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A celebrity is blessed with good fortune in many ways. A reporter, for instance, has to search for news. A celebrity merely has to look into the mirror. Such self-obsession requires sensational amorality and phenomenal lack of judgment. Ordinary, guilt-obsessed mortals do not possess these virtues.
A celebrity must have talent, of course, but brains are useless without gall. It requires courage to fall irrevocably in love with your image. It must be dreadfully tense to watch each step you take with such missionary commitment, but the rewards are probably worth the effort. The tiniest twitch now resides beside perceived, or stolen, wisdom, on Twitter, the miracle technology of celebdom. Pseudo-gods seek the pseudo-faithful as fervently as the reverse.
You have to be sure-footed to walk on air. The smallest ethereal miscalculation can bring you painfully down to earth. Shah Rukh Khan mobilized the resources of the Government of India when American customs and border security authorities treated him as just another human being.
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housefullatbb, This is first week record (Not weekend), First week of Singh Is Kinng was 38,98,19,763, While RNBDJ was ahead ...
Rab ne banadi jodi did not open better than Singh is kinng yakuza. 
Doga,
Yes it seems so at ths moment.. 
Raj, MNIK should end around 73 cr from India, Theatrically. 
Dhoni is one of the best wicket keepers now. Dont complain about the few dropped catches. He has caught some ...
1 more held in fake IPL ticket 
btw - from the FI numbers MNIK has done 68-68.5 cr in 4 weeks in India.
BOI is already 5 cr ...
Well, a universally accepted repeat-watch movie from Hrithik IMO would make way more than 60cr. 
Rocky 27 August 2009
09:38:56 am
Is this just a coincidence?? The plot Thickens-
Big B Day- 493-
MJ Akbar, that erudite and renowned journalist, editor of many prominent dailies, a pioneer TV news related anchor, a man of substance, dropped by to see my friend. I had if I remember correctly, mentioned him once on the blog of how I had great respect for him as a columnist. I narrated how he had during the time of my short stint in politics, predicted that I would get the pasting of my life in the Allahabad elections in 1984 that I was fighting, purely because my adversary Mr HN Bahuguna, was a tremendous stalwart or immense political repute and one that had never lost an election in his entire political career. After I won, he, that is MJ, was the first to acknowledge in his column that my victory had proved him wrong and that he was eating humble pie. For a journalist and for one of his standing, to admit fact and to put it in print, I thought, was an act of nobility and honesty ; an act that lived beyond the tenets of journalism. An act that defined the very code of conduct of journalism – fair and unbiased reporting. It is tough to admit publicly that you were wrong and the other right, when you had put it in print that you would be right. My admiration has remained with him since and continues. There have been many instances when I have since the advent of my blog, responded to journalists and eminent columnists of renown, on matters that they have got wrong. Not one, not a single one, has ever even acknowledged my correspondence, let alone correct the content of their unjustified, malicious and derogatory writings. It takes strength of character to be able to do that. I admire MJ because he had it ; the others did not.
Gorilla 27 August 2009
09:56:24 am
Shah Rukh Khan gets ridiculed on US television?
The American press seems to be high on crisis management after Shah Rukh raised the issue of his detention in front of the Indian media. They are thus ridiculing SRK as their defence mechanism!
American political satirist cum tv host Jon Stewart on his show ‘The Daily Show’ mocked SRK by showing clips of American news channels which claimed that the custom officials at the New Jersey airport didn’t recognize the actor!
Jon further mocked SRK by saying the actor may have denied that it was not a publicity stunt for his forthcoming film ‘My Name is Khan’ but then the way he went on talking about it could make for a good emotional picture in itself.
Echoing Jon was Indian American stand-up comedian cum actor Aasif who sarcastically said, “Shah Rukh is the Hugh Jackman of Jaipur, Bruce Willis of Pondicherry, Tom Cruise of Mumbai and Brad Pitt of Bollywood, and have you seen his Om Shanti Om?
Omar Qureshi, Editor-in-Chief, Zoom tv channel strongly criticized Jon’s statements by saying, “Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Shah Rukh Khan were in Dubai for Planet Hollywood’s launch and Shah Rukh gathered more fans than the Hollywood superstars. Americans are used to laughing at others and making money out of it, they laugh at themselves too, and this is just one of those instances.”
Trade expert Taran Adarsh reacted to Jon’s statement by saying, “If you poke fun at SRK, it only shows how dumb you are! It’s like Americans asking you if Taj Mahal is in China or Italy! Most of the American press is dumb and the way they have been reacting to SRK’s episode is shocking as we give them so much importance when they come to India inspite of the fact that most of the Indians don’t know how Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise looks like.”
Mumbai Mirror’s Entertainment head Indu Mirani said, “Everybody should just move on as this issue has been blown out of proportion by both the parties. Bollywood has always looked up to Hollywood with a holier-than-thou attitude so it’s not their mistake that they don’t do the same. Everyone should just move on.”
http://movies.indiatimes.com/a.....934051.cms
Som 31 August 2009
12:00:28 pm
Commentary: Time for America to ban racial profiling
(CNN) — Earlier this month, one of the biggest movie stars in the world was flying from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago, Illinois, when he was allegedly pulled out of a security line and questioned and detained for over 1½ hours, apparently because of his Muslim name.
Bollywood megastar Shahrukh Khan is adored around the world, with an estimated fan base of 3.5 billion people. His fame merited a wax figure at Madam Tussauds in London, England.
Khan had come to the United States to participate in Indian Independence Day events in Chicago.
What is significant about Khan’s experience is not simply that it happened. Indeed, prominent Indian travelers including former Indian president Abdul Kalam and Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen have also been victims of racial profiling at airports, and countless other Indian and other South Asian travelers (be they Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or Christian) have been subjected to similar forms of profiling and scrutiny.
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Som 4 September 2009
10:05:29 pm
Lost? Try saying SRK!
But what you don’t expect is to see strangers, otherwise hostile to Asians, suddenly becoming more approachable, the moment they realise you belong to SRK’s country. Recently, a group of tourists from India were gallivanting in Naples, Italy, trying to find their way out of a maze of confusing streets.With not a soul in sight who could speak even half-decent English, they had a tough time negotiating the nukkads of Naples.
Suddenly popped up Giovanni, a local youngster chilling out with his friends on a street corner. Hesitantly (after having experienced some not-so-polite encounters with Europeans), they approached him for help. “India?” was Giovanni’s first response to a rather long-winded question. “SRK?” was his next one-word query. And out of the blue, broke into ‘Tujhe dekha toh yeh jaana sanam’ from DDLJ in what sounded like a strange mix of Italian, English and Hindi. “I love Saahruk,” he informed the stupefied tourists. Turned out, Giovanni was a musician with a passion for world music. He had heard the song, watched the film and had fallen in love with Shah Rukh. Incidentally he hadn’t heard of Amitabh Bachchan or Akshay Kumar, neither had he visited India. But touring Mannat was certainly on his wish-list. Needless to say, the Bollywood convert immediately became a helpful guide for our stranded Indians, taking them on an impromptu tour of the city.
So the next time you feel directionless abroad, just say S-R-K.