Shahrukh not to celebrate Dilwali

Shahrukh Khan always has some pleasant memories with Diwali. Most of his biggest hits be it Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Veer Zaara, Mohabbatein and Om Shanti Om have been Diwali releases. But this Diwali, Shahrukh will remain absent from the silver screen. The reason, well My Name Is Khan which was scheduled to release this Diwali has been postponed till next February.

The movie which is a joint venture between Shahrukh's Red Chillies Entertainment and director Karan Johar's Dharma Productions. Touted as the biggest movie in his career Shahrukh is in no mood to take any chances. There were also rumours that Kajol is creating problem with her dates as she doesn't want to be away from her daughter for too long. Well SRK's fans will surely have a dull Diwali.

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Shah Rukh Khan still unfit for Ra.One stunts!

Shah Rukh Khan, the badshah of bollywood who is desperate to do daring stunt sequences for Anubhav Sinha directed flick Ra.One, has been advised by doctors to resist from doing action sequences for two more months.

Sources say that Dr Ali Irani, who examined King Khan’s shoulder injury on Wednesday, was of the view that Shah Rukh Khan would have to continue with his physiotherapy and theraband exercises for two more months to be able to do action sequences in his films. In fact, Shah Rukh Khan’s shoulder injury has recuperated to almost ninety percent and there are indications that it would completely heal within two months, if Shah Rukh Khan could take proper care of it.

Doctors have warned Shah Rukh Khan to continue with theraband exercises even during outdoor shooting spells, as only that can strengthen his injured shoulder muscles.

Earlier, Shah Rukh Khan’s sci-fi ‘Ra.One’ had been postponed due to his shoulder injury as the film required King Khan to perform breath taking action sequences. Sources say that Shah Rukh plays a superman in the film and so the stunt sequences were the backbone of the whole venture.

At that time Shah Rukh had started the shooting of Karan Johar’s flick ‘My Name Is Khan’ to utilize the time, made available by the postponement of ‘Ra.One’, as it (Karan’s flick) needed only intense emotional sequences.

This time too, history seems to be repeating itself with ‘Ra.One’ getting postponed for Farah Khan’s upcoming flick ‘Happy Birth Day’, which does not require King Khan to flex his muscles. Another reason, said to have gone in favor of Farah Khan, is that Eros people were not very enthusiastic about Anubhav Sinha’s film, while they were more trusting towards Farah Khan genre of filmmaking.

It may be recalled that it all had started with Sushmita Sen starrer flick ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, wherein Shah Rukh was playing a cameo. While enacting a sequence in the film, Shah Rukh injured his left shoulder, and he was advised to take rest till the shoulder was fully healed.

Shah Rukh Khan had also undergone an arthroscopy surgery in February 2008 for his troubled shoulder at reputed Breach Candy hospital, and since then has been under medical supervision.

Update: SRK-Ash jodi back together!

Time heals all wounds, especially in the entertainment business, and none would vouch for this truism of life more than super icons Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Remember, they parted on a sour note after her hasty departure from his home production Chalte Chalte six years ago?

She had already canned a portion of the film when Salman Khan reportedly landed on the sets... and, well, the rest as they say is history.

Post that scene, SRK let Ash off the hook and took Rani Mukerji as his leading lady. And, since then, many big banners including Yashraj and Dharma failed to reunite the pair that created such magic in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas.

Subsequently, though the Bollywood Badshah wasn’t invited to the Ash-Abhishek wedding, King Khan and wife Gauri posed with the Bachchans for the shutterbugs at the Drona premiere last year. And more recently, at Karan Johar’s birthday party on May 25, the two couples — SRK and Gauri, Ash and Abhi — spent quality time together.

In the light of this thawing of relations, comes the news of cinematographer-director Rajiv Menon (whose Kandukonden Kandukonden in Tamil had Tabu and Ash) reuniting the SRK-Ash jodi. Menon is said to have flown to London to narrate a dramatic script (with Ash in mind) to Shah Rukh, which the actor liked.

At this point of his career, SRK is looking to do films that explore his dramatic intensity as in Devdas. He has no problems working with Ash and she with him. At Karan’s birthday, the Bachchans and Khans got along famously. Rajiv Menon’s film is being seen as a natural progression towards mending the bridges between two of the most powerful families of Bollywood.

Exclusive: Details of Discovery's docu on Shah Rukh Khan

Discovery Travel & Living has tentatively titled the documentary around actor Shah Rukh Khan as Living with a Superstar. The documentary, on the life of Khan, is being produced by Red Chilles Idiot Box.

Traversing four continents with the actor, the documentary is about Shah Rukh Khan - the businessman (shot in South Africa during IPL), Shah Rukh Khan - the global phenomenon (shot in USA), Shah Rukh Khan - the family man (shot in London) and Shah Rukh Khan - the actor (shot in India).

Reveals a unit hand, "We started shooting for the documentary in Mumbai when he was shooting the music video for Kolkata Knight Riders. From there we went to South Africa. That was a revelation as SRK's team was not playing really well."

The unit then followed SRK to San Francisco, where he was shooting for Karan Johar's My Name is Khan. Intimate details of the actor have been shot. We were told, "SRK is a star without any superstar tantrums. He traveled in one car with his man Friday and security officer. A very neat and tidy person, SRK's needs are scarce. He drinks at least 20 small cups of cold coffee with many many cigarettes. On the set, the unit followed him as he gave his shots or when he chatted with Karan in between takes."

The final leg of the documentary was shot in London, which has captured SRK with his family. From teaching his daughter Suhana to cycle to playing games with his son Aryan at Hyde Park… from cycling in the middle of the night to lunches at cafes with wife Gauri and his children, this footage has been regarded as "unseen and priceless."

Currently the documentary is being edited in Delhi, before work commences on the final leg of shooting. The documentary is a six part series of one hour each. A condensed version will also be telecast on Discovery Travel & Living some time next year.

My Name is Khan's connection with Slumdog

Karan Johar will be going global with his movie My Name is Khan very soon. There had been speculations abound whether Karan would be selling the world rights of the film to Yash Raj Films or to his new business associate UTV (they have tied up for Qurbaan and Wake Up Sid). But it is now learnt that Karan is tying up with a big international distribution company for the movie. This company is none other than Fox Studios. Apparently, they have already bought Karan’s My Name Is Khan for a whopping Rs.100 Crore.

Multiple Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire was a Fox product and the aggressive manner for which the studio is known to promote their films worldwide; one is sure My Name Is Khan will definitely be on everyone’s lips the world over, at the time of its release. With its topical theme and world’s most popular actor Shahrukh Khan in it, we won’t be surprised if the movie shatters box-office records worldwide, apart from generating critical acclaim just like Fox’s Slumdog Millionaire.

However, Karan Johar states that he is still working that out! My Name Is Khan is releasing either by the end of January or in February. A month of shoot is still left. Karan’s film is set against the 9-11 terror attacks and its impact on an Indian Muslim living in the US. It is being touted as the most awaited releases of the year. The film also stars Shahrukh Khan and Kajol in the lead after a gap of eight long years.

SRK takes Gauri for a ride!

Now we're sure you haven't seen these pics! Late Tuesday night, superstar Shah Rukh Khan was seen driving his white BMW convertible, with wife Gauri beside him. In the rear seat were Chunkey Pandey and his wife Bhavna. Well, the four were actually leaving from Sanjay Kapoor's housewarming party. Also seen were Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Harman Baweja. Take a peek!

Seated behind were good friends Chunkey and Bhavna Pandey

Shah Rukh Khan was seen taking wife Gauri for a drive in his BMW convertible last nite!

Manish Malhotra and Karan Johar seen waiting for SRK with host Sanjay Kapoor

Update: Are SRK and ASH doing a film together

Ash and SRK are set to star in a film produced by Red Chillies Entertainment. They were last seen in Devdas in 2002.

Shah Rukh’s currently busy with My Name Is Khan while Ash is busy with Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, Shankar’s Robot and Vipul Shah’s Action Replay. She will also start working on Ritesh Sidhwani produced Crooked with hubby Abhishek and Bhansali’s Guzaarish with Hrithik.

Sources say that Ash may star opposite SRK in sci-fi flick Ra 1, SRK’s home production or it could be a new film altogether. In Ra 1, SRK plays father to a teenage son and Ash could easily play a hot mamma.

SRK and Ash had no qualms about working together until Salman Khan threw a fit on the sets of Chalte Chalte which resulted in Ash’s ouster from the film. The role then went to Rani Mukerji.

This created a rift between SRK and Ash and SRK and Salman. The latter made up a few years later at Farah’s sangeet ceremony to fight again at Katrina’s birthday bash last year. SRK and Ash made up at Karan Johar’s birthday bash earlier this year. Gentlemanly SRK apologized to her for having wronged her. He also buried the hatchet with the Bachchans when he attended the Drona premiere last year.

Thus the seven year cold war between the two superstars has come to an end and it is only a matter of a year or two before they sparkle on the silver screen again.

SRK beats Aamir in distribution war!

Khan war is on! And SRK wins this time. While Aamir Khan's blockbuster Ghajini's global distribution rights were sold SRKfor Rs 90 crore, Shah Rukh Khan's My Name is Khan is getting a 100-crore deal from Fox Star Studios.

This is the highest price paid by a distributor for any Bollywood film ever.

In a way, My Name is Khan is already a hit even before hitting the theatres as the cost of the film is estimated to be around Rs 50 crore.

Datuk Shah Rukh makes RM50,000 donation to Malaysian sports foundation

Shah Rukh Khan has always been a sports enthusiast. Whether it's cricket or soccer, the actor has always supported all kinds of sports.

Recently the Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak invited SRK for his birthday celebrations. During his stay, Shah Rukh made a donation of RM50,000 to National Athletes Welfare Foundation of Malaysia.

Rani Mukerji accompanied SRK for the event where he handed over the cheque and spoke about his love for sports. He said that he hoped his donation would help fund programmes and schemes set up for athletes in the country.

The sports minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek briefed Rani and Shah Rukh about the 1 Ringgit, 1 Malaysia campaign which was set up to help collect donations for former athletes.

Shah Rukh was addressed as Datuk Shah Rukh at the event. He'd received the honorary title from the government last year.