With many people finding Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman's Commonwealth Games theme song disappointing, the Organising Committee is exploring if Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan can liven up the opening ceremony on October 3.

The theme song did not impress the Group of Ministers (GoM) before whom it was presented in Gurgaon on Sunday. Still the GoM chose to clear it, wanting Rahman to improve upon it and asking the OC to get something more for the inaugural function.

SRK has not yet been approached, but if he agrees to perform dropping a shooting engagement abroad for Don 2, it will be yet another instance of Shah Rukh stepping into Amitabh Bachchan’s shows: Big B had taken the stage to sing the song "Swagatam Shubha Swagatam" during the Asian Games in Delhi in 1982.

A news agency quoted SRK stating that “I have not been asked to lead any aspect of the Commonwealth Games from my line of work, to do a dance to promote it, but if I were asked, I would have done it.”

Another name in the reckoning for the purpose, if SRK cannot get shifted his shooting schedule, is that of Akshay Kumar, whose name will be acceptable to the ruling Congress any day than someone suggest calling Bachchan: Askhay is son-in-law of former Congress MP Rajesh Khanna.

But on that count, SRK will be more favourable as he not only comes from a traditional Congress family but he is also close to Sonia Gandhi's children -- Rahul and sister Priyanka Vadra.