The year of Shah Rukh Khan: 25 Years of Indian Cinema | Bollywood News
To say that 2023 was the year of SRK is a no-brainer. It was also the year that Bollywood proved that it wasn’t going to go under the South juggernaut which had nearly steamrolled over it in the past two years, with Kantara, RRR and KGF, coasting on their larger-than-life computer-graphics-heavy tales. January began with Pathaan, in which we were asked to tighten our seat belts: ‘kursi ki peti’ has never been as sexy. The YRF-produced, Sidharth Anand-directed spy actioner which touched down on global hotspots before whizzing off to the next destination delivered mad spoofy silly fun. Atlee’s Jawan was SRK basically showing us everything he’d got, in a father-and-son double role. It was a massy masala movie in the Atlee mould, which meant that at every turn you have scenes-and-dialogues meant for taalis-and-seetis. And of course, there was that line: bete ko haath lagaane se pehle, which brought the house down. ALSO READ: 2022 was the year Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha crashed, while Rocket Boys soared: 25 Years of Indian Cinema It …
