Shahrukh & Son

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:34:21 +0000

Shahrukh Khan is arguably among the most famous living Indians who happens to be a Muslim. He began his dizzying rise in Bollywood playing characters mostly named Rahul and Raj and clearly like all popular actors, his religious origins presumably were not a top of the mind factor, with the viewing public and the actor himself. But in the highly communalized age that we now live in, individuals in the public eye who happen to be Muslim are sought to be reduced to merely the sum of their religious origins. On a personal note, I always considered myself an Indian journalist. To digress into an anecdote, recently a British TV reporter posed a question asking me what it felt like to be a Muslim journalist. I replied by asking him if people ask him what it felt like to be a Christian journalist.