Who is a true Shah Rukh Khan fan? A German shows India

Close your eyes and visualise Shah Rukh Khan. What do you see? Shah Rukh standing on a bridge, a cliff or the roof of a house in a posture whose closest visual parallel would be the Vitruvian man, of course a clothed one. His eyes either closed, or he is squinting. He is also smiling to himself and singing to the sky. And there’s a song that’s immediately going to start playing in your head - Tujhe Dekha To Yeh Jana Sanam if you are a 90s SRK fan, Kuch Kuch Hotai Hai if you are the Karan Johar kind of romantic or Kal Ho Na Ho if you are sucker for tear-jerkers.

Shah Rukh Khan, for generations, was the only star that commanded hero worship. Critics panned him, stand-up comics caricatured him endlessly, but Shah Rukh’s set mannerism never failed at the box office.

Khan has predictably found many fans even outside India. One of them seems to be a German youth called Rene Lazar . Lazar, whose Twitter profile shows him peering out from behind a red rose in full Bollywood lover style, has created a video which is a frame to frame copy of the title track of Kal Ho Na Ho, with the characters replaced by Germans. Lazar himself plays Khan in it.

While Lazar looks nothing like Shah Rukh Khan, he seems to have followed Khan’s style quite closely. From the pursed-lip smile to the slight shake of the head, from the outstretched arms to the tear eyed-ness, Lazar gets most of his Shah Rukh act right.

Though he has to work on his the ‘SRK stare’ right - at times Lazar comes off looking a little creepy - the video is endearing to say the least.

Watch the video here: