Sunera Thobani is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (2007). She is editor of The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society (2022) and co-editor of States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (2010).

• Introduction1. An Improbable Star, A Global Icon2. Idealizing Indian Masculinity: Desiring the (Perfect) Man3. The Spectacular Muslim: ‘New’ India, Diaspora and the Global Order4. The Star, Self-Deconstructed 5. Rebirth of the Star: Staking a Claim on the Future6. ConclusionNotesReferencesFilmographyIndex

Sunera Thobani’s meticulously researched study of Shah Rukh Khan offers a fresh, twin perspective on religion and masculinity in more than three decades of SRK's stellar career. Thobani effortlessly combines incisive socio-political analysis with a nuanced understanding of his unfailing emotional and erotic appeal. A must read for anyone interested in the enduring power, mystique, and appeal of one of global cinema’s most captivating stars.