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Why Women Love Shah Rukh Khan
Brut India
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4/18/2025
Author Shrayana Bhattacharya met countless Indian women over 15 years. They all had one thing in common.
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He always kisses the neck.
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So a lot of women would say that, you know,
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when men don't know what to do with women's bodies in bed,
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but they should learn from what Mr. Khan does,
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at least in his movies.
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In DDLJ, he's peeling carrots.
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He's not a feminist icon, but he's a female icon.
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Hello?
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Yes, Papa, Shah Rukh.
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Actually, I'm Shah Rukh Khan.
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♪♪
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They love him for the comfort, entertainment,
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and fun that he's provided them.
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Amongst women, I heard his name, Mr. Shah Rukh's name,
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much more than I heard many other actors.
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I don't think anyone has embodied romance,
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the sort of alternative masculinity, right?
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A softer, kinder, more vulnerable masculinity
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in his films, in his interviews, in his songs,
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in his performances on stage as well, more than him.
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And there are so many stories I felt that about India
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and really Indian women as well that he could tell.
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And, you know, he was our first post-liberalization superstar.
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He's ridiculously sexy,
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according to all the women that I spoke to.
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I contend that he's been making South Asian men
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feel inadequate since 1992.
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♪♪
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I realized that each time these women would talk about
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they would also immediately start talking about
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the men in their real lives.
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And in a way, his icon allowed for a safe way
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to critique masculinity, men, and very oppressive,
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interpersonal, and intimate relationships
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that these women were in.
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One of the themes that's running through the book
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is it's because they feel so disappointed
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and unloved in their real lives
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that the fantasy of Mr. Khan starts to compensate for that.
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Everyone would always point to the fact
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that he speaks so well of womanhood.
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And in his interviews, in his movies,
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there's a kind of kindness, the way he speaks to women.
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And I even interviewed lots of film critics for the book,
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and they also highlighted that it was a way of speaking
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to women that they just had never seen a man on screen
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speak like that before.
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The second was everyone would talk about
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how he was in the kitchen,
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how he was always helping women in the kitchen.
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So in DDLJ, he's peeling carrots.
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Even in his last public interview,
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the last big interview was with David Letterman.
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He was cooking for David Letterman in the kitchen.
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And then the third thing, which in fact has been mentioned
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by a few people who write about Mr. Khan,
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but I heard this time and time again,
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is that he always kisses the neck.
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So a lot of women would say that, you know,
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when men don't know what to do with women's bodies in bed,
02:52
but they should learn from what Mr. Khan does,
02:54
at least in his movies.
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And then it should hardly be surprising to any of us
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that, you know, we lap up this romantic feast
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of selflessness, right,
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that Mr. Khan's characters provide on screen.
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He's not a feminist icon, but he's a female icon.
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And the difference there is that women are drawn
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to the fact that even though he played these characters
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in the early part of his iconography,
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and I think we should be very conscious of that,
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I think, you know, there was definitely a shift
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in the latter part of his films.
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And in fact, off late, he's been doing films
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where women play such a central role, right?
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Be it a zero, be it Dear Zindagi, there are so many,
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or Chak De India for that matter.
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I think there was a big shift.
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I think women see him as a female icon for multiple reasons.
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One is, as I said, he speaks to women,
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he listens to women in the films.
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There's an acknowledging of female feelings.
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I think women really appreciated that.
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