Another great performance by SRK! Darr is a story of obsession. Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) loves Kiran. He has loved her since college, but he has never told her. In fact, the audience later finds out that Rahul was known as a person who had been in love with a woman and no one at the college could ever find out who the woman was. Kiran is engaged to Sunil and she eventually marries him. During the engagement and marriage, Rahul stalks Kiran, annonymously professing his love. Kiran becomes more and more terrorized. Eventually, Rahul intrudes more and more into the lives of Sunil and Kiran until he is ultimately recognized by Sunil as the stalker. There are several climatic scenes wherein the two (Sunil and Rahul) are beating one another so as to win their lady love. Normally, one would think, audience loyalty would go to Sunil, the beloved of Kiran. However, in spite of Rahul's violence, mistakes, obsession, the audience sympathizes with him. When offered this role and told that the lead man would be beating him, Shah Rukh said, "Let him, every time he pastes me, they (the audience) will hate him. And love me" (Mushtaq Shiekh, Still Reading Khan, 434). So True. Go figure! How does Shah Rukh accomplish this? How does he create that sympathy in the audience for a character such as Rahul?
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