Shah Rukh Khan Birthday: 5 Roles We Wish King Khan Played More Often

Shah Rukh Khan, often called the King of Bollywood, turned 57 years old on November 2, 2022. The actor, who spend over three decades in the Hindi film industry and even more since he appeared on screen, is loved by millions mostly for his romantic hero roles as Raj or Rahul. His charm and way of romancing in films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hain, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Dil Toh Pagal Hain, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Mohabbatein, and Veer Zara, among several others remain unmatched still.

Millennials are hopeless romantics and single in the hope of searching the perfect SRK romance in their real lives. However, the actor has also often gone beyond portraying a romantic hero and has taken up negative or anti-hero roles (Darr, Baazigar, Anjaam), coach (Chak De India), gangster (Don), common man (Swades), fan (Fan) or psychiatrist (Dear Zindagi), among several others and has excelled in all of them as well.

While we often remember him as the King of romance of Bollywood, today, on his 57th birthday, here is a look back at the roles that broke the same and roles that we wanted to see him portray more often.

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Baazigar

The 1993 romantic action thriller film Baazigar was one of the first films that brought the limelight to Khan where he won millions of hearts as a villain through his performance. His portrayal of a cute romantic hero at the beginning fo the film was so convincing that when he threw one of the primary characters of the film off the roof, it came as a shock to the audience. The film and his performance made a mark in the audiences’ heart for taking up a negative role so early in the career, nailing it as it is, and once again being loved as a romantic hero later.

Swades

Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar, the 2004 Hindi drama film Swades Khan as a common man. Neither the film nor the character featured any larger-than-life hero, helicopter shots, romancing with silk saree-clad heroines in snow-clad mountains. The film featured Khan as a simple man who intended and worked hard to bring a change in the society he belonged to. The film has edged its name in the fans’ hearts for the character’s simplicity and subtlety.

Chak de India!

Chak De India! is one of the most talked about sports drama films in Bollywood which portrayed Khan as the coach of India’s National Women’s Hockey team, Kabir Khan. The film spoke about several societal issues existing in sports including sexism, religious hatred, politics and the rural-urban divide, among others. Khan’s nuanced portrayal of a subtle, simple, and emotional sports lover and his deep-rooted passion for Hockey won hearts like never before. Fans still have his yeh sattar minute (these 70 minutes) monologue by heart.

My Name Is Khan

The 2010 Karan Johar directorial, My Name Is Khan, portrays Khan as an autistic person with Asperger syndrome. The film dealt with topics of autism, and Islamophobia in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack. His nuanced portrayal of Rizwan Khan with a perfect amount of warmth and kindness without evoking any kind of sympathy among the audience is what sat well and regained his fans’ faith in his acting.

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Dear Zindagi

While we see such less variety in characters when it comes to Bollywood actors in their 50s other than romancing actors half their age, Khan portrayed the role of a psychiatrist of his age in the 2016 Alia Bhatt starrer Dear Zindagi. The coming-of-age film deals with mental health where Khan is a free-spirited psychologist with an interesting take on love and life that connected well with the Millenials and Gen Z.

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