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Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra having a gala time at Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hai.
SRK flags Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hai
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Bollywood and Business Emperors Shake Hands For A Game Of Cricket.
Players from team India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan, Srilanka and Zimbabwe were auctioned in Indian Premiere League Style.
You must be wondering as to what all this means…………….Players from different countries will be representing, states of India.
Chennai, Hyderabad, Banglore, Delhi, Kolkata are all teams contesting against each other.. Indian Players cannot be auctioned,they will have to represent their hometowns.These teams are also called “Franchises”( Guess this iRenaming style of teams is the Bollywood Effect)
Bollywood superstars Sharukh Khan has bought Team Calcutta, Pretty Priety and Boyfriend Ness Wadia have brought Team Mohali.
It was actually funny seeing these top guns of India,bidding Cricketers. The top prices were cornered by Indian and Australian players - ranging from Indian skipper Mahendra Dhoni’s $1.5 million, $1.35 million to Australian allrounder Andrew Symonds and $950,000 to Indian bowler Ishant Sharma and $900,000 to Australia’s Brett Lee.
Well, looks like our bollywood stars and the other top business men are game for making more money in the name of “Love For Cricket”
Sharukh Khan and Priety Zinta have spent huge amounts in buying their franchises, and these people are real smart asses cause they are assured of big returns…………….trust me!!!! Real Fat Amounts.
“Cricket is played with a passion here. I don’t know if this will make money,” said Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who is part owner of the Calcutta franchise. “None of us here thinks it is small change. None of us are here to throw money. But it’s to try to create something. Just trying to create something makes me feel successful already.”
(Wow Sharukh You are one guy who knows to justify all your acts, making it seem so politically right )
Khan was excited by the atmosphere of the auction room. “I’ve got addicted to it now,” he said. “The franchisees are all good friends and there was an atmosphere of camaraderie and friendship, of sportsmanship inside.”
Priety Zinta, representing the Mohali Franchise was all excited, “We have Brett Lee, (Kumar) Sangakarra and (Mahela) Jayawardena,” she said. “I’m really excited. Wish us luck.”
The top paid player was Dhoni who was bid by the Chennai Franchise team owned by India Cements. He was paid a whooping amount of 6 crores.
Next we will hear about the Indian Cricket Team Bidding Bollywod actors for making the best movie.
Any guesses as to how much Sharukh will be bid for………Wow just imagine how much Amitabh and Aishwarya will be bid for ha ha ha.
Jokes apart, we wish Sharukh and Priety the world’s luck…….Do well guys.
SRK, Kajol to come together for Karan Johar's next
They have made you cry, laugh and watch bedazzled as they unleashed their magic in films after films like Karan- Arjun, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. We are talking of Bollywood's favourite on-screen couple, Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan.
Well there is some good news for their fans. If reports are to be believed then director Karan Johar, will be casting the two of them opposite each other in his next film. SRK and Kajol will face the camera together after seven years. They were last seen together on screen in Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham.
Before leaving for New York for location hunting, the young director confirmed the news. He said that Kajol and SRK will be in his next film, which is an emotional love story being penned by Shibani Bhatija.
He had wanted to recreate the Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham magic and had initially offered Kajol the role which was finally essayed by Rani Mukherjee in Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. But Kajol turned down the role for reasons best known to her. But she did admit on the television chat show, Koffee With Karan, that SRK was mad at her for making her comeback with Aamir Khan in Fanaa and not him.
Source: http://mydiddle.co.cc/forum/srk-kajol-to-come-together-for-karan-johar-s-next-dt865.html
Shah Rukh earns more from ads than movies
Shah Rukh Khan, the Badshah of Bollywood, is an even bigger king of the advertising world, according to his tax figures.
The superstar has paid an advance tax of Rs.270 million ($6.8 million) on his estimated income during the current financial year of 2007-08, but a major share of it has gone into paying for his income from endorsing a slew of products and other sources.
Sources in the advertising agency for which the superstar has worked reveal that his income from endorsements fetches him Rs.1.5 billion ($38 million) a year, the highest for any Indian advertising 'model'.
In comparison, though Amitabh Bachchan endorses more products than Khan, earnings from his annual endorsements do not cross Rs.1.2 billion.
Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, two other Bollywood stars who source a good part of their incomes from endorsements, earn a little less than Rs.1 billion each from advertising assignments annually. The rest of the Bollywood 'models' are all in the Rs.50- million income bracket.
Industry observers believe that apart from the top chair he occupies in Bollywood, Shah Rukh is going to maintain his prominent position in the advertising world as well for some more years as there is no one yet who can rival his charisma.
In the current fiscal, his earnings from this source may go a little above Rs.1.5 billion as he has been made brand ambassador of more products - and more are waiting, the sources added.
King Khan's earnings from endorsements stand at a notch much above the emoluments that he gets for starring in movies, which, according to his own admission, never goes beyond Rs.50-60 million per assignment.
A big chunk of his income from outside Bollywood in the current fiscal also came from hosting STAR Plus' Kaun Banega Crorepati quiz series for which he received Rs.10 million per episode.
Additionally, he also made a quick profit of Rs.400 million across the table by selling the world distribution rights of his home production Om Shanti Om to Eros International for Rs.750 million as against the production cost of Rs.350 million.
The profit that he earned from the deal was apart from the remuneration of Rs.50 million that he gave to himself for leading the cast in the movie.
Barring this, the actual figure of his earnings from starring in movies was only Rs.200 million, as he featured in four movies last year. Considering his current star-price, his income from movies in the current fiscal may not go beyond Rs.300 million, which is way below his average earnings from endorsements.
If Shah Rukh earns less from movies, it is because he is seen as the least greedy among the Bollywood stars. Any producer would vouch for it. While other stars generally hike their prices after each successful movie, Shah Rukh never increases his price as others do without thinking. Even after Om Shanti Om became a super-hit, he has decided against hiking his price.
'Shah Rukh chooses his movies carefully. First, the subject matter must appeal to him and, if it does, his opting to star in the movie would largely depend on the credibility and antecedents of the producer and the director,' said an executive of the star's production banner, Red Chillies Production.
'But once he has agreed to a movie, he would devote himself to it wholeheartedly and ensure that the producer never faces any problem in successfully completing it,' the executive, not wishing to be named, told IANS.
It is therefore no wonder that Shah Rukh has been seen to be working only for certain known banners in the last decade. It may even be said if any lesser-known production house rather than Yash Raj Films had approached him for a film like Chak De! India, he would have perhaps refused it.
'I have not seen him throwing star tantrums ever, like nitpicking on small things as most stars do. He comes to the sets and gets involved in shooting right away. As a matter of fact, on the sets, he never behaves like a star,' said a production controller, the professional who on behalf of the producer takes care of the needs of the stars during shoots.
In contrast, Shah Rukh behaves like a 'star' when he shoots for TV commercials. There he refuses to compromise on anything, particularly on his price.
Says he: 'Why should I compromise? TV commercials are what they are - commercials.
'The companies that manufacture the brands pay the advertising agencies to make the commercials and the companies do so in order to boost their sales. The agencies, on their part, use me as a prop to meet the demands of the companies. So there! If you use me as a prop to climb up, pay me. Unlike my price for movies, I have no fixed price for my appearance in commercials.'
But don't the producers sign him up essentially to boost box-office performance of their movies?
The superstar counters this question, saying he is beholden to Bollywood because it made him the superstar that he is today. He says his charging less for movie appearances is his little gesture of gratitude towards the industry.
'Had the industry not put me in a position where I am today, would the companies have chosen me to be their brand ambassadors?' he asks.
Is King Khan, then, robbing Peter to pay Paul? As one advertising agency executive put it: 'He is, but he has made his 'larceny' seem like a social service.'
Original Post: http://mydiddle.co.cc/forum/shah-rukh-earns-more-from-ads-than-movies-dt839.html
Let us smoke on screen, says Shah Rukh Khan
Actor and smoker Shah Rukh Khan has declined a request by the health minister that he quit cigarettes, at least on screen.
Anbumani Ramadoss, the health minister, says the habits of celebrities such as Khan are an enormous influence on young people. But Khan, Hindi cinema's most bankable star, sees no grounds for censorship.
"I think there is a huge amount of creative freedom that should be allowed in cinema," he told a press conference broadcast on the Times Now news channel on Monday. "It is make-believe ... We should not have huge censorship."
Khan recently played a glamorous Mumbai gangster in the film Don, which was advertised with a lingering shot of him exhaling slow-motion billows of cigarette smoke at the screen, cut with shots of him in sharp clothes and dancing with beautiful women.
But even if film heroines are not repelled by the habit, Ramadoss is.
"Please don't smoke in your movies, Mr Shah Rukh Khan," the health minister said in an interview with CNN-IBN broadcast on Sunday. "Children are being affected. Fourteen-year-olds are taking to tobacco."
More than half of Indian men and about one in 10 Indian women smoke or chew tobacco, according to government figures.
Ramadoss has been pushing for restrictive laws to put people off the addictive habit, which can cause cancers and other diseases.
He proposed an outright ban on smoking onscreen in 2006 and that tobacco packets be emblazoned with grisly photographs of smoking-related diseases, but neither suggestion has yet made it into law.
However, Khan stressed that he was no advocate for smoking, even if his art requires him to light up occasionally.
"Every time I'm in front of a television channel I always say, 'children, don't smoke, it kills you.'" He told reporters. "It's the worst habit and I want to give it up as soon as possible."
Original post: http://mydiddle.co.cc/forum/let-us-smoke-on-screen-says-shah-rukh-khan-dt838.html
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