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Shahrukh and John to endorse Pepsi 'My Can'

Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham will endorse Pepsi (the latter endorses Diet Pepsi). Youth brand Pepsi is out in new form of packaging and its can is called ‘My Can’. This is for the first time in Bollywood two big stars are promoting a brand together.

According to Punita Lal, executive director, marketing, Pepsi Foods, the duo for the first time will feature together in a commercial on TVC. This ‘My Can’ will offer an opportunity to 10 young people to get their pictures printed on their Pepsi packs. This initiative is called ‘Me on My Can’.

It will be interesting see King Khan and the youth icon, John Abraham, come together for the first time on screen.

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"Educated Muslim people are the nicest people in the world": SRK

Rajeev Masand: What was your real reason for doing this film? Was it the fact that it was a great opportunity to shed light on a sport or was it a great story to tell, or was it a little of both?

Shah Rukh Khan: Neither of the two. Actually I am not so socially conscious neither do I understand stories. Very simply put is that I wanted to play some hockey after 20 years.

I keep telling my producer and director that I hope after the film is released there are five-six people who say 'oh, I haven't played hockey for a long time man!' Or a father or a mother picks up a hockey stick and tells their children go play the game. So, if people in India start doing that then it is good enough for me.

Rajeev Masand: On one level Chak De India is a patriotic film isn't it? And you play a Muslim coach of the national women's hockey team. Is that symbolic and done to destroy stereotypes?

Shah Rukh Khan: Actually, you can say it in one line that it is a destruction of stereotype – it 's a film about India, headed by a Muslim, playing a game called hockey with a team of women. So, it completely breaks all stereotypes.

I believe in the educated Islamic sect, I belong to it and educated Muslim people are the nicest people in the world. That is my religion and I would like to propagate that through my film without shoving it down your throat. I am not shoving my religion down your throat. I am trying to say that the ideology of an educated Muslim is what my ideology is – that you believe in humanity.

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SRK and his wife Gauri shot a sequence for Om Shanti Om earlier this week

The superstar's wife Gauri makes her Bollywood debut with this big-budget film, directed by Farah Khan. We hear that the sequence will be part of the end-credit song.

Say Farah Khan, “Yes, Gauri shot for me yesterday. It was for my traditional end-credit song where all the technicians and crew members feature. She was supposed to shoot for me for Main Hoon Na too, but last time she ditched me because she was too shy to come in front of the camera, but this time she finally agreed. She said she's doing it only for me but I am sure her husband had something to do with it since she's the official producer of the film.”

However, this is not the first time that the celebrity wife is working with hubby SRK. Gauri had a humble start by managing the costume and wardrobe department of Shah Rukh's early films including Baazigar (1993), Darr (1993), Anjaam (1994) and Ram Jaane (1995). She was only dressing her husband then. Later, she turned producer with Main Hoon Naa (2004) and Paheli (2005) and the same continues with Om Shanti Om.

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"Chak De India is different, it doesn't have a heroine, it doesn't have a love story": SRK

Shah Rukh Khan's first out-and-out sporty endeavour 'Chak De! India' releases this week (August 10). TIMES NOW correspondent Pratiksha Menon got him talking about his scruffy look in the film and why he supports feminism.

Interview excerpts

Pratiksha: Is this film an experiment, and do you believe in its feminist theme?

Shahrukh: This is a message about how sports should be nurtured in our country and women should be nurtured in our country. I'd like to do a film about women every year, but I don't like the bra-burning type of movies where they say 'Zakhmi Aurat' etc. But if you make films like this (Chak De), and perhaps like me also talk about it like (in the film), women will get confident and say why not you're right - women are educated, pretty, they do as well as guys. Especially in my line of work - from the actresses to working in the technical aspect - the other day a woman cameraperson was shooting me, she does fantastic work. Even a 'liberated' person like me thought, my God isn't a camera too big for a girl? So even I sometimes think stupidly, like a man.

The film is different, it doesn't have a heroine, it doesn't have a love story. It's got 16 new girls, it does not have a song, it does not have a villain, it does not have Shahrukh Khan in Switzerland. I just did it because I wanted to play hockey once again.

Pratiksha: How rigorous was working on Chak De for you... was it physically taxing?

Shahrukh: I am sportsman by nature, and physically also, I like to play games so I continue playing games whenever I get a chance. Hockey was something I had not played for a long time and so I had to go back to it and play for a couple of days. I used to play after pack-up or while training with them (team) - there was the stick and a ball and the girls were there and so you just start playing. I did play for about a month, and yes, it was difficult. I tore my hamstring, though I was not even playing full out. I wasnot bedridden but I couldn't walk around for a month. And the by the time we came to shoot in Delhi I was still strapped.

But no, it wasn't rigorous for me. I have had two knee surgeries and on my ankles, they hurt when the cold sets in, the bones pain. I need to take injections - yeah that happens! But it happens even if I am doing a dance. So that's not a big issue.

Pratiksha: Your scruffy look is going down very well with the ladies. Was it intentional?

Shahrukh: You know there's an 'eight years ago' period, and I come back in the film eight years later. I think I was unshaven, I wasn't working that time, I had just finished 'Don'. I was on time off and I was not well and I think Adi (Aditya Chopra) and everyone came and said, Hey will you keep the beard? So I kept it since its for just one film I was doing, because I have never grown a beard...Yeah, it looks nice. I saw the film three days ago. You know, on television sometimes or personally, when I look at it it looks scruffy and not very clean. But when I saw it on screen, it looked very nice - at least for the character. It makes me look different. It's a nice crutch to an actor. I look very different and it seems I am acting different.

The character's name is Kabir Khan - he doesn't have a beard because he is Muslim, but it just feels nice in the scheme of things. He is supposed to be a bit of an older person, for the girls so it gives a kind of maturity.

Source: TimesNow