Talk Asia: Pro talk show meets Shah Rukh Khan

He’s known as King Khan of Bollywood and is one of India’s most important actors and producers. This week Padmashri Shah Rukh Khan joins CNN's Talk Asia for an in-depth interview in Mumbai with host Anjali Rao.

The global superstar explains why the time has come for developing nations like India to assert themselves internationally; he discusses the furore surrounding the premier of his film "My Name is Khan"; talks about his hopes for his Kolkata Knight Riders team in this season's Indian Premier League cricket tournament and how he wants to "get so big that one day my parents from heaven can see my films."

1. His detention at Newark airport and the subsequent uproar sparked among Indian communities around the world: "We have reached a stage in India and I think rightly so, when a developing nation is on the threshold on coming out and, Inshallah, taking over the whole world in terms of economics, in terms of politics, in terms of business. I think certainly we have a voice. We’ve been pushed, all developing nations, I’m not just saying India and suddenly we have a voice in the world which matters and sometimes that voice is a little louder than it should be. So anytime anything goes wrong with Indians anywhere in the world, you notice all Indians get up."

2. His reflections on Pakistani players in the IPL, comments which also proved controversial. He tells CNN: "I didn’t think it would go this extent. Strange things were said and I said the bottom line in my country is that, there is a certain amount of freedom of speech which we also restrain unto. We are not completely outspoken, we don’t do strange things -- at least I don’t and most of the people I know don’t. So there’s freedom of speech. This was my point of view."

The main Hindu Nationalist party took Khan’s comments as a provocation, campaigning against him and threatening to disrupt the premier of his movie. "I just think it became bigger than the personal relationship that we share with them, it went onto a different platform. It just went onto a political agenda platform, onto an activist platform, onto just an issue based platform. I’m not on the same playing field. I’m an actor, I’m not a politician. So my logic was, as long as we are not on the same field, I can’t play this game with you."