An extremely average year, with the top spots divided amongst the usual suspects: Shah Rukh Khan , Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, and also, John Abraham.

One of the better offerings of 2008 was Yashraj’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi ( SRK playing a seedha saadha Amritsari office-goer who turns into a dancing dude to woo his wife, Anushka Sharma), with the film’s broad brush strokes being offset by a sweetness rare in Hindi cinema.

The two wheeler, the tiffin-box packed for office lunch, the pushy colleagues showing up to check out their new bhabhiji, and the hero’s bashful decency becoming characteristics to celebrate, rather than berate: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is a film that allowed SRK yet another stab at playing the middle-class hero, a regular guy

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