''You don't know who you're dealing with here! This is KHAN! "The
Tom Cruise of India", "the
Brad Pitt of Bollywood", the Shia Labeouf of Mumbai, the Topher Grace of New Delhi, the dude from
Twilight of Calcutta!"
I'm the king of Bollywood! I can do whatever I want! (But I won't do that)
Also called
SRK or
King Khan by those in the know. Chances are, if you've heard of Bollywood, you've heard of SRK. Maybe in a newspaper article calling him
Bollywood's
Tom Cruise or
Harrison Ford, as in the page quote, but none of those descriptions can capture the mystique, the appeal, the popularity of the man himself (
of course, he does have his share of detractors).
Famous for playing endearing
manchildren who mature due to the
the love of a good woman, but he does get some range in now and again by playing the
Stalker with a Crush (
Darr,
Anjaam,
Dil Se), Buddhist Emperors (
Asoka),
Super Coach to the Indian women's hockey team (
Chak De India), and the eponymous
Complete Monster in
Don.
Forms a very popular onscreen jodi with
Kajol and
Madhuri Dixit.
Notable Films:
Provides examples of the following tropes:
- Almost Kiss: Refuses to kiss his costars (reportedly) out of respect for his wife.
- Anguished Declarationof Love: You cannot have a Shah Rukh Khan movie without one of these.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest
- The Charmer: Used most famously in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge where he charms not only his love interest, but also her entire extended family including his girlfriend's future-in-laws of her arranged marriage that was being forced on her by her father and gets her father in the end to accept him as his son-in-law.
- True in Real Life as well with his leading ladies (though their husbands don't seem to mind).
- Fanservice. All the time. More specifically Wet Dhoti Scenes.
- Love Hurts
- Love Makes you Crazy
- Psychopathic Manchild: Before he became famous as a chocolate hero, he was known for his villainous roles which were almost always in this mold.
- The Power of Love
- Puppy-Dog Eyes. Boy howdy.
- Stalker with a Crush: He plays this in almost all his early movies. Either women he falls in love with return his love and he becomes endearing or in a darker movie, he becomes a psychopath.
- Verbal Tic: He's famous for his stutter. He also has a famous line reading from the movie Darr where his character stutters out the name of the heroine whom he is stalking. "K-k-k-k-kiran!"
- Stroke the Beard: He regularly strokes the hair on his head in each and every movie.
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