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Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan did a show in Dubai together. Thats not what we are gonna talk about, the talking point is that Katrina performed very little during the show. Why? Because apparently just a couple of days before the show she fell sick and her doctors told her not to do anything stressful or hectic. She had low hemoglobin which made him too weak to perform.

It was a disaster for the organizers of the event when they found out that Katrina is unable to attend the show. These organizers sold out the show in the name of ‘A night with Katrina and Salman’, they didn’t know how they are gonna face the people who bought the tickets at the really high prices. To ease the pain of the organizers Katrina agreed to appear on stage and put together a minimal act where she neither danced nor talked much. Even this was a life saver for the organizers. If this was some foreign country they might have sued the actress for being careless and unprofessional. But these Desi bollywood lover fools paid 80 Lac Indian Rupees to Katrina Kaif for just appearing on the stage and say a few words.

Now I am not against people making money. But I am against people taking advantage of other people’s miseries. Katrina who is not known for her amazing acting or dancing skills, nor she has any critically acclaimed movie on her credit. All she does is to star in movies that revolve around other actors and she gives appearances into dances and a couple of scenes and thats it. Her recent movie Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab kahani’s box office report is a proof that she is unable to peform a lead role. But here she is getting all the money for just her looks, and honestly I don’t even think she is that pretty, is she?

Salman Khan has appeared on Farah Khan’s Television show ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’ with his mother. You can watch a preview of the show on youtube. The series itself is premiering from Salman Khan episode which is going to be aired tomorrow (23 August 2009) at 9pm. Farah Khan’s show strives to be different from shows like ‘Koffee with Karan’, ‘Oye! its Friday’ and ‘Rendezvous with Simi Garwal’. Farah promises that in her show she will show the non glamorous side of the celebrities and she will try to make them talk about the issues of their lives that are very similar to their fans.

I think this is a lame idea but even then show is going to be a big success as Farah would pull a few strings and no one can deny to be her on show. Even Salman Khan’s mother Salma who had never given an interview and never been on television before. Farah will end the season by inviting Shahrukh Khan and you can see Shahrukh Khan telling that he is a ‘Joro ka Ghulam’. Farah is making the same mistake she made in her amazingly disappointing movie ‘Om Shanti Om’, she is trying too hard to entertain.

Still I believe that the Salman Khan episode would be a must watch to any one who has ever loved any Hindi movie. You can hear Salman, his mother and his father talking about his love life, controversies and how they affected the family and of course about movies. Don’t forget to check out the official website of the show ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein‘, it has more photos of Salman Khan and other stars with Farah, videos and much more.

Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif announced their engagement last year. Since then media is speculating over their wedding plans. Salman Khan has expressed a desire to get married as soon as possible, but Katrina is always telling around that she is more focused on her career right now. A week ago, some Marathi language newspaper published a story that Katrina is already married. Later the newspaper denied the story and Katrina cleared it up saying that the world will know when she gets married.

But Salman Khan fans are not very happy with Katrina’s attitude. The first thing that the Salman Khan fans don’t like is Katrina Kaif’s pairing with Akshay Kumar. While talking to a die hard Sallu fan, I tried to convince him that Katrina is an actoress and film makers think it is more profitable to sign her with Akshay than Salman Khan. Even Salman Khan’s home production “Partner” had Katrina paired with Govinda not with Salman Khan.

Secondly, they don’t like the rumors about Katrina’s growing friendship with Ranbir Kapoor. Just today I read that Katrina will be spending Valentine’s day with Ranbir Kapoor on sets of “Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani” in Turkey. Deepika Padukone, who is dating Ranbir since a long time now, is not very happy with the situation. It is reported that she visits the sets more often than expected and is acting overly protective of Ranbir Kapoor. We don’t really know whats on Katrina’s mind. But Salman Khan who had always been more expressive about his love life is also acting wierd. There are rumors of Salman Khan’s interest in the new actoress Asin. We can only speculate, and most people are expecting to hear the news of a break up.

While my friend Addy is comparing Shahrukh Khan with Aamir Khan. I would like to spend sometime on comparing Shahrukh Khan with Akshay Kumar. You will find lots of people saying that Akshay has given many more hit movies than Shahrukh Khan during last few years. Unfortunately, these Akshay lovers are terribly wrong. Shahrukh Khan still rules the box office.

In 2007, Shahrukh Khan had two major releases. Chak de India and Om Shanti Om. Both did amazingly well on the box office. Shahrukh was praised for his role as “Kabir Khan” in Chak de India by critics. Critics didn’t like him much in Om Shanti Om but movie’s hype and better marketing techniques made it a blockbuster. 2007 was also the luckiest year in Akshay Kumar’s career. He had four hit movies back to back. Namastey London, Heyy Babyy, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Welcome. What I don’t like about all these four movies is that Akshay never moved away from his Hera Pheri style. There was no change in his acting and character development was extremely poor. His character looked the same in all these four movies. There was no versatility and nothing new in his acting.

In 2008 two Akshay Kumar movies were released. Singh is King and Tashaan. Tashaan was a huge disappointment at box office. Singh is King did fairly well and it was the third highest grosser in Bollywood. However, Shahrukh Khan had only one movie as the major release in 2008. Rab ne Bana di Jodi which was the highest grosser movie of 2008. Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Chandni Chowk to China Town has caused distress to the film makers who has signed him at very high prices. Chandni Chowk to Chinatown went flat on box office and it seems like no one is yet ready to buy the rights for his upcoming movies. Rohini Bhandari at the Business of Cinema suggests that producers may need to re-evaluate Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movies.

If you take TV shows, advertising campaign and International tours to measure the market value and popularity of the stars then Shahrukh Khan clearly beats Akshay Kumar.

Honestly, I don’t really care about who is more popular. I love these kind of comparisons because I think such healthy rivalry improves the quality of Hindi Cinema. This race to be the no. 1. Bollywood star benefits the audiences. So I would say that we the audiences of Hindi movies should encourage such debates. By the way I dont think that Aamir, Shahrukh, Akshay or Salman could ever beat the charisma and stardom of Hrithik Roshan. Who is, in my opinion, the best male performer in Bollywood right now.

If I had to watch Bruce Almighty in Hindi I would have bought the dubbed Hindi DVD of the original movie. It is such an insult to audience of Indian films to show them a cheap copy of a popular and recent Hollywood movie. I am all willing to see “inspired from hollywood” material if it is well made and properly presented. Even though ‘God Tusi Great Ho‘ has some moments of charm but thats only because of the talented and the most experienced actors of the film industry that were casted into badly sketched roles. Salman Khan looked a 44 year old uncle trying to act juvenile it was a pathetic and shameless display of attempts on being funny. Priyanka Chopra was just looking good which is all she needs to stay in the business. Amitabh Bachchan, well now he is the icon of the Indian Film Industry but I think he should really retire now or at least save his enegies for world tours and advertisements. His attempts on acting God, were pathetic and it was too obvious that he wasn’t even half heartedly interested in the role he was playing.

Check out Rajeev Masand’s review of the movie on CNN-IBN, he writes:

Written and directed by Rumi Jaffery, the man credited with writing some of David Dhawan’s most entertaining films—Coolie No 1, Hero No 1 and Judwaa—God Tussi Great Ho is ultimately a colossal bore.

SearchIndia reviewed it as outright theft and ugly as hell in their review:

Although these two dinosaurs Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan have been around in Bollywood for a gazillion years, yet their performance in God Tussi Great Ho is not even a millionth as good as that of Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty.

Rediff called it Fake:

Instead the rehash is as loud as its interior decoration, as uncool as Salman Khan’s wardrobe, as ugly as Priyanka Chopra’s nose-ring, and as brain-dead as Sohail Khan’s performance.

Shahrukh Khan is always in the news and he should be after all he is the King of Bollywood. But it seems like not every one is happy with the King Khan. Recently he had a fight with Salman Khan on Salman Khan’s girlfriend Katrina Kaif’s birthday party. Apparantely some people say that it started when Shahrukh Khan commented about Salman Khan’s relation with Aishawarya Rai who dumped Salman Khan and married Abhishek Bachchan. Both stars kept quite about the incident for a few weeks but now Salman Khan has talked to the media about the incident and admitted that he had a spat with Shahrukh Khan that night. He said that Shahrukh and I are two very different individuals and we could never be friends.

On the other hand Shahrukh Khan’s production house red chillies has lost the case where legendary Indian actor Manoj Kumar filed a suit in Mumbai session court asking for the deletion of the scenes where his patriotism is spoofed in the movie Om Shanti Om.

Shahrukh Khan’s house “Mannat” which always remained in the news for its real estate value, historical significanc, ideal sea facing location and numerous complains filed by several social organizations, political activists and government authorities. Recently another social activist Simpreet Singh filed a petition against the construction Shahrukh Khan’s house, Mannat.

Rediff News asked their readers if they think that Shahrukh Khan is the most unpopular star in bollywood?

Sometimes Desi Galaxy readers ask us questions about their favorite bollywood celebrities. They think that we are directly in touch with all the big names in entertainment industry. We are just like you, a bunch of fans among millions of Hindi film lovers all over the world. We don’t have all the answers but thanks to the internet and our capability to Google we can answer a few of your questions at least.

We are often asked about the mailing address of several bollywood celebrities. So we have found a few of them for you. you can use these addresses to contact your favorite stars as these are their official fan mail address.

Shahrukh Khan’s fan mail address:
Shahrukh Khan
603, Amrit Bandra (west)
Mumbai 400050, India

You can also write directly to Shahrukh Khan’s residential address:
Mannat, Band Stand,
Bandra (West),
Mumbai 400050, India.

Saif Ali Khan fan mail address:
Bungalow No. 5, Belscot Tower,
Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri Link Road,
Mumbai 400058, India.

Salman Khan contact address:
3 Galaxy Apartments., B.J. Road,
Band Stand, Bandra,
Mumbai 400050, India.

If you want to receive a response from these stars then you must send an empty self addressed envelope with your letter make sure that you have put on enough stamps on the envelope to cover the postage. Remember that these stars receive thousands of letters from their fans and it is not possible for them to promptly reply you back so you will have to wait. It is a great idea to send a photograph of the star with your letter so that they can sign it and send it back to you and then you can show it to your friends and family.

Keep reading Desi Galaxy and keep sending fan mail to your favorite bollywood celebrities.

Salman Khan threw a big party on the occassion of his girlfriend Katrina Kaif’s birthday on 16th July. The party has become the talk of the town for three reasons. First, Salman Khan proposed Katrina Kaif. Secondly, after a very long time there was an event where the media saw the three Khans (Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan) of bollywood under one roof. Thirdly, some Mumbai based tabloids reported of a fight between Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan.

It is said that Salman Khan was poking fun at Shahrukh Khan. Salman joked about Shahrukh Khan’s recent flops but what made Shahrukh Khan loose temper was when Salman Khan said that “Shahrukh Khan is a superstar who is Paanchvi Fail”. This was pointed towards Shahrukh Khan’s unsuccessful television show “Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass se Tez hain”. Shahrukh Khan said something in return and then there was a full blown verbal fight between the stars. Shahrukh’s wife Gauri took him out of the party when it looked like that the two actors are going to attack each other physically.

We don’t know how much of this is truth. SAWF’s Vijainder K Thakur talked to his journalist friends who were present at the party. He writes:

a surprising fact about the spat is that no journalist seems to have witnessed it, and there were a lot of them there!

Salman Khan has reacted to the media reports of the fight on his blog. But in his response he neither confirmed nor refused that any such thing happened at the party. However, he is angry over the media reports. In his response he compared the journalists with street dogs. Salman’s girlfriend Katrina and Shahrukh Khan were questioned by media about the fight but they did not comment.