
Valentine's Day: Shah Rukh Khan's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is still Bollywood's definitive love story
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'Romance Like SRK' has been trending on Twitter since before midnight
'Let me see if I can do a romantic Valentine's message for you,' said SRK
SRK has shifted to counseling callow youth through romantic distress
'Romance Like SRK' uff the irony of this trend!! Let me see if I can do a romantic Valentines msg for all of u when I wake up.
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) February 13, 2017
On screen, Shah Rukh Khan is the undisputed king of romance, his victories won by battling disapproving dads and determined rivals. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge is still Bollywood's definitive love story and SRK's Raj is a happy-go-lucky charmer who, having won his beloved, sets out to woo her stern father. DDLJ was all about loving your family ahead of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Raj the dilwala with a conscience who was prepared to sacrifice his own love in the face of Baoji's implacability. In the end, as a train bears Raj away, even the formidable Baoji capitulates.

Valentine's Day: SRK's DDLJ is still Bollywood's definitive love story
SRK was similarly crippled by emotional conviction in Dil Toh Pagal Hai - not of his own ("Rahul, naam toh suna hoha") but of his beloved, who cannot bring herself to break the collective heart of the family who took took her in and raised her. Here, salvation arrived in the form of his rival who, having discovered that his fiancee was in love with another man, set out to engineer a dramatic reunion.

Valentine's Day: SRK was crippled by emotional conviction in Dil Toh Pagal Hai

Valentine's Day: SRK was twice successful in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Not only has Shah Rukh Khan often loved and almost lost, he has actually failed to get the girl many times. In the charming Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, cheerful slacker Sunil loves local belle Anna who loves Chris. Sunil, oppressed by a demanding and disappointed father, is loveably inept but essentially righteous. When the wedding ring is dropped as Anna is marrying Chris, it seems for a moment that Sunil's luck has turned. But he finds the ring and he cannot bring himself to pretend that he has not.

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