Shah Rukh Khan travelled across the world but deliberately kept Kashmir off his list for years because of a promise he had made to his father. His father, whose mother was Kashmiri, had once asked him to visit three places in his lifetime, Istanbul, Italy and Kashmir. But while Shah Rukh could visit the first two without him, his father wanted him to see Kashmir with him.
His father died early, and Shah Rukh held on to that wish. Even when friends invited him to Kashmir and his family visited the Valley on holidays, the actor chose not to go. He said he had travelled extensively around the world but could not bring himself to visit Kashmir without his father.
