You will have to use your imagination for these! Or rather, your memory. I’ll describe, and if you don’t remember it, I think that means you need to go back and watch the movie.
The Train Station Good Bye in DDLJ
This is the moment I fell in love with him! When he is saying goodbye to engaged Kajol and knows he is in love with her but also knows she is engaged and it would make it harder for him if he actually expressed his feelings. So instead, all he does is shake his head and say “no” when she invites him to her wedding. And his face, his body language, everything about the moment says “I love you, I can’t watch you marry someone else” without ACTUALLY SAYING IT. Without putting her in a position where she has to acknowledge his feelings and manage them. It’s so many layers of love, and performance, and I love it.
The Kiss in Jab Harry Met Sejal
The kiss itself is good, but the moment just before and after is good too. Shahrukh is watching Anushka as she talks, reading her feelings, waiting for her to be ready. Then he kisses her, taking control but gently, and then backing off. He sits looking nervous waiting for her response, it’s not about how he felt it’s about how she felt. And when she pops up and gives him the thumbs up, there is such relief and love in his reaction, so selfless.
The final confrontation in Fan
Fan has a lot of really great scenes, but the one I keep coming back to is at the end when Shahrukh and Shahrukh have finished their fight and chase and are both out of breath on a rooftop. Aryan Shahrukh tries to talk down Gaurav Shahrukh, telling him to appreciate what he has, think of his parents. And somehow, although it’s not part of his character’s story, we know that Aryan Shahrukh lost his parents young and would give anything to be Gaurav. It’s this amazing flip of the script conveyed just through performance, not dialogue. Gaurav wishes to be Aryan, but Aryan desperately wants to go back to being Gaurav, just an average Delhi boy with loving living parents.
Don 1, Killing Roma’s Brother
This is SUCH a good scene that it maybe damaged the franchise. It’s the first time we see Don be truly Evil, not “fun evil” with crazy fight scenes, but just cold and BAD. He goes up to his friend/employee, reveals that he knows he is betraying him, and with just a slight twist of his face shifts into murder. Then kills him like he is just doing a nasty chore.
K3G, Marrying Kajol
This is a perfect marrying of editing and performance. SRK has come to break up with his girlfriend and instead walks into her father’s funeral. And he makes a split second decision to marry her and take care of her and her sister, instead of abandoning her at the worst time of her life. His face shifts from sad troubled young man to decision and confidence and he walks across and puts his hand on her head.
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How could you not mention the water scene in Swades? It is so good !
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I always get distracted because he STOLE THAT LITTLE KIDS CUP!
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No, you look at his beautiful emotional eyes and you forgot about the cup 😦
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🤣🤣🤣
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No those are disposable cups!! Kulhad made out of clay!!!
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The scene that turned me into an SRK fan was when Anushka asks him to be his girlfriend in JHMS, and his face shakes in emotion. Now I had only seen two or three of his movies previous to this, I didn’t know that the shaky face thing was an old standby of his for showing emotion, and I certainly didn’t know that compared to his youth his shaky face scene in JHMS was restrained. Fresh eyes I had. And I was blown away.
The Kuch Kuch Hota Hai dance under to pergola in the rain, when he smiles to himself at the luck and craziness of falling for his old best friend. And his eye expression change as he realizes she is truly upset.
The eyes talking, without words, between him and Juhi Chawla in Yess Boss, when she is drunk and he is trying to sober her up, and she is realizing she is in love with him and he is realizing she is realizing her feelings.
The song in Yes Boss, when he is trying to stop a Juhi from leaving drunk with his boss, so that he pretends he is joking but is really singing his feelings.
On the couch with Anushka in JHMS when he tells her she should leave because he is going to lose control. Of course if it weren’t for all the previous sexual tension built up that probably wouldnt’ mean much, but the way the movie if filmed, it means a lot.
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I was thinking there was probably a scene in Yes Boss! But I couldn’t think of the details. I just knew that performance was one where his acting went deeper than the script.
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Agree with all your scenes, but Don. I would substitute Paheli when Shah Rukh tells Rani he assumed her husband’s body.
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What’s amazing about the train station scene is that it was his improvisation, different from the script!!
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I love how short but poignant you described each one of these scenes (I could literally see them play out in my head, while reading through them). I hope you make another ranking of Top Shah moments cause those blog entries always make me want to go back and rewatch movies I might not have given the love they deserved the first time around. I would also say that especially the moment in K3G in which Rahul makes him promise to Kajol and therefore breaks all his previous ones with his father is one of the most moving film scenes that I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s the biggest sacrafice to his devotion for his love but also the moment Rahul becomes the head of his own family empire and becomes a man. I think though the moment that made ME fall in love with Shah was either his diary monologue to Naina in KHNH or his little interaction with Tina infront of the temple in KKHH; he’s just so adorable in that scene!
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