New Delhi: The internet is having a meltdown. Filmmaker Siddharth Anand decided to gift fans the ultimate surprise on Shah Rukh Khan’s 60th birthday. He unveiled the much-awaited first look of King. And chaos has ensued.
The timelines are flooded, fans are screaming in all caps, and the ‘#HappyBirthdaySRK’ has set X on fire.
The one-minute-11-second title reveal video is pure adrenaline. It’s as if Pathaan and Jawan had a baby, Don was its godfather, and the whole thing was injected with a double shot of steroids. That’s King for you.
Khan looks dangerous and, more importantly, super cool. His white hair, the look that broke the internet from Poland, finally makes sense. The legend is owning his 60, and fans can’t get over it.
Even Shashi Tharoor agrees. In an X post wishing Khan on his birthday, he said that SRK is ageing in reverse.
“I predict by the time he hits his “70th” birthday, he’ll be auditioning for teenage roles. Mercifully, I don’t expect to be around when he turns into a child star,” Tharoor wrote.
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Intense, edgy, lethal
With King, it appears that Khan has bid adieu to the charming lover boy we have grown up swooning over. He is intense, edgy, and absolutely lethal. The video ends with him saying, “Dar nahi, dehshat hoon (I’m not fear, I am terror).”
Anand dropped the trailer reveal on X with a one-word caption, “King”.
For Instagram, he used a line from the video. “Sau deshon mai badnaam, duniya ne diya bas ek hi naam — King (Wanted in 100 countries, the world has given me only one name),” read the caption.
The background score is composed by Anirudh Ravichander, and it is in perfect sync with Khan’s menacing vibe.
King marks the reunion of Anand and Khan after the 2023 mega-hit Pathaan. The film is also Khan’s first-ever on-screen collaboration with his daughter, Suhana Khan. The star cast also includes Rani Mukerji, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, and Abhishek Bachchan in pivotal roles.
While the release date hasn’t been made official yet, King will likely hit theatres mid-2026.
(Edited by Prasanna Bachchhav)