The mystery is solved. There was never a mystery. The one-asterisk-short title of The Ba***ds of Bollywood hides the star in ba-star-ds, the ratings in reviews, and the censorious in the Censors. Whether you buy it, depends on where you stand in this chapter of Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood story.

And make no mistake, that is what it is. The outsider who is now the ultimate insider passing on the torch to son Aryan, who has to make the journey in reverse — should he choose to do so — without burning his hand. So, the father dips into his years of goodwill and, sure enough, gets the cream of Bollywood to send up a meme of Bollywood.

Nothing is sacred in Star Kid With the Mostest Aryan Khan’s debut as writer, creator and director of this Netflix series. No films are made, and all filmmaking

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