared a very special bond.

Shah Rukh Khan says, "I come from a very lower-middle-class family. Television was hardly existent. There was only one channel—the state-owned channel (Doordarshan). And it showed a movie every Sunday. That also we would go and watch in our neighbour’s house, who had a television. And who would graciously allow all the kids to come. The good thing was there was no advertisement between the films."

He adds, "Going to theater was a very big thing. Either it was an occasion, or it was a big film. There used to be black marketing of tickets. So, it used to be a big high (to even manage to get a ticket). I would ride back on my cycle and tell my mom - I managed! Even that was a big thing, to manage a ticket for a big release whatever."