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SHAH RUKH KHAN, KAJOL & KARAN JOHAR "LIVE" ON FEBRUARY 10

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Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2010

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Politics, agenda behind all this: SRK on Sena ante

"My daughter asked me over the phone if we'll have to leave India. Explaining this to the kids will be very difficult."

At a press conference on Saturday, Shah Rukh Khan elaborately discussed the controversy over Shiv Sena's reaction to his comments on Pakistani cricketers being excluded from the Indian Premier League's next season. (Watch: Pak players should have been bought, says SRK)

The Sena had threatened to block the release of SRK's new film My Name Is Khan, scheduled to release on February 12. (Read: Saddened by Sena's attack, Shah Rukh tells NDTV)

SRK made his position (on the issue) clear: "I have only said what every Indian should. I stand by what I have said. I think there's a bit of agenda and politics in all this."

"Often we film people find ourselves on the wrong side of politics. I don't think Sena went against my film because it has 'Khan' in the name. The good news is that I have just heard there will be no problems with my film," he added.

"I have a personal identity, but also a national identity - we are Indians, and my Indian identity makes me believe in certain things. I don't hold any one responsible and I stand by what I have said," he reiterated. (Read & Watch: I stand by what I have said, says SRK)

Earlier in the day, moments after he landed in Mumbai after a trip to New York and London to promote My Name is Khan, SRK hinted at an olive branch for the Shiv Sena. "I am what I am because of Mumbai.I want everyone in Mumbai to be happy. Why should we have this kind of stress? Let's be patient and talk it out," the actor said, amid huge security at the airport.

Shahrukh insisted that the entire controversy over his statements has been misunderstood. "If I say anything it will be misconstrued and further turned around, let me not even use big words. I am pro relationship with countries, which was misconstrued," he said,

The actor underlined his relationship with the Thackeray family, saying that he has interacted with them many times - and if they want to speak to him on this, he would be willing to meet them. "I will go meet Balasaheb if he calls me. He is a senior leader. I have gone in the past when he's called me. I enjoy his company," he said, with.

For its part, the Shiv Sena seems be in two minds over the issue. Uddhav Thackeray's reactions indicate that the Sena isn't sure about opposing the release of SRK's new film. "We have not spoken to Shah Rukh as yet. If he feels he has made a mistake he can come and place his views before Balasaheb. Shiv Sainiks will react based on their own anger," he said.

On Saturday, Sena chief Bal Thackeray wrote in the party's mouthpiece Saamna that the Sena would not stop the screening of My Name Is Khan, as threatened earlier.

However, Sena leaders later said that Thackeray's editorial was sarcastic, and their threats against the film stand. Mumbai's senior-most policemen have clarified that they will protect cinemas screening the film.

Theatre-owners have received phone calls and letters from the Sena, warning them not to show the movie.

They were also told not to screen the film unless Shah Rukh apologises. In London, a few days ago, Khan, at a presser, said that was not likely to happen.

The Shiv Sena has already burnt its fingers with the visit of Rahul Gandhi. Over 300 of its workers were detained, but Gandhi stole the show. Now it may want to avoid a repeat and be happy with a face saver.

I stand by what I said: Shah Rukh Khan

Here's the transcript for what Shah Rukh Khan said at a press conference in Mumbai on Saturday evening.

"My kids are young and it is very important to explain to them what has happened. My daughter called and asked me "Papa, will we have to leave India?"

I just found that very sad. I told her that is not the case. But it is very embarrassing.

I am feeling a little stressed. My movie is about to release but I can hardly feel any nervousness or excitement. Normally this doesn't happen.

I felt very sad at this one conference at London - I even felt like crying - when I was trying to explain to people what I stand for. Why am I being questioned for being a regular Indian? I am not on a political platform or anything.

My contemporaries and friends - I thank those have spoken out and even those who did not say anything, These are sensitive issues. Sometimes you keep quiet, not out of fear, but out of prudence.

I stand by what I said and I would like to say that maybe some groups misunderstood me. There is no other explanation, because I have not said anything that I am sorry for. This is not about being 'pro' another nation and 'anti' our nation; it is about being pro relationships. Maybe these groups understand that now, and I appreciate that.

Sometimes when we are radical and angry, we get so aggressive that we don't hear the other point of view.

My Name is Khan is a big film and the stakes are very high. I don't want people - my family or yours - to go watch this movie with doubt or fear in the back of their mind. Films are a big part of Mumbai, even our nation, and I would really like them to be disassociated (from politics)."

WATCH: My daughter ask me over the phone will we have to leave india, Says Shahrukh Khan

SPECIAL: Discovery splurges on Shah Rukh Khan series

The 10-part series on the private life of the Bollywood movie actor, to be aired on DT&L later this month, cost the company around Rs25 crore, said an executive at Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific.

Discovery Communications India, which operates Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and lifestyle channel Discovery Travel and Living (DT&L), is rolling out its most expensive production in the country, Living With A Superstar—Shahrukh Khan.

The 10-part series on the private life of the Bollywood movie actor, to be aired on DT&L later this month, cost the company around Rs25 crore, said an executive at Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, a division of Discovery Communications. He didn’t want to be identified.

Rahul Johri, senior vice-president and general manager (India) at Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, did not comment on the cost, but said the series reiterates the importance of the Indian market for the network.

“It is our biggest investment in a show in India and we had 12 people following Shah Rukh Khan for a year,” he said.

The cost includes Khan’s fee and the production cost paid to Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd’s Idiot Box, the television content firm he owns, which co-produced the series with Blue Mango Films based in Delhi.

Discovery is spending an additional $1 million (Rs4.7 crore) on promoting the show.

DT&L is hoping for a good boost with the series on Khan, one of the country’s biggest stars and popular with Indians both at home and overseas. The channel has 30 million subscribers in India, but lags rival lifestyle channel NDTV Good Times in viewership share, according to TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd. The niche English information-cum-entertainment segment accounts for just under 1% of the television viewership in India, according to TAM Media.

The new thrust by DT&L on India is evident. It has moved its head of programming for the Asia-Pacific region to India and Johri promises a more local focus. “The Apac (Asia-Pacific) production base is now in Delhi instead of Singapore earlier. You will see more Indian influence in our programming,” he said.

Discovery will telecast Living With A Superstar on DT&L from 26 February, after a prelude to the series on Discovery Channel on 19 February called Revealed: Shahrukh Khan.

The 10-part series has roped in eight large advertisers, including Hyundai Motor India Ltd, Apollo Munich Health Insurance Co. Ltd and Parle Products Pvt. Ltd. “We are in talks with several others,” Johri said.

The idea for a personal life series on Khan was generated jointly by Johri, Samar Khan of Red Chillies and the Blue Mango team. Johri hopes to take the idea forward with other celebrities. “We have a template, so after Shah Rukh this format is something we will build up on,” he said.

Ruchira Raina, managing director of Dentsu Communications and Dentsu Media, said while the show may not be able to put DT&L at par with bigger general entertainment channels, it would give a spike to its viewership.

“The loyal viewers will surely lap it up and at the same time it would pull curious onlookers as well,” Raina said.

Manas Mishra, executive vice-president of Mudra Connext, said Discovery’s advertising rates for the show are not high enough to recover costs. “At Rs25,000-30,000 for 10 seconds, the DT&L show on Shah Rukh Khan cannot make enough money to pay for the nearly Rs25 crore production budget. It must have other revenue streams.”

Johri said recovering the investment would not be an issue as the channel holds the rights to the series. “It can be monetized on our other channels globally,” he said.

Shah Rukh signs off sexy body-scan printouts at Heathrow

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan isn't intimidated by the full body-scan machines that have been recently installed at London's airports - in fact, he's been signing off printouts of his X-rays.

Khan, appearing on 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' - one of British television's most popular weekend shows - revealed he's been turning the controversial security machines into a public relations opportunity at London's Heathrow airport.

"I'm always stopped by the security, because of the name. And I think its okay: the western world is a little bit worried, paranoid and touchy, I guess - and feely when they're frisking you," Khan told his celebrity chat show host moments after explaining how his new film is about a Muslim named Khan on a mission to tell the US president he is not a terrorist.

"I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. You've got to see them. It makes you embarrassed - if you're not well endowed.

"You walk into the machine and everything - the whole outline of your body - comes out."

Khan said he did not know that the body-scans - installed in the wake of last year's abortive Christmas Day bombing of a transatlantic flight over Detroit - showed up every little detail of one's body.

"I was a little scared. Something happens [inside the scans], and I came out.

"Then I saw these girls - they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' - and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them."

Khan became the first Bollywood star to be invited on 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' after Shilpa Shetty in 2007, following her controversial appearance on Channel Four's 'Celebrity Big Brother', where the late British reality TV star Jade Goody was accused of bullying her.

But the Indian star, who is here for the London premier of his new film 'My Name is Khan', said he was "a little tense" because of threats by Shiv Sena activists in Mumbai to stop screenings of the film.

"I didn't say much. All I said was that we are Indians and we should welcome everyone with open arms into our country. We cannot say 'No, this country's people can't come or that country's people can't come'," said Khan.

"It's been blown out of proportion, and now they're stopping my film and not allowing it to be released. I'm a little tense."

Khan was cheered wildly by the studio audience at the BBC show - an indication of the rising mainstream appeal of Bollywood films in Britain.

His 'Friday Night' appearance alongside popular British TV star John Barrowman and presenter Lorraine Kelly was thought to be the first by a Bollywood superstar on an international television show. Fittingly, the show ended with Khan, Ross and Kelly dancing Bollywood-style.

Sena won't disrupt SRK's film My Name Is khan

It's a rare event in Mumbai -- the Shiv Sena backing down. But that's what appears to have happened on Saturday, a day after the saffron group's bluster about holding protests against Rahul Gandhi's visit fizzled out in the face of the Congress leader's mass-contact move to board a local train to his meeting venues.

After the snub, the Sena, while maintaining it was still ideologically opposed to Shah Rukh Khan taking up the cause of including Pakistani players in IPL teams, said it won't disrupt screening of his next release, `My Name Is Khan'. In its first comment on the movie after Rahul's much-publicised train ride through Sena bastions, the party insisted that the actor, however, remained a "" in their eyes.

Both parties in the Shiv Sena-Shah Rukh Khan feud appeared to climb down without backing off completely from their stance amid talk that a Bollywood actor had played mediator between the Sena and the actor.

Khan's comments, after he touched down in Mumbai on Saturday morning, were also more guarded than those he had made abroad. Not once did he say he had said anything wrong -- when he commented on Pakistani players not being picked for IPL teams (his own team did not pick any) -- but he made the right noises to indicate that he was not interested in taking the war of words forward in the run-up to the release of his film on February 12.

But the Sena's climbdown was more spectacular despite the potshots it took at the Congress and Khan. In an editorial in Saamna, Sena chief Bal Thackeray said: "The Congress is free to rule the country in the manner it thinks is proper. Let Pakistan carry on its terrorist activity in Mumbai and let Shah Rukh Khan release his film with the blessings of the Gandhi dynasty. The Sena will not do anything."

Sena CEO Uddhav Thackeray told TOI on Saturday: "Why should the Sena alone stick its neck out on terrorism or regional pride? Pak-sponsored terrorism is a major threat to India and Mumbai's security.

However, the Congress leaders are not willing to take a firm stand on these issues as they believe in taking orders from 10 Janpath. Other political parties too keep mum on this sensitive issue. So why should Shiv Sainiks suffer police excesses and imprisonment? Matoshree, after all, is also on the hit list of Pak terrorists."

SRK, on his part, said it was sad that his remarks on Pakistani cricketers in IPL had been misconstrued. Asked if he would go to Matoshree to explain his position, Khan said Bal Thackeray was a senior leader and he had gone to his residence whenever he was called. "I have been there so often. Yes, I would like to go and have a drink with him," he said. But he also said he did not think the current issue merited any conversation. "If my stand needs to be explained to someone, I have already done it. I don't think there is an issue on that front," he said.

Khan, however, left a window open for conversation. "If there has been any misunderstanding, let's be gracious and let's talk it out... I think what I said was misconstrued. I am what I am because of Mumbai and I would like everyone in Mumbai to be happy. I think what is happening is very unfortunate. I think all the groups also want Mumbaikars to be happy. Then why create this kind of atmosphere?"

Asked why his own team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, had not picked any Pakistani player, the actor said his team was keen on taking Abdul Razzaq. "But my coach informed me later that he had a finger injury. There was a slot available but one should also take into consideration the prevailing atmosphere," he added.

He, however, refused to comment on the reasons for the Sena backing off. "I really don't know that and cannot comment on a group's thinking or working pattern. But I am thankful that now the film will be released without any stress. There are 250 people involved in the film. I am really happy to know that me and my film are being taken as two different entities," he said.

He also said arts, sports and culture could help build ties with other countries and should be encouraged. Told that Thackeray had called him a traitor, the actor said, "It feels really awkward for me to explain that I am an Indian and not a bad one and love my country. I don't need to prove it to anyone."

"I really felt like crying when I was being questioned for being a regular Indian. It hurt me even more when my daughter called and asked me, ‘Papa, do we have to leave India?' I had to send my wife, Gauri, back to be with the children," he added.

BJP leaders watches 'My Name Is Khan'

Politics and entertainment seems to be working hand to hand these days. With Shiv Sena targeting ‘My Name Is Khan,’ Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has openly came out in support of SRK and the leaders have even watched the film in special screening.

The members of the BJP and other political parties saw SRK’s latest movie at a special screening organised in New Delhi.

Chetan Chauhan, former cricketer and BJP leader, said, "Politics and films should be kept separate. It's an unnecessary controversy. There is no need for all this."

BJP is said to have been portraying more secular image by doing so.