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‘It’s been 30 yrs, but the SRK of Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa is the bumbling hero our world needs’

Updated on: Feb 16, 2024, 21:59:15 IST
By Anupama Chopra
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PREMIUMThe film, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, was released after the 1993 hits Baazigar and Darr, but shot before those two. His performance has a rawness and vulnerability to it that he was rarely able to summon again.
The film, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, was released after the 1993 hits Baazigar and Darr, but shot before those two. His performance has a rawness and vulnerability to it that he was rarely able to summon again.
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The film builds an idealistic world in which there are hiccups but no disharmony, says Anupama Chopra. The star is a version of Shah Rukh we rarely see.

Thirty years ago this week, Shah Rukh Khan loved and lost. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa was released on February 25, 1994.

Shah Rukh played Sunil, a bumbling, naïve, aspiring musician in Goa who falters at pretty much everything. Year after year, he fails in class. He loves the local beauty Anna (Suchitra Krishnamoorthi), but makes a mess there too, lying to get his rival—the richer, smarter, better-dressed Chris (Deepak Tijori) out of the way.

Sunil plays in a band with

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra is the editor and founder of Film Companion.

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