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Post by elimeten on Mar 4, 2014 8:11:45 GMT -8
August 15, 1992 On the road to stardomSmall screen star Shah Rukh Khan makes it big in Bollywood after money-spinning debut Arun Katiyar December 31, 2012 | UPDATED 13:00 IST In a world of blow-dried babalog, all trying to stand as tall as Amitabh Bachchan, it's difficult to be distinguished. But with the release of his first film, the money-spinning Deewana, Shah Rukh Khan - he of the deep dimples and soulful brown eyes fame - is right up there in the spotlight, giving the winsome twosome of Bollywood, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, a run for their banners and big bucks. That's just for starters. In the months to come, Shah Rukh, who was popular as Shekharan in Aziz Mirza's TV serial Circus, will appear under some of the most enviable banners in the movie industry-from Manmohan Desai to Mani Kaul. The 27-year-old who once worked for Rs.8,000 per television episode, now reportedly commands Rs.20 lakh for every film. After the release of producer F.C. Mehra's Chamatkar and Viveck Vaswani's Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, he could very well be worth more. And what's more, he is finally beginning to enjoy the kind of work he has been doing. Recently, he finished shooting for director Ketan Mehta's Maya Memsahib and Mani Kaul's Ahmak based on Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. "Yaar," he says, laying bare his carefree air, "shooting for Mani was something else. I didn't understand the movie but I loved the art film environment: you bite into a samosa and ask yourself-Who is God? What is life? Who am I?" As of now, Shah Rukh does not identify himself with Bollywood. Nor does the possible outcome of his venture into the turbid waters of Hindi film scripts strike him with dread. "In six-and-a-half hours I became the nation's heart-throb," he says referring to the 13 episodes of Fauji that transformed him into the small screen's brand new megastar. "With that kind of exposure, even a door knob can become a star." Just as easily as fate brought him to the floors of Bombay's film studios, he says he is willing to return. But that is a remote possibility now. After spending a year taking flights up and down each week between his home in Delhi and his career in Bombay, Shah Rukh has decided to buy a flat in tinsel town for himself and his wife, Gauri. Critics are already billing him as the next great hope of an industry starved of superstars. As film and television journalist Iqbal Masud puts it: "While Salman needs a good director, Shah Rukh directs himself. In Deewana, he makes you believe a stupid story. Besides, unlike Aamir who is a youthful actor, Shah Rukh also has style." The actor himself sports a healthy scepticism. Despite the fact that he comes from the rugged training grounds of theatre and television, Shah Rukh believes he has only "five standard expressions" and must do everything within the limits of those. His directors disagree. Many think his spontaneity and nervous energy are in direct contrast to Dilip Kumar, the one actor he is accused of aping. Says Rakesh Roshan who is directing him in King Uncle with Jackie Shroff: "He has the ingredients of a cult figure. All he needs to do is keep his head on his shoulders." Hema Malini, who directs him in Dil Aashna Hai, thinks he will: "This is a bright, intelligent actor who has given me no trouble at all." Shah Rukh's insouciance probably stems from his financially secure background. Although his father died 10 years ago, his mother, who died last year, began from scratch, running both a restaurant, Khatir, and a business in Delhi. It was to get over the trauma of her death that Shah Rukh decided to keep himself busy with moviedom for a year. It's a year that promises to stretch for a long time. Half a dozen films, including Dil Aashna Hai and Aziz Mirza's directorial debut in films, Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, are on the floors. And in the ready-to-be-released Chamatkar, an incredible yarn about a ghost, he plays an adorable nerd and holds his own against the maestro, Naseeruddin Shah. His mother, who placed him on the road to stardom, would have been proud of him. It was through her real estate agent in Delhi, Kamal Deewan, that Shah Rukh got his first big-time break. Deewan's father-in-law, Colonel Kapoor, was making Fauji and was looking for actors. By this time, Shah Rukh, a dropout from his MA course in films at Jamia Millia University, had already been spotted in Barry John's Baghdad Ka Gulam, a Theatre Action Group production, by Lekh Tandon who signed him up for Dil Dariya. What was supposed to be just' an experiment' saw Shah Rukh end five long years of theatre during which he had played a range of roles, varying from a dancer to a clown. He shot the first four episodes of Fauji between the lunch breaks of DilDariya, moving from Tandon's sets at Lajpat Nagar to Kapoor's at Defence Colony. Four years later, he was wrapping up another serial, Doosara Kewal, for Tandon and stepping into his film career with Maya Memsahib. Still, nothing much seems to have changed for Shah Rukh except that several reputations now hinge on his ability to draw audiences. Although he made the professional transition from stage to television to films with ease, the trappings of glitterati are missing. He still travels in his beat-up Gypsy, lives in a home devoid of any furniture, except a computer which is his favourite toy and a pair of dumb bells with which he builds his biceps, refuses to appear at premiers of his producers' films clad in a tuxedo and keeps away from Bombay's incestuous filmi crowd. "At the end of 50 years as an actor, I would have left behind five days of films. Should I give up my family for those five days? I think I would rather enjoy the remaining 49 years and 360 days," he says. Ironically, he will place anchor in the film industry with the release of Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, in which he plays an ambitious architect. In fact, he could have been minting money just running the business his mother left behind. Instead, he has left it to his only sister, realising that his gold mine lies elsewhere. In his winning looks and enthusiastic talent. As producer and friend Viveck Vaswani says: "He can just look at the audience and they will melt." In Deewana, when he runs his hands through his hair, the audiences begin to hoot and whistle. They just love the gesture. But Shah Rukh had only done it because he didn't quite know what to do with his hands. Shah Rukh is aware of the power of pulchritude but would like to be known as more than just a pretty boy. He is convinced that audiences don't come to see his films because he is playing a hero: they come to see him. His one big desire now is to play a villain and "give the Hindi movie creep a whole new dimension". For a man who loves virtuoso actor Kamala Hasan and consciously imitates the ultimate juvenile hero, Michael J. Fox, that is a believable ambition. indiatoday.intoday.in/story/small-screen-star-shah-rukh-khan-makes-it-big-in-bollywood-after-money-spinning-debut/1/307408.html
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Post by lizzyluvsrk on Mar 4, 2014 10:28:57 GMT -8
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Post by pagalmariam on Mar 5, 2014 4:46:46 GMT -8
Thank you for posting, it is really nice to read an article from the time he was a newcomer! The star potential was obviously there even then! Just confused that it says Shenaz took over his Mom's business and that he could have minted money with that... I somehow always thought his sister went to his aunt in Hyderabad because she was not well at all, until he was able to take care of her. And I thought he sold the business and that it did not do well and he did not get much for it... ???
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Post by raajat on Mar 27, 2014 23:44:36 GMT -8
This isn't an article but a really cool video that I found randomly on youtube of SRK and Gauri at some party. There are other stars too and all of them seem to be there natural selves and it was really cool to see that. I always knew SRK was charming off camera as well but I really got to see that in this video especially when he's dancing with Jaya Bachchan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NSeZI89GI
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Post by mpollak711 on Mar 28, 2014 13:44:46 GMT -8
It's wonderful. Thanks for posting it . Watch him with Jaya Auntie as he calls her. He takes care to dance with her and escort her back to her table; he once said that the first time she and "Big B" met SRK, she said to him, "You don't have parents; consider me a mother." Which I think is the nicest thing anyone could say. There is an even longer version (you have to wade through a lot of glimpses of other people) on Simi Garawal's own site. This was the 100th episode of her show party and all those people had been guests. She is famous for always wearing white, so everyone wore white in her honor.
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Post by mpollak711 on Mar 28, 2014 13:45:46 GMT -8
The press was even getting things wrong way back when. His mother had no money to leave him and the shop was NOT as he as told us many times lucrative.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2014 2:30:40 GMT -8
Industry SpeakShah Rukh's Decade
'Extremely experimental, immensely talented'Whoever said rules are meant to be broken must have had Shah Rukh Khan in mind. He broke every rule in the Bollywood book. He challenged the conventional leading-man stereotype and got away with it. He is the hero who played the villain and walked away with awards and public adulation. Talent? Attitude? Luck? Twist of fate? Charisma? Who knows? The only thing one knows for sure is that he came, he acted, he conquered. All on his own terms. At the same time, the man has remained somewhat of an enigma. So rediff.com decided to speak to those who know him best. And this is what they had to say... Yash Johar (producer, confidant)Is it only 10 years? May he continue for another 40 years. He has been a very big success and it is an achievement that he's worked with the biggest producers and in all kinds of films. And he shall continue to do so and we shall continue to work with him. Juhi Chawla (co-star, co-producer, close pal)Shah Rukh is one of the biggest stars ever. Everyone the world over loves him as a romantic hero. I've known him as a person over the years and he's very bright and intelligent and very, very hardworking. And he's very passionate about his films. He keeps going even when others have stopped out of exhaustion. He just goes on and on. That's what keeps him ahead. He's very normal -- he doesn't behave like a star. He doesn't have an attitude on the sets. He can be very helpful. He will keep rehearsing with you and do take upon take without getting bored, if that is what is required. He's very one-to-one with people. It's really a pleasure working with him and, of course, the best quality he has is that he keeps you so totally entertained on the sets. He keeps you laughing all the time. He has a very funny sense of humour. It lightens the work atmosphere. Prahlad Kakkar (ad film-maker)He's a boy wonder. I admire him tremendously. Look at the way he looks. Could you ever imagine, in your wildest imagination about 10 years ago, that this little launda from Delhi, with this little serial behind him, would become so big? And not only make it so big in the conventional sense, but make it big doing every single role he could lay his hands on -- villain, hero, anything? I just saw Josh yesterday and he was awesome. He had so much violence in his body language that you felt it was a role designed for him. He's a terrific guy, very professional. But then I must admit that Aamir and Govinda (about whom I'd heard horror stories) were very professional too. Shah Rukh is amazing -- he's gone into production, into setting up his own company, into post-production. And yet everybody thought he was a lightweight when he first came in. They thought he was a financial lightweight, a lightweight in the talent department... Look where he's reached. I'm sure that, in another five years, he'll surprise everyone in wherever he's going. Priya Gill (co-star)Besides Mansoor Khan's films, I'd seen all of Shah Rukh's films too when I did Josh. I never dreamt that we'd ever work together. I was a fan and never thought I'd be on the same side of the fence as him. Working with him was a great experience because he never made me feel I was a newcomer. Even when I did make some faux pax, he was very reassuring. I haven't met too many people who go out of their way to make everyone comfortable. He was never THE STAR, he was always a person. It was Shah Rukh the person, relating to Priya the person. There are so many trying situations we face that it's often difficult to smile, but Shah Rukh never lost his cool. I will always remember how he treated me like Priya the kid, and was very, very considerate. Not too many people have this quality. I wish they did because it makes working together so much nicer. I know that if ever I'm asked to do a film with him again and I'm tied up, I'd do anything to make time to work with him. I'm glad I got this opportunity to act opposite him and any time he asks me I'll be ready to work with him again. Dalip Tahil (co-star)I've worked with him right from his first film Deewana, in which I played his father. Then came Baazigar, his big success, in which I played Madan Chopra, the main villain. Then came Darr and Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. He's achieved a lot in his 10 years. He has certainly added a high voltage style of acting to the repertoire of the industry. He's a very charismatic star and has a very good presence on the screen. He's very good to work with in the sense that he's very contributing, very alive, very energetic. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi (co-star)What can I say about Shah Rukh? I think his greatest achievement is the energy, effervescence and youthfulness he brought to the Hindi screen. Though I never thought him to be a great actor (say in the class of Aamir or Naseer), his energy is unparalleled and his sex appeal unselfconscious. This, coupled with a natural intelligence and breeding, make him exciting to watch on screen. He's like the guy one would have known in college or in one's own neighbourhood. I also believe that Shah Rukh's greatest asset is his wife, Gauri. As for my experience of working with him, it was all right. Like all newcomers, I was nervous and insecure. And like all stars on the ascent, he was rather self-absorbed. So, other than our scenes, we did not have too much of an interaction. But it was pleasant enough, nevertheless. K Shashilal Nair (director)I think his greatest achievement is the fact that he's not done more than 30 films in 10 years. Anyone else would have done 200. All his films have been such that, barring one or two, all of them can be remembered. Ninety-eight per cent of his films are remarkable. Shah Rukh's greatest plus point is that he's very mehenti (hardworking). And if one remains hardworking even after 10 years, that says a lot. I'm doing One Two Ka Four with him at present. I think the amount of interest he puts into every project is amazing. Twinkle KhannaTwinkle Khanna (co-star)He is one person who started doing the unconventional things that are extremely conventional now. He's extremely experimental and immensely talented. Ramesh Sippy (film-maker)I think Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman was his first film, though Deewana was his first release. He has definitely contributed to Hindi cinema -- there's no question about it. He changed the face of the Hindi film hero by playing a villain in two very important films -- Darr and Baazigar. While some heroes have started life as villains, that wasn't the kind of villain he played. His first film was Deewana, a proper hero's role. Subsequently also, he played the leading man. Then, suddenly, he played the villain who was as acceptable as the hero. Which I don't think any other hero has done. He started off on a very different note, but has gone on to work even as a normal hero with films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge -- two examples of a restrained performance. And he can pull both kinds of performances off very well. True, there have obviously been certain films that haven't struck the right note. But through each of his roles, the one thing that comes across very strongly is the energy in his performances. And it's not always wrongly placed. Another wonderful thing about him is that he allows other artistes to play their roles without trying to steal their show. He wins in the process. By doing that, the film gets made in the right spirit and everybody gets their due. He has the power to manipulate the film to veer in his direction, but he doesn't do that. His plus point is that he can play any kind of role and I think he's shown his versatility -- from playing the villain to doing light roles with a lot of panache. On the sets too, he's always charged. And it comes through. Actors all over the world have given some mediocre performances, but Shah Rukh has given every project his best. Which is a very fine quality. I enjoyed working with him in Zamaana Deewana. Mahesh Bhatt (film-maker)What an innings he's played!! And he's still very much in form. You can't count people like Shah Rukh out. Irrespective of the flavour that will keep changing, there is an inexhaustible energy in him. He is a survivor and he's a man who has yet to achieve his potential. Lata Khubchandani www.rediff.com/movies/2000/jun/10shah2.htm
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Post by elimeten on Apr 6, 2014 19:23:10 GMT -8
The Essential Shah Rukh - Vir Sanghvi
When you talk to Shahrukh Khan, there’s a sense that he’s operating at several levels: the polite and charming matinee idol, the clever businessman, the vulnerable boy who lost his parents before he made it in the movies... will the real Shahrukh Khan ever take a bow?
Shahrukh Khan’s house. A stone’s throw from the Taj Land’s End, in Bombay’s Bandra Bandstand area, the old heritage property has been extensively renovated – but not remodelled, that would be against the law – so that it combines the grace of old Bombay bungalows, from the pre-skyscraper era, with a cool modern elegance.
The living room could be late period Philippe Starck, with the quirky little touches like the glass legs on the tables and sudden curve where you expect a sharp angle. Except of course that the Khans decided not to use a decorator. The vision is pretty much Gauri Khan’s own – she has an arts background – and even Shahrukh, who has a keen aesthetic sense, has done his bit.
The house is famous, of course. It lay unoccupied for years. Legends built up around it. And then, when Shahrukh bought it, there were all kinds of legal hassles. Eventually, he had to agree to buy the land behind the bungalow as well, otherwise the entire property would have been attached. The total cost of the property – given that he bought it twice over, making payments to different owners and many authorities – is estimated like Rs 30 crore (and that’s before you count the interiors).
“It put me in debt for two years,” Shahrukh smiles. “But you know, I’ve never had a house of my own. So, I suppose, it was worth it.”
The interview itself is conducted in the den upstairs. Actually, it is not quite a den. The idea was to create a cinema-like ambience so that Shahrukh could watch movies on the big plasma screen. There’s a Pepsi machine of the sort that one sees in the foyer of movie halls. There’s even a juke box. But there’s not that much evidence of movies, only many many tapes of Friends. “They’re Gauri’s,” Shahrukh explains, “I’ve never really had the time to sit and watch movies here.”
But now perhaps all that will change. Shahrukh is wrapping up a film with Yash Chopra. And when that’s done, he’s going to take five months off at a stretch.
“I just need to have some time with my family. And with myself,” he says.
He can afford the break. This has been a very good time for Shahrukh Khan. He starred in Kal Ho Naa Ho, produced and written by his friend Karan Johar and directed by Nikhil Advani and ended up with second biggest hit of last year (after Koi Mil Gaya). Then, a few months ago, came Main Hoon Na, his own production, directed by another close friend, Farah Khan. As of this moment, Main Hoon Na is still running to packed houses so it is difficult to estimate what the final gross will be but the indications are that it will be one of Shahrukh’s biggest ever movies, behind only such all-time blockbusters as Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
There’s no doubt that he’s Bombay’s number one star, ahead of the other Khans by miles and guaranteed to deliver a hit, no matter how different the genre: the urban, ‘A’ class centre ambience of Kal Ho Naa Ho, the Gujarati-Bengali opulence of Devdas or the old-fashioned formula film as updated by Farah in Main Hoon Na.
More to the point, there are no challengers on the horizon. The sceptics had said that once the cute, college boy-like charm wore off, the roles would dry up. He was, they said, a teen hero who had managed the difficult feat of extending his youth. This was no mean achievement, they conceded, but it was also time-bound. At some stage, the wrinkles would show through, the cutesy mannerisms would begin to get irritating and newer, younger stars would turn up.
But it sure as hell hasn’t worked out that way. Even before the youthful charm faded, Shahrukh had climbed the next steps of the ladder. In Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein, he mentored a new generation of kids and restricted his love interest to flashback and ghosts. In Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (K3G), he was married with children, playing big brother to Hrithik Roshan. In Devdas, he dared take on a role that everybody associated with Dilip Kumar.
Teen hero?
Yeah may be, once upon a time. But not now. Not for a while.
A psychiatrist asked to analyse Shahrukh Khan would probably tear up the couch, burn his medical certificates and look for another profession.
The problem – to put it bluntly – is that Shahrukh is too goddamn smart for anybody to get a fix on what he’s thinking. Of all the stars I’ve interviewed over the last 25 years, he is possibly the brightest and certainly the most complex.
If you use the traditional definition of intelligence as the ability to hold two completely contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time and still function normally, then he is in the genius league.
When you talk to him, there’s a sense in which he’s operating at several – why stop at two? – levels simultaneously. There’s the Obvious Shahrukh. That’s the polite and charming fellow who talks nicely to you.
The Obvious Shahrukh is the man we all see. He strikes us as bright, articulate, intelligent and persuasive. In some ways, he is like Tony Blair of whom it has famously been said that he’s never met anybody he couldn’t charm at a one-to-one level.
The problem with the Obvious Shahrukh is that it takes him exactly five minutes to suss you out. He knows where you are coming from, he knows what you like hearing and sure enough, he gives it to you.
Nothing wrong with that. Except that no matter how nice the Obvious Shahrukh is, you sense that you’ve only just scratched the surface.
But who knows, how many other Shahrukhs lurk beneath that surface? His mind, as he himself says, is always racing. He rushes from thought to thought, from concept to concept, and no matter how hard you try and keep up, he’s always four steps ahead of you.
There’s a Clever Shahrukh somewhere in there; the fellow who knows how the game is played and will play it better than anybody else. There’s also, I think, A Genuinely Nice Shahrukh, the man who will promote his friends, will go out of his way to help strangers, and will give lakhs and lakhs to charity, only on the condition that it is never publicised. There’s a Financially Savvy Shahrukh, who will make crores doing endorsements, live shows and even dancing at weddings, knowing that he now has the freedom to turn down any film role that doesn’t excite him on the grounds that he could make the same amount of money (or more) from a single ad.
And then, of course, hidden deep within all the other Shahrukhs, is the guy he never really lets you see. The Vulnerable Shahrukh. Or, the Essentially Insecure Shahrukh. The boy who lost his parents before he made it in the movies, who has used Gauri, Juhi Chawla, Farah, Karan, Aditya, Aziz Mirza and a few others to create an alternative family environment where he is loved and secure. Who is so terrified by failure that his solution has been to act as though the possibility does not exist; to convince himself that he’s the best at anything he wants to do and that there will never ever be bad days in his life.
You glimpse this Shahrukh, every now and then, when he talks. But he’s just a flash in the crowd. Just one more Shahrukh hidden deep within the cluster of other Shahrukhs.
And yet, you always feel that if there wasn’t this Shahrukh, then none of the others would have to exist.
He has no sob stories also about the phase when he suddenly realised that he was – to use that terrible word – an orphan in his early 20s. There were financial problems, he concedes. He hadn’t realised how much the debts were, or what the disputes over property and the business (a gas distribution agency) were.
When he realised that he was, effectively, without any resources, he decided to leave the disputed assets to relatives and took off for Bombay.
I ask him the obvious question: was he trying to create a brand new life for himself, to start all over again, with Gauri as his sole emotional crutch?
He’s heard the question before. But he still doesn’t have any answers. “I don’t know. I remember being sad when my mother died. And I was worried about my sister who wasn’t well. But I never thought ‘I am alone.’ I just threw myself into my work.”
Didn’t the sorrow that he’d bottled up ever come out? Is it still somewhere inside him?
He shrugs.
But then Shahrukh doesn’t like talking about the dark patches. He never talks, for instance, about the period when he became the principal target for the underworld.
It began with threatening calls and extortion demands. At first, he wasn’t inclined to take them seriously but when the threats grew more explicit, he went to the police. He says that Rakesh Maria and several other senior Bombay police officers were more than helpful. And though the threats didn’t stop, he had the courage to tell the goondas to get lost.
The men who backed the notorious Chori Chori Chupke Chupke came to him first. When he turned down the role, they threatened to shoot him. Something snapped inside him when he heard the threat, he says. “I’ll shoot you in the head if you try anything,” he told the surprised gangster.
The next day the police were in touch. They had intercepted a phone call, they said, ordering a hit on Shahrukh Khan. The underworld planned to bomb his car.
He had police security, he says, so he was reassured to some extent. But the fear never really went away entirely. If he changed mobiles, the dons would have the new number. No matter where he went, they would seem to know.
He was standing, one day, he says, in Mehboob Studio when his mobile rang. “Tu Mehboob mein khada hain,” a voice. “Main tum ko udhar hi uda doonga.”
He had a bodyguard but the voice on the phone was suitably scathing about his protection. “Woh tujhe kaise bachaayega?”
He says now that he was scared. “It was like they were always there. That they knew exactly where you were and what you were doing.”
That’s one bad phase that Shahrukh Khan doesn’t like talking about.
He’s never been eager to talk about the phase that followed – which was probably even worse.
By 2000, Shahrukh had been on top for so long and seemed so secure that you could be forgiven for thinking that he was about to be crowned king of the world. The only cloud on the horizon – the underworld threat – was under wraps and nobody knew about the pressure Shahrukh was under.
Reactions to success follow a predictable path. If you are a failure nobody likes you. If you are a success, everybody likes you. But if you remain a success for too long, then everybody really hates you.
And Shahrukh seemed to be having it too easy. There were no claimants to his crown. And even Amitabh Bachchan, the acknowledged once and future king of Hindi cinema, was in temporary (as it turned out) decline.
Then suddenly Hrithik Roshan happened. There’s no doubt that Hrithik has an astonishing screen presence and that Kaho Na... Pyaar Hai was the most impressive debut film in decades. Nor is there any dispute that Hrithik is here to stay.
But could the hero of a debut film, a man who was just one film old, take over from Bollywood’s top star?
The press seemed to think so. With the ferocity of a pack of hunting dogs, the media turned on Shahrukh. It was all over for him, they said. Hrithik was the new number one.
It did not help that Shahrukh’s last release, the self-produced Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani had flopped. Now, said the press, every other Shahrukh movie would be a dud. Shahrukh-mania was over.
The first victim of this mob fury was Josh, a West Side Story style movie set in Goa. Though the film did well enough, making profits for all concerned, the media were determined to declare that it was a flop.
When Shahrukh protested otherwise, the press wrote that it was pathetic how this flop actor was trying to keep up with Hrithik by pretending that a dud like Josh was a hit.
Then, Amitabh Bachchan made a comeback with Kaun Banega Crorepati. Suddenly, the original Shahenshah was back.
This gave the press all the ammunition it needed. Amitabh was king. Hrithik was Crown Prince. And Shahrukh Khan was past his sell by date.
Next, the police launched a crackdown on the underworld. Logically, this should have worked in Shahrukh’s favour – after all, he had been the prime target of the gangsters.
But no, because Bharat Shah, the producer of Devdas which starred Shahrukh was also said to have underworld links, the media decided that Shahrukh may also have connections with the dons.
Overnight, he went from being a hero to becoming a villain.
“It was,” says Shahrukh Khan, “the worst two-year phase of my life. I was told I was a flop. I was even told that I had links with the underworld. The cops were generally friendly. But one day, they called me to Crime Branch headquarters and they played Bad Cop-Good Cop. Even though I knew what they were doing, it was hard not to be shaken. Afterwards they said ‘Arre, Shahrukh don’t mind, yeh to hamara system hai.’ They wanted to be able to say that they had interrogated me.”
He says he was completely shaken. “I hadn’t done anything wrong. I had suffered. And now I was being accused of having links with the guys who had wanted me killed.”
The press, sensing blood, went in for the kill. When Rakesh Roshan was attacked, it was suggested that the dons were out to damage Hrithik and protect Shahrukh. The Hindu-Muslim angle surfaced in RSS publications but made no sense – Shahrukh is married to a Hindu and Hrithik to a Muslim.
As if to drive home the competition, Shahrukh was then working on Karan Johar’s K3G with Hrithik and Amitabh. While Shahrukh had held his own against Amitabh in their previous pairing Mohabbatein, the critics said that this was because Shahrukh had the script-backed role. Now, he would be shown up for the no-talent as he really was.
“For two years,” he says, “I just kept my head down and worked. I only spoke to Gauri and a few friends. Things had got so bad that I remember Gauri and my mother-in-law waking me one morning, thrilled because a newspaper had said that the police had found that I was a victim of the underworld, not a patron.”
Shahrukh Khan shakes his head. “Those were really bad days,” he says.
Of course, our story has a happy ending. Nobody said that Shahrukh was overshadowed in K3G and the underworld rumours now seem like a distant memory.
But how does he cope with adversity?
In different ways, I think. The Obvious Shahrukh seems unruffled. He smiles from the audience at film functions when the cameras focus on him as Hrithik accepts an award. He laughs and bonds with co-stars.
But as for the Essentially Insecure Shahrukh?
Well, that’s a different matter. He’s now got quite set in his ways. He has his friends whom he loves like a family. In an unguarded moment he will admit to moments of insecurity when he thinks that they will leave him and move on. But basically, he knows they love him. And he loves them.
He’s got Gauri and the kids and one of the closest family units in Bombay. Because he lost both parents early and his sister hasn’t been well, he’s never going to let anyone take his wife and family away from him.
And then there’s his career. “I’ll be honest,” he says. “I know I’m the best. I’ll always be a superstar. There’s no doubt in my mind.”
Hubris? Perhaps. But more likely, it is the only way he can function. It is, he says, the way he’s been able to cope with loss, with insecurity. “I keep telling myself I’m the best at everything I do. If I’m shaving, I say that I’m the best shaver in the world. I know it sounds stupid. But that’s the way I am.”
“If I allow myself to feel that I’m not the best at
something, if I feel nervous or not confident, then I just can’t do it. That's my motivation. It is my way of doing things.”
He has to feel he’s the best.
Or he’s nothing.
So, what next for Shahrukh Khan? Will he really become the film-maker he set out to be?
He doesn’t know. He's happy with the role he’s played as a producer. Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani flopped. The critics said it was too cerebral – a charge he still doesn’t accept. Asoka was probably over-ambitious but because he sold it cheap to distributors, it still made money. The problem was with the huge sums he invested in the film’s foreign release, reckoning that it could be a cross-over success. Just before it was due to be released, 9/11 happened and the film got lost in the chaos that followed.
But he’s had success with Chalte Chalte. Main Hoon Na, has made many crores and distributors are lining up to buy any other film he wants to produce.
He will produce more movies he says. But he’s not sure what or when. At present, he’s having fun with his acting. Though he doesn’t drink very much in real life, he shot most of the drunken scenes in Devdas when he was really drunk. “It was an ego thing,” he concedes. “I wanted to prove that I could do it. That I could reach my mark even when I was sozzled.” Except for one day when he overdid it and ended up retching, it went well.
And he’s being subtler with his performances than many people realise. Take Mohabbatein. At one level, it’s a film about the Obvious Shahrukh teaching young kids how to love. In his mind though, it’s a film about a Darker Shahrukh who comes back to take revenge and uses the kids (turning their lives upside down) as the instruments of his vengeance. It doesn’t matter, he says, how audiences relate to the film. If they like the Obvious Shahrukh and his violin, that’s fine with him. But if they want to look for the darker subtext, that’s there too.
So, is he having fun?
Yes, he is. He’s very happy.
And will things ever go wrong? Will any clouds cross the horizon?
No. Never. Nothing can go wrong. He won’t let it. He will stop himself from even thinking about it.
Too much went wrong too early for the Essentially Insecure Shahrukh. And now it’s time for things to go right – and stay that way.
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Post by elimeten on Apr 6, 2014 20:10:47 GMT -8
Shahrukh Khan - Darr-ingly Different:
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Post by elimeten on Apr 6, 2014 20:49:52 GMT -8
Shahrukh Khan interviewDressed in slacks, a white shirt, smart red corduroy waistcoat and grey blazer, Shahrukh Khan looks every bit the debonair Bollywood star that over a billion people around the world adore. Starring in romantic super hits like Om Shaanti Om, Main Hoon Na and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Shahrukh’s trademark outspread arms, watery eyes and dimpled smile are probably as famous as his remarkable acting versatility. From his slick villainous performance in Don to the tragedy-ridden romantic in Devdas and the harsh but inspiring hockey coach in Chak De! India Shahrukh’s enviable ability to produce hit after hit has earned him the title King of Bollywood and safely secured his position in the Bollywood hall of fame. But India’s biggest star has another side to him. In addition to being the nation’s favourite actor, starring in an average of two to three releases a year, he also runs several successful business and most recently secured a deal worth £125m (Rs 98 crore) with Fox for the global rights to his latest film My Name Is Khan’. The deal is one of the biggest in Bollywood history. In an exclusive interview for Asian Enterprise Puja Vedi speaks to the star and gets the full low-down. You’re Bollywood’s biggest star, set up your own production company, own an IPL team, you’re Ambassador of TAG Heuer and you’ve just been given an honorary doctorate – am I missing anything out?(Laughs) No, I don’t count myself like that. I have two beautiful children, a lovely sister and a wonderful wife, I work very hard and that’s my way of thinking of myself. Everything else, in terms of commerce and the job that I have, is down to the goodness of the people who’ve accepted me. And I’m not being modest or humble, that’s just the way it transpired. Five or six years ago I realised that I have a lot more than I deserve and its not because of me, it has to be because of the love of the people. So whether its Tag Heuer, IPL, or the audience who watches my film, I think I’ve had more than my share of kindness from the world and that’s a nice feeling. With big Hollywood studios like like WB and Disney turning to Bollywood and with Reliance making production pacts in Hollywood, are you planning to go into partnership with a Hollywood studio?We are a very small company. All the names you mentioned, Reliance, Warner, Sony, Fox, they are big people and I don’t have intentions like this and I don’t think I have the business acumen to do that. I started my production company because there were films that I wanted to make that no one else wanted to make. There were films that I wanted to make a certain way, like Paheli, which have bombed, they haven’t done well, but then there’s Om Shaanti Om and Main Hoon Na, which have done well. We’d love to work with the big companies, but would I be able to do business on that scale? I don’t think so. I don’t think I have the brains to do it. Why do you say that? You clearly have strong business acumen.More than business acumen, I don’t have the intention. I don’t look at numbers or figures or conference board meetings. It’s a specialised job and I should be the creative person. I take great pride in the fact that I know creativity and also someone who gets very focused on things. So if I shift my focus to business, which a lot of people anyway believe I do, then I’ll miss out on the great simple pleasures of film-making, like getting the scene right, or getting the shot right. These are some really warm and wonderful things in the films that I do. So I can’t think like that, I’ve tried, but I’m a big failure at board meetings. How would you say you are doing at this stage of your business career, compared to your acting career?I know nothing. I haven’t been to my office in two years! My accountant came down last month and he told me what was good and what was bad and I told him to sort out the bad and thanked him for the good. I don’t do many things for the business, but we’re planning to expand and building a big office in Bombay and I want to expand in VFX. I’m planning to expand a little into television. I’m unwell now because of the [shoulder] injury, so I can’t work for the next six months. I told my accountant last night that I’ll have time to set some new things in place. So I’ll look back at the Kolkatta Knight Riders, I’m meeting with Saurav Ganguly later. The business part I don’t really handle. I’ve got really good people who do it. And they really are good people because we don’t lose money. But we don’t make great money either and if we lose money, they tell me and I’ll do an ad or a show and get the money back. But I think I’m going to restructure everything, because I think God has given me an opportunity with this injury to assimilate and organise everything I’ve done in the past five or six years. What’s the plan?I want to produce a few smaller films, without me in them, so I have a few plans. There are two or three young boys who want direct films, so I’ll set that up. I have two big films happening in the year. There’s KKR, for which the business part is ok, but the team part we need to organise. It’s not doing well. We have a new coach, new players, new practice sessions. I spoke with Saurav and met the other players, like Ricky Ponting, and set up a system to address how to go forward and how do these senior players take care of it, because they all feel bad they lost, I’m assuming. Then I need to organise structuring my office. I spoke with KPMG and they’re giving me some feedback and small things like human resources, security. I need bigger offices and put everything under one roof. Do you ever worry that you might fail in business, especially after what happened with Amitabh Bachchan?I don’t think Amitji has ever failed, I think its just a little bit that proved to everyone that if you’re Amitabh Bachchan you can even beat failure every time you want. Honestly, I think he’s the most successful human being as far as I’m concerned, forget the business part of it. And to be honest, I don’t think I’m as good as him or can ever be. Everybody is scared and I have failed so often that that’s why I’m so successful now. Failure gives you two options: one – you have to believe that either it was never meant to be and you failed, so it was fate and the second part is that maybe you’re not good enough. So when my production company started and we failed three times in a row, I said ok, this is fate and secondly I’m not good enough to do this. But now I think I’m good enough to do this because I do it for other productions. My films are successful through other productions. With cricket, I can’t do anything. It’s a game that’s being played, I can’t go and take wickets. I would and try to hit sixers. But you can’t, so one part of the business is to create things that are much bigger than the cricket part of it. I need to create these platforms, I need youngsters to understand that sport is wonderful, like I do. You are in the entertainment business, why go into the sports business?When somebody asks me why I do something, I always say ‘why not?’ I like sports, I’m a sportsman by nature and I have always played sports. I want to provide a professional stage for youngsters to have the option to be a professional player who earns enough that they can dedicate their life to it. When you don’t have the option to dedicate your life to something that you can’t sustain yourself with, then you don’t go for it. I think its part of my job to do this because I want youngsters to play sports. So when the opportunity came I took it. At this point it’s making money also. Of course we’re not playing well and that’s pathetic. I’m very sad, I don’t like it, it disturbs me and I’m very depressed about it. Second, it knocks you flat out, but I have this ability that I can mess around with failure and it’s a masochistic thought of mind. That I want to go and win this. What percentage of your time and effort is spent on your business?I do my acting prep in the car driving to the location, I don’t prepare too much. I prepare when I’m doing the scripting. I spend 60 per cent of time with my kids, 35 per cent on film and the character that I’m doing and 4 per cent on business. One per cent I have no idea what I’m doing – it’s Shahrukh Khan time. I just show off and say how good I am in interviews. (laughs) What specifically are you doing with KKR?I read the papers and people are giving me lots of suggestions. But are you following any of them?No, not one. (smiles) We have a new coach, new players and I’m getting the senior guys to take more interest and telling them to work things out, because they feel worse when we lose. And they all love the team - Brendon McCullum, Ricky Ponting, Gayle, Dada (Ganguly) - and they always say how frustrated they’re feeling. But sports is like this. Nobody rated Pakistan to come and win the World Cup and they won. India was supposed to be the dream team. The game is like that. People who don’t play always write suggestions of what do to with the team. But people who play, they just go and play. So we’ll just come back next year and play. How does a doctorate rank along with the numerous awards you have won?It’s very nice – I love all my awards. I don’t know if it’s an award, but it’s a different kind of honour. It’s great fun, with people calling me doctor. I’ve been telling everyone that I’ve been working in the industry for 21 years, hoping that people start calling me an actor, but before they call me an actor they’ll call me a doctor. What is your vision for Red Chillies Entertainment moving forward?The vision is very simple: don’t lose money, that’s all. How much we make is not important. I’m just hoping to do a lot of work, make a lot of money and everybody who wants to make films within those 100 people makes all the films they wish and I hope we get more organised and remain a small company. I’m anti-corporate as far as filmmaking is concerned. We don’t believe in numbers of films. I believe each film is very individualistic and creative. You cannot make a mass production of films! I truly believe that. It is personality driven. It’s not about the good product, it’s about the good people in the company. So it’s taken me years to get good people, hopefully we’ll get even more good people and we’ll make some good films and not lose money. How do you relax with so much going on in your life?This whole interview has been lies, I don’t know anything about business and I don’t pay attention to it all. I don’t carry a phone, I don’t even discuss business. I discovered my secretary was making a documentary on me and I saw it and she was telling me that I do all these multi-million dollar deals in the lift while running away with my children, without answering any questions. I’m always relaxed. I don’t think I’m looking at the share market or the price of petroleum, I’m not thinking about expanding or taking over Warner Bros. I just want to tell good stories and when you tell good stories you become relaxed. And when you tell a story like a grandma you’ll be very relaxed. And I’m just like your grandma, I’m just very relaxed and tell good stories. Grandma’s tell the best stories. Grandfather’s tell the good jokes, I think. My only worry at night is that will I have a good story to tell tomorrow? And invariably I have. I tell good stories, so I’m very relaxed and I don’t have any issues. www.asianenterprise.biz/shahrukh-khan-the-interview/full.html
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Post by elimeten on Apr 7, 2014 2:24:13 GMT -8
'Ra.One': Shah Rukh Khan as Bollywood superheroNovember 4, 2011 | 4:30 pm You might not expect an Indian actor to get much attention strolling past the high-end stores on Rodeo Drive. Yet as the Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan turns the corner to walk into a Beverly Hills hotel on a recent Friday afternoon, Indian nationals materialize out of nowhere to point and stare. Eager onlookers pull out cameras and take photos with him. Even gaggles of white teenage girls gawk — they don't know Khan, but there are few men who could pull off a mod jacket and jet-black ponytail so convincingly. Brad Pitt and Will Smith may have millions of fans around the world, but Khan — or SRK to the faithful — quantifies his groupies with a few added zeros. He is the biggest movie star you’ve never heard of. And perhaps the world’s biggest movie star, period. In a country of 1.2 billion where movies are a way of life, Khan delights fans with romance, comedy and action, sometimes all in the same movie. (This is Bollywood, after all.) The actor had come to Los Angeles on a rare publicity trip to promote one of the most important releases of his career, “Ra.One,” which opened around the world and in a number of Southland theaters last week. With a budget estimated at $30 million, the film, directed by the veteran Anubhav Sinha, is touted as the most expensive project in Bollywood history. “Ra.One” brackets a sweet father-son story around a splashy, effects-driven action tale about a video game designer who finds the real and virtual worlds melding. Amid the latex and the lasers, there is also, needless to say, singing and dancing — think of it as a sort of Indian “Tron.” “We're trying to Bollywoodize the superhero,” Khan, half-smiling, said of “Ra.One.” (The title is short for Random Access 1.0; if pronounced a certain way, it is also a pun on the Hindu demon Ravan.) The results thus far have justified the investment. Reviews have been mixed, but “Ra.One’s” distributor estimates that the picture already had grossed more than it cost to make, taking in $35 million around the world in its first five days of release. It rang up $1.65 million in ticket sales in the United States, the distributor said; the film is currently playing in about 135 U.S. theaters. Although Bollywood movies remain barely a niche in the West, they’re a billion-dollar business in Asia. It's a business propelled in part by sheer volume, with movies cranked out in the manner of the classic Hollywood-studio model. Khan himself has starred in more than 70 films. Born to Muslim parents in modest circumstances in New Delhi, the actor arrived in Mumbai in 1991, and it didn't take him long to attract a following. Just one year later he costarred in a romantic drama titled “Deewana.” It became a hit, and he was off to the races. “I was driving down a small lane in India recently, and I remembered that 20 years ago I was driving down the same lane, and I had maybe 10 or 20 dollars in my pocket,” said Khan, who is not above a little self-mythologizing. “I couldn't believe all that had happened to me. I feel lucky and even guilty to have this much.” Although the actor, who is married with two children and who turned 46 earlier this week, cuts a figure that could appear next to any encyclopedia's entry for “movie star,” he maintains that the key to his fame is his accessibility. “I don't like the trappings of stardom,” he said. “I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana,” he said, pulling on his jacket, “because I’m told to. But I'm not trapped by it.” Those who know him say Khan is right in at least a certain regard. Despite the fame and the wealth (his estimated net worth is more than half a billion dollars), he is willing to mingle with fans in a way that might be surprising to American A-listers, who are cosseted by handlers and bodyguards. Khan seems to possess the Clintonian skill of making every person he addresses feel as if he or she is the most important person in his life at that moment, which is not easy to do when 1.2 billion people are involved. “Shah Rukh has this ability to be the perfect combination of who he is and who the public wants him to be,” said Sinha. “And he can turn it on without even thinking about it, in a second.” Sinha recalls that during the production of “Ra.One,” he had asked Khan to record a birthday video for his son, who would celebrate without his father while the director worked on the film. The filmmaker expected the star to record a quick video greeting; instead Khan sang and danced for him for nearly four minutes. Khan could have been a lot better known in the United States; he says he turned down the part of the game show host in “Slumdog Millionaire” that went to Anil Kapoor. “It's a very nice movie, but it's not an Indian movie,” Khan said of director Danny Boyle’s best picture Oscar winner. “We need a ‘Life Is Beautiful.’” To ensure that happens, Khan has over the last few years struck up relationships with Hollywood film executives, including 20th Century Fox’s Jim Gianopulos and Sony Pictures’ Amy Pascal, in the hope that they could collaborate in a way that would bring together Indian talent and Hollywood know-how. Khan said he has no desire to become a star in the United States, although he is developing an East-meets-West-themed movie with “Taxi Driver” writer Paul Schrader. Even after a grueling global press tour, Khan continues to work — he says he will relax on the flight back to India and then dive back into several new projects. “Some people say ,‘Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don’t you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?’ But that’s not me.” And on cue, he gets up from the interview to catch a car to the airport, pausing to take a few pictures with fans as he leaves. -- Steven Zeitchik twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT Photo: Shah Rukh Khan at the Beverly Wilshire last week. Credit: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/11/shah-rukh-khan-ra-one-bollywood.html
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Post by elimeten on Apr 7, 2014 2:34:27 GMT -8
June 5, 2008 -- Updated 1154 GMT (1954 HKT) The King of Bollywood LONDON, England (CNN) -- Some movie actors are lauded for their performances on the silver screen, earning themselves respect and stardom. But few, if any, Western stars are worshipped in quite the way that Shah Rukh Khan is. In a film career spanning 16 years he has risen to become the most recognizable face of Indian cinema and the most watched movie star in the world. Shah Rukh Khan's life story is one which Bollywood scriptwriters would have been proud to have penned themselves. His journey into Indian cinema took in tragedy, romance, determination and luck. It was also highly unconventional for an outsider like Khan to break into the inherently dynastic world of Bollywood. Khan was born in Delhi in 1965. As a boy growing up, Khan never really dreamed of being an actor, his head and heart were consumed by sport -- notably cricket and hockey -- but injuries put an end to any dreams of becoming a professional sportsman. But he had also dabbled in drama as a teenager and enrolled at Delhi's Theatre Action Group which had been run by the renowned theatre director Barry John since 1968. The experience served Khan well, and with TV production starting to boom in India, Khan was soon called upon to appear on the small screen -- his first appearance was in the series "Fauji" in 1988. Sadly both his parents died before seeing their son achieve success in Bollywood. His father Meer Taj Mohammed -- a lawyer and freedom activist who had campaigned for Indian independence -- died in 1981. His mother Latif Fatima, a magistrate, died 10 years later. But it was the death of his mother that proved to be the catalyst for Khan switching from the small to big screen. Beset by sadness and depression at the loss of his mother, Khan decided to give the movies a shot and made a permanent move to Mumbai -- the center of filmmaking in India. It wasn't long before he caught the eye of casting directors and soon a film role was offered to him. But Khan wasn't sure whether he should accept. "I wasn't very keen," he told CNN. "But there were some friends in TV who convinced me to do it. I was more intellectually inclined. I wanted to do a more serious kind of cinema." Nevertheless, in 1992 Khan made his film debut in "Deewana," winning him the Filmfare Best Male Debut award. His continuing reluctance to take his new status and film roles too seriously meant Khan took on parts that some of the more established Bollywood stars would have rejected out of hand. Khan believed he had nothing to lose, and he happily took on a variety of roles. In 1993 he played a murdering adulterer in "Baazigar." Khan's character (Ajay Sharma) pushes a young Shilpa Shetty off a roof and thus launched her career. The performance earned him his first Filmfare Best Actor award. Unafraid of being typecast, Khan reprised the 'bad guy" role in "Darr" (1993) and "Anjaam" (1994). Playing the character of Raj Malhotra in the 1995 feature "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (DDLJ) propelled him to new heights, confirming his versatility and popularity as a Bollywood actor. The film was a huge critical and commercial success, becoming the longest running film ever in Indian cinema -- it continues to run to this day in cinemas in Mumbai. Khan had become, and remains, the hottest property in Bollywood. Despite his inability to sing -- all his songs are dubbed -- and, at best, an average talent for dancing, he oozes charisma. "His screen presence is still incredible," says his biographer Anu Chopra. "You can't take your eyes off him. He is just completely magnetic." Box office records continue to be broken, awards continue to stack up -- so far he has won 13 Filmfare awards -- and throughout all of it his personal life has remained settled and happy. Married to Gauri since 1991, the couple had their first son Aryan in 1997. A daughter, Suhana followed in 2000. The same year Khan, along with his friend and actress Juhi Chawla, set up the production company Dreamz Unlimited. In 2004, he founded Red Chillies Entertainment, which produced the highly successful 'Main Hoon Na' -- the directorial debut of the multi-talented choreographer Farah Khan. Outside of filmmaking Khan can be seen presenting "Kaun Banega Crorepati" -- India's version of the successful 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" format. And recently, he was part of a consortium which successfully bid for one of the eight new franchises of cricket's Indian Premier League. advertisement But his lifelong love for cricket still takes second place to his job as a continuing Bollywood phenomenon. Having already racked up over 60 films, Khan isn't about to shy away from the spotlight that he so openly adores. "All my life I've worked towards being recognized," he says. "I love it. I am proud that I am a movie star and have no privacy. What is the point if I am a star and no one knows me?" edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/02/05/SRK.profile/index.html?_s=PM:#cnnSTCText
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Post by elimeten on Apr 7, 2014 7:29:46 GMT -8
A little bit of gossip from the past:
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Post by Maryah on Apr 7, 2014 9:07:27 GMT -8
Wow. I had never seen that detailed a description of 'the brawl', but it reads pretty much as I imagined it happened. I wonder how close to the truth it really is... ??
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2014 11:02:35 GMT -8
^ true - and after all Salman is getting away with all this again right?. If it is true what we read here I won't get into what I think about his new good friend ...
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Post by thesplendidone on Apr 7, 2014 12:42:05 GMT -8
I'm rather ready to believe this article especially in description of Salman's behavior.
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Post by mpollak711 on Apr 7, 2014 17:02:18 GMT -8
This story makes so much more sense than other versions of it. No wonder he says he will never fully be his friend again. I wonder why Salman is forgiven all this over and over. I wonder what the real story is with the fight with Farah's husband.
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Post by elimeten on Apr 8, 2014 8:55:32 GMT -8
Exactly. In the media versions of the incident, they actually accused Shah Rukh of bad-mouthing Aishwarya which is hard to believe because we know SRK respects women a lot. This was the only article which seems more believable than other reports by the media.
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Post by sandidi on Apr 8, 2014 19:21:11 GMT -8
Wow. I had never seen that detailed a description of 'the brawl', but it reads pretty much as I imagined it happened. I wonder how close to the truth it really is... ?? same here - and I read that Salman insulted Gauri as well (or was that another time?)
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Post by Kiran01 on Apr 21, 2014 6:30:34 GMT -8
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Post by sandidi on Apr 23, 2014 1:07:22 GMT -8
that was super, thanks Kiran!
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Post by mpollak711 on Apr 23, 2014 5:12:44 GMT -8
that was super, thanks Kiran! And I thought I'd seen EVERY old interview! THANK YOU! Where did you find this?
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Post by abhijacko on Jun 30, 2014 21:48:34 GMT -8
Was getting my SRK fix through youtube (HNY .. hurry up)
Came across this video from Filmfare 2005. My goodness. What a movie lineup he had - MHN, VZ and Swades. Talk about competing with himself. And he won it for Swades, beating VZ and MHN, besides BigB's Khakee and Hrithik's Lakshya. One of BigB's most amazing performances, and Hrithik's career best performance IMO. What an year that was for the King
EDIT: Top Menu > Affiliates > SRK Videos > Awards > 2004-2005 > Filmfare
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Post by Maryah on Jun 30, 2014 22:43:19 GMT -8
^Imagine how good it makes me feel when our forum members post Youtube links to things that are in our own Gallery -- and then they turn out to be stolen (and usually uncredited) from that same Gallery! Does it ever occur to anybody to browse through that Gallery? There's a wealth of stuff there...
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Post by karan on Jun 30, 2014 23:49:38 GMT -8
2004 was probably his best year, he got huge commercial success and critical acclaim. 2007 is one such year as well. Not technically in the same year, but 2014-2015 could be up there as well with HNY, FAN and Raees (if they turn out as expected).
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Post by abhijacko on Jul 1, 2014 6:36:05 GMT -8
^Imagine how good it makes me feel when our forum members post Youtube links to things that are in our own Gallery -- and then they turn out to be stolen (and usually uncredited) from that same Gallery! Does it ever occur to anybody to browse through that Gallery? There's a wealth of stuff there... Apologies. In my defence it was 2am in the morning You can remove the link. Also how does one access the gallery on this new forum
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Post by Maryah on Jul 1, 2014 7:07:38 GMT -8
Apologies. In my defence it was 2am in the morning You can remove the link. Also how does one access the gallery on this new forum That's OK... it was midnight here too, I was also tired. Look in the top menu under 'Affiliates' (Check out other menu stuff too while you're at it. )
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Post by mpollak711 on Jul 1, 2014 7:10:53 GMT -8
Actually I can't access the Gallery Videos from my laptop so it's a nice bonus to have it reposted....so please don't be upset when someone does it!
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Post by Dea on Jul 1, 2014 7:19:27 GMT -8
i've been a srkpagali member yeaaaars before i even discovered this forum i love it!
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Post by Maryah on Jul 1, 2014 7:27:33 GMT -8
Actually I can't access the Gallery Videos from my laptop so it's a nice bonus to have it reposted....so please don't be upset when someone does it! Sorry, but I can't help being upset when the hard work of palacerani and myself is stolen and uploaded to Youtube, and then our own forum members prefer those to the originals! As for your laptop... why on earth can't you access the Gallery videos? You can't unzip them? You can't play avi files? What's the problem?
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