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`My job gets shaken up every Friday'

There's a rich crop of younger actors who are now enjoying a tremendous buzz. There's Abhishek Bachchan after Guru, Hrithik Roshan after Krrish and Dhoom 2, plus there's your contemporary Akshay Kumar. Who do you think is best suited to succeed you to the superstar mantle?

I don't think, one, I am a superstar. And I don't think this is like a kingship, where succession happens. I just do my job. A lot of people say I think Akshay is wonderful, so is Abhishek, so is Hrithik, and I am not being diplomatic. I think they are all doing a good job and they'll all have big hits. I am not going to keep on doing a good job for the next 100 years.

But if you tell me to name a successor, it would mean I believe I am the king. So I can't name a successor because I don't believe I am the king. I've a job, which every Friday gets shaken up. Every year for 17 years I get shaken up. A newcomer has come to displace me. I get shaken up now by older people. I get shaken up by youngsters, I get shaken up by my colleagues like Akshay Kumar.

But besides that, a lot of people even turn around and tell me I am not the Number 1, so I don't know whom to believe. I get viewpoints every day, so even if I had to believe one of them, the answer would be very difficult for me.

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