Shahrukh Khan gets into quarrel with a journalist

Shahrukh Khan is a media friendly person who always maintains cool in public and maintains a good relationship with media. He is one of the popular actors of Bollywood but never got into brawl with journalist. Whatever be the situation, he handles situation calmly. But recently, he got into spat with a photo journalist when he tried to click his photo when he was having fun with his wife and Bollywood friends on the street after India won the world cup.

Shahrukh could not make to the world cup final due to toe injury but to enjoy the victory, he went out to the street to enjoy with his wife Gauri, Hrithik Roshan and Karisma Kapoor. He came out of his car and started celebrating with his fans on the street.

The crowd on seeing Shahrukh went crazy and the situation almost became unmanageable.

Apparently, Shahrukh lost his patience and got into spat with a photographer, who was trying to take his photo. To get away from the unruly crowd, the actor and his friends rushed to producer Ritesh Sidhwani's house. On realizing his fault, SRK immediately reacted called the media inside Ritesh's house and asked them to take as much photos as they wanted.

SRK reveals D stands for Dhoni

After a fantastic win by India over Sri Lanka in the World Cup final, it was a celebration time for the people of the country. Even the A-list stars of the tinsel villa celebrated India's win.

Unfortunately, SRK could not attend the finals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, still, the King Khan was spotted enjoying India's victory.

When asked about his excitement, the 'Ra.One' actor told TOI, “Chak De India.”

Surprisingly, King Khan, who had engraved a 'D' tattoo on his right hand that resembled 'Don 2', said
"Now the tattoo 'D' would mean Dhoni.”

SRK wants to make his kids to be proud with 'Ra.One'

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan wants to make his children proud with his upcoming film 'Ra.One'.

"'Ra.One' is a very special film I made for my kids. I hope I can make my children proud and this country proud. I am trying my best to make it a very good film," Shahrukh said.

Directed by Anubhav Sinha 'Ra.One' is a sci-fi flick, starring Shahrukh, Arjun Rampal and Kareen Kapoor, who plays the love interest of Khan, and will be released on October 26.

King Khan has two children, 14-year-old son Aryan and 11-year-old daughter Suhana, from wife Gauri.

"It is a kind of film, a genre that we haven't tried. You make a film with passion and love. You want to make it right and want the world to watch it," Shahrukh said.

The 45-year-old actor also said he was inspired by Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman to make this superhero film.

"I watched all the 'X-Men' movies. The role of Wolverine was the biggest inspiration for me to make 'Ra.One'. I was completely inspired by Hugh's film," he said.

Did Abhinav Kashyap rejects Shah Rukh Khan from Dabangg sequel?

Though Dabangg director Abhinav Kashyap has stated that actor Shah Rukh Khan is not the reason he left his launch pad, sources claim otherwise. The director is apparently spending most of his time networking with King Khan for his forthcoming film. It is learned that the film-maker is keen to launch a film with Shah Rukh at exactly the same time that he was slated to direct the Dabangg sequel. Abhinav apparently moved out of Dabangg with his team of assistant directors. One of them, Himanshu Mehra, is the co-producer of his forthcoming film.

“Abhinav had kept the Khan brothers — Arbaaz and Salman — in the dark about his plans for his own film. He didn’t want to shoot the film at the allotted dates. It then came to light that he was having meetings with Shah Rukh for an action thriller. His friend Sunil Vohra brought in a corporate giant as the producer, and has already had at least three meetings to get Shah Rukh on board. The actor’s yet to finalise the project, and Abhinav is eagerly waiting for the final nod,” informs a source, adding that the film is tentatively titled Project 18.However, an official from the production house confirms that the film is on even though Shah Rukh has not signed on the dotted line.

When contacted, Arbaaz Khan said, “The official reason that Abhinav gave me was that the film is being done too soon. But I have to go ahead as soon as I get the dates from Salman. I’ve heard of talks of him having received an SMS from us that prompted him to break off, on the contrary I was the one who got the SMS of him not doing the film.”

But what of the fact that he ditched Salman’s film for SRK? “Whether he ditched the film for someone else’s film is a question that he can answer best. For me, Abhinav is a closed chapter! It’s a good thing that we had our differences now, and not when the film was being made,” says Khan, who will be making his directorial debut with the Dabangg sequel.

Shah Rukh Khan rejects Twitter, joins Facebook

Even as almost every big Bollywood star has been active on micro-blogging site Twitter, actor Shah Rukh Khan seems to have abandoned it (his last tweet, as appearing on the site on Monday, was posted on January 2).

Having over 8 lakh followers on Twitter, the news might shock his fans but SRK has joined popular social networking site Facebook instead. He however said that he would go back to Twitter as he has promised to do so.

"I went on Twitter for two reasons -- one, Karan told me and... I'll go back to it because I have promised one gentleman," SRK told Headlines Today recently admitting abandoning the micro-blogging site.

Reasoning it he said, "I have enough faces and names not liking me and saying it on my face. I'm ok with that, I can deal with that. But when it became nameless and faceless people saying things to me 'oh you are saying this because this is the agenda attached to it'... because people like to believe that if you are a movie star then you are manipulative, you have some agenda, that's why you are talking about."

"Like, suppose I write '@India Today Conclave having fun', somebody would write 'oh he is trying to show off that he was called to India Today Conclave and somebody else wasn't' or something nonsense. I started finding it ochha (cheap). I said I'm not going on this (Twitter). And there are only two people maybe out of 100 who are saying this but I'm over sensitive," Khan added.

Asked if he would be back on Twitter, the actor referred to a recent interview wherein he had promised to do so.

On the other side, SRK recently surprised his fans by joining Facebook. His Facebook page was inaugurated on Sunday with the online premiere of his 22-minute documentary on Mughal-e-Azam, which celebrates 51 years of the classic directed by K. Asif.

Khan would also be promoting his upcoming film Ra.One on Facebook.

Shahrukh Khan reveals not to mix religion with politics

You don’t expect someone to lift their shirt and show their abs to the august gathering such as one that was at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi. But Shahrukh Khan not only got away with that -- with applause to boot -- but also shared a few nuggets of his wisdom.

Shahrukh, who has developed brawns for his home production Ra.One and Farhan Akhtar’s thriller Don 2, did not shy to lift his shirt up when he was asked if a six-pack was “lurking behind that sharp suit”.

Pulling his shirt up to give the audience a peek at his abs, SRK said: “I don't know whether it is a six pack, but it is definitely a four.”

SRK’s stunt was approved heartily by the gathering where the topics under discussion were quite serious.

“My wife always tells me, 'Please don't try to be funny at serious events...please don't speak too much'. And I am told this is a very serious event,” Shahrukh said.

On a serious note, the super star spoke about the politicisation of the word Mumbai and how Bombay has now become a dreaded word.

“Indian cinema is going from Mumbai to Melrose. Though I would have preferred saying Bombay to Beverly Hills, that kind of alliteration is not allowed to Muslim actors,” SRK said.

Talking about communalism and using of religious agendas by political parties, Shahrukh was eloquent.

“I truly believe that politicians should not use religion as an agenda. It is just not acceptable. The issues like education, development and women's upliftment, which are sidelined are the basic political issues which need to be looked upon,” Shahrukh observed.

The actor’s secular mindset was revealed when he reflected: “I am a Muslim myself and I am married to a Hindu lady and my children know about all religions and it’s my conscious decision to make them aware of it. Religion is a personal thing and nobody in this world has the right to come between you and your God.”

SRK, Akshay ahead in advance tax payment

Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar are top taxpayers in Bollywood (in individual category), at least for the third installment of advance tax payment, the last date for which was Tuesday. According to figures available with the income tax (I-T) department, the two actors have paid Rs 10 crore each in the January to March period, which is the third installment.

The I-T department collects advance tax from individuals in three installments in September, December and March. From corporates advance tax is collected in four installments by the 15th of June, September, December and March.

The two actors were followed by Salman Khan whose recent release Dabangg broke collection records. Salman paid Rs 5 crore as advance tax in the third installment.

Aamir Khan followed Salman with payment of Rs 4.4 crore as advance tax in January to March period.

Actor Priyanka Chopra, on whom the I-T department had recently conducted searches, is next with payment of Rs 3.25 crore as advance tax in this period. She leads among female Bollywood personalities.

Youngster Ranbir Kapoor also made to the top Bollywood taxpayers list by paying Rs 2.6 crore followed by Ajay Devgn who made advance tax payment of Rs 1.5 crore in the third installment.

Actor Kareena Kapoor was just behind Devgn with payment of Rs 1.4 crore.