In a 2017 TED Talk, Shah Rukh Khan recalled his childhood as a simpler time where “migration was a term reserved for Siberian cranes and not for human beings”.
Khan was a child in the late 1960s and early ’70s so this may not strictly be true, but it’s the essence of his latest film – Dunki, directed by Rajkumar Hirani. He plays a messianic figure, a fauji leading a group of people across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey to their final destination of London, helping them slip over borders in search of a better life.
