You will have to use your imagination for these! Or rather, your memory. I’ll describe, and if you don’t remember it, I think that means you need to go back and watch the movie.
The Train Station Good Bye in DDLJ
This is the moment I fell in love with him! When he is saying goodbye to engaged Kajol and knows he is in love with her but also knows she is engaged and it would make it harder for him if he actually expressed his feelings. So instead, all he does is shake his head and say “no” when she invites him to her wedding. And his face, his body language, everything about the moment says “I love you, I can’t watch you marry someone else” without ACTUALLY SAYING IT. Without putting her in a position where she has to acknowledge his feelings and manage them. It’s so many layers of love, and performance, and I love it.
The Kiss in Jab Harry Met Sejal
The kiss itself is good, but the moment just before and after is good too. Shahrukh is watching Anushka as she talks, reading her feelings, waiting for her to be ready. Then he kisses her, taking control but gently, and then backing off. He sits looking nervous waiting for her response, it’s not about how he felt it’s about how she felt. And when she pops up and gives him the thumbs up, there is such relief and love in his reaction, so selfless.
The final confrontation in Fan
Fan has a lot of really great scenes, but the one I keep coming back to is at the end when Shahrukh and Shahrukh have finished their fight and chase and are both out of breath on a rooftop. Aryan Shahrukh tries to talk down Gaurav Shahrukh, telling him to appreciate what he has, think of his parents. And somehow, although it’s not part of his character’s story, we know that Aryan Shahrukh lost his parents young and would give anything to be Gaurav. It’s this amazing flip of the script conveyed just through performance, not dialogue. Gaurav wishes to be Aryan, but Aryan desperately wants to go back to being Gaurav, just an average Delhi boy with loving living parents.
Don 1, Killing Roma’s Brother
This is SUCH a good scene that it maybe damaged the franchise. It’s the first time we see Don be truly Evil, not “fun evil” with crazy fight scenes, but just cold and BAD. He goes up to his friend/employee, reveals that he knows he is betraying him, and with just a slight twist of his face shifts into murder. Then kills him like he is just doing a nasty chore.
K3G, Marrying Kajol
This is a perfect marrying of editing and performance. SRK has come to break up with his girlfriend and instead walks into her father’s funeral. And he makes a split second decision to marry her and take care of her and her sister, instead of abandoning her at the worst time of her life. His face shifts from sad troubled young man to decision and confidence and he walks across and puts his hand on her head.
