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Is abhishek bachan write anything on twitter regarding this issue??? can anyone share here...

Originally posted by: rachel.g.

hey lalixlili , do you have the video of it??

This issue is just not going away at all. And it is more complicated than it looks.. I am not aware of the desi political structure but it seems everyone is looking for their 2 min of limelight.. and trying to use this issue to gain vote banks and milage. And media is adding spice to the whole thing by making SS's threats front page news.. It is no longer about right or wrong.. it has just become a battle of personal interests and personal agendas... which is pretty unfortunate.

This is why I hate Indian politics.
They turn an ant into a dinosaur and just make things complicated.
My mom (a big fan of SRK), for some retarded reason, DIDN'T take SRK's side! I knew she had interpreted the news in a wrong way. I'm very proud of SRK for trying to unify the world (India and Pakistan in this case...)
But come on! More people started to hate Pakistanis after the Bombay attack so SRK should probably mind his own business...
And whoever the Sena guys....GOSH was he racist!!

Conciliatory but consistent
- What should I apologise for, asks Shah Rukh
AMIT ROY

London, Feb. 3: Shah Rukh Khan, who was in London on a day Shiv Sena activists tore down posters of My Name is Khan in Mumbai, said he was willing to apologise but only if his critics could tell him what he should be apologising for.

Flanked by director Karan Johar and co-star Kajol, Shah Rukh managed to stick to his guns in the most conciliatory way possible.

Shah Rukh was asked at a packed news conference about threats from Shiv Sena leaders who have warned they would not allow the film to be screened unless he apologised for his remarks regretting the exclusion of Pakistani players from the IPL.

"What I said was not connected to a person or a group of people," he said. "What I said was true of any person from (brought up in the culture of) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh — that's how I have been brought up. My country is nice, I am very proud of it. I am very proud to have been born there. I wish people to come to my country and participate in the goodness of my country. If that is wrong, then my children are studying wrong things (at school)," Shah Rukh said.

He clarified that what he had said "is not a statement against anyone. I have said what I believe to be true. It is not nice for a Hindi film hero who is thought of as an icon to say this but the stakes are very high."

Shah Rukh did apologise but to his colleagues on the movie. "I am very, sorry, I would like to apologise to Kajol and my business partners – because of what I say or what I believe in, their film is going to be affected. I have no idea how to change that."

He went on: "I am very happy taking my film to the world, I am very happy interacting with audiences."

There was an emotional moment when he admitted: "I am very sad (about this controversy – and it is not jet lag. I am very sad because this is a very special film. I don't know why it (my comments) should be taken personally. It is not meant to be that way."

In his own way, Shah Rukh managed to wrong foot the Shiv Sena. "I don't know why there is so much confusion about what I have said. I have no idea why there should be. If you have differences of ideas, three people having different points of view, (you discuss it). I have not pointed to a party or a group or a person – I mention no names. (It was) something I said about me and about what I believe in. I think 99.99 per cent of Indians are with me. I don't know the issues, what it is about, I don't know what it is I am supposed to regret ...(am I supposed to say) that I don't want anyone to come to my country, what (that is) all I have been taught by my father, who was a freedom fighter for this country, is wrong, my kids are studying wrong?"

He appealed to Indians all over the world: "I have no idea what people would like me to say. If this (the above) is what they want me to say, I will say it. What do I have to apologise for? If somebody explains that to me and I have done wrong (I will apologise). I have done that in the past... I have apologised to a segment of a Muslim group (because they felt) a song of mine was wrong. Whenever my film has come out, it has never come out with the intention of hurting anybody's sentiments and I hope it will never happen. If I am in the wrong I would like to apologise."

He stressed again: "Somebody will have to explain to me what is wrong – so many people's lives, futures are riding on this. I just request everybody, 'Just leave the film alone and deal with what I said'."

Did he find it ironic that his loyalty was being questioned in Mumbai at the very moment academics at the University of Vienna were planning a whole seminar on the importance of Shah Rukh Khan as a symbol of all that was best about Bollywood and India, he was asked.

"It is very humbling," he responded. "Much more love is given than I deserve, similarly much more importance is given to the negatives that I get. I never get it straight – I get either too much or too less and that is the beauty of being a superstar. Sometimes I am very, very happy and sometimes I am very, very sad. I have never been normal. If you ask, 'How does it feel to be a superstar?', it is very, very unbalanced."


http://www.telegraphindia.com/110020...y_12065139.jsp

Originally posted by: SRK-ian

This is why I hate Indian politics.
They turn an ant into a dinosaur and just make things complicated.
My mom (a big fan of SRK), for some retarded reason, DIDN'T take SRK's side! I knew she had interpreted the news in a wrong way. I'm very proud of SRK for trying to unify the world (India and Pakistan in this case...)
But come on! More people started to hate Pakistanis after the Bombay attack so SRK should probably mind his own business...
And whoever the Sena guys....GOSH was he racist!!

agree with you on this - sometimes SRK tends to meddle in people's/India's affairs...and it leads to trouble most of the times - recent controv....Newark --- he should have avoided to talk about it.....

ndian Express ( National newspaper) Editorial

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Posted: Thursday , Feb 04, 2010 at 0037 hrs

Why would anyone want to rock the boat? The relationship that the Mumbai film industry has traditionally had with the various Senas and other goonda-politicos that blot the city's landscape has been cosy, even chummy. Generally, the film types try to stay under the radar. And, everywhere, there's the slightly sickly smell of what's known but unspoken — that, if the celebs don't play along, a couple of tough guys will turn up and close down their next movie. It seems to work, right? Why change?



Which is why Shah Rukh Khan's refusal to back down is inspiring. The Shiv Sena had taken umbrage to his saying that the IPL — in which Khan has an interest in the Kolkata franchisee — "should have" ensured participation by Pakistani players. This incensed the Sena, which is accustomed to having things all its own way: in a familiar pattern, posters for Khan's new movie were torn down, and owners of movie theatres intimidated. (Equally familiarly, the police did not clamp down on the violence.) On previous occasions, this would have led to a spineless climbdown, a public apology, perhaps even a pilgrimage to Matoshree to beg forgiveness. Karan Johar, for example, bent over backwards to placate Raj Thackeray when he objected to Wake Up Sid being set in "Bombay": apologising in person and promising changes in the script, as well as in all future scripts. On this occasion, however, the spines seem to have stiffened, not bent. Aamir Khan backed Shah Rukh over the weekend, saying that the point of the IPL was to select players based on ability, not ancestry. And Shah Rukh himself came out with all guns blazing in New York, saying that the Sena's attempt at intimidation was "unhealthy, undemocratic and insensitive". My Name is Khan's first-weekend numbers may hang in the balance, but it's clear that Shah Rukh has his eyes on another battle.

We can only hope that this is the start of a filmi insurgency. After all, that's the power of celebrity: a podium from which you can sometimes change the national, or regional, conversation. How many icons can the thugs take on? The Senas' derive an inflated sense of power by their rumoured capacity to disrupt a target's legitimate business. But each time a Shah Rukh Khan, or a Mukesh Ambani, or a Sachin Tendulkar stares them down and goes about business as usual, the thugs are rendered that much less fearsome.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/fauji-vs-sena/575191/

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Shah Rukh unfazed by Sena's attack for Pak players in IPL

LONDON:

Unfazed by Shiv Sena's attack on him, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday had a dig at the party and stuck to his stand of pitching for inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in Indian Premier League.

"I don't know what the issue is all about...I don't know what I am supposed to retract. Am I supposed to retract the fact I'm an Indian but I don't want anyone to come to my country," Khan said referring to sharp reaction from Sena on his remarks about the inclusion of Pakistani cricketers on the IPL tournament.

What all that I've said is that I would like people to come to my country to participate in the biggest event and it scarce me to say anything because our stakes are very high, he said. He was apologetic to his business partners for his stand on the IPL issue as it might affect the prospect of the film.

Shah Rukh is in London to promote his film 'My name is Khan' and was speaking amid the presence of Karan Johar, producer and director of the film and his co-star Kajol.

"I have no idea what people would like me to say. If somebody could tell me this is what you would want me to say, I'll say it," the Bollywood superstar said.

Khan recalled the teaching's and values that he received from his father who was a freedom fighter.

"What all I have been taught by my father who was a freedom fighter for this country is wrong and my kids are steering wrong," he said. Khan said he is not going to submit to this threat.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl/top-stories/Shah-Rukh-unfazed-by-Senas-attack-for-Pak-players-in-IPL/articleshow/5532909.cms

I want this controversy to end as soon as possible.