With Pathaan about to complete a month of release already, the fans of Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham are celebrating how the film has been received. It is inching towards Rs. 1000 crore at the box office worldwide. However, writer Shridhar Raghavan reveals that Shah Rukh Khan was very hands-on as an actor and had many ideas for Pathaan.
In a conversation with News18, the screenplay writer of Pathaan, Shridhar Raghavan revealed how Shah Rukh Khan was living the character of Pathaan. “We went to Shah Rukh sir very early on and told him about our plan and how we want the character to shape. Thereafter, he brought more layers into it. If we brought twenty per cent to the script, he brought about eighty per cent to it. A lot of the vulnerability, humour and self-effacing trait in the character was brought in by him,” he said.
Apart from playing the lead role, SRK also made contributions in terms of character storytelling for his squad too. “He contributed a lot to the idea of a squad of people who aren’t allowed to be a part of the service anymore – JOCR. He told us that these people need not be so tough. In War (2019), the character played by Tiger (Shroff; actor) had a slight eye defect, which was crucial in the plotting. Keeping that in mind, Shah Rukh sir told us that such people can come together and form a squad,” Raghavan said.
“The humour and the idea of how Pathaan talks came from him. He also added layers and gave inputs on the scene where he’s at a hospital after failing a mission and is injured. He’s also heavily into action and so, he gave lots of suggestions pertaining to the action bits,” he added.
Turns out, Shah Rukh Khan was also making notes in his journal and had his own analyses of action films which also helped the makers with the plot and action sequences. “I hadn’t worked with Shah Rukh sir earlier. We all think of him as a romantic hero or a boy next door. But he knows the genre of action, inside and out. He had written a 1700-page document which was a study and analysis of the genre. It was a fun document,” he stated.
Pathaan released on January 25, 2023 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
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