This guy is Aakash Pillay.
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A month ago, he took a challenge – to turn his dream of meeting Shahrukh Khan into a reality. There was only one problem – he didn’t know how to. Shahrukh Khan is one of the biggest celebrities in the world. That means he has tight security around him 24×7. He isn’t accessible to the general public. He has thousands of fans who are just waiting to get a glimpse of him. Just to get to an event or press conference he’s attending needs very close connections.
So what was Aakash’s plan? It was very basic. He started sitting outside Shahrukh Khan’s house with a placard that read, “Waiting for SRK.”
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So, on Day 1, he arrived with the placard in front of Shahrukh Khan’s abode, Mannat. He saw that he wasn’t the only fan waiting to meet him. There were numerous others. Steadily, he started getting attention from the other fans and that led to a problem. Mannat’s security asked him to remove the placard and threatened to file a complaint against him, which they didn’t and were just trying to scare him.
There were days when SRK was attending events and wasn’t at home. On those days, Aakash realised that there was no use sitting outside Mannat. So he started thinking of other ways to get to Shahrukh. First, he arrived at the office of Red Chillies Entertainment looking for a job. Second, he started looking for email IDs and contact numbers of people who work with SRK. Third, he started leaving messages to those contacts.
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Meanwhile, he filmed what he did every day and was very consistent with the short videos he posted on Instagram. He started gaining followers and people recognized him on the street. He acquainted himself with members of SRK’s loyal fan clubs who arranged for him to be allowed into events SRK was attending, like the Jawan press conference.
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As his followers grew, people started tagging SRK, his manager Pooja Dadlani and Red Chillies Entertainment in the comments section of his videos.
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And finally, somebody from SRK’s team got in touch with him! It’s been a month and Aakash Pillay’s efforts did not go in vain because King Khan did meet him.
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Agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho, toh puri kainaat usse tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai.