“It’s not just simple entertainment. I’m a memory from home, though I’m not a memory,” Khan tells TIME. “The diaspora made me the star I am.”

Shah Rukh Khan credits his Met Gala look to designer Sabyasachi, as he attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibition.

The global superstar is going “a little bit rapper” for his first gala appearance. He may never come back, but he’s here now.