Film review Dear Zindagi Livemint In Dear Zindagi , Shah Rukh Khan plays Jehangir Khan Call me Jug , a Goan psychiatrist who helps the mildly disaffected Kaira Alia Bhatt with her problems . Dear Zindagi has one such explosion , but it ' s awkwardly written and exists more as an excuse for Alia to be able to do a big shouty scene . Shah Rukh Khan bears down with starry charm on the role of Jug , but his mountaineer anecdote just can ' t compare with his costar talking about herself in disguised third person earlier in the scene . I can understand the urge to present Kairaa cinematographer at the start of her careeras more than competent , but having her advise a director on how to reshoot his final scene , and his actually welcoming the suggestion is so farfetched it ' s almost science fiction . As always , it ' s the little choices she makes within scenesfiddling with the furniture , twitching her lipthat render her such a compelling actor .