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King Khan Says He's A Gizmo Freak!

If reports are to be believed, King Khan is also 'tech savvy' as he is acting savvy...

If reports are to be believed, King Khan is also 'tech savvy' as he is acting savvy...

During a Hewlett Packard event yesterday, Shah Rukh 'Don' Khan actually confirmed this...

Speaking to this correspondent, SRK, as he is fondly called, said it's through technology that a child, the society, and the country can progress. "I believe that technology is the promise of tomorrow," he said.

A self-confessed gizmo freak, the debonair Khan said, "The day a new gizmo hits the market, I grab it. Its in fact kind of a 'first day first show' for me."

A tad wary of computers, SRK feels every now and then you need to update and upgrade your PC with the latest software available in the market.

Meanwhile, he loves his laptop, and ferries it along wherever he goes.
"In fact I have stopped writing. I use my laptop for everything -- script reading, editing, going through shots at film shoots, et al."

All said, he believes that in today's day and age, every household - every child - in fact, everyone with a dream - must have a PC.

Known to be a devoted father, Shah Rukh said he allows his kids to mess with his PC. One can always retrieve what is lost, he says.

Of course it irritates when kids keep pestering you with questions. But he informs that the simple way out is to ask your kid to search whatever it is that he/she is looking for on the net.

Shah Rukh's penchant for technology is much publicized. In fact, the Bollywood buzz is that he's set-up a gaming zone in his gym to play virtual games every night after work-outs.

The other thing he likes is dabbling in visual effects. Which might explain why he's signed S Shankar, director of "Sivaji: The Boss" for his next film. Shankar is credited with some of the best computer graphics in his films.
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I Have So Many Fans Because I Work Hard, says SRK

As if one Shah Rukh Khan isn't enough, sometimes you get two for the price of one.

"You always believed in the future. Don't you always say Kal tumhara hai (Tomorrow is yours)? I believe if you don't have a dream, what do you have?" said Shah Rukh.

On Tuesday, the actor turned up at an event to promote a new range of computers he endorses. The computer-savvy star said he doesn't have much time to spend on his computer, in fact he used the opportunity to make a dig at contemporaries like Aamir Khan and Anil Kapoor who have recently taken to writing Internet blogs to promote their films. "I think one of the reasons that I have good fan following is because I work very hard. So, either I can write blogs or can keep working hard," said Shah Rukh.

Having endorsed practically every available product already, one cannot help but ask him what he would like to endorse next himself. "Would I want to do more products? The more the merrier. I could promote journalism," said Shah Rukh.
Any takers for journalist Khan? We think not. That one, we'll pass.
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Aggressive marketing for Om Shanti Om

Shafiq Ahmed at 4:38 am on Thursday, July 26, 2007, Donkhan.org

The music industry is certainly on a high note in Bollywood. Increasing numbers of large films have been announced and one of the biggest and most awaited films of 2007 is Shah Rukh Khan's home production, Om Shanti Om. It was recently reported that T-Series had acquired the rights to the music. Now comes the big question on the terms of the deal. We have learned through reliable sources and an insider was overheard saying, "It's true that T-Series has acquired the audio rights for Om Shanti Om. The deal has happened at a figure between 6 to 7 crores and the company plans to promote the music very aggressively".

The film directed by Farah Khan has music by Vishal-Shekhar with some arrangements made by yesteryear music director Pyarelal of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo. The major highlight of the film is a song that features almost the entire present day and (even the) yesteryear film industry people playing themselves. The last time one saw something like this was in Manmohan Desai's Naseeb. Farah, however, promises to make this experience bigger and better.

T-Series is currently the biggest player in the Indian music industry and is planning innovative ways to market Om Shanti Om, including a big activation on the digital medium. Its upcoming lineup of film includes big names like Bhool Bhuliya, Welcome, God Tussi Great Ho, Showbiz, Taare Zameen Par, Bhootnath and the Ghajini remake.

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HP and Shahrukh Khan announce New Compaq Desktops and Laptops in Mumbai

Shafiq Ahmed at 4:51 am on Thursday, July 26, 2007, Donkhan.org

Hewlett Packard, better known as HP, organized an event in Mumbai to announce its new brand identity of Compaq. With the re-launch of its Compaq brand of laptops, HP has also introduced its new desktops and notebooks under the Compaq portfolio.

The king of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan was also present at the event. Though he claimed to be associated with HP's Compaq brand for quite a while now, he wouldn't term himself as the brand ambassador of HP Compaq.

The most noticeable thing at the event was the new logo that combines 'C' and 'Q' that resembles a thought bubble defining an embodiment of empowerment. The name itself 'Compaq' comes from 'Compatibility' and 'Quality'. Therefore, 'CQ' will be integrated into future marketing materials as a means to capture the possibilities that technology enables and inspires for consumers.

The latest campaign of Compaq, 'Kal Tumhara Hai' is to make PC the second and third durable products in every household. It targets at every educated customer in the country.

Super star Shah Rukh Kahn shares, "I am glad to be associated with Compaq. The vision of 'Kal Tumhara Hai' to empower you to make your dreams come true is close to my heart. Today a PC is a must for every household, for every child- in fact, for everyone- anyone who has a dream and the determination to achieve. Compaq has always empowered you to achieve your dreams and the new range makes it possible for your dreams to come true."

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Arsenal Signed Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan

Shafiq Ahmed at 6:21 am on Thursday, July 26, 2007, Donkhan.org

To surprise all the fans of the north London club Arsenal and foot ball, Shahrukh Khan had signed yesterday a four years contract to the club.

"The most important reason to us to capture him is his offensive ability performed in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Kai' movie," Said the magician exploiter Arsene Wenger, after the deal was done. "I hope he will do to us the same thing here."

In the mentioned movie Shahrukh, playing for his school, will just accept the ball from the goal keeper and scores a fascinating goal passing all the players.

King of bollywood Shahrukh was quoted saying: "It was the most difficult decision in my life to leave Bollywood, but finally I decided to join Arsenal b/c they play like the movies fantastically. Like I was doing in the 'Dil to Pagal Hai' and other movies, I will surprisingly appear before goal keepers and score goals."

He had also told reporters that Arsenal fans should never worry if the team mates on the field will be only 10, because he will surprisingly be the 11th one.

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"I hope I don't have to grow a beard for another role for the next couple of years. It's very scratchy when you wake up in the morning. Even after a bath, you don't feel clean" - Shah Rukh Khan - Interview

By Devansh Patel, July 25, 2007 - 15:44 IST, Indiafm.com / features

You won't see him cry, you won't see him clean shaved, you won't see him romancing his co-stars and you won't see him bash up bad guys. King Khan, as he is fondly called is back in his third off beat role after Swades and Paheli where he plays the coach of a women's hockey team in what's considered to be one of his most challenging characters he has ever portrayed onscreen. IndiaFM's London correspondent brings you an exclusive interview with ShahRukh Khan from his next big release Chak De India.

Chak De India appears like a very non-SRK film with you having no romantic liaisons or tear-jerking concerns.
I have known the director (Shimit Amin) for years. He is a very simple, hardworking and talented guy. He has worked with me in the film Asoka. He's a very sweet, unassuming kind of a guy and to choose a film which is on sports and which is normally neglected is daring. Apart from Lagaan, Hip Hip Hurray and Iqbal we haven't really made sports film now. It's something that I wanted to do when I was younger but I didn't get a chance. So when I am old and grey and over the hill I am glad someone like Shimit thought that I could sort of fill in to a sports film. Field hockey has been a personal favourite sport of mine and I have been wanting my kids to learn it. I do feel I am no one to really comment from the outside that the state of Indian Hockey is not good but I have always felt that if there is anything I can do via the medium I love, that is acting, I will go to any extent to do it. Plus the fact that Yash Raj was producing it made it even special because they are all friends and family to me.

Also this time your character doesn't have a lover-boy image.
Yes. I play Kabir Khan. He is a coach and an ex-Indian hockey player. He is having some problems in his life and wants to overcome them without being cynical and disturbed. He decides in his mind and heart that he is going to do something positive about it. It's a film about achievement in the face of failure and it's a film that looks at failure in a positive way. The idea is to take on some kind of a challenge and try to overcome that obstacle which had stopped you earlier so I would say the character is quite aggressive when he wants to be. It's a mix of Jaideep's writing, Shimit's outlook, Adi's belief and my mannerisms and style – all rolled into one.

Chak De India is a mix of Jaideep's writing, Shimit's outlook, Adi's belief and my mannerisms and style – all rolled into one.

You don't look the regular Shahrukh in Chak De India
I have reached a stage where directors do not want me to look the same old ShahRukh Khan. Shimit wanted Kabir Khan and that's how I look. A tough coach and a determined coach. I think the producer, director and the writer all thought that may be with a beard and shorter hair I would look different and I was fine with it. Only it's very scratchy when you wake up in the morning. Even after a bath, you don't feel clean. I hope I don't have to grow a beard for another role for the next couple of years.

The entire hockey team in the film comprises of new actors.
Earlier I thought that working with newcomers would be a bit of a hassle because they would not know their lines. You know you become a little patronizing and a little kind at times, a little agitated and irritated too because things are not going the way you think they should go. But I think the whole production team had worked very hard with them and I do not want to take any credit away from these girls. I think they are very hardworking and wonderful. They have put their heart and soul into the film. They have practiced and learnt hockey, they have learnt the lines, they know the scenes they knew everything and at the end of it all after having worked for 18 years as an actor I thought I got a lot to learn.

Among the girls in the team, many of them must have been your fans.
We had a lot of readings before we started the film and couple of meetings so that we got easy with each other apart from some of them liking me. It's a little embarrassing because some of them were five to six years old when they saw my films. Then you suddenly realize, god! you are old and you've been in this industry for long. It was also important for me to be comfortable with them and not treat them like kids because the whole purpose of the character of Kabir is that he doesn't treat them like kids or girls he treats them like grown up, tough people. I think that little bit of being fans and stalwart compared to the others got over very fast in the reading and meeting stage and then we were all co-actors and co-actresses, just working together and having a great time.

You are known to be a sporty person. Did you play hockey in school?
Yes. I used to play a lot of field hockey in my school days. I was good at it but when I went and played for the film I was horrible. I was really awful. I had no stamina left. I think the technique of hockey has changed, Astroturf itself is very tiring. As shameful as it is to say but I thought I would be able to beat the girls but they kicked my butt as they were really good. I am no good at playing field hockey I realized. I realized while playing with them that it would be better if I use my status as a super star and not practice at all and tell them that I can pull it off by acting so I did that because I knew that no matter how much I practice, I would never be good at it but I have given it my best shot and hopefully it looks good enough.

What was your experience of working with Shimit Amin?
I think Shimit is a very sweet director. He's very quiet and very unassuming. He is an amazing technician because he himself is very skilled at editing which I think is half the battle won for a director and knowing fully what he wants, where he wants and how he will edit it. A sports film has to be shot in a very special way and normally it required somewhere between two to six cameras at times to shoot the film, so its very difficult to keep track of all that unless you happen to be a good technician. I think he has had a lot of education in world cinema and not just Indian cinema. He loves Indian cinema. Thus his exposure to both kind of cinema gives him an edge over a lot of other directors. He's young and he's made a wonderful film in the past ' Ab Tak Chhappan' and he's a friend. I have known him for years and he is very comfortable to work with. A really sweet guy, he doesn't get angry, is great by nature and knows his job. He's an ideal director to work with.

Hockey as a sports option is not very common in schools today. Do you think it's a good game for the children of today?
I just hope the film can educate people to understand that even though Hockey is played with a stick and white ball it's not pool, it's not billiards, it's a different sport. It's a national sport. I would tell kids to give it a shot if they like it and go ahead otherwise there is always soccer, cricket or a Taekwondo.

Though Hockey is played with a stick and white ball it's not pool, it's not billiards, it's a different sport. It's a national sport.

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words Chak De India?
Chak De strangely to me is a line from Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge. I remember we used to say Chak De Phate in DDLJ. I hope Chak De India becomes like a sporting line whenever Sachin is playing. Or perhaps when Dhanraj Pillai is going with the ball, somebody screams Chak De India which means score a goal or hit a sixer or get Sania Mirza to win the Wimbledon.

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It's King Khan for Shankar's Robot

Work on the mega budget film will commence in four months' time, although Shankar is already busy writing notes on every aspect of Robot.

CHENNAI: Director Shankar, the emperor of style, has pulled off a spectacular coup.

He has signed up Shah Rukh Khan to play the lead role in Robot, a sci-fi film, and supposed to be Shankar's dream project. Robot is Shankar's second project in Hindi, Nayak being the first.

King Khan was so bowled over by the story that he has stepped in as producer too. And Shankar's magnum opus would be produced by Red Chillies Entertainment.

Shah Rukh, whose Chak de India is set to release soon, is so excited about Shankar's film that he has decided to push all other projects aside, sources close to the actor revealed.

Work on the mega budget film will commence in four months' time, although Shankar is already busy writing notes on every aspect of Robot.

The rest of the star cast is being finalised, and with the badshah of box office in the lead role, there is already stiff competition among other Bollywood frontrunners to go the Robot way.

Much is being read into the fact that Shankar and A R Rahman were in Canada on the eve of Rajnikanth's Sivaji and speculation is rife that the latter may score the music for Shankar's latest celluloid offering.

Shankar when contacted, refused to comment on the movie but confirmed that the film would be on the floors soon with SRK in the lead role.

Robot the making of which was first reported by this website's newspaper, is likely to hit theatres in 2008.

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How Bachchans stole SRK film

There was a time when Ram Gopal Verma roped in SRK and Kareena for his sci-fi 'Time Machine' but the project was scrapped soon after its anouncement.

By the time the director got ready to start the film in September, he is quoted to have said, "The kind of cinema I make is incompatible with Shah Rukh's image. I know he has a huge fan following among children and women who love his kind of films. And the film I planned is completely opposite of the image he has amongst his fans.. I would be a total mismatch with Shah Rukh."

Well now Varma has decided to revive his Time machine and the maverick director is getting the all Bachchans together for the film.

The director took the decision of reviving the film during the outdoor shoot of his film Sarkar which is currently in progress in Hyderabad. Not only will the film have Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan but senior Bachchan too will be part of the project.

Ramu apparently narrated the script to Abhishek Bachchan during the shoot. Abhishek was quite excited with the subject and immediately agreed to be part of the film. Aishwarya will replace Kareena Kapoor in the project.

So while SRK has been donning all of Amitabh's roles in his remakes, Amitabh too has now decided to don a role earlier offered to SRK.

So is this one more brick in the SRK-Amitabh war?

But it seems SRK will not be left behind in the rat race and is currently in talks for producing his own sci-fi film. Apparently Shahrukh is in talks with south director of super hit film Sivaji to direct his sci-fi film which Shahrukh may even produce. So it seems SRK has decided that no matter what it takes he will do his own sci-fi film.

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What's on SRK's wish list?

07-26-2007

Superstar Shahrukh Khan is a busy man these days. On one hand, it's director farha Khan's Om Shanti Om and on the other are his numerous brand endorsements.

We caught up with him on location when he was shooting for a new campaign of the computer brand, which he endorses.

Shah Rukh is a well-known gadget freak and guess what's next on his wish list?

"I think i-phone is good. But unfortunately not been able to crack the AT&T tie-up for two years. So, one has to wait for it to come down here," Shah Rukh said.

And if that wasn't enough, here is some more tech gyan from the King Khan.

"If one can find use for it then I Tv is an interesting concept. You can shift all your hard disk onto television wirelessly which is interesting. It's very interesting if you are into that kind of presentation," he said.

Well, looks like being tech savvy comes second only to acting as far as SRK is concerned.

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The last Indian superstar

And Khan's mission may well succeed – Bollywood stars are treated like gods.

Film critic,Anil Sinanan, talks hockey and greatness with Indian hero Shah Rukh Khan

I arrive for my 5pm appointment with Shah Rukh Khan at the plush Yash Raj Studios in Bombay, only to be told: "I am afraid Mr Khan is running a little late."

This is no surprise: Khan is a busy man. The star of more than 50 films and with a fan base that's numbered in the billions (Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion; Hollywood has 2.5 billion) it is the consistent success of his films that was directly responsible for putting Bollywood as we know it on the global cinematic map.

Born in 1965 in New Delhi, Khan entered Bollywood via theatre and television in the 1980s. Initially, his success was based on his antihero turns in Baazigar and Darr, both released in 1993. In 1995 he resurrected the good romantic hero in the blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) – or DDLJ, as it is known – which widened his fan base and took Indian cinema to an international audience.

This was the first film to include a positive "untainted by the evils of the West" nonresident Indian (NRI) character. It spoke to the NRIs of the world, who returned to the cinema in droves. His subsequent NRI hits such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001) entrenched Khan's hold on the domestic and overseas box office.

So it is that all of five-and-a-half hours after the appointed time that I finally meet "King" Khan. He is dressed in jeans and a crisp white shirt, and wearing large sunglasses, because of an eye infection. Even without being able to see his eyes I think he looks tired.

Luckily, he lives up to his bubbly reputation and chats away about his next release, Chak de India (Go for it, India!), which next month becomes the first Indian film to be given a London open air premiere. In the film he plays a hockey coach who trains a girls' team. Traditonally, hockey is India's national sport – Indians invented the game – but in recent times its popularity has slipped behind those of cricket and football. Does he hope that his film will revive interest in the game?

"I think the reason Indian hockey went down was due to the change in the format of the game, from one that was skill-based to one based on physical strength," Khan explains. "If, in this country of one billion people, six girls and two boys decide to take up hockey after seeing the film I think I will have succeeded in passing on a message of the importance of hockey as an art form."

But Khan is taking a professional risk. With the exception of the Oscar-nominated Lagaan (2001), which dealt with cricket, there are hardly any successful sporting Indian films. Was he aware that the film may fail? "If people such as me who are at the top of our work do not take chances and make different kinds of cinema, no one else will," the actor reasons.

And Khan's mission may well succeed – Bollywood stars are treated like gods. Why is this so? "In this country entertainment is the last achievement for the common man," he says. "People regard me as taking away their everyday sadness for three hours, when they can sit in a dark, air-conditioned hall and see me fulfil their dreams. Shah Rukh Khan gives hope to people."

He is right: he is often dismissed by critics as a ham actor with five basic expressions, but Indian audiences do not really care about acting ability. It is star quality that matters and Khan's energetic, endearing and cheeky screen presence is the key to his appeal.

So what's next for King Khan? Has he thought of going back to his theatre origins, perhaps in London's West End? "I do not think my accent is right for the West End," he smiles. "And I don't have the time."

As I take my leave – at midnight – I ask him about Bollywood's future. "The entertainment industry is changing rapidly, with the growth of satellite channels and multiplexes. Soon there will not be any superstars. I would like to believe that I am the last superstar of India."

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