Shah Rukh Khan confirms King with Sujoy Ghosh; says doing action is 'difficult'

Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed his next big project, King. On Saturday (Aug 10), the Bollywood actor was honoured with the Pardo Alla Carriera award at the Locarno Film Festival 2024.

During a live interaction at the festival, SRK finally talked about his next action project, which will reportedly star his daughter Suhana Khan.

Spilling beans about his fourthcoming project, Khan talked about the challenges of doing action films.

“Action is difficult, you have to practice it learn it and there are doubles doing some of the dangerous stunts. I have some wonderful guys. But 80% you have to finally do it yourself if you have to sell it truthfully. Otherwise, it doesn’t look right,” he shared.

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Adding further, the Pathaan actor went on to confirm his next film, King, with director Sujoy Ghosh, and said that he will be losing weight for action sequences.

"The next film that I'm doing King, I have to start working on it. (I have to) Lose some weight, and stretch a little so my groin doesn't get caught when I'm doing action. It's painful and hurtful. I have a bag full of icing machines. So you keep doing it.''

Elaborating further, SRK told the festival's artistic director Giona A Nazzaro at the session, "It's the worst thing to see me on sets after action. I look really cool in the film. After that I'm tired, somebody is pressing my back, I can't walk, and then suddenly you see people, and you give flying kisses.''

Shah Rukh, 59, further added that now he wants to do films that are relevant to his age, and it's the same idea that he told his director Ghosh. 

"There are certain kinds of films that I want to do, maybe it’s more age-centric and I have wanted to try something since six-seven years. I've been thinking about it and I mentioned it to Sujoy one day while we were sitting. He works with us at our office, he’s made some films for us. He said, 'Sir, I have a subject'," he recalled.

Khan also revealed that he will wrap up the filming of King in 2025. 

No official information has been released as of now. However, as per several inside sources, the movie will go on floors in November this year. 

The movie will mark Khan's daughter Suhana's big-screen debut. The film also stars Abhishek Bachchan as an antagonist.