Twitter horror at reports of Shah Rukh Khan, 49, romancing Alia Bhatt, 22: She looks like his daughter

The new couple in town Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt

Staff correspondent, August 19, 2015, NewsCrunch

Filmmaker Karan Johar announced on Wednesday evening that superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt would be starring in Gauri Shinde’s next movie, which is yet to be named.

The film will be co-produced  by Karan Johar along with Red Chillies Entertainment owned by Shah Rukh Khan.

There is no information on  what the movie would be about and if Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt would romance each other, though several media reports suggested as much.

The information did not go down well with either Shah Rukh Khan or Alia Bhatt fans - there was near consensus that if the reports proved to be right, the movie would be a casting disaster.

At 49, Shah Rukh Khan is almost twice as old as Alia Bhatt and many said she would be better off playing his daughter.

Twitter response to Shah Rukh Khan romancing Alia Bhatt in next movie

Karan Johar wanted to cast Harshaali wid SRK but in the screen test, she cudn"t utter anything except "MAMA" so he went ahead wid Alia :P

— Gustakh Nigaah❤ (@SarcastiCharm) August 19, 2015

SRK -Baby lets do a movie like Bajrangi Bhaijaan Karan-Yes please darling SRK - Find a little girl like Harshaali Karan - *Brings Alia*

— Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (@SalmansSoldier) August 19, 2015

SRK will do a film with Alia.. and its title is Veer Uncle - Zaara Baby

— funny sunny (@dhaikilokatweet) August 19, 2015

Balki Sir directed Paa. His Wife Gauri Shinde will direct "Grandpaa" wid SRK and Alia. Ofcourse Karan will be producing it.

— Gustakh Nigaah❤ (@SarcastiCharm) August 19, 2015

SRK Alia pairing got me like pic.twitter.com/UJaVpQWH8v

— Reshma ♔ (@Tabather_S) August 19, 2015

SRK's age - 49 My Dad's age - 50 Alia's age - 22 My age - 21 DYU SEE HOW WRONG THIS IS?! WTF BOLLYWOOD? GO HOME, YOU'RE DRUNK ✋🏼

— Ranveer's Bae (@LilMiss_Sana) August 19, 2015

Presenting the Exclusive First Look of Dharma's next, *ing SRK and Alia Bhatt. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/DYMb72CypP

— Hrithik's Sniper (@HrithiksSniper) August 19, 2015

Neither Srk fans happy nor Alia fans lol @karanjohar sir kya kar diya sir? 😂

— Jigisha (@Kanhajigi) August 19, 2015

SRK & ALIA 😒😂 pic.twitter.com/8L4EZCFEhk

— Sheetal Dhawan♥ (@Sheetal_dhawan) August 19, 2015

SRK-ALIA hahaha wtf seriously? Even Deepika looks like hiz daughter, Alia toh Grand daughter lagegi. :p @karanjohar

— *BAJRANGI 600Cr* (@being_tiger_) August 19, 2015

Alia is old enough to be SRK's daughter man it's gross that she's romancing him this is so gross

— Ras (@chaandaniya) August 19, 2015