Updated On: 25 January, 2023 08:01 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
It’s SRK`s return to the big screen, in a lead role in `Pathaan`, in four years—having delivered a bunch of duds before that. You can tell how hard he’s worked for this comeback

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If you must know, the ISI (Deepika Padukone) and RAW (Shah Rukh Khan) seem to be working together in Pathaan! On what mission, exactly, at the point we meet them, first? That I won’t tell you. Not because it’d be a spoiler. But because I couldn’t tell/figure! What we do know is that unlike Ek Tha Tiger (Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan), this isn’t an Indo-Pak, inter-agency romance. Sure, sparks fly here and there—love/sex is not the action you stepped into the theatre for!
Barring the beautifully shot/composed bikini song ‘Besharam rang’, there really is no space in this picture for anything, but a series of stunt and chase sequences, starring the super-hero the film is named after. That is, Pathaan, making grand entries on every conceivable vehicle: helicopter, plane, train, truck, motor-bikes, skis, down to a wing-span attached to shoulders, so you can see, he can fly!