2nd May 2023: Artist sushant roy creates a life size statue of Shahrukh Khan. The statue took 2 months of hardwork and its look is that of Shahrukh’s in his last outings Pathan.
Pathan was a huge blockbuster not only for Shahrukh Khan, but for the whole Bollywood industry. Just after the release of Pathan’s look fans went gaga over it and many even got inspired from it. An artist from Mohishila colony in west Bengal’s Asansol have created a lively statue of his character Pathan. Sushant have kept the statue in his personal museum in Asansol.
The statue was unveiled by the Asansol’s corporation mayor Bidhan Upadhyay and chairman Amarnaath chattopaadhyaay. Just after the unveil of the statue, crowd has been coming to see and take selfies with the life-size statue. Sushant has earlier made many wax statues of other celebs, including a life size statue of Sushant Singh Rajput, he was a fan of the Dil Bechara star and wanted to give him a tribute by making his wax figure. Shahrukh’s statue is the ninth statue he has made. He made the Pathan statue because he felt the need of a Shahrukh Khan statue in his museum as the audience who visits his museum demands to see Shahrukh’s with the other celebs.
Pathan became the biggest blockbuster in the history of Bollywood in no time and the biggest film in the careers of Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham. It felt like a much needed film in the times when the industry was facing a bad time and back to back the movies were getting flopped.
On the work front, Shahrukh Khan has an amazing line up of films including, Jawan, Rajkumar hirani’s Dunki and also a cameo in Salman Khan’s Tiger 3.