Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

by Shrayana Bhattacharya

My life has always been heteronormative hell.

Weaving a human infrastructure from the fabric of friendship is costly and uncertain.

Life can often be described as the distance we travel between the people we are and the people we want to be.

Love is youthful and naïve in popular Hindi cinema. It becomes an attribute or a noun, not an action or verb, in these images.

It is an innate immutable feeling within a person catalysed by another, not a series of ever-changing interactions between two ever-changing people.

Salman protects women, Aamir teaches us, Shah Rukh sees us.