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Lucknow, Sept. 2: There are no cinema halls in Abhaypur village and even the cable network has not reached this remote village in Allahabad district. The majority of the villagers are not even aware of Shah Rukh Khan and his superstardom, and yet the entire village reverberated with slogans of Shah Rukh Khan murdabad on Friday.
Two television news reporters, in their eagerness to get an exclusive, apparently instigated violence in the village that later spread to Allahabad city. Protesters burnt posters of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, trampled over his photos and then tried to disrupt the screening of his latest release Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna in Allahabad.
The protests were allegedly sparked by Shah Rukh's "indifference" towards the family of Chandra Bhan Singh, a private security guard who was shot dead on duty by his colleague after an altercation on August 15 at the actor's bungalow Mannat in Mumbai. Shah Rukh was reportedly not in Mumbai when the incident took place.
"The TV people came and asked us whether we had received any compensation from the actor and whether the he had bothered to visit us. They said that if we protested, we could get hefty compensation because Shah Rukh has lots of money. They gave us posters of Shah Rukh Khan and asked us to burn them," said Chandra Bhan's younger brother on Saturday. Chandra Bhan, who worked for a private security agency in Mumbai, had died on the spot when his colleague shot him in the chest after an argument. The security agency has not yet bothered to contact the slain guard's family and neither has it sent any compensation
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Two television news reporters, in their eagerness to get an exclusive, apparently instigated violence in the village that later spread to Allahabad city. Protesters burnt posters of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, trampled over his photos and then tried to disrupt the screening of his latest release Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna in Allahabad.
The protests were allegedly sparked by Shah Rukh's "indifference" towards the family of Chandra Bhan Singh, a private security guard who was shot dead on duty by his colleague after an altercation on August 15 at the actor's bungalow Mannat in Mumbai. Shah Rukh was reportedly not in Mumbai when the incident took place.
"The TV people came and asked us whether we had received any compensation from the actor and whether the he had bothered to visit us. They said that if we protested, we could get hefty compensation because Shah Rukh has lots of money. They gave us posters of Shah Rukh Khan and asked us to burn them," said Chandra Bhan's younger brother on Saturday. Chandra Bhan, who worked for a private security agency in Mumbai, had died on the spot when his colleague shot him in the chest after an argument. The security agency has not yet bothered to contact the slain guard's family and neither has it sent any compensation
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