The Siddharth Anand film's last schedule kicked off in Goregaon with an action block for Shah Rukh Khan, and a fresh song featuring Suhana is being shot at Film City ahead of the December 24 release.
King is down to its last stretch of filming, and the Mumbai schedule that kicked off on October 11 in Goregaon suggests Siddharth Anand's team is racing the calendar to hit a December 24, 2026 theatrical date.
According to a Mid-Day report cited by Bollywood Mascot, Shah Rukh Khan moved to a studio in Andheri East from October 12 for an action sequence, part of what's described as the film's remaining stunt work. A source told Mid-Day the unit was aiming to wrap the action portions by mid-October. Once that's done, Anand is expected to turn his attention to something newer: a song featuring Suhana Khan.
A song late in the game
Adding a dance number this close to a scheduled release is unusual, and it points to the makers still fine-tuning how the film comes together on screen. The track is reportedly being shot on a large set at Film City, with choreographers Piyush Bhagat and Shazia Samji working on it. No details on the music or the visual treatment have been released yet.
For Suhana, this is a bigger deal than it might look on paper. She debuted on screen with Netflix's The Archies in 2023, and sharing a frame with her father in a song for a theatrical SRK release is a different kind of moment entirely. Whether the number becomes a talking point or just a few minutes of screen time, it's the first real glimpse of what the father-daughter pairing looks like in King.
The film's cast list, going by what's been reported so far, includes Deepika Padukone, Rani Mukerji, Abhishek Bachchan and Jaideep Ahlawat alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Suhana. The makers haven't confirmed the plot in any detail, and that silence has only added to the guessing game around who plays what.
Anand's track record raises the stakes
Siddharth Anand built his recent run on War and Pathaan, both big, loud, effects-heavy entertainers, and his reunion with Shah Rukh Khan after Pathaan carries that weight of expectation. Action has been pitched as one of King's central draws, and the Andheri East schedule is reportedly built around exactly that.
What happens next is fairly linear on paper: finish the stunt sequences, shoot the song, then move into the visual effects work that large-scale action films depend on. None of that is quick. Big VFX pipelines eat weeks, sometimes months, and December 24 isn't that far off the calendar.
The makers haven't put out a trailer, a teaser or even a firm promotional timeline. Mid-Day's report is the clearest picture available right now, and it suggests a production moving fast in its last weeks, not one with room to spare. Whether that translates into a polished release or a tighter-than-ideal post-production window is the question nobody outside the King unit can answer yet.
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