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Shah Rukh Khan
No sooner than Amitabh Bacchan start his (mis)adventures with the Tweety bird, do we get to hear how he is proud of the fact that Shah Rukh Khan’s popularity on the social networking site knows no bounds… Recently, Shah Rukh crossed the 4,00,000 followers mark on twitter and guess who was most heartily congratulating him? It was none other than gramps Bacchan.
Bacchan doesn’t stop there. Just like Karan Johar’s melodramatic family sagas, which do not know when to end, Amitabh too went on to suggest a name for a country that might one day belong to the superstar.
“How about – “KINGDOM”, taking up from your own popular and deserving epithet of KING!”
This is what Bacchan tweets happily. Well, if we didn’t know any better, we would have thought that this was really from the heart, however we are none the wiser and all we can see behind this charade, is raw animal hatred. To answer back, the witty King retorted
“I have a name for your World Mr. Bachchan. The , thanks for letting us be a part of it sir. Love & health to you.”
Keep congratulating each other men, it gives us something to laugh about. Now wait a second, while I go and throw up some.
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The Khan and The Kumar are at it again. Fighting? No more like peacemaking. Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan have been seen improving their relationship over the past year. The apparent BFFs have now been seen bonding again. Recently, even after Akshay’s ‘Housefull‘ crashed and bombed over at the Box Office, Shah Rukh sent him a ‘cheer up’ message, commending his performance in the movie.
Both the movie and Akshay’s performance in it were completely dismal. Yet, Shah Rukh Khan sent off the message. Makes us wonder if Shah Rukh’s mom dropped him on his head when he was still young. Or maybe Shah Rukh needs some back scratching. Since he is rather on tense terms with almost all his colleagues, maybe he’s trying to turn over a new leaf and show the world, that he’s capable of loving another man, except of course, himself and KJo !
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Air Head Asin Could Face The Wrath Of Khans If She Doesn’t Shut Up Soon!
Filed under : Aamir Khan, Asin, Bitchiest, Rakhee Sawant, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan
Asin amuses me. No really, she does. In fact, I am sure that a lot of others are equally amused with her. I, of course, am not talking about her uber hamming skills or her plastic ‘oh-I’m-so-adorable-and-nice’ persona. I am talking about her mouth at which she apparently has no control.
After being pounded by the media so hard for her suddenly-acquired attitude, I am surprised that the lady is still going great guns. Frankly, these were characteristics that I would previously only have attributed to Rakhi Sawant. But not anymore. Asin’s coming very close to Rakhi when it comes to drama and I am really not even kidding!
After she managed to get Salman upset with her, she’s now denying self-concocted rumors of her affair with Salman. Uh… Asin, did you just try to imply there that Salman would prefer you over Katrina...? You didn’t? Because it seemed like you just did. If you haven’t got the point yet, here it is again. You’ve irked Salman off and even if you believe that he’s having an affair with you (enough to have to deny to the media!), there’s no reason you should say it out loud.
Of course knowing Asin, she wouldn’t stop just there. She’s elated with her start off in Bollywood.
“I started my innings with Aamir Khan and I continued my good spell with Salman. That is two Khans down, two to go (Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan).”
Watch Out Khans! The arrogance of the statement is enough to raise anybody’s eyebrows. But not mine. I have learnt to expect this from Asin. After all, if no one’s talking about you in Bollywood, you have to take on the task yourself. You start by having an imaginary affair with a screen icon, then leak it to the press and proceed from there to posture yourself arrogantly and pretend that you are a legendary screen goddess in the making and every popular actor will soon be lining up to star with you.
Here’s some advice for you lonely girl Asin, play with your dolls and enjoy yourself but know when to shut up and stop babbling about your fantasies — remember, you’re only pretending in that little make believe world you call your mind!
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Do you remember when Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan were at loggerheads? I am sure you do, but do you remember them kissing and making up? Well, if that boggles you, welcome to Bollywood, where even the smallest of stars can put the vilest of politicians to shame with their frequent change of useful alliances.
Just days ago, Shah Rukh Khan topped Salman’s list of offenders. Then suddenly, it seemed that Salman Khan has decided to take the high road by completely ignoring the other Khans. Then again you see him celebrating Eid with Amir. All this was still tolerable. But now Sallu miyan has gone too far with his ‘I-am-cool-with-SRK‘ stand that he has assumed lately.
We know that he’s going crazy celebrating the success of his recent box office hit Wanted but what’s with this complete 360 degree turn on his relationship with Shah Rukh? Where once the two of them couldn’t remain in the same room for long, today Salman has gone and said that Shah Rukh is indeed the best in Bollywood and, “the intensity in his eyes is really romantic and could make anybody go crazy.” Ahem…Ahem…I won’t even go there on this one! Katrina are you reading this?
Methinks that ol’ Sallu’s hair-weaved head is still dizzy from his success and vigorous dance routines in Wanted. No you say? What else could account for his changing alliances, erratic behaviour and most worrying of all, that disturbing infatuation with leather-faced Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘romantic eyes’?
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Hot headed Salman Khan seems to be turning over a new leaf. One is so accustomed to hearing about how Salman lost his temper and verbally or physically abused costars, friends and girlfriends. So one is always a little taken aback when word comes in about Sallu doing a good deed.
Salman has recently been on a roll. He’s been trying to show his good side a little too often. Like recently when he praised Shah Rukh Khan in front of the whole wide world. Now, apparently, he’s offered his services to long time friend and co-star Kareena. What’s he doing for her? Carrying her shopping bags of course!
Sallu while it was nice of you to carry Kareena’s bags and compliment SRK on his romantic eyes, you are going to have to do a lot more than that to repair your image in the eyes of the public. Your laundry list of offences against Bollywood intimates and colleagues is a long, long one and your abrasive attitude and behaviour have left a bitter taste in many mouths.
May we suggest some sincere public apologies (without a money-making or movie-promotion agenda), more good work with the sick and socially dispossessed (again without a money-making or movie-promotion agenda) and a genuine effort to be a more considerate and sensitive human being who understands that mere money and tinsel-town fame do not make a real man. Over to you Sallu!
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Is it like those who ride together, stick together?!
The Kolkata Knight Riders duo – Shah Rukh Khan and Sourav Ganguly – will make another public show of solidarity when Dada’s ‘Dadagiri’, a popular Bangla quiz show, will go national next year.
I wonder why Shah Rukh is so keen on appearing lovey-dovey with Saurav. He is the owner of the team, isn’t it? So, one would have actually expected the opposite to happen.
Earlier, it was rumoured that Dada would have a major say in the selection of the team coach, and now this! Why all this kow-towing to an aging captain who passed his prime long ago? Very curious. More so since it’s been a long, long time since the KKR team tasted victory. These boys must be starting a new business trend to network and leverage on the basis of failure huh?
Strange are the ways of these celebs. So, let the scratching begin!
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Salman’s Success Stuns His Critics! Hate Him or Love Him….He’s A Superstar
Filed under : Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi
You have to give it to Salman Khan. His movie Wanted is running so successfully that his critics have now turned tail.
Sallu Bhai’s mass appeal is of a kind that, I am sure, is envied by the other two Khans: Aamir and Shah Rukh. He has proved beyond doubt that he is very much in business. And, at a time when such confirmation was very necessary. It was up against Dil Bole Hadippa at the halls, which has Shahid Kapoor still gloating over his Kaminey success and a very sexed up Rani Mukherjee.
This should send a message to Shahid who’s busy confusing himself to be Shah Rukh Khan already. And poor Rani, all that skin show came to naught. She had almost starved herself for over a year to wriggle into a bikini. We can’t even say better luck next time to you, Rani, and you know why.
Anyway, getting back to Salman dear, his all-out publicity efforts for Wanted paid off. And he celebrated in style, too, with each fly in Bollywood invited except for the people he loves to hate, namely SRK, the Bachchans, and Vivek Oberoi.
But he should do something about his ever-growing hate list. When Aamir and Shah Rukh have buried the hatchet and will soon work together in Danny Boyle’s next film, don’t you think Salman that you too could profit significantly by a similar collaboration? So how about forgiving and forgetting and moving on like a big-minded, successful superstar is expected to do?
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There was once a time when Yash Raj Films lay the rules about what was kosher in Bollywood-land. And so, for a good two decades, generations of desi audiences were brought up on sappy bubblegum romances, the occasional family drama and bucket-loads of glycerin tears.
Enter the early 21st century when names like Fox, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios became common knowledge, www.imdb.com was no longer a vague site intended for gora moviegoers, and the Minority Report generation who began demanding sound scripts which actually made sense to anyone above the age of 2. Flummoxed, our fat cat producers, and rip-off directors flew into a tizzy, grabbing at darker, ‘more meaningful’ plots (whatever that means) and more intense acting.
Apart from the occasional Dil Chahta Hai and Lagaan, theater-goers were still unimpressed. What’s worse, the Indian Film Association had now woken up to the existence of foreign entries into the Golden Globe Awards, and a mandatory requirement for participation was ‘no plagiarism’.
Once again, Bollywood went through a major cinematic revolution, and we began to receive movies like Black, Salaam Namaste, and other more ‘youthful’, ‘current’ themes. As an afterthought, our filmmakers began to study Hollywood with a renewed interest, in order to decipher what exactly it is that Warner and Co. do, that RGV Productions couldn’t replicate.
The answer? Superhero and Science Fiction.
The idea caught on like a blazing fire. So, we had Krissh with its ‘faster than a horse’ Hritik Roshan (desi Superman anyone?) and 2050: A Love Story starring Hurman Baweja, Piggy Chops and titli raani. While Krissh did moderately well, filmmakers could not fathom how to recreate a superhero who didn’t look, talk and walk exactly like Krissh. So, they turned to science fiction.
The disastrous reception of 2050: A whatever story notwithstanding, our filmmakers decided to give Science Fiction another go, especially given the mega bucks that could roll in should the success of Koi Mil Gaya be recreated.
And so, at the fag end of 2009, we are faced with not one, but two mega-budget science-fiction ventures:
- There’s Ra 1: Starring SRK as a super robot who works for an intelligence agency.
- There’s Magic Man starring Neil Nitin Mukesh. What magic has to do with science is still an issue that boggles the mind, but I guess we’ll just have to wait for some promos to figure out exactly how ‘magical’ science can be.
Given our desi Bollywood frat’s penchant for over-exaggeration and masala, I just hope we don’t have to deal with a very handsome super robot who falls in love with a super robot-ess, and has little super-robot children, and only solves crimes when he isn’t busy wooing the super robot in-laws and fighting super robot jealous ex-boyfriend. Not to mention breaking the momentum of the plot every 10 minutes to start lavish song and dance routines with a 200 hundred other vacuous-looking robots in tow.
And please people, if we’re going to be spending crores of rupees on hiring unnecessarily expensive stars, let’s also set aside some budget for special effects so that your movie doesn’t end up looking and sounding like a 5th grade science project, shall we?
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No one can forget the desperate one-upmanship done by Amir and Shah Rukh when Gajini and Rabb Ney were slated for release at the same time. Shah Rukh Khan aka “The biggest brand in the country” and Aamir Khan “I am an idiot and Shah Rukh is intelligent” battled it out rather publicly while promoting their films. It got so heated they named dogs after their rivals!
Surprisingly though, hothead bad boy Salman has chosen a more sophisticated way of promoting his film Wanted. He refuses to talk about the other two Khans to avoid anything that distracts the focus on his movie. He is more accommodating to journalists and has even linked promos with charities like the NGO Umang in Jaipur.
Seems like along with hair loss Salman has gained maturity and wisdom. Maybe the hair doctors who did the hair transplants in Dubai must have secretly tinkered with his brain cells a bit during the operations ’cause Sallu is finally showing some signs of good judgment and good taste.
Way to go Sallu…long overdue for our balding, middle aged, vendetta-carrying Bollywood baddie. Hope it lasts for the remaining few years of his career.
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After creating much bad blood all over Bollywood land, Shah Rukh Khan is now trying to make things right by extending his olive branch everywhere. Recently, Shah Rukh Khan went apologizing to Aishwarya, hoping to work with her again. Then after he was mauled by the media for creating the ruckus over his detention at Newark, he has been trying to set things right in the light of his upcoming movie My Name is Khan.
It seems that the king has run severely short of publicity stunts. Why else would he go around visiting fellow actors on whom he never even cast a glance before? Though Akshay has always maintained that SRK was the real king indeed, I never knew that they were on such good terms. Now you see photographs of the two superstars together on the sets of Blue. These two are definitely setting an example for others to follow but knowing Bollywood as we all do, something just doesn’t sit right.
Bearing in mind there are also big projects for both SRK and Akki lined up for release, I can’t help but wonder if both of them have come together because they have exhausted all the cheap hype options they are allowed as aging male Bollywood bigwigs. Unlike the femme fatales like Rani Mukherjee or Mallika Sherawat they are not allowed to flash a little boob here and there or saunter around in teeny-weeny bikinis for drooling camera men. So poor ol’ SRK and Akki must keep their pants on and squeeze the phony BFF/nice-guys publicity ruse for all it’s worth. Ah, life can be an *itch sometimes.
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