REVISITING SHAH RUKH KHAN'S ON-SCREEN
PATRIOTIC
AVATARS
ItIt all started for Shah Rukh Khan with
Fauji
back in the 80s when he played Lt. Abhimanyu Rai
In Yash Chopra's
Veer-Zaara
, SRK played Sqaudron leader Veer Pratap Singh with style and grace
In the same year (2004), he donned the avatar of Major Ram Sharma in Farah Khan's
Main Hoon Na
Yash Chopra gave him another character of an army officer, this time of Major Samar Anand in
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
He was India's secret agent in
Pathaan
, but his love for the nation was no secret in the film
He was just seen as army officer Vikram Rathore in the blockbuster
Jawan
In Ram Shetty's
Army
in 1996, he played an army officer who was killed on duty and his wife sought revenge