I've loved your avatar for so long and now here is the picture. Hmmm...that pic is giving me lots of ideas, really bad and mean ideas. Mwhahahaha!
But honestly SatrangiRe, I feel you.
I still care about my swee' lil kishmish, but his films aren't doing him any favors and in SRK's case he doesn't have the get-out-of-jail-free card that most B'town actors get---that is to say that he must take what he's offered if he wants to work.
SRK is the one person who is in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose any film he likes!
In his case there is just no excuse!
Now maybe because I'm older I don't totally agree that he can't play a total romantic because he's not in his bloody '20s. Only the most naive and sheltered person actually believes that only teens and 20-somethings feel love, make out, have overwhelming passions etcetera.
The problem is that Bollywood scriptwriters seem to be as naive and childish as any pre-pubescent "Belieber". They almost solely create love stories suitable for a 20 year old and seem unable to conceive of any plots that are suitable for an adult over the age of 30.
They are still working with a "first love is is the only love and lasts forever" paradigm.
Since Indian film culture seems so invested in celebrating the common and regressive male fantasies of virtual pedophilia and total control over a naif the females can ONLY be pretty, inexperienced mock children to be seen as worthy of love.
The whole pampered jewel of a rich daddy trope still has major resonance in Bolly world so when screenplay writers even think of desire they seem to think it can ONLY be directed at such a girl.
Well, really, the only male who can direct desire at a pampered child without looking really bad in modern society is a fellow child. This is SRK's downfall.
All you need to remind you of the nasty, ultimate ending of this kind of lopsided thinking is SRK's first big film Deewana where I was relieved---yes---relieved to see baby faced Divya Bharti married to the far more suitable SRK than to tubby Uncle Rishi Kapoor.
I love ya Rishi, but just...oh hell no!!!!!
I really DON'T want Bollywood's lack of respect for adult women to lead SRK into becoming a nasty joke character whose unsuitability to the heroine makes us happy to see her leave him behind.😭
If he could play a married man who is a master spy, or a charming con artist who makes women fall in love with him in order to rob them he could be romantic til the cows come home but no one is writing this sort of thing in Bollywood!
And SRK, being a needy, lonely man only wants to work with "friends" who are like "family" He can't risk being treated in an impersonally professional manner or he probably feels rejected.
Alas, his friends are a shallow, superficial, rich, pampered gay man whose artistic life seems largely informed by the latest season of Glee and Real Housewives of Hell----Dude is all about high school kids with Birkin bags basically.
Fine as far as it goes but no help at all to SRK.
Mired in an industry that can only imagine casting him opposite females in Daisy Duke short shorts, or who are basically 10 lbs of slap for every 2 lbs of woman, unless he starts commiissioning new forms of cinema that allow him to display his undeniable charm he's doomed and forced into the only options his "friends" can offer him.
Options that were always somewhat beneath his very real talent, but are now becoming ludicrous as well.
Dammit, he and I need to brainstorm about this.😆
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