Actor Shah Rukh Khan has revealed that he needs to do a movie like Leon: The Professional and painting the character of an ‘older, very intense and quiet man’, with a gray beard and matching hair. In a latest interview, Shah Rukh additionally spoke about his upcoming venture Pathaan saying that it’s the motion movie he ‘got here right here to do 32 years in the past’ and hopes he’ll ‘carry it off’ at 57. He additionally joked that he’s ‘Batman at evening, Superman within the morning, and Spider-Man within the afternoon’. (Also Read | Shah Rukh Khan was at his wittiest greatest as he responded to fan’s query on Pathaan trailer launch date)
Leon: The Professional (1994) is a French action-thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman. The plot centres on Leon, an expert hitman, who reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando after her household is murdered.
Talking about his bucket listing, Shah Rukh Khan mentioned on Scoop with Raya, “I want to do everything. I want to do good guys, bad guys, mean guys, happy guys, loving guys, fighting guys. This year has been very interesting because I have done Pathaan, which is the action film I came here to do 32 years ago. So, hopefully, at 57 I still look like I’ll carry it off. I have done a film, which I always wanted to try the south Indian genre. It’s a different set of doing. It’s called Jawan. And then I always wanted to work with Rajkumar Hirani. You know we have been trying to work since 3 Idiots & Munna Bhai MBBS. So, finally, that’s happening.”
He additionally mentioned, “After this, I want to do a film like Leon: The Professional. Not Leon but a film like where I am older, quiet guy, very intense with a grey beard & grey hair. I don’t know. I am very playful about it. I don’t take the characters and roles that I do. I just want to tell a story, somebody has the desire to tell. And I want to tell it to the best of my capabilities. So, if a director has a story and says this is what we love, I will say, I also love it. Now let me try and make it the best that I can for you. So, I enjoy it. I am Batman at night, Superman in the morning & Spider-Man in the afternoon. So, I just want to play all kinds of characters.”
Pathaan, helmed by Siddharth Anand, is an motion thriller that options Deepika Padukone and John Abraham alongside Shah Rukh. The movie is all set to hit the theatres on January 25, 2023. Apart from this, Shah Rukh may also be seen in Atlee’s upcoming action-thriller Jawan with Nayanthara. He additionally has director Rajkumar Hirani’s subsequent Dunki reverse Taapsee Pannu.