India, July 16 -- That Shah Rukh Khan has been the most influential and impactful personality in Hindi cinema over the last three decades is not up for debate. The actor has consistently given the biggest box office hits and helped increase the reach of Hindi films overseas with his superstardom. Since his meteoric rise in the early 90s, it almost seems like SRK has never seen a lean phase. But there have been a few misses amid his hits. The biggest of them all was a box office bomb so colossal that it crippled distributors for years.

In 1995, Shah Rukh Khan was riding a wave of success. He had starred in two blockbusters in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Karan Arjun, and also delivered a semi-hit in Guddu. Ram Jaane had also become a h...