For those sections of our society seeking some of kind of sadistic pleasure in Shah Rukh Khan’s prolonged agony as a distraught helpless father , the news that Aryan stays in custody for some more time must have been a cause for impromptu celebration.

However the fact that Shah Rukh is currently going through the worst crisis of his life. Is distressful for any father and fan of the actor. Close friends say he is “outwardly calm” but suffering all the more for his refusal to vent his grief and anger.

“He is neither eating nor sleeping much. Aise bhi he sleeps only a couple of hours. Now even that is gone,” a close friend of King Khan tells me.

“What King Khan?” a filmmaker who has made a major epic with Shah Rukh wonders. “At the end of the day he’s just another broken suffering helpless father.”

While earlier Shah Rukh intended to get back to work by Monday(presumably thinking that his son would be home by then) one now hears that all further work commitments have been indefinitely postponed.

Family always came first for Shah Rukh.