Shah Rukh Khan Has Done Only Four Romantic Films According To Aditya Chopra, Actor Feels All Films Have A Love Story

Shah Rukh Khan is known to be one of the most romantic actors of our generation. Just pick up any film of the actor and more than anything else, it is just romance that exudes from the man. It is weird that it happens but there’s no denying it.

Take one of his very early film Kabhie Haan Kabhie Naa for that matter, even though he jumps around and behaves like a jester throughout the movie, the film remains one of his most romantic roles till date. The fact that Sunil (his character in the film) has so much love for Anna played by Suchitra Krishnamurthy and yet she constantly friend zones him much to his chagrin and dismay. Anna, on the contrary, has the hots for his friend also his arch-rival Chris and yet he is unable to do anything about it, the lovelorn Sunil just hangs around her house just for some attention.

It could also be a Darr where he is madly and obsessively in love with Kiran, so much so that he does away with everything that comes in between but ultimately loses to providence. Even in this violent film, the streak of romance is so apparent that it overshadows the protagonist (SRK being the villain of course).

It was during one of our exclusive conversations with the superstar when Zero released that he said, people taking him to be a romantic hero was actually a misconception! “You know it’s a misnomer that I have done a lot of romantic films. One day Adi (Aditya Chopra) was sitting with me and he counted that I must have done only four romantic films. Typically, romantic. Be it Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai so on and so forth. I guess it’s how you think romance. I don’t think there is any Hindi film which is made without romance. All films have a love story. It could be between a man, a woman, it could be between the man and the country, it could be a man and the sports team. There are love stories. Somewhere down the line the compartmentalization of an actor who has been working for 25 to 30 years is important because you need to give him some kind of a recognisable factor, so Dilip Saab (Dilip Kumar) is a ‘tragedy king’, Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan) is the ‘angry young man’. Because I have been working for so long and in no which way comparing myself to those two greats but you just get a nickname, Salman (Khan) is ‘Bhai’.

“It’s easier for you to describe a feeling that you have invested in those actors initially of what you liked them essentially for. But doesn’t mean that’s all they stand for. For me, personally, I am not a very romantic person. For me personally, some of the things that I do personally as romance is mainly just being a medium to the writer and the director who really feel that.

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