Here’s a great article I found on Beauty’s 80 Bloom blog that is displaying rare pictures of the King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan! You have to see the pics to believe that this is really Shahrukh. Plus, you get to see Shahrukh’s parents in the pictures.

Yesterday, 27th Of July 2008, was the finale of Kya Aap Panchvi Paas Se Tez Hain?. For those who don’t know, Panchvi Paas is the Indian version of “Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader?”.

Coming back to the finale, Shahrukh Khan had none other than our very own Lalu Prasad Yadav for company. It was really a great show and had Lalu chugging through the whole episode and answering all the questions without much hesitation.

Or perhaps the show’s questions were setup that way? Who knows. Anyway, I pretty much enjoyed the show and was thoroughly entertained by our very own Railway Minister who has an ear to the ground!

With TRPs or ratings running low for the show mostly due to the Indian Premier League debuting side by side, I am doubtful if the show will return for a second season. Although SRK was optimistic about it and was saying that this is the season finale episode.

Budgeted at a whopping US$ 25 million (or Rs 1 Billion), SRK is all set to make India’s costliest movie. The movie is a fantasy based subject which will have lot’s of CGI and VFX.

It will be produced by Shahrukh’s home production, Red Chillies Entertainment, and directed by Anubhav Sinha of Tere Bin and Dus fame.

I hope the movie is a good one and lives up to the hype.

Well, if you people thought that there were no other websites to go to other than Indiafm or Rediff with regards to news about box office performance of movies, think again. Here’s a great website called the IBOS Network which tracks the box office collections of Bollywood movies and, in fact, has a huge archive of box office info on a lot of titles starting right from the 1940s and earlier.

As for the topic of this post is concerned, here’s a look at the Box office report for the year 2007 for Bollywood. According to the report, the top 5 earners of 2007 are:

1. Om Shanti Om (Shahrukh Khan delivers a solid hit)
   
2. Welcome (which got here because it was one week shy of the new year when it released and scored big in that one  week, grossing almost 75% of what Om Shanti Om did in it’s entire run. This is Akshay Kumar’s fourth hit film in a single calender year giving him considerable clout at the Box Office)
3. Partner (Salman and Govinda score points)
4. Guru (Abhishek’s career defining performance scored for him and his director Mani Ratnam a power packed blockbuster)
5. Chak De India (Shahrukh Khan did for hockey and what no one else could do, bring them to the headlines)

So, the lethal and previously successful combination of Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan has delivered another great blockbuster for the King Khan.

Shahrukh Khan has had three (two in starring roles and one in a guest appearance movie) straight big hits this year and is on fire. Let’s hope he keeps the hits coming in.

Get all the information about Shahrukh Khan’s forthcoming attraction, Om Shanti Om. It’s going to be released next Friday which is 9th November.

All About Om Shanti Om

This is one of the biggest clash of two of the most awaited movies of 2007. Yes. It’s about Shahrukh and Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya (which is the first production of Sony Pictures India).

2007 has not been a good year for Bollywood so far only a handful of movies making it past the HIT mark. I wonder if it would be wise (or good economics) to field two of the most eagerly anticipated movies of 2007?

Maybe I’m wrong. But what if I ain’t? What if all of this is going to hurt all the parties involved rather than do any good for them. For me, as a  cinema-goer, I don’t mind both of them coming at the same time since I would be watching both the movies.

What is your take?

Raj Kumar Hirani, the man behind Munnabhai movies, plans to make a movie with Shahrukh Khan based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel about life in the IIT. Hirani plans to finish this movie before he can begin work on Munnabhai Chale Amrika.

It must be noted that Shahrukh was the original choice to play Munnabhai before Hirani banked upon Sanjay Dutt and the rest as they is history!

Good luck to you Mr. Hirani and you too Shahrukh. All I can say is: Lage Raho!

Shahrukh Khan came to watch the India vs. Pakistan match in Johannesburg along with his son Aryan. The team did not disappoint the King Khan (of Bollywood) as they brought home the cup and the cries of Chak De! were loud and about in the air.

The air at the stadium was quite festive and with Shahrukh Khan coming down to the grounds to greet and hug the team that had done a nation proud!

Interestingly, Shahrukh Khan’s movie this year called, “Chak De! India” had a positive impact on the nation. Coincidentally, India also won the Hockey Asia Cup (the sport which figured in the movie) this year and it looks like the nation has forgotten the memories of the World Cup (ODI) crash that India took earlier this year.

So, the game is back. So is the Indian team!

Chak De India!!!

I was just watching news on NDTV, when they showed an advanced preview of Karan Johar’s show, Koffee with Karan. In the forthcoming episode which airs this Sunday, Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan are the guests.

In the episode, Karan asks Shahrukh Khan about him being all slim and sexy and muscular of late. He wants to know what is the secret of this new transformation. In reply to this, Shahrukh tells him an incident which his son Aryan faced at school when a girl taunted about Shahrukh to him. He goes on to say that Aryan reacted to only the comment where she said that his father is fat.

Later that evening, Aryan came home and said to Shahrukh, “Papa, I don’t care what she (the girl) said about you. But it was not her mistake that she said you are fat. It’s because you ARE fat”.

This let Shahrukh get slim and muscular and change his look lately.

So now you know why the King Khan is looking all the more dashing, young and sexy lately.