Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood's current numero uno actor, was conspicuous by his absence at the IIFAs but he is also in London. Khan took his kids to Madame Tussuads last Wednesday night to see his waxwork, which is currently on display. "It's my kids' school holidays, so spending time with them is my main priority," Khan told me when I asked him why he was not attending the IIFAs. Did his two children get confused when they saw the waxwork? "No, I made sure they know who their father is!" Khan laughed.
Bollywood art
The following day, Shah Rukh Khan was at Bonhams, London's posh auction house, where he co-hosted a charity event with MF Hussain, the 'Picasso of India'. "My wife is into art, I prefer to invest my money into my movies," Khan stated as he helped Hussain on a Bollywood Mughal-e-Azam canvas. Amongst the celebrity bidders were the UK's curry king Sir Ghulam Noon, Satyajit's Ray's muse Sharmila Tagore and former Nobel Prize winner and my fellow Trinidadian Sir Vidia Naipaul. Although bidding went up to 162,000, the painting did not sell: it failed to fetch its reserve price.
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