BOI: why SRK's run is not as big as Salman or Rajesh khanna (N:Pg 54) - Page 20

Originally posted by: fire_gun

<font size="4">jaha slumgod aur ek do aur prani hai jinka naam lena ka mera mood nahi hai😆aa jaye waha healthy discussion? yeh toh impossible hai</font>

Originally posted by: AishMinoz

erm Boxoffice?? SRK films always open BIg ...neva had a bad phase like other actors ...

Originally posted by: Piyuu_SRK

I know who were they right? Yeah they were good actors, big deal but come on! Face it! Their stardom was not as BIG as SRK or even Salman.




@bold.. Just coz i was not born in those times does not means i dont know about them. I was not born in Satyug, but i know who Lord Rama is okay? And keep your preachings to yourself. Thanks but NO thanks.

Originally posted by: Maseera.

Do people understand the meaning of a 'run' here? Once you give a flop/below average movie, your BO run is over. Salman's run IS bigger than SRK's run cause I don't remember SRK giving 5 blockbusters back to back.

Originally posted by: KARAN888

King of Bollywood

In India, Shah Rukh Khan is so famous he can't leave home without half a dozen minders. In the UK, he sells out Wembley in minutes. Emine Saner meets the world's biggest film star

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  • The Guardian, Friday 4 August 2006

Hottest hero ... Shah Rukh Khan. Photograph: Graeme Robertson

I have been waiting for Shah Rukh Khan in the lobby of a central London hotel for an hour. The PR looks apologetic. "He's not very good in the mornings," she says. What can he be doing? His hair? Maybe it's just that he is the biggest film star in the world and that is enough of a reason in itself to keep people waiting. In this country, few people outside Asian communities and Bollywood fans have heard of him (he sells out Wembley arena in minutes when he comes here to perform song-and-dance routines from his films).

Shah Rukh Khan (also known as "King Khan") has been in more than 50 Hindi films and has won 13 Filmfare awards, regarded as the "Bollywood Oscars". He is the biggest star in Hindi cinema and this means billions of fans (Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion; Hollywood has 2.5 billion).

In India, where he lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai, he can't leave his house without six bodyguards (the hysteria that follows him makes Beatle-mania look like a librarians' convention).

When he finally does appear, he is dressed in a black suit and an expensive white shirt and is shorter than I expect. His hair is a deep black, puffed up and slicked back - perhaps this really is why he is late - and he smells delicious, all fruity and woody (he has his own perfume). He is softly spoken and holds my tape recorder up to his mouth during the whole interview, like a microphone, and talks into it with an accent that bobs gently up and down like a boat on a calm sea. I start to swoon, but that might be all the coffee I have drunk while waiting for him.

We meet days after the train bombings in Mumbai which killed 207 people; an Islamist group claimed responsibility. As one of India's most high-profile Muslims, Khan hasn't experienced any backlash. "I'm not religious in terms of reading namaz [prayer] five times but I am Islamic," he says. "I believe in the tenets of Islam and I believe that it's a good religion and a good discipline. There are a lot of people who misinterpret Islam, some in terms of understanding, others in terms of their actions. We need to somehow arrest the thought of violence, we can't only keep on arresting people [after terrorist attacks] because they are nameless, faceless zombies."

Khan is in London because Bafta is hosting a Bollywood weekend. (Later, I go to the Bafta headquarters for the party to launch the weekend and when Khan appears, grown women rush towards him squealing.) The Indian film industry is the most prolific in the world - some 900 films are produced every year. In 2004, the industry was worth $4.5bn (2.4bn) and it is expected to grow at 18% every year. In a country where nearly 80% of the population live on less than $2 a day, cinema provides an escape (some tickets cost mere pennies). It also provides an important cultural link for the Indian diaspora - the 20 million non-resident Indians, some second and third generation who might never have visited India. In the UK, the most successful Bollywood films regularly take more than 2m at the box office, and Khan has starred in eight of the 10 highest grossing.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/aug/04/india.world

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/article3831707.ece

Dont tell he he bought The Times and the Guardian too 😆

Originally posted by: fire_gun

jaha slumgod aur ek do aur prani hai jinka naam lena ka mera mood nahi hai😆 aa jaye waha healthy discussion? yeh toh impossible hai

Originally posted by: fire_gun

<font size="4">chalo iam out...remember again srk rules here and everywhere😉</font>

Originally posted by: Debarati7

Oh this is getting ridiculous ..has anyone ever heard of an international achiever being called "not popular "..😆😆