Amitabh Bachchan returns to stage with Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar

For the first time since he started his career as a movie actor in 1969, Amitabh Bachchan returns to stage, albeit in a most unexpected way.
The Big B will play himself on stage in Mahesh Manjrekar’s Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar and that too in Marathi. But not in person. He will be speaking to the play’s main protagonist played by Siddharth Jadhav, from a screen image which will be flashed at every performance of the play.
And since the play will be in the form of an ongoing political comment with the politics changing in every performance according to the current headlines, it looks like the Big B has a long innings ahead on stage.
“You can say that,” laughs Mahesh Manjrekar, who returns to his first love, stage direction, with Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar. “Amitji will be seen in a dialogue with the Siddharth Jadhav character who plays the common man. The politics will change. But the two characters played by Jadhav and Amitji will remain the same.”
Interestingly, the Big B has played a part in the movie version of Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar. The movie entitled Struggler features Mahesh Manjrekar as the common man. Struggler is now ready for release after 5 years since its completion.
Says Manjrekar, “It’s a coincidence that the play and film are going to be out at the same time. The movie is very different from the play. I’ve made a lot of changes in the play. The play will have an ongoing commentary on current politics.”
The first staging of Me Shahrukh Manjarsumbekar will focus on Rahul Gandhi’s comment during the Bihar election campaign to the effect that Maharashtra is prosperous today because of Biharis.
Says Manjrekar, “It is such divisive politics that, my play will strive to criticize through the character of the common man. Amitji’s audio-visual will be the highlight of every show.”

SRK gets a rare honor to sign Town Hall’s guestbook

Its not rocket science that Bollywood Superstar Shahrukh Khan has many firsts and many ‘rare honours’ attached to him. He added yet another rare honour to his credit, when he recently visited the Rotes Rathaus; Berlin’s Town Hall and met its gay mayor Klaus Wowereit. He did so during his visit to Germany, as he is shooting there for Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2.

SRK also got a rare honour of signing the guest book at the Town Hall. By doing so, he became the first Indian actor to be given the honour. Way to go, Shahrukh!

Tusshar not frustrated by gap in film releases

MUMBAI: There are some films that seem like a winner in the making even before the first look is out.

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SRK to learn a thing or two from Shahana!

MUMBAI: Shahrukh Khan has been in the Film Industry since very long.

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Want to see SRK in a Lungi?

MUMBAI: Apart from the costliest superhero suit, which costs no less than a crore, the other costume which Bollywood badshah, Shahrukh Khan would be seen sporting in his upcoming sci-fi extravaganza RA.

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NKorea vows to blow up South propaganda facilities

SEOUL: North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it can even turn Seoul into a sea of flame.

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Ash, SRK and ‘Sex And The City’ cloth line

LOS ANGELES: Sarah Jessica Parker, actor and producer of ‘Sex And The City’ Wear! is going to launch its two fancy stores in Mumbai and Jessica votes for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan as the most prominent brand faces for her range of cloth line in India.

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Katrina Kaif With Shahrukh? Salman not Fuming

MUMBAI: Dream merchants in Bollywood are working overtime to whip out the most sensational casting coup in years.

Efforts are on to pair up Katrina Kaif with none other than Shahrukh Khan for a film.

Yashraj Films have reportedly been trying to rope in Kat with their blue-eyed-no-longer-boy SRK. Now Karan Johar has joined the queue.

K-Jo said that Shahrukh and Katrina are the actors with the most romantic image in Hindi film industry presently. When quizzed if he wants to cast them together in a film, Johar, the enterprising producer that he is, did not rule out the possibility.

If indeed the efforts of these filmmakers come to fruition, we might see Katrina and Shahrukh romancing each other on screen sooner than expected. The on-screen match is now all the more possible, because Salman Khan, Katrina’s beau, has made it clear that he has absolutely no objection to Katrina working with anyone “except one idiot” (Sallu clarified he’s not SRK) in the industry.

So the door is open. All that the filmmakers have to do is come up with the right script that brings SRK and Kat together. For Sallu surely won’t be fuming.

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Katrina Kaif With Shahrukh? Salman not Fuming was first posted on October 1, 2009 at 6:11 pm.

All Rounder Abdul Razzaq Want Permission To Play In IPL From PCB

KARACHI: All-rounder Abdul Razzaq informed the Pakistan Cricket Board that he has received an offer from Kolkata Knight Riders and sought permission to play in the third edition of the Indian Premier League.

Razzaq recently met PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt in Lahore to tell him about his chances of playing for the ShahRukh Khan-owned team.

“I have informed the board in advance as obviously the board can only give me or get me permission to go and play in the IPL,” Razzaq said.

The all-rounder said he was keen to play in the IPL, which he described as a big happening in international cricket.

Razzaq returned to the Pakistan team in June during the Twenty20 World Cup in England after resigning from the unofficial Indian Cricket League.

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All Rounder Abdul Razzaq Want Permission To Play In IPL From PCB was first posted on September 8, 2009 at 3:10 pm.
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