Khan was born and raised in capital New Delhi, where he attended a Christian missionary school and completed his graduation from the University of Delhi. The romantic hero of evergreen Bollywood love stories like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is called “King Khan” by his fans despite modest beginnings and the status of an “outsider”. “These are both young Indian men, in the public eye, whose only fault could be that they are from a certain religious background,” she says.īut Aryan is not the public figure in this case his father is. “Over the last couple of months, there has been a systematic targeting of young Muslim men in India,” Ramnathan says, noting the similarities between Aryan and Faruqui’s arrests. Faruqui spent 37 days in jail before India’s Supreme Court granted the 28-year-old stand-up comedian interim bail. “To me, they are making an example of this boy ,” she says, highlighting the case of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui, who was arrested on New Year’s Day in 2021 on the charge that he meant to make jokes that would hurt religious sentiments of Hindus. “When you find out the quantity, that bail is being denied multiple times, that there is this private detective who but has now gone missing, you’re not sure what to make of the story anymore,” Tyagi explains.įilm critic Rohini Ramnathan says “something bigger was going on”. “The whole thing started feeling fishy very soon after,” film critic Sucharita Tyagi notes. It charged Aryan with “involvement in consumption, sale and purchase" of illicit substances.ĭuring the days that followed, Shah Rukh Khan’s face - lined with worry - was splashed across media outlets in India. On 2 October, 24-year-old Aryan Khan, along with seven others, was detained by plainclothes drug enforcement agency officers while he was allegedly onboard a cruise ship for a two-day “musical voyage”.Īfter the raid, the Narcotics Control Bureau revealed it had recovered assorted illicit substances and Rs 130,000 (£1,260) from the luxury liner. Imagine the terror that spreads in the country,” she says. “You send a message that we can go after even the big guys.
“What does it say when a powerful figure is forced into this position,” Ranjani Mazumder, professor of cinema studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, tells The Independent.
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