Shah Rukh Khan has turned 60 today, and like all the birthdays that come attached with a zero, six oh comes with its own weight, and reckoning.

Even as the mighty machinery of his fandom is on full display outside his Mumbai mansion, Mannat, it is as good a day as any to mark those significant digits of a star who has managed to stay within our sights for the past 30 years and counting.

The celebratory aspect, as with all things that occupy a sizeable chunk of our time and imagination, is bittersweet. Once upon a time, that shining star was young, and now both he and those of us who basked in that light are getting on.

That SRK came from television, gaining popularity with the Doordarshan serial Fauji , is well known. That he did theatre in his early Delhi years of school and

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