SRK 'waxed' in Paris

It's general knowledge that the English in India and other foreign countries is 'Same-Same but different'. In the sense, in India, we say 'Cat', whereas they say it's 'Kat'. Here we say, 'cheque', they say 'chek', so on and so forth! But there's one name to which not only India, but the whole of the Universe abides by and shall abide till eternity and that's 'Shah Rukh Khan'!

The latest 'victim' of the SRK mania was Paris, a city which experienced a never-before mayhem. The reason? Well, SRK was in France for the unveiling of his wax statue at the Grevin Museum. His wife Gauri Khan and Karan Johar accompanied him.

If you thought that SRK will be a stand-alone in the museum, better think again, coz' he has company from the likes of Marylyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and around 300 odd celebrities. SRK now becomes the third Indian at the museum, the first two being Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.

Is there anything left for you to accomplish, Mr. Khan? True that 'Impossible Is Nothing'.

Shah Rukh : The Host Rider

Shah Rukh Khan seems to be telling many of his near and dear ones: Be my guest. And most of them are more than willing to attend the cricket matches with him.

Apparently, all the actors who've gone to cheer his team on, have returned impressed with the host that he is.

"He personally looks into everything from the minute you reach the airport – the flight boarding, getting into the bus, a comfortable drive to the hotel and check-in, commuting to the venue, the food and everything. Also, he is extra protective of the ladies who may be travelling – Gauri's friends and actresses, if any," says a close friend of the Khan.

Now, that's our host-rider!

Economic Times India

“It is the overseas audience who have made me the star I am.” - SRK

“London is my favourite, favourite place in the world!” Shah Rukh Khan beamed when he collected his Best Actor award for ‘Chak De! India’ at last Saturday’s Zee Cine Awards 2008 in London.

The ‘Bollywood Bafta’ was presented to him by Bollywood’s original diva, Rekha who stunned the sell-out crowd by reciting the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’ and singing a few lines from the classic Asha Bhosle track, ‘Dil Cheez Kya Hai’ from the film ‘Umrao Jaan’. Khan performed his ‘Om Shanti Om’ number with at least ten other stars on stage. “Why didn’t you call me on stage to dance with you?” Rekha asked Khan. “Oh Rekhaji, we have grown too old for you!” he cheekily replied.

Khan’s win was no surprise: he was nominated twice in the Best Actor’s category for the aforementioned ‘Chak De! India’ and for his blockbuster ‘Om Shanti Om’. Khan also won the first ever ‘Lifestyle Icon’ award, which broke into half when he collected it. The ‘King Khan’ ended by thanking his London fans: “It is the overseas audience who have made me the star I am.”

Anil Sinanan, Times Online - UK

Chak de and oso are winners at Zee Cine Awards 2008

Best Film
Chak De! India - Aditya Chopra, Yash Raj Films

Best Actor (Male)
Shah Rukh Khan - Chak De! India

Best Actor In A Negative Role (Male/Female)
Arjun Rampal - Om Shanti Om

Most Promising Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone - Om Shanti Om

Technical Awards
Best Choreographer - Farah Khan - Om Shanti Om
Best Costume – Manish Malhotra & Karan Johar - Om Shanti Om
Best Visual Effects - Red Chilli's Entertainment - Om Shanti Om
Best Editing – Amitabh Shukla - Chak de India
Best Cinematography - Sandip Chaterjee- Chak de India
Best Dialogue - Jaideep Sahani - Chak De India
Zee Icon award – Shah Rukh Khan
Bollywod Queen Award - Gauri Khan

Shahrukh shines in Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hai

THE MUCH awaited reality show, ’Kya aap paanchvi pass se tez hai’ started at 8pm on Star Plus on April 25 (Friday). The bollywood superstar, Shahrukh Khan, is really a super star whether it’s in movies or on the small screen. The funny one liners, his charisma, his wit – everything was visible in the first episode of the five-crore prize money show. It really is a pleasure to watch King Khan when he is at his best.

Dressed in a casual light blue shirt with a black waist coat, blue jeans, Khan played the part of a school teacher. On a funny note, he said that he always wanted to be a teacher but ended up being an actor. But still, he got a chance to play the role of a teacher in the movie, Mohabbatein. Indeed, his wish came true through ’Kya aap paanchvi pass se tez hai’.

The first contestant of the show was 39-year-old Vedula Ramalaxmi, a PhD in Hindi and an MA gold medalist. The Orrisa based lecturer did not expect the questions to be so tough, yet so simple.

Five kids also participated in the show. The very first question, “A prism has nine edges. True or False?” clearly made her sweat. The baffled gold medalist must have surely thought of going back to school or going through her son’s text books. A series of questions followed and after earning 2,00,000 rupees, Ramalaxmi requested to quit. She had to undergo a lot of embarrassment, as according to the headmaster’s rule, a person wishing to leave the class midway has to call himself a coward, a ’Bhagoda’ and also has to say, “Main paanchvi pass se tez nahi hoon (I’m not sharper than a fifth passed out).”

In the show, three life saving options were also there – taal jhaank, copy and bachao. After answering 10 questions correctly, one question will be asked, ’Sawal paanch crore ka’. If that is answered correctly, the mega prize money belongs to the contestant.

29-year-old Pramod Tripathi was the second contestant of the evening. After answering the first question, the school bell rang, thus ending the show.

Before the credits started, Khan narrated an incident of his school days after he gathered the five young classmates – Shreya, Sreeparna, Dheirya, Milanjeet and Anubhav – who helped the contestants on the show. Anubhav had earlier sung and danced on Khan’s dard-e-disco.

The total of three tiffin breaks were quite irritating for the people watching the show.

In the end, it was a great show hosted by a great personality. The show will be aired on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm on Star Plus.

Whether it’s Fauji, Circus, KBC or Kya aap paanchvi pass se tez hai, you can like or dislike any of these serials, but you can’t ignore King Khan. Hope he keeps performing for many more years to come.

Gloria D Souza, Meri News

Shahrukh tells everything about Billoo Barber

Shah Rukh Khan's home production Billoo Barber directed by Priyadarshan has constantly been in the news mainly for its changes in the cast. With too many speculations doing the rounds, the superstar decided to set the facts straight about Billoo Barber once and for all.

According to SRK, the film is a sweet story of friendship which is quite similar to the bond shared between Krishna and Sudama. Irrfan Khan would be playing the title role of Billoo Barber while Shah Rukh would be seen in an important role in the film. Interestingly a lot of names including Juhi Chawla, Ameesha Patel and Tabu were considered for the part of Irrfan's wife but now it's finally Lara Dutta who has been finalized for that role.

The film which is a remake of a Malayalam film focuses mainly on the life of Irrfan Khan, his wife (Lara) and their two kids. The other cast members apart from Irrfan Khan, SRK and Lara Dutta include Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav and Asrani.

Khan also added that apart from the main cast, the two hot-n-happening beauties of Bollywood Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone would also be seen in a guest appearance in the film.

With such a cast coming together, Billoo Barber is surely one of the keenly anticipated films of this year.

'Chak De India', 'OSO' strike it rich at IIFA technical awards

Mumbai (PTI): Shah Rukh Khan starrers "Chak De India" and "Om Shanti Om" swept the technical awards of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) announced here on Friday.

While "Chak De..." won five titles, "Om Shanti Om" bagged four of the 14 awards that were announced. The winners will be presented trophies at the IIFA Weekend that will be held from June 6 to 8 in Bangkok, a press release issued here said.

Shimit Amin's "Chak De India" swept the awards for technical excellence winning for best cinematography (Sudeep Chatterjee), best editing (Amitabh Shukla), best sound recording (Manas Choudhary and Ali Merchant), best sound re-recording (Anuj Mathur) and best screenplay (Jaideep Sahni), who jointly shared the honours with Anurag Basu for "Life in a Metro".

Close behind was Farah Khan's "Om Shanti Om" with four awards for best art direction (Sabu Cyril), best special effects (Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd.), best costume designing (Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sanjiv Mulchandani) and best makeup (Bharat-Dorris, Ravi Indulkar and Namrata Soni).

The choreography award went to Vaibhavi Merchant for "Aaja Nachle" for the title number, while Javed Sheikh and Ejaz Sheikh won the best action award for "Shootout at Lokhandwala". The award for best sound recording went to H Sridhar for "Guru" for the song 'Barso re...', while A R Rehman won the IIFA Award for best background score for the same flick. Imtiaz Ali won the IIFA for best dialogues for the movie "Jab We Met".

The Hindu

Ronit's men guard SRK

Ronit Roy’s security agency is providing cover to Khan and his entourage during IPL matches

Apart from acting on television, Ronit Roy also owns and runs a security agency, Ace Security and Protection. He is providing the security cover to Shah Rukh Khan and his entourage during the Indian Premier League matches. In the past, Ronit’s agency has worked with several B-Town actors and also managed several events.

A source reveals that Ronit is working in tandem with Shah Rukh’s bodyguard Yaseen on taking care of security matters. “This isn’t the first time he’s worked with Shah Rukh. They have a long association where Ace has worked on providing security for Shah Rukh at many of his events.”

Throwing light on how it works the source adds, “Ronit is not handling ground security. He’s closely working on Shah Rukh and his family’s personal security. This means providing them proper cover and making sure their every move is monitored.

Since Yaseen is Shah Rukh’s personal bodyguard he tells Ronit the mandatory requirements and what kind of security is required. Depending on the scenario and the surroundings the security arrangements change.”

Ronit confirms that his agency is providing cover to Shah Rukh. “Yes my company has a long-standing relation with him. Beyond this I wouldn’t want to say anything.”

Tushar Joshi

Shah Rukh, definitely pass!

While SRK gets ready for his new quiz show, Mumbai Mirror (MM) decided to do a quick GK test with him.

And guess what?

SRK scored 8.5/10!

Heres how:

MM: There is a poem: When you are happy and you know it.... complete the poem.
SRK: Hmmm… I don't know (Right answer: Clap your hands)

MM: How did mountains get formed?
SRK: Some were formed when the earth's crust was folded, some were formed when the crust broke and the parts jutted out.

MM: Why can't we see stars in daytime?
SRK: Because the sun is also a star, the light of the sun is so intense that the white stars cannot be seen; stars show up clearly only against the darkness of the night

MM: Why don't stars fall from the sky?
SRK: They do fall; they are far from the earth. When they fall, it takes a long time to burn out.

MM: Why don't oil and water mix?
SRK: Because water is heavy and oil is light. Therefore they are immiscible. Oil will always float in water even if you shake it hard.

MM: If all rivers empty into the sea why doesn't the sea overflow?
SRK: Water from the sea turns into vapour and rises into the air

MM: 'My very educated mother just showed us nine planets in this sentence'. What does this mean?
SRK: This sentence gives away the names of the nine planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Take the first letter of the first nine words of the sentence and you'll know how I got it.

MM: Why has God given us two legs, two hands, two ears, two eyes...but only heart?
SRK: He has given the second one to someone else; one has to go and find it (smiles).

MM: Who started the comic series Tinkle?
SRK: Anant Pai

MM: Name five characters from Tinkle.
SRK: I think that I can name four... Tantri The Mantri, Kaalia The Crow, Shikhari Shambhu (SRK, if you had remembered only Supandi, Naseeruddin Hooja, we wouldn't have deleted half mark here… and you would have scored 9/10).

Renu Bhatnagar, Mumbai Mirror

SRK all set to roll the Paanchvi Pass ball

Mumbai, April 25: Remember those days when you used to struggle remembering those math formulas, spellings and who would forget those innumerable peeps the dictionary? But alas we grew up and now it seems that all those things that gave us some trouble were so damn easy. Easy? Are you sure think again. If class standard was this easy then go ahead and catch King Khan's new show 'Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain', that starts today at 8.30 pm.

According to Siddharth Basu, the brain behind the concept, if you have trouble remembering the formula for the area of a triangle or figures of speech that you learnt in primary school, it's definitely the time to go back to school and joining you on this rollercoaster ride will be your star escort Shahrukh Khan.

Shah Rukh Khan returns as a quizmaster on television with his new show, after his successful first innings in Star Plus 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'.

A simple format --the quiz show 'Kya Aap Paanchvi Pas Se Tez Hai'?, is a unique format that has participants pitched along with five fifth standard classmates, answering a series of primary school-level questions to win a sum of Rs.5 crore as prize money. This game show is based on the international Mark Burnett format, "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?" Anyone above the age of 18 can participate in the show. The questions asked would be taken from the first to fifth grade syllabus. Which means that anything taught to students studying between the first to fifth grades can be asked.

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