Yesterday, a message from a friend put me in as one would say an absolute “dharam sankat”. “Are you free tomorrow? Do you want to watch Pathaan? “ . The question lit up my eyes, the fan girl in me wanted to jump with joy. However the middle aged 45 plus me took a moment to react, what if there is violence ? Do I tell my husband who forever tries to “keep me from getting into trouble”? He would surely kill me, my inner voice tried to tell me.
However in the end, the fan girl won and I gave my consent, trying to rope in others.”Marna hai tou group mei marte hai” I thought. Firstly it might save me from the “wrath” of my loved ones and that way I won’t feel guilty alone in heaven. Besides I will have a group to gossip the box office outcome of Pathaan. We can even continue watching the movie as ghosts if the death takes place before the climax. No SRK movie is complete without the post movie girly gossip. So the risk seemed worth taking. The only question now is `will we get tickets'.
Pathaan release seems to have just taken me back to my journey of Shahrukh Khan. Like millions of girls like me, SRK happened to me when I was in class seven or eight with the release of Fauji- He must surely hate it when middle aged women like me tell him `we have grown up seeing your movies'. Even if we have, he will always look ten years younger.
So coming back to Shahrukh and I.
Once upon a time I believed he was the best thing that happened to India, Mumbai, Bollywood and ofcourse me. Since his fauji days, I lived and loved his sense of humour/ wit, his language, his courage and his intelligence. I was a teenager who like thousands of girls my age t was crazy about everything he did, every line he spoke. He was the perfect boyfriend, husband, brother, son, citizen, human being.

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