WORLD TOURS!

The cold war between the Shehenshah and Badshah of Bollywood has intensified further after Shah Rukh postponed his World Tour ' Temptations' from October this year to April 2008, which is in close proximity to Big B's World Tour One Amazing Night scheduled for the middle of next year. This will certainly adversely affect the prospects of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek and Aishwarya tour of the USA, Europe and Middle East. Not only this, but the Shah Rukh camp has also included in its participants the gorgeous Priyanka Chopra, who earlier walked out of the Big B's world tour programme.

As Kareem Morani, who will organize the King Khan's tour ' Temptations' to the USA, UK and Canada explains, ' We are still working on the tour and not much is finalized yet. But Priyanka and Rani are likely to be part of the tour. As far as actors are concerned, apart from Shah Rukh none are confirmed as of now. It will be 40-day tour. We had scheduled the tour for October this year but Shah Rukh has postponed it to April 2008.'

Amitabh Bachchan's World Tour One Amazing Night is being organized by Wizcraft Company, an event management company, and will have the hot pair of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai besides Amiabh Bachchan. Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra were also expected to take part but later they walked out of the tour. Earlier, the tour was supposed to take place in September 2007 but later it was postponed to mid 2008 due to Abhishek and Aishwarya wedding. Now, the organizers are hoping to cash in on the popularity of these stars as the hottest bollywood couple but after Shah Rukh's world tour has been set for April, the prospect for a better attendance seems bleak.

It may be recalled that recently Shah Rukh Khan's wax idol was unveiled at Madame Tussauds museum in London and King Khan is very popular in the UK and other European countries as also in the USA and the Middle East. Even the movies, which star Shah Rukh, do better business in overseas territory than any other star of bollywood. So, on the part of organizers of One Amazing Night it would not be a profitable proposition to go with the stage show at this juncture.

It seems that the rivalry between the two stalwarts of the Indian film industry has further intensified after the Bachchans royally snubbed the King Khan by ignoring him during the much publicized wedding of Abhishek and Aishwarya. Now, Shah Rukh Khan seems to be providing a rallying point for those elements of the industry that are not very fond of Bachchans. Perhaps that was the case when Badshah Khan had organized a big party after Ash- Abhi marriage and it was attended by Salman, Kareena, Priyanka etc.