SRK walks the ramp for Manish Malhotra at Lakme fashion week - Video

In Pics: Shahrukh Khan Walks The Ramp at Lakme Fashion Week

SRK: Thank you very much!

What a day! First there was Akshay Kumar and then Shah Rukh Khan who never, ever fails to entertain you. His spontaneity and charm is unmatched and ever-so-endearing. For the first time, the audience at the 2009 LFW was laughing their hearts out, shouting, screaming, clapping and yelling, “Love you, SRK” to which the superstar replied, “Thank you, darling!”

And what a star studded audience it was. From Vikram Chatwal, Preity Zinta, Hrithik Roshan and wife Susanne, Kareena Kapoor(not with Saif), Tusshar, Genelia, Sridevi with Boney and daughter, Arjun Rampal with his stunning wife Mehr, Anu Dewan, Gauri Khan (of course), Rita Dhody with Nari (we think they are more than just friends) to Anaita Shroff Adajania (who was seen chatting with Sabina and Anil Chopra) and Parmeshwar Godrej.

Shah Rukh, in a black coat and chocolate brown dhoti pants with a designer gold sling was the showstopper. He walked the ramp and then unlike any showstopper before him, started talking, because he doesn’t do anything without a mic!

“This was gooood!” he exclaimed, “For formality sake, I want to thank the Lakme Fashion Week for having me here because I am neither tall nor good looking. You are very kind people. I would also like to thank all the models who were very kind to me backstage. Thank you everyone as you made me feel that I could do this and my Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team. Since our growing years, we have been taught to believe in the notion that models can’t act but my handsome, beautiful and very talented friend Arjun Rampal has proved them wrong. Then there is Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham who has muscles everywhere, Dino Morea and even Zeenat Aman has been a model. All you models are wonderful and talented. Thank you”

“I would also like to thank my beautiful friends Kajol, Kareena, Preity Zinta, Boney and Sri and my wife Gauri. She said she would talk to me the next morning no matter how I do now. I would like to thank Preity because she has joined KKR now,” he laughed

“Choreographer Lubna Adams has done a great job and she tried to make me look good. She told me to give her my 'good looking face' and I showed her and said, 'This is it. So she said 'Well, you will have to change it by sucking in your face, pouting and looking very angry.' So I showed her like this and she said 'You look like a fish that is starved of sex.' I didn’t mind the fish part but well, I am a Khan and I have some reputation! Then Karan tried to show me and he asked me to look as if I didn’t give a beep!” he said and everyone burst into laughter.

Lastly he introduced and welcomed designer Manish Malhotra on stage. He said, “He designs for the wonderful and beautiful boys and girls on screen but he is the first designer in the history of mankind and in the world to design a sling. If you guys (LFW) give away Filmfare awards, then he should get it for making a sling. Thank you very much, guys.”

I cannot forget mentioning the collection which comprised sporty wear in black and gold. For the first time probably, a Manish Malhotra show didn’t have bright colours. Korbo Jeeto Re was the main song. Topless male models looking super hot with six pack abs opened the show and the girls were floored. They haven’t looked so appealing before. The super energetic and inimitable Alesia Raut was the first one to strut her stuff. Her energy, seen by the way her shiny long pony tail swayed from side to side is so appealing and unmatched!

The metallic black and gold KKR collection comprised dhoti pants, racer backs, ghaghras, mini dresses, short skirts, hot pants, sarees jeans, t-shirts, coats, cropped jackets and jumpsuits. Everything was paired with metallic gold sneakers. The accessories comprised glares in gold and pop colours, waist pouches, calf shields, boots, gold bags and caps.

All uber sporty, trendy, sexy and glam! Because of SRK and the sheer energy of the show made it unforgettable. A super success and by far the most entertaining show we have seen this fashion week!

KKR to go with single captain: Shah Rukh

Sourav Ganguly reached Mumbai on Tuesday to discuss captaincy issues with the Kolkata Knight Riders team owner Shah Rukh Khan who has also invited coach John Buchanan.

A lot of speculations were made as to who would be the new captain of the Indian Premier League team KKR in the second season, especially after John Buchanan came up with his theory of ‘rotating captains’.

Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan said on Monday that his team will go ahead in the second season of the Indian Premier League with a single captain only and Sourav Ganguly is still the main man of the team.

While walking the ramp in the Lakme Fashion Week, SRK said that Twenty20 is a new format of the game and there is always a room for innovation. However, KKR will sport only one captain in all the matches of the IPL 2 in South Africa, contrary to what coach John Buchanan had proposed a couple of days ago.

Buchanan came up with a theory of having ‘multiple captains’ in the team; one for fielding, one for batting, one for bowling and one for the toss as well. The concept created an outrage in the team’s home city, Kolkata, as it the idea seemed more of a conspiracy to dethrone Sourav Ganguly from the captaincy of the team.

Shah Rukh, however, nullified all arguments after he said that the ‘rotating captains’ theory will not be followed in South Africa and it will be only in case of some emergency that a stand-by captain kept.

He also said that it is he who’ll be taking all the decision regarding the team and he has given no free-hand to anybody regarding any issues in the team.

“Like the film Chak De India, there can be just one ‘gunda’ (boss) in the team and that is me,” said SRK.

He also added that, “There has never been anything anti-dada. We love him and all the decision will be made with his consent.”

Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan ready to butt heads again!

Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are ready to butt heads again, fortunately with their films at the box office this time.

Salman and Shah Rukh, who have not been on talking terms since a dust up at Katrina Kaif's birthday on July 16, feature in two long delayed films being released on July 3: Salman in Boney Kapoor's Wanted Dead And Alive and Shah Rukh in Vivek Vaswani's Dulha Mil Gaya.

The two aging Khans are amidst the most revered actors of Bollywood and their box office clash has made the industry edgy, but the producers of the two films are unfazed.

"I am not afraid of my film clashing with that of Shah Rukh's. I am confident it will do well," says Boney.

"My film hits the theatres on July 3 and I don't think there will be any problem if Salman's film releases on the same day. I am not apprehensive at all. They both have their loyal fan followings," says Vivek.

The media hype apart, Shah Rukh does a cameo in Dulha Mil Gaya, which headlines Sushmita Sen and Fardeen Khan, so it isn't all that much of a clash!

There were reports that Shah Rukh was unhappy because Vivek stretched his cameo beyond a single song that Shah Rukh committed to, in order to derive maximum mileage from the star's popularity.

Asin to romance Shahrukh Khan!

This Southern belle is definitely having a ball. After working with Aamir Khan in Ghajini Salman Khan in yet-to-be-released London Dreams , Asin is set to work with Shahrukh Khan .

Grapevine is abuzz that Asin is being considered for a role opposite SRK in a Yashraj film. However, the original choice for the role was Katrina Kaif , but Shahrukh, who wants to keep safe distance from Salman and co., wasn’t too interested in working with Katrina.

So Katrina is reportedly out and Asin is in.

Saying yes to the project wasn’t easy for Asin. She had already allotted the dates to a Priyadarshan flick with none other than Akshay Kumar . And since Yashraj Films demanded dates around the same time, Asin was in a fix. She had to choose between doing a film with Akki or Yashraj.

But luck favoured Asin. Akshay asked Priyadarshan to postpone his film because of unavailability of dates. So as Priyan’s film was shifted to 2010, Asin had free dates for the Yashraj film.

So now, as things stand, Asin is most likely doing the YR Film with SRK. But interestingly, there’s a buzz that she might be replaced by Katrina in Priyan’s film with Akki.

Well, the two ladies are all square now.