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As news of Saif's illness spread, friends and colleagues from the film fraternity rushed to the hospital.

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Shah Rukh's getting gifts and it's not his birthday!

Guess what? It's not really Shah Rukh Khan's birthday or even a special occasion. But the Khan's den Mannat, is inundated with gifts. And guess where they're coming from? From all the contestants and audiences on his game show. They come with posters, post-cards, memorabilia, and other assorted tohfas. Which they keep handing out to their favourite Khan and he doesn't have the heart to refuse or leave them behind on the set. So he takes them home and puts them in a corner of his den.

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Shah Rukh's getting gifts and it's not his birthday!

Guess what? It's not really Shah Rukh Khan's birthday or even a special occasion. But the Khan's den at Mannat is inundated with gifts. And guess where they're coming from? From all the contestants and audience on his game show. They come with posters, post-cards, memorabilia, and other assorted tofas. Which they keep handing out to their favourite Khan and he doesn't have the heart to refuse or leave behind on the set. So he takes them home and puts them in a corner of his den. Now with spring coming up, we wonder what Gauri will throw out first – the gifts? Or (if he doesn't get rid of them) Shah himself!

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Rani Mukherji and Preity Zinta to play 'Holi' on KBC with Shahrukh Khan

Mumbai, Feb 17: Shahrukh Khan really created a wonderful Valentine's Day on the newly launched Kaun Banega Crorepati, and now he is planning the same for the 'Holi'. It is said that he will host the show on 'holi' with two sexy ladies on the hot-seat, Rani Mukherji and Preity Zinta.

One advantage of having Bollywood's reigning superstar Shah Rukh Khan as the host on STAR Plus' popular game show "Kaun Banega Crorepati" (KBC) is he can convince all his buddies to come to the hot seat.

After the star-studded Valentine's Day special, Shah Rukh has just recorded yet another special episode for KBC. This time it's for spring festival of Holi, featuring his two co-stars Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji. The episode went off like a charm. A source from the set told IANS: "There were rumours about a fallout between Preity and Rani who were once best friends. But Shah Rukh has a special knack of making all his heroines feel special." "Earlier this week on 'Koffee With Karan' Shah Rukh actually made Kajol and her cousin Rani - who self-admittedly don't socialise together - sit together on one sofa and be civil to each other. Now on KBC, Preity and Rani got along like a house on fire." Though the exact prize money won by the two leading ladies is not known, the sources said they won close to Rs.50 lakhs together.

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'Sometimes ideals have to take a back seat'

In the fourth part of an exhaustive and exclusive interview with Shah Rukh Khan, Savera R Someshwar and Saisuresh Sivaswamy asked him for advice for today's youngsters. SRK, who thinks he understands their language and emotions, feels very strongly about the youth following their heart.

The actor also spoke about his setbacks like Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and Swades.

If you had an opportunity to speak exclusively to younger people, people who are just setting out to achieve their dreams, what will you tell them? And what will you tell those who are not successful and who are despairing, and what will you tell the successful who for whatever reason had forgotten the difficult days? In some strange way, all that I've done in the last 17-18 years through my work is to speak to the youngsters. I've never spoken to anyone else because I understand their language and emotions. I've been a youngster who's had to grow up too fast because of the (early) death of my parents. I missed out on my youth. At the age of 16, I lost my dad. By 20-21, I had to start getting more responsible than I should have been. By 25, I was completely on my own with a sister to look after. I think I missed on these 10 years where I could have had a chance to be youthfully wild. I wish I can afford my kids to have a wild youth. When I say wild youth I mean flights of fantasy, have fun. Have no worries. Go wrong because there's a long life in front of you to rectify them. Do things your heart tells you to do, otherwise for the rest of your life you will be doing what your boss tells you to do. I could never do it. I had to take up a job as an actor and I'm glad I did. I could give a huge speech to youngsters, because I really feel like that. I am re-living my youth now after having achieved a level of comfort where I think I can be on a flight of fantasy. When I was 34 I said, listen, I am good enough now to go back to being that age between 17 and 27 in my head because I don't have to worry about my future anymore. It doesn't matter if I don't have parents, I have been able to take care of myself. I'd like to tell everyone that this is a little speech I am going to say on KBC for boys and girls. There are only three things to life that you should remember. Honesty, hard work and humour. These are the three things that will take you through the good times and the bad. Ideals are important and you should stick to them but to be in a position of choice sometimes ideals have to take a back seat. The world is a difficult place, make sure you get into the position of choice. Do not sell your soul but keep it locked for a while if need be. Once you are in a position of choice and you are successful, do not ever sell your soul or make the wrong choices. Then god, or your own conscience will never forgive you. If you have failed, there's a huge life to go ahead with. I've read too many good books, and I am sure even the youngsters have, to know all the sayings about failure. But I read a recent one, which was very nice: Try, fail. Try again and fail better! I think that's how life should be. Let me at least try and fail better next time, if I can't succeed. I know reality is much deeper than just words or a successful guy who is a movie star or a rich middle class guy who's made it big who's giving all this spiel. But this is the experience I've learnt in life. That's what I am writing in my book actually. To be able to tell youngsters that there's nothing special about being special. It's very special to be ordinary.

There was a line in Crorepati which I wanted to tell youngsters ke you are not a crorepati because you come and win on KBC, tum crorepati isiliye ho kyunki tum crodon mein ek ho.

'I wish to be always remembered'

You come from a middle class background. A lot of your success and attitude is attributed to that grounding. Your children don't come from the same world. Is it a cause of worry how their sanitised upbringing, king size lifestyle will impact them? Yeah, I am very worried. I get quite worked up about two aspects of my children's upbringing. One is that I hope my name as an actor, or as an entertainer, or as a person who has been working in the media, should be as it is now. I wish it to be always remembered. I work to be remembered. I'll never be immortal but I feel that with that bigness, my shadow is not so big that my kids can't come from under it. I hope they are able to live beyond the shadow of their father's name. I am being a little presumptuous here, I am assuming that I will be remembered for a long time but I will not be wrong to start thinking like that. I am 41, I have been working for 20 years, I have done well for myself, I just hope my name is never going to be, the shadow is not so long and dark that my kids can never come out of that, whatever job they decide to go and work in, whether they want to be actors or they want to be computer engineers, whether they want to be in medicine. That is one thing that worries me, and I don't know how to do anything about it. I am just hoping it doesn't happen. The second part is: yes, my wife (Gauri) is very middle class. It's very strange to be sounding on about middle class when you have a BMW outside your house, which is one acre big. But these are the peripherals of the job. You know, people think I bought this big house I wanted to live in a big house. But the idea is I am from Delhi and everybody lives in big bungalows there. For a Delhi-ite it's not a big house even though I am a middle class boy. It is very strange but the thought is that we are very middle class as far as how we deal with things is concerned, how we talk in the house, we don't have a lavish lifestyle beyond the fact that the peripherals that come with my filmmaking or film stardom. The problem is everyone who comes home is on television so earlier my kids would think everyone works in television. Whether it is Karan Johar or Hrithik Roshan or Abhishek Bachchan or Preity Zinta or Rani Mukerji or Kajol or Juhi Chawla. They walk into the house and my kids would say dad, everybody works in television. But they have understood now. I am not strict but I am very clear that one aspect they don't ever forget, that if I can't educate them well being a star means nothing. And I try to do that, I teach them personally, I take a huge interest in what they do, and I am very sporting by nature so I like them to do sports. I do what my father used to do with me. He was an educated and middle class man of good nature and polite. So I try and be all that. The only difference is there are too many hoardings of mine in the city. That's the only difference between my father and me. I worry about it, but I am giving it my best shot. I hope I never have to make a movie for my son, and I hope whatever he decides to do, I hope I never have to make him an actor. I hope he is an actor by choice, I hope he likes what he does, and I hope he never has to compare himself to me however good or bad I might at the end of my career.

I believe youngsters should do their own thing. I don't get disappointed when I see a youngster with his navel pierced; or long hair; or strayed jeans. I think all that is part of fashion. I will not stop my kids from being like that because that would be strange. But I believe you should have good education and values.

'I don't like romance'

The actor who made some of the most romantic Hindi films says he does not like romance himself. But then again, Shah Rukh Khan has always been unpredictable. Don't Miss: Listen to Shah Rukh Khan's Valentine take
In this week-long exclusive interview with King Khan, the king of romance spoke to Savera R Someshwar and Saisuresh Sivaswamy about his favourite romantic films, and his views on love. What are your Valentine's Day plans? Too old for Valentine's. It was not fashionable when we were young, by the time it became fashionable I am too old. But I will get my wife a gift. What are your five most romantic films? I don't like romance. You will break a lot of hearts with that statement! No, I don't like romance in terms of watching them because I do so much of it. You do that, and you keep on watching it also, means you got to be really obsessing about this (laughs). This may sound a little strange, but I don't know. The kind of films I have liked, Padosan was very romantic though it was a comedy about a teacher wanting to be in love with his student. That was very romantic. I can tell you a great heartbreak was in Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, where the guy is in love and the woman cheats him and uses them. Among the romantic films I like, let me see, Dilwale is nice. Even though it is a personal film, but it's a nice film, I saw it about three-four months back in Australia, it was nice. Again one of my own, I like Yes Boss, that was very sweet, that's taken from For Love Or For Money.

Among English movies... I thought whackily that There's Something About Mary was good, it was quite sweet, quite romantic, a guy who's in love with his college sweetheart. And there was this book by Graham Greene, A Quiet Affair I think it was, yeah, which Attenborough made it into a film with Julianne Moore, about the woman who says if you bring him back to life, I will give up the thing I love the most, and she has to give him up. That was very romantic. I liked the book a lot, I saw the movie before that, I didn't know it was based on the same book, then I read the book a year ago, and I thought that was very romantic. Is it A Quiet Affair or An Affair to Remember? I will remember...

'KBC is not a bolt out of the blue'

They love him. Or they hate him. But they cannot resist making a comment about him (Take a look at the rediff message board, if you don't believe what we say). What is superstar, and now television host, Shah Rukh Khan really like? Is he nice? Arrogant? Smart? Witty? Kind? Caring? Why is he really doing Kaun Banega Crorepati? And yes, does he have an on-going feud with Amitabh Bachchan? We decided to put SRK on the hot seat and ask him. SRK didn't have 4 choices, or any lifelines. The 2-crore question: How did he fare? Read on for the results of this show, hosted by Savera R Someshwar and Saisuresh Sivaswamy. What was the primary motivation for you to do KBC? Were you looking for a return to television or did KBC happen at the right time for you? I don't want to sound pompous, but I don't look out for work. I sort of have a half-yearly plan -- okay, I am doing a couple of films and the holidays with the babies and, you know, maybe a few endorsements that have been signed up. There have been reports about my doing television for some time now, so doing KBC is not a bolt out of the blue. I've seen the programme and I like it a lot. I've always felt that one can take it to a different level depending on the presentation. The main thing about work, after 20 years of working now, is -- am I enjoying the work I am doing? I thought that if I do KBC, I will enjoy it a lot. And KBC has a great team -- Siddharth (Basu, who is producing the show), Sameer (Nair, CEO, Star TV)... they're old friends. Everyone got together and said, can we do it in Jan, Feb, March? And I said of course. My set (for Khan's production, Om Shanti Om, directed by Farah Khan) is opposite the KBC set, so it's not difficult for me. And the economics of television have become such that they can afford a film actor. The way they shoot the production now, they don't need the kind of time they needed earlier. They have multi-camera set-ups and stuff. Everything just fell into place. Deciding to do KBC was like deciding if I want to do a film or not. Like any film that is offered to me out of the blue -- someone comes over and says this is the script and we are planning to do it. What excites me is that, okay, this is new, my kids like it, people find it fun. I like quizzing, so I'll do this and have a great time for a couple of months.

I have done a lot of work in the last 10 years because my heart said yes. I just felt, ah, this is fun, let me just do it. There is no real way for an actor to otherwise enjoy his work. I've passed the phase where I do a film just because it is an action film and things like that. I have been working for too long to do that any more.