SRK wants to delay Paanchvi Paas

Shah Rukh Khan is in a dilemma and he is trying his best to sort it out. His next quiz show on Star Plus, Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hai? will be aired April 18 onwards, coinciding with the launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament wherein SRK owns the Kolkata franchise.

Time trouble

It is reliably learnt that the actor is trying his best to postpone the telecast date of Paanchvi Pass as he can’t postpone the IPL matches.

Says a source, “The IPL’s 44-day cricket bonanza begins on April 18 and will have a total of 59 T20 matches.

His TV show begins on the same date and will be telecast 8 pm onwards on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, clashing with the IPL telecast on Max on weekends, 8 pm onwards. Shah Rukh is extremely worried about the timings.”

Conflict of interest

But that’s not the only reason. The source adds, “Star Plus has signed up Airtel as the presenting sponsor for Paanchvi Pass while Airtel’s competitor Vodafone has signed up as the presenting sponsor for the IPL on Sony. This has kicked off a battle of sponsorships between the broadcasters as SRK endorses Airtel.

Siddharth Basu of Synergy Communications, which is producing Paanchvi Pass, says, “The time and date of telecast of the show will be announced shortly.”

Shah Rukh was unavailable for comment.

Author: Upala KBR | Source: Mid-Day

Blaster and Badshah

If Shah Rukh Khan and Sachin Tendulkar were asked what’s common between them, they would probably say cricket, considering SRK’s recent investment in the Indian Premier League’s Kolkata team.

But surprisingly, there’s much more than cricket between them and the two icons are like kindred souls, as BT found out while tracking down their lives.

To begin with, their initials — while Shah Rukh Khan is SRK, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is SRT. The two made their respective debuts in the same year — Sachin played his first Test match (against Karachi) in 1989, the same year SRK featured in his first television film, In Which Annie Gives it...written by Arundhati Roy.

The two grew by leaps and bounds in their respective fields and rightly earned the titles of Master Blaster and the Badshah of Bollywood, respectively. Worldwide, Sachin went on to become the face of Indian cricket and SRK, the ultimate romantic hero of Bollywood. With titles came brand endorsements, the two superstars hogging every available space on hoardings, print media and television, while advertising pundits evaluated their market value which till today remains unshakable!

That’s not all, the similarities extend into their personal lives as well, and both have homes in Bandra. They have two children each, a girl and boy — with the same initials; Sachin’s kids are Sara and Arjun and SRK’s, Suhana and Aryan. Both men’s elder children, Sara and Aryan, were born in the same year — 1997.

But hold on, the similarities don’t end there. Ace photographer Atul Kasbekar, who has done most ad campaigns featuring Sachin and SRK and both together as well, adds, “They are extremely focussed. Once you get into their comfort zone, they give you as much freedom as you need. You can be assured that you can always count on them. That apart, the two are crazy about playstations. They both hate to lose a game. Once a guy on the set scored some 15,000-odd points while playing the Snake on his mobile phone. Though Sachin had never played the game before, he challenged him that he would break his record, and by afternoon he actually did that.”

Talking about games, the common factor between the two legends is being taken a step further by their sons. Both Aryan and Arjun are football players and take part in inter-school matches. So while the fathers are stuck on cricket, the sons are having a field day playing football. “Aryan is a huge fan of Sachin just the way Shah Rukh is,” says adman Prahlad Kakar, who like Kasbekar has worked on several ad films with the two. “They both come from relatively unknown backgrounds. In one of my ads, I made SRK wear a curly wig and he looked so much like Sachin. I think physically they look relatively alike too,” adds Prahlad.

The lovely and homely wives of these two superstars might admit there is much in common between Sachin and Shah Rukh... only the last similarity between the batting maestro and great actor is to do with their respective wives, Anjali and Gauri — both keep their private lives very guarded.

Sharin Wader, TNN