"I haven't even read the script! Once I read it, I'll decide!" - Kajol

Love is blind, but not when it comes to business. One would think that if Kajol is proposed a Karan Johar project also starring Shah Rukh Khan, she would simply jump at the offer. And news has it that she's done just that.

However, Kads shocks us with, "I haven't even read the script! Once I read it, I'll decide!"

So, this talented actress doesn't turn a blind eye where work is concerned. One the contrary, it's the eyes-wide-open phenomenon that takes over when it comes to scripts.

And if she doesn't like it she'll simply say no! But let's hope she manages to say kuch kuch hota hai while reading this one. We're sure KJo is hoping!

Urvashi Ashar, Indiatimes

Farah Khan's Shanti Om Shanti Are Here!

We at SRKTHEDON would like to congratulate Farah on this auspicious occasion.

Bollywood director and choreographer Farah Khan gave birth to two bonny girls and one baby boy late Sunday night at Mumbai’s Jaslok hospital.

Farah’s husband Shirish Kunder and her brother Sajid Khan were beside her at the time of the delivery. Sajid Khan told Zee News that both Farah and the babies were in the pink of health and doing well.

The ace director’s close friends which include Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala are expected to arrive at the hospital soon.

Earlier last month, producer-director Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan`s wife Gauri Khan had organized a baby shower for Farah with a lavish function held at SRK`s palatial Bandra bungalow `Mannat` in Mumbai. The function was attended by stars like Rani Mukherjee, Priyanka Chopra, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu and wives of Farhan Akhtar, Suneil Shetty, Atul Agnihotri and many others.

Hope these bundles of joy will multiply Farah’s happiness!

Zee News

Every statement has political agenda: SRK

In an interview to NDTV, Shah Rukh said every statement has a political agenda.

NDTV: You will be going back to Mumbai. One man who is in the news these days in Mumbai is Mr Raj Thackeray. If you had to say something to him, what would it be?

Shah Rukh: I have nothing to say to anybody because I tell you honestly, I have tried to keep myself as insulated as I can, even at the risk of being considered a person not interested in the welfare of my country.

I think a lot of things that go out have an agenda of politics attached to it.

Whether it's Mr Thackeray, Mr Bachchan, myself or anybody else in this country, we all are proud to be Indians and I don't think it should be taken any further than that.

NDTV

Khan sets Special Effects-laden Film

Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan is to produce the country's most expensive ever movie in a bid to show the world the strength of the subcontinent's special effects and animation industries.

Khan is in Berlin with "Om Shanti Om," which his own shingle Red Chillies produced for Indian financing and distribution giant Eros Entertainment.

The untitled pic is to be made by Red Chillies on a budget of $25 million and will be helmed by Anubhav Sinha ("Cash") later this year. "We are dedicating the next eight or nine months to taking the best technicians from around the world and asking them to help us make the best VFX film India has ever made," Khan told Variety. "It will madcap, over the top. I want it to be as beautiful as 'Spider-Man' in terms of effects."

Story, boasting the feel of a videogame, will feature kids who wish for bad things, but get a reality check when they come true.

Production and financing have yet to be completed, but Khan said that he is in advanced discussions with Eros and with Charles Darby ("The Matrix," "Minority Report"), the visual effects guru who recently co-ventured with Eros to launch Mumbai-based effects Eyeqube Studios. Red Chillies is one of the leading players in the still-emerging Indian effects sector.

Khan, who is regularly cited as the world's most recognized movie actor, says that unlike other Indian stars he has not been courted by Hollywood.

"I'm waiting for someone like Steven Spielberg or James Cameron or some other great person like Ang Lee to make a film a film about a brown, thin, scrawny Indian guy who doesn't speak English too well. If they ever have a character like that and Google it, I'm sure they'll find me," he said with tongue firmly in cheek. "Seriously, it would have to be character-specific. I'd love to do an action-comic film like Chris Rock and Jackie Chan.

"As a producer I'd like to make the Indian film that genuinely crosses borders, where you forget that it has a language, like 'Life Is Beautiful.' I didn't realize at first that it was an Italian film. Or 'The Lives of Others.' I think I can do it in my lifetime, maybe in the next five years.

"The magic will be not to try to make a crossover film. 'Om Shanti Om' is full of cliches of Indian cinema, but it is full of heart. I think we need to make more like this and gradually more and more people will come to like that," Khan said.

"Om Shanti Om" was released in November in the main Indian diaspora territories and became the highest grossing Indian film of all time, with a $19 million opening weekend. It gets a commercial German release on March 6.

Variety.com

Shah Rukh Khan as Popular as Pope

As German fans drooled over Shah Rukh Khan, the national media shed its perceptions of "bullock cart India " and trained its attention on the Bollywood superstar when he landed here, with one journalist even saying "he is as popular as the Pope".

Shah Rukh was here for the screening of "Om Shanti Om" at the Berlin Film Festival. Some German television channels suddenly turned their cameras from the Hollywood glitterati to Khan as excited fans let out loud shrieks to greet him at the Berlinale Friday night. More>>>>

"Don two" will focus on mafia ring in Germany and Britain: SRK

Bollywood heart-throb Shah Rukh Khan has disclosed plans for making a sequel to film "Don", in which he played the lead role, and he will take on the mafia in the European heartland in the new plot.

As compared to "Don", which deals with rivalry of crime syndicates based in Malaysia, the storyline of "Don two" will focus on mafia ring in Germany and Britain, Shah Rukh Khan said at the premiere of his latest blockbuster "Om Shanti Om" at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival last night.

Shooting for the new "Don" is scheduled to begin in Germany in few months to be followed by the film crew moving to Britain, Shah Rukh Khan said.

According to "King Khan" of Bollywood, the opportunities are great for Indian co-productions with German companies and some preliminary discussions on possible alliances between the two sides in this connection were held on the sidelines of the Berlinale.

Last year's Berlin Film festival provided the ground for signing the first Indo-German Agreement on Audio-Visual Co-production, which provides a legal framework for cooperation between the producers in India and Germany.

Under the agreement, each country is committed to treat co-productions as national films and thereby producers from each will be entitled to benefit from all state support for the film and video industries of the other.

There is a growing interest among the German industry to benefit from the rapidly evolving audio-visual market in India and to cooperate with the Indian film fraternity which is not only the biggest in the world, but also the fastest growing.

On the other hand, Indian productions have a fair chance to benefit from Germany's annual film financing programme, which is estimated to be more than Euro 150 million.

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SRK fans go hysterical!

Shah Rukh Khan isn't King Khan back home alone. The 58th Berlin film festival saw some mass fan hysteria as Shah Rukh walked the red carpet ahead of the screening of his film Om Shanti Om.

As Shah Rukh walked down the red carpet at the Berlinale, besotted girls and star-struck fans were seen shouting and crying out the superstar’s name. It wasn't a reincarnation of Elvis or the Beatles walking the red carpet. Shah Rukh Khan, who arrived at the festival for a screening of his home production, was welcomed by girls screaming out high-pitched love messages. More>>>>