Shah Rukh Khan is celebrating his 58th birthday on 2 November this year and preparations are on for a series of grand celebrations in the wake of two back-to-back thumping box-office successes, Pathaan and Jawan.
Typical of the strange idiosyncrasies of the Bollywood box office, his best films did not churn out the kind of miraculous moolah these two entirely escapist films did, making everyone in and around Bollywood happy as the films became a wake-up sign for Bollywood, symbolic of either freeing itself from the clutches of the Southern masala films or joining forces with them in a way, which Jawan has done and how!
The three feature films in which Shah Rukh stripped himself of his typically ‘Shahrukhi’ school of acting complete with mannerisms and stylisations that threw up his true potential as one of the best performers in world cinema, are Swadesh, My Name Is Khan, and Chak De India.