Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan sheds his Casanova image for a new film, basing his character on a middle-aged man he met while hosting a popular game show on Indian television.

Khan, who turned 43 on Sunday, has mostly played the young romantic lead in a career spanning nearly two decades and 60 films.

But for filmmaker Aditya Chopras Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Khan casts off his designer suits and jeans to play a bespectacled government employee in ill-fitting trousers.

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