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Shah Rukh Khan is grateful to the women in his life and that includes the female directors he's worked with.

According to Indian Express, on the World Television premiere of Dear Zindagi on Zee Cinema, the actor explained that female directors provide a new aesthetic to a film and that makes his job easy.

He said, "Though I have worked with very few lady directors, I completely enjoy working with them because their sensitivity even for the same scene stems from a very different place. Being a man myself, it is difficult to sense a scene like a woman does. So it gives me a new dimension as an actor."

So far SRK has worked on three hits with Farah Khan and one with Gauri Shinde, Dear Zindagi.

"I am happy because I got to do two opposite ends of the spectrum by working with both of them [Gauri and Farah]. And I always believe that women are more conscientious and hardworking and so my work becomes easier working with them," he added.

"Both of them being women, have very different sensitivities to each scene, each line, each comment, whether it is comic or emotional. So as an actor, it gives me a dimension which is unknown to me. I don’t think like a woman, I don’t feel like a woman."

But the 51-year-old actor is not the type to box the two directors together. While he claims to learn a lot for the two, he explains that the two have very different approaches to the craft.

"Farah is an extremely in-your-face, commercial director, wants a ‘massy’ film. And she is very clear about it. If you are falling into a zone which is realistic or serious, she would say, ‘No, I don’t want. This is boring me. Let’s just make it an over the top, happy and fun film... Gauri is a far more realistic, intense and internalised kind of a director. She is the opposite spectrum of Farah as far as the kind of films both of them want to make are concerned."

Shah Rukh Khan acknowledges the capabilities of women as directors and also knows not to stereotype. How can we not appreciate that!