Happy New Year Thread #3 - Updates - Page 3

Shah Rukh Khan's SLAM tour in US will cover the entire cost of Happy New Year's Production

By Subhash K. Jha, September 13, 2014 - 12:04 hrs IST

One doesn't know what Shah Rukh Khan means by saying he doesn't understand money. If he doesn't "understand" money, how does he have more of it than anyone else including the other Khan superstars?

The latest proof of Shah Rukh Khan's entrepreneurial spirit is the whopping eye-popping mind-numbing deal that he has cut for his 'SLAM' concert tours in the US and Canada.

Apparently, Shah Rukh Khan's company Red Chillies will walk home from each of the 11 shows in the US and Canada with 1.2 million dollars.

The ticket prices in the US concerts range from Rs. 7,000 to Rs. 45,000 and more.Many NRIs, who are huge fans of Shah Rukh Khan, are reeling under the impact of the prohibitive ticket prices.

A source from the US closely associated with the organizers of the SLAM tour says, "Shah Rukh Khan gets 1.2 million dollars per show. This is his takeaway fee for every concert in the SLAM tour exclusive of all other expenses pertaining to the concerts. If we calculate the total amount, he takes home from the 11 concerts; Shah Rukh Khan will cover the cost of production of his film Happy New Year from the concerts itself. Whatever profits he makes at the box-office, will be surplus."

I swear I was shocked
To hear the ticket cost when my sis told me 😆
But again he is a smart guy !!!! 😎
So now whatever he makes for HNY it will all
Be profit for him !!!

Originally posted by: MR.KooL

ATBB Thread close ho jane se darr lagta hain sanam😛😆

Originally posted by: --SH7_Sunny--

Salman ka aam aa gaya toh thread ATBB hain jaise iske naam se movie ATBB ho jaati hain Koolie n Hasini😛😆

what is salman ka aam 😛

HNY album will be out on Monday

Late... Congos on the new thread Heard album will be out on Monday? Can't just wait!

BTW i dont know why I am obsessed with Manwa Laage. Just obsessed heard it unnumerable times!!! Just cant stop listening to it! And Deepi and SRK in the video ❤️

New thread 🥳

New thread 🥳

So Farah, so good
Sep 13, 2014 07:59 PM , By Sudhish Kamath | 0

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The writer catches up with the feisty Farah Khan

ahead of the release of her new heist-cum-musical

Happy New Year

"You better be nice to me in your interview," she

DMs me on Twitter the day after our chat " a quick

session when she made it very clear that she wants

to slap me or anyone else who thinks her films

have no logic.

Only Farah Khan can get away with making these

threats because, apart from the certain honesty

with which she makes her points, she also says it

like it is her right to talk to a friend that way. Even if

you were speaking to her for the very first time,

you would be amazed at how quickly she gets

comfortable in asserting her right to demand

things out of you.

The director ofMain Hoon Na, Om Shanti

OmandTees Maar Khanis back with a new movie


with old favourite Shah Rukh Khan, who she has

known for 21 years. "After I finishedMain Hoon Na,

I got this idea " if you would believe it " in a

dream. The dream was about people going

through a losing phase getting back a house by

winning a dance competition. It had sequences of

the dance competition but it was just an idea. I

wish we got full scripts in our dreams. I took my

own time to write it."


In fact, Shah Rukh Khan in a recent interview told


me that in all the years he has known Farah, she


has only pitched him three scripts.Om Shanti


Omhappened because the idea of reincarnation set

in the 70s was too good to pass up, and then the

two best friends fell out over a spat with Farah's

husband Shirish Kunder. Farah stepped in at the


last minute to direct Shirish's pet projectTees Maar

Khan, an official remake ofAfter the Fox.

The film bombed, but ten days later she started

writingHappy New Yearagain, deciding to take a


sabbatical from filmmaking till she was done

writing it. "I wanted to mix two genres. I don't

think any movie has done this sort of genre-

bending - heist and musical - and meshed the two


so intricately that you can't have one without the


other. It took almost 18 months to crack the script.


I had no clue who would be the producer. I told


my writers (Althea Kaushal and Mayur Puri), Let's


just write a lovely script'."

They had just finished a draft in nine months when

the patch-up with Shah Rukh Khan


happened. "And he said now you have to make a

movie for me'. He was in London. I sent him the

script. He read it and said: Take a flight and come


to London immediately'. So I went to his house

there and he said it's an absolutely wonderful

script, so big and so funny... It's got emotion and

drama and it's an ensemble. Without any

hesitation, he said: I love it'."

Shah Rukh Khan is so proud ofHappy New Yearthat

he had joked thatOceans 14would want to copy


this. "Heist is a formula. There is always a


mastermind, there's a safe-hacker, there's


someone for the stunts... just like if you are making


a love story, there will always be a girl and a boy


and obstacles in the way of their love. But no,


Oceanscannot copyHappy New Yearbecause


George Clooney can't dance like SRK," she says


very matter-of-factly.


"It is the most comprehensive and detailed heist


film ever made," she proclaims. "We have taken a



lot of care to make sure there are no loopholes in

the execution of the heist..."

Was that really necessary, given that people leave

their brains home when they come to see a Farah


Khan film?

"I want to slap those people. I find it very offensive

when people say that. God doesn't come to rescue

people in my films. We do a lot of thinking when



we write our scripts." The accidental

choreographer (she was an assistant director on

the sets ofJo Jeeta Wohi Sikanderwho stepped in to

choreograph Pehla Nasha') had always wanted to

be a filmmaker. But it wasn't Manmohan Desai's


shoes she hoped to fill. "I don't know why they call

me Lady Manmohan Desai. Yes, my cinema is fun


too, but I like Vijay Anand and Nasir Hussain more.

Manmohan Desai's films pack a lot of joy and have

a child-like quality and you can see the director is


having fun, but my movies don't suspend disbelief

that much. But it's good to be compared to

Manmohan Desai. He was run down by critics in his

time."

Farah is almost a Shah Rukh specialist. She knows

what works best with SRK. Is it because she knows

him personally or because she has been a fan?

"As a director and as a woman, I want to see Shah

Rukh like this on screen. I don't want to see him as

a wimpy guy. I want to see him macho and

romantic. I want him to beat up bad guys and still

be without a shirt." And, of course, the

conversation drifts to her getting him to bare his

chest yet again. "Because he promised that he will

do it only for me."


To add to the pressures of breaking box office

records, she has seven-year-old triplets at home to

take care of (They were much younger when she

was shootingTees Maar Khan). Somehow, they



always fall ill during the busiest of shoots and now,

she has to teach them all separate poems for an

elocution competition in school.

"I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero. I hold

the record of the mother who has attended the

maximum school functions. Luckily, filmmaking is


not a nine-to-five job. I get my ten days off in


between shoots. And, after every film, I take six




months off and go on a holiday. I don't neglect my

kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

Because they have seen mummy work, they don't

cry. They love my vanity van. It's all about

managing time. Ok, now I have to go, Abhishek

Bachchan is waiting for me," she continues, all in

the same breath.

And she leaves. To attend to the last bit of shoot

left, and you can't help but admire her spirit. And

I'm not just saying that because she threatened me.