In the final decade, Shah Rukh Khan majorly did the form of experimental cinema that got here with the required business trappings and but he didn’t impress the viewers.

At the identical time, his contemporaries like Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar had been delivering big hits doing principally the same old form of mainstream business movies.

After the failure of his 2018 movie Zero, Shah Rukh Khan took a break from movies and returned with bang in 2023 with the spy motion thriller Pathaan and adopted it up with the mass motion entertainer Jawan.

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Both these movies grew to become all-time grossers incomes over Rs 1000 crore on the worldwide field workplace. Going by the enterprise of those movies, it’s protected to imagine {that a} majority of individuals cherished Shah Rukh Khan – the motion star.

But, there have been additionally a lot of people who criticised these movies and Shah Rukh Khan for doing excessive cinema.

I got here throughout a lot of social media posts on X and Reddit calling out Shah Rukh Khan and asking him to do some significant or hatke kinda movies.

One consumer wrote, “SRK shouldn’t try to be another Salman Khan” as a result of he needs to do extra field workplace oriented movies.

Another consumer wished SRK to do extra “meaningful cinema” and never the same old masala entertainers like Pathaan and Jawan.

There had been a number of feedback echoing related sentiments in the previous couple of months.

Interestingly, after the excessive on testosterone motion movies, Shah Rukh Khan was prepared with a significant social dramedy, Dunki directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

Dunki launched on December 21 to good response however not as nice as his earlier two movies Pathaan and Jawan.

In 7 days of its launch, Dunki has hit Rs 305 crore on the worldwide field workplace.

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Now, the quantity isn’t any method close to dangerous however to provide you context, on the similar time, Pathaan had made Rs 634 crore and Jawan collected Rs 660.03 crore, globally.

And it isn’t even concerning the field workplace, this truly implies that not as many individuals went to observe “content-driven” Dunki as they did senseless motion entertainers like Pathaan or Jawan. Both these movies hit over 3 crore and three.5 crore footfalls, respectively, in India whereas, Dunki will barely hit 1.5 to 2 crore by the tip of its run.

Post-pandemic, the drama style is taken into account lifeless and that’s the rationale a lot of the huge stars at the moment are doing these hardcore mass motion movies. And it’s not nearly numbers, however the stardom as properly.

Looking on the collections of Dunki, the hypocrisy of the Indian viewers has been uncovered. While people wished SRK and different stars to do significant cinema as a substitute of motion movies, the numbers inform a special story.

Even although Dunki is heading in the direction of successful standing attributable to its comparatively decrease price range, the numbers don’t appear to be as encouraging to Shah Rukh Khan – the superstars as they had been together with his motion movies.

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After Dunki, SRK will subsequent do Sujoy Ghosh’s motion thriller The King co-starring his daughter Suhana Khan.

And it appears unlikely that he’ll once more attempt a non-action or non-masala entertainer in close to future.

As for the viewers, I’m positive there will probably be people who’ll once more criticise him for not doing romantic or drama movies and but received’t go to theatres when such movies are made.

This solely proves that we get the movies we deserve!