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This article explores the affective haptics created between star and spectators via the body of Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) in Pathaan. The screen reverberates with the cinematic materiality of his body and constructs a closeness with the viewers to revel in its spectacularity. Pathaan’s intertextuality with SRK’s stardom and the surrounding paratexts before, during and after the film’s release further deepen this spectatorial experience. The screen fairly sizzles with anti-ideological fervour via this body, resulting in an embodied and affective film experience that, rather than its diegesis, becomes the vehicle for the film’s politics.