Ahmaq/Idiot (1991) is #SRK 's first movie, directed by Mani Kaul, and never released till it landed on Doordarshan as a mini-series.

Stephen Holden of NYTimes said, "What happens on the screen often makes no sense at all," in his review, when it was screened abroad.

The film is available on YouTube, but the print/sound quality is so bad that only an ahmaq (or an SRK fan) will persist.

Waise, it was while making this film (& In Which Annie...) that #SRK got a taste of arty filmmakers and decided to sign Chamatkar, Deewana and Dil Ashna Hai.

Kaul's acting instructions amused #SRK. Kaul told him to feel his own hair as if it was not there, or think of his mother's lap for a scene, or think of himself as the seventh and not the third wave in the sea. SRK once joked about his experience in a Filmfare interview.

Ahmaq won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film in 1993.

Thankfully, #SRK had read Dostoevsky's book before agreeing to the film and remembers that more fondly than the film itself. During the shoot, he lost his mother in Delhi and decided to shift to Bombay for good.

Ek aur baat...my two bit when I ran into #SRK in a lift in Yash Raj studio.

"It could have easily turned into the kind of moment that makes for legendary drinking conversations."

But but but... https://amp.scroll.in/reel/804402/screams-and-sweat-at-trailer-launch-of-new-shah-rukh-khan-movie-fan