Shah Rukh Khan put the rumour mill to rest himself on Tuesday. Fielding questions from fans during an AskSRK session on X, the actor confirmed that King is locked for December 24, no ifs, no buts.

One fan asked him to at least drop the trailer early. SRK's reply, half in Hindi, half in his usual mix of tease and reassurance: "Abhi sirf baat karunga Trailer baad mein....film is 100 days away na...24th Dec bro." Translation for the impatient: talk now, trailer later, there's still time.

In another response he was even more direct about the date itself. "Ab picture hi dekho na! Tarsa nahi raha join acchhi wali bana raha hoon....ke Dil ko tasalli mile....Sab ayega...24th Dec se pehle," he wrote, telling fans everything, first look included, will land before the film does.

The confirmation comes days after Bollywood Hungama first reported that King's release could be in flux, with chatter online suggesting the makers might push the date given how stacked the December calendar already looks. Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three both open on December 18, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day has already shown Indian audiences will turn up in numbers for a Marvel release. That's not a same-day clash with King, which lands six days later, but it does mean SRK's film enters theatres into a market that Hollywood will have already primed.

Separately, the Times of India reported that Khan has dealt with injuries during production that affected the shooting schedule, though the film stayed on track regardless. Neither Khan nor the makers have detailed what exactly happened on set. The actor, per that report, remains focused on getting the look, the action and the music right before the film reaches audiences.

King is directed by Siddharth Anand and marks Khan's action-thriller outing with Deepika Padukone and his daughter Suhana Khan also part of the cast. It has been one of the most tracked Hindi films of the year without a single official visual out yet, which says something about how much goodwill Khan is still sitting on after King Khan's recent theatrical run.

With the date locked, the pressure shifts to the marketing machine. A hundred days is not a short runway, but it's also not endless when there's no trailer, no posters, nothing beyond a superstar's tweets to go on. Expect the first proper reveal to start filling that gap soon, possibly timed around a festival weekend or a big cricket telecast, the way these things usually are. Until then, fans get Twitter replies instead of footage, and Khan seems perfectly fine with that arrangement.