When ShahRukh Khan got Arrested #throwback

The Shah Rukh Khan in front of a camera and Shah Rukh in front of friends are two different people.

Ask anybody who has been close to the star and been a part of his inner circle, they will tell you that Shah Rukh at home is diametrically opposite to the person you see on your screens. In his lair, he is an unusually quiet person.

In this post I will go back to the days when Shah Rukh Khan had started to get a taste of super-stardom. During those days, Bollywood stars didn't have image managers who used to coach them how to romance the press.

SRK ko gussa kyun aata hai?

But when Shah Rukh Khan gets angry, he gets very angry. At that point, he can even try to intimidate you physically, say his close friends. It tallies a lot with the actor's own observation in an interview, where he once famously said that he's still a Dilli ka goonda at heart.

Over the last couple of years we have heard a few stories of Shah Rukh Khan physically intimidating the person he is having an argument with " his famous brawl with Salman Khan where the two apparently came to blows, another incident where he slapped film editor-turned-director Shirish Kunder and of course, the much discussed brawl with a security guard at the Wankhede stadium which led to a ban on his entry to the stadium. In all the cases, he was held back by his friends or family before it went out of hand.

It's time to jog one's memory about an incident that has faded with time, but highlights this aspect of him of losing himself in a fit of rage.

Shah Rukh Khan slapped a journalist and got jailed

Place: Khar, Date: Mid January 1994, Time: 11 pm

Shah Rukh was shooting for a film called Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa when he came across an article in a film gossip magazine, which said that he's more than just friends with his co-star of Oh Darling, Yeh Hai India. It hinted that the actor was cheating on his wife Gauri with a much older Deepa Sahi, with whom he had done a near-nude scene. This was the first article that linked SRK with any actress. He dismissed the article at first, joking about it with his co-stars, but Gauri casually referred to the article during a conversation.

That put him in a rage.

He decided to teach the journalist a lesson of his life, but got taught one instead.

First, he tried to call the reporter, who never came on the line. This made him even more furious. He called one his friends from the media and asked him to find the address of the gossip reporter. Within an hour Shah Rukh landed at the doorstep of the journalist.

Some say that Shah Rukh went alone that night, while others say that he went there with one of his friends and his driver. The journalist opened the door to find Shah Rukh in a mutinous mood.

There are two versions of what followed when they came face-to-face:

Version One: Shah Rukh hit the journalist, rained blows on him and abused him. He kept screaming on top of his lungs and left only after the journalist apologised to him profusely.

Version Two: Shah Rukh abused the journalist, but didn't hit him.

But that night the journalist lodged a police complaint with the Khar police station, which stated that Shah Rukh had hit and injured him. On the basis of the complaint, SRK was picked up by the cops that night and locked up at the thana. Even then, his friends recall, the actor was unrepentant and kept fuming that the journalist deserved to be bashed up for what he has done.

A couple of hours later, the police allowed the star to make a phone call to his family to arrange for his bail. Instead he called the journalist from the police station once again and threatened him! The word about his arrest soon got out and his friends arranged for his bail the next day. But his friends recount that after a day of the incident, Shah Rukh continued to swear at the journalist.

With time, SRK and the journalist would graduate to being good friends.

Shah Rukh was let off the next day on bail from the police station and was not produced in court. In the case of minor offences, the police station can give bail to an accused and as far as I could gather, a minor charge of disturbing peace' was slapped on him before letting him off.

Here is the video where Shah Rukh Khan admitted to hitting the journalist in the popular show Aap Ki Adalat. He didn't give out the details of the incident but admitted that his actions were wrong.

Scroll the video to 12.30 mins to listen to him talk about the incident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S7BPzkVX8_A

I am not macho enough to have a bike: SRK

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/I-am-not-macho-enough-to-have-a-bike-SRK/articleshow/23815269.cms?