Yash Raj's SOS Call To SRK

With four out of their five films flopping at the box office in 2007, Yash Raj Films has sent out an SOS call to their most successful star and the lead of their only super hit film for the year Chak De India, ShahRukh Khan.

Sources inform, "The Hindi film industry's premium banner is keen not to have a repeat of 2007 in the coming year. The King Khan has had a 100% track record with them starting with Darr (1993) to their last release together Chak De India. As the planning for next year's releases is underway, the Yash Raj head honcho Aditya Chopra is extremely keen on casting him in his next which he has been planning for long to direct."

"Presently, the three under production films by Yash Raj that are confirmed for a release by mid 2008 are Tashan and the animated flick Roadside Romeo. There is a Kunal Kohli produced and directed film starring Saif and Rani that they are presenting which shall release in the second half of 2008. None of these star their lucky mascot. Adi, who was very keen to handle the next in the Dhoom series, is keeping that on the back burner and concentrating more on the script which is being written with SRK in mind. The details about its theme are however not known," adds the source.

Shah Rukh is on a break presently and is likely to start work on his next, My Name Is Khan for Karan Johar in May. He has backed out of his commitments for Shankar's Robot and Rajkumar Hirani's next based on Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone and has no other films on hand. The buzz is strong that the King Khan is about to meet the Yash Raj bosses over the coming days and discuss this project being planned with him.