Until three days ago I had never heard of Shah Rukh Khan. Then I saw a TikTok of Hassan Minhaj and Vir Das trying to explain him to Americans, which triggered a hyperfixation, which led to me watching this, and now he is my god.
If you don’t know, Shah Rukh Khan is the biggest movie star in India and arguably the world in terms of number of fans. Think of how big Michael Jackson was in 1983. Shah Rukh Khan is like that for movies in India, but bigger. Prior to this movie, he had been known almost exclusively as a romantic comedy star. Then he took a five year break from acting and at 56 years old returned to screens as an absolutely shredded action star. This movie became the highest grossing Bollywood film of all-time in India for approximately six months until it was overtaken by another Shah Rukh Khan action movie lmao.
After watching this, I totally get it. SRK as he is known is so fucking charismatic it practically burns through the screen. He is funny, romantic, badass, and totally self-aware. He has the most incredible head of hair you’ve ever seen, and he legit does not look 56. You’d think he was 36.
As for the actual plot of this movie, I don’t even know how to describe it other than to say it is the fifth installment of a universe of interconnected spy films. Except until this movie the spy films were not actually connected. They decided to connect four previous totally separate movies into one universe and they used this movie to do it. So the whole first 90 minutes is a series of elaborate time jumps to explain this universe and connect all the pieces together. The last hour I just rips off Mission Impossible - Fallout (complimentary). A bad guy is unleashing a plague in Kashmir and SRK and his merry crew have to stop it.
The plot is implausible, the set pieces are insanely over the top, and the CGI is laughable by Western standards (but apparently top notch for India). His female costar is one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen and their chemistry threatens to burn the sets to the ground. Mercifully there are only two musical numbers, one woven into the story well enough as not to be distracting and the other reserved for the end credits. But it’s all so much fucking fun and SRKs star power is so immense I found totally swept away. A sequel is in development. I could watch 10 more.
Long live the King.
Until three days ago I had never heard of Shah Rukh Khan. Then I saw a TikTok of Hassan Minhaj and Vir Das trying to explain him to Americans, which triggered a hyperfixation, which led to me watching this, and now he is my god.
If you don’t know, Shah Rukh Khan is the biggest movie star in India and arguably the world in terms of number of fans. Think of how big Michael Jackson was in 1983. Shah Rukh Khan is like that for movies in India, but bigger. Prior to this movie, he had been known almost exclusively as a romantic comedy star. Then he took a five year break from acting and at 56 years old returned to screens as an absolutely shredded action star. This movie became the highest grossing Bollywood film of all-time in India for approximately six months until it was overtaken by another Shah Rukh Khan action movie lmao.
After watching this, I totally get it. SRK as he is known is so fucking charismatic it practically burns through the screen. He is funny, romantic, badass, and totally self-aware. He has the most incredible head of hair you’ve ever seen, and he legit does not look 56. You’d think he was 36.
As for the actual plot of this movie, I don’t even know how to describe it other than to say it is the fifth installment of a universe of interconnected spy films. Except until this movie the spy films were not actually connected. They decided to connect four previous totally separate movies into one universe and they used this movie to do it. So the whole first 90 minutes is a series of elaborate time jumps to explain this universe and connect all the pieces together. The last hour I just rips off Mission Impossible - Fallout (complimentary). A bad guy is unleashing a plague in Kashmir and SRK and his merry crew have to stop it.
The plot is implausible, the set pieces are insanely over the top, and the CGI is laughable by Western standards (but apparently top notch for India). His female costar is one of the most beautiful women I’d ever seen and their chemistry threatens to burn the sets to the ground. Mercifully there are only two musical numbers, one woven into the story well enough as not to be distracting and the other reserved for the end credits. But it’s all so much fucking fun and SRKs star power is so immense I found totally swept away. A sequel is in development. I could watch 10 more.
Long live the King.
