The Longest Shot: Coronavirus Puts On Hold Shah Rukh Khan’s Triumphal Re-entry

Shah Rukh Khan has not signed any movie after his 2018 Christmas release 'Zero' flopped. The Bollywood Badshah is unlikely to release a movie this year due to the coronavirus pandemic

By Giridhar Jha

May 18, 2020

Hero’s Zeroes

2016 FAN

2017 Jab Harry Met Sejal

2018 Zero

Since then no movie has been released so far

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#WeWantAnnouncementSRK@iamsrk if you don’t announce your next on 1st January I will sucide I repeat I will suicide..#ShahRukhKhan

#WeWantAnnouncementSRK@iamsrk, if you do not announce on January 1, I will cut my penis#ShahRukhKhan

Behold the tweets above: slick with idolatry, sick with the madness of obsession and self-love, pitiful in its lack of agency. Yet such is the stuff of Bollywood fandom—a total saturation in its unique weave of dreams enabled by a more than willing suspension of disbelief.

A few hours before 2019 drew to a close, #WeWantAnnoucementSRK began trending globally on Twitter, with legions of Shah Rukh Khan...