India, Aug. 14 -- Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan hit theatres in 2010 - 15 years ago. The reviews were terrible; it still has an IMdB rating of 2.8 out of 10. And yet, right now, GIFs from the movie are all over Instagram. There's one of Katrina Kaif, popcorn bucket in hand, preening as she watches herself on the big screen. An insta user has captioned it: "Me watching my own Story for the 345th time". On X, one user who goes by @limjaeseven says he's writing a thesis on Khan, and is "casually using derrida and foucault to explain tees maar khan".

Why is a popcorn movie and its avowedly popcorn director suddenly on everyone's mind in 2025? It could be that Khan - an icon of her time - might have been ahead of her time too. TMK is (as one Le...