Pathaan’s success is India’s answer to hate, a love letter to Shah Rukh Khan

Pathaan’s success is India’s answer to hate, a love letter to Shah Rukh Khan

Pathaan ascends when Shah Rukh Khan lets his persona shine through – an aggressive actor who refuses to be drawn into the narrative of hate, and yet answering his opponents.

In the most meta moment in Pathaan, perhaps the meta-est film Shah Rukh Khan has done, he and another superstar of his era (let’s call him Bhaijaan) Salman Khan, accept their age. They are sore and aching, a strip of painkillers has exchanged hands, and both know that 30 years is enough time to establish a lasting legacy.

“Who next?” is the ‘BIGG’ Question on their minds as they dismiss one heir apparent after another.

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