Shah Rukh Khan`s only release for months now would be the long in making and dated K C Bokadia`s Bakwaas Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam with Madhuri and Salman in an age-old love triangle. Now, with Aamir Khan cornering all the glory, and SRK having had a mediocre year with flops like Asoka, he`s smarting.

So he`s gone and trimmed Asoka, it is learnt to a competitive 2 hour 10 minutes length and started promoting it in remote markets like Afghanistan, Sudan, Japan and where else? This could be the last ditch attempt to salvage a film that`s already gone down the box-office drain. Never mind. SRK has a lot to resurrect besides Asoka`s fortunes in 2002, namely his career.