SRK, Akki, & Rani exemplify Bollywood....

Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Rani Mukherjee exemplify the Bollywood dream

By Vimla Patil 6 April 2007 (Sawf News) - To make it big in Bollywood it helps to be well connected with or part of the film fraternity, but it is not essential. While Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan may have had an easy entry into Bollywood – the former because of her Miss World 1994 title and the latter because of his famous parents – other top Bollywood super stars have struggled from rags to riches! Their illustrious stories are examples to all young people. Shah Rukh Khan, who enjoys the title of Badshah of Bollywood and is ranked as India's highest brand today, is an example. Most people may not remember that he came to Mumbai from Delhi after doing the TV serial Fauji and lived a Spartan life in the metro. The promos to his recent KBC season in lighter vein showed how he spent his first days in the city. Akshay Kumar too came to Bollywood after a stint as a waiter in Bangkok! With his background of training in martial arts, he looked for work as an action man in films and has come a long way since then. Though some cruel media-persons continued to remind him of his 'chef-waiter' days for some time, they had to eat their own words when he gave hit after hit to be counted among the top stars of Bollywood – especially after he married Twinkle Khanna. Rani Mukherjee is another star that did C grade films before Ghulam with Aamir Khan catapulted her to the top league. Her father, Ram Mukherjee, was so deep in debt that the family went through the worst phase of their lives until Rani became one of Bollywood's busiest stars. Rani has not forgotten those days of deprivation and the courage of her mother. So with the new Yashraj Films' release Tara Rum Pam, she has paid homage to her mother's fortitude through a song in the film. According to her, the film also centers on the sudden financial crisis of a wife after her husband's accident and how she copes with the calamity.

Rani has always pampered her parents, brother Raja and his wife and child and given them every imaginable luxury that she can. Last year, she bought a luxury home and moved her whole family to a deluxe suite of a five star hotel for months while star designers Twinkle Khanna and Suzanne Roshan completed the design of the new home to meet her taste

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i wud say that all three of these stars... rani, srk and akshay r wat they r today cuz of their own hard work and determination! 😊

Success is so much sweeter when its self-made....nice to know there are ppl like that in the film industry 👏

tfs!!!
Totally agree with u mumtaz.. 😃 and i think priety shud have been included too. Coz these four are self-made actors and now they are one of the top bollywood stars in india.. 😳

Totally agree with this article!! Shahrukh, Rani and Akshay all struggled before they became huge stars. It isn't like success happened to them overnight, they worked hard and now their hard work is paying off!

Originally posted by: bollywoodcrazed

Totally agree with this article!! Shahrukh, Rani and Akshay all struggled before they became huge stars. It isn't like success happened to them overnight, they worked hard and now their hard work is paying off!

yup! thats so true... and plus, even though rani is kajol's cousin, she still climbed the steps of bollywood all on her own, it wasnt as if she received an advantage in bollywood becuz of kajol, she had to struggle a lot for her current status.... rani is a star today cuz of her own hard work and effort, and same for srk and akshay. 😊

Originally posted by: mini2390

i wud say that all three of these stars... rani, srk and akshay r wat they r today cuz of their own hard work and determination! 😊

agree with uuuu 😛

Thanx for sharing. These three do come in the list of the best of bollywood with a few other fabulous stars. They are brilliant!!! 👏 😃

I didn't knew rani's family did had financial problems. But hats off to these stars. Srk, rani and akki, did worked very hard. I remember readin shahrukh didn't even had place to live and now he have Mannat Mansion and rani buying house for herself and her family. God bless these stars who are still simple yet successful. 👏 👏 👏 It's really amazing how srk became a superstar. From theatre to television and then movies. 😳 👏

👏 👏 👏 these r truly success stories...these stars have literally climbed that long ladder of success.. 👏 👏 👏
but the best bit is,they still havent forgotten their roots..Rani still turns to only her family for everything and they matter beyond anyone in her life.. 😳
SRK is still the most humble and down-to-earth person in the industry.. 😳
hats off to all of them,Akshay,SRK n Rani! 👏 👏 👏