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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.

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Taare Zameen Par swept the Nokia 14th Annual Star Screen Awards on Thursday, but Chak De India ran away with the Best Film Award and Chak De boy Shah Rukh Khan bagged the Best Actor Award at the first film award function of the year.

However, it was a tie for the Best Director’s Award between Shimit Amin for Chak de India and Aamir Khan for Taare Zameen Par.

This year’s event saw some of 2007’s top films like Taare Zameen Par, Chak De India, Life…In a Metro, Om Shanti Om and Guru vying for the top honours.

Taare Jameen Par bagged six key awards including Best Director (Aamir Khan), Best Story (Amol Gupte), Best Child Actor (Darsheel), Best Lyricist (Prasoon Joshi), Best Dialogue and Best Supporting Actor (Aamir Khan).

But Chak De India was adjudged the best film of the year while Mani Ratnam’s Guru earned AR Rahman the Best Music Director Award. The Best Actress Award went to Kareena Kapoor for Jab We Met.

Shah Rukh Khan performed his Dard-e-Disco number from Om Shanti Om while Shahid Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Urmila Matondkar, Riteish Deshmukh and Dia Mirza shook a leg to the year’s chartbusters at the award ceremony, which was hosted by ace compere and Heyy Babyy director Sajid Khan.

Shah Rukh Khan also won the honour of Best Pair along with Deepika Padukone, who also carried a second trophy for the Best Newcomer (Female). The Best Newcomer (Male) Award went to Ranbir Kapoor. Irfan Khan bagged the Best Comedian Award for Life…In a Metro while Anurag Basu won the Best Screenplay Award for the same film.

The Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award went to Manoj Kumar. Pankaj Kapoor bagged the Award for Best Negative Role for while Chak De girls shared the honour for Best Supporting Role (female).

Singer Soham won the Award for the Best Playback Singer (Male) for his soulful rendition of in the film Life…In a Metro while Priya Ghosal was adjudged Best Playback Singer (female) for Guru.

The Complete List:

Best Film: Chak De India

Best Director:Shimit Amin for Chak de India and Aamir Khan for Taare Zameen Par.

Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan, Chak De India

Best Actress: Kareena Kapoor, Jab We Met

Best Music: AR Rahman for Guru

Best Story and Screenplay: Amole Gupte for Taare Zameen Par

Best Supporting Actor: Aamir Khan for Taare Zameen Par.

Best Supporting Actress: Chak de India girls

Best Child Actor: Darsheel, Taare Zameen Par

Best Pair of the Year: Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone

Lifetime Achievement Award: Manoj Kumar

Best Choreographer: Farah Khan for Om Shanti Om.

Best Lyricist: Prasoon Joshi, Taare Zameen Par

Critics Award for Best Actress: Tabu for Cheeni Kum.

Best Newcomer Male: Ranbir Kapoor

Best Dialogue: Taare Zameen Par

Best Newcomer Female: Deepika Padukone

Best Negative Actor: Pankaj Kapoor

Best Male Singer : Soham

Best Female Singer: Shreya Ghosal

Best Screenplay: Anurag Basu for Metro.

Best Comedian: Irfaan Khan for Metro.

The premiere of Shah Rukh Khan’s Om Shanti Om will take place in London at the Empire, Leicester Square on the 8th of November. The Red Carpet World Premiere presented by Eros International, will be witnessed by the presence of SRK, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade and guests who will be specially flown there.

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Shah Rukh Khan, as always, was chatting with everybody on the sets, while Amitabh Bachchan preferred to remain reserved.

The wait is finally over for Vivek Sharma. Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan have at last given a date to shoot together, for bhootnath,

There was absolutely no dialogue between the two except during the scene that was canned on them. In the film, Amitabh Bachchan plays a ghost. Bhootnath will mark the debut of Vivek Sharma as a director.

Deepika Padukone is all set to sizzle on the silverscreen with her debut film opposite King Khan.

Says Deepika, “I have grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan movies and working with him in Om Shanti Om was such a great experience.

I was like this little child on the sets. Neither SRK nor Farah played any pranks on me as they were scared that I would break into tears. I felt protected all the time.”

Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan star in Ravi Chopra’s film Bhootnath. After all the rumours surrounding the two having a cold war, it will be interesting to see the two actors work together. However there seems to be a new problem, Shahrukh and Amitabh don’t seem to have any combined dates to give their director. This has upset director Ravi Chopra and also the film’s schedule. Both actors have shot their individual scenes in the film, but have yet to find combined dates to shoot for their portion together.

According to sources “When SRK gives his dates, Amitabh Bachchan is not available The sets put up for the film are extremely expensive and it has been lying unused for quite some time now, this is no doubt causing the film producers a financial crunch. Recently Amitabh had given some dates, but unfortunately they coincided with the music launch of SRK’s home production Om Shanti Om and hence the shooting had to be cancelled in the end.

A major portion of the film involving SRK and Amitabh’s individual scenes has already been shot, but they have still to shoot their joined portions. Earlier too there was some talk that Amitabh wanted Bhootnath script to be re-worked. In the second week of October, the film’s unit leaves for Goa to shoot a song sequence out there and the joint portions of Amitabh and SRK need to be shot before that. Director Ravi Chopra simply said “We have got some dates and we will start shooting at the Mehboob Studios sets from October 1-10.”

Shahrukh is also busy promoting his home production Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om. The film will also see his wife Gauri Khan makes a special appearance towards the end of the film. In fact Shahrukh’s NRI fans in Germany are so excited to see Om Shanti Om that about 10,000 signed petitions requested for a screening of the film at the Berlin Film Festival. They have even invited their favourite actor SRK to come out to meet his fans in Germany. However the film will not be screened at the Berlinale as it is February which is a bit too late, but the film will have a worldwide release on November 9. The German Magazine Rapid Eye will also be doing a book on the making of Om Shanti Om. So that’s some fan following for SRK from Germany.

if you thought that all was hunky dory during the shooting of Om Shanti Om, then you got it wrong. Here’s the good news and the bad news. The bad news is that Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan got into a terrible fight on the film’s sets.

The good news is that this was strictly for the camera! Farah makes a special appearance in her second directorial venture, which releases on November 9.So what’s news in that? After all, the entire Hindi film industry—from Amitabh Bachchan to Amrita Arora—will be seen in special appearances in this Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal and Shreyas Talpade starrer!Well, the difference here is that Farah won’t be playing herself. Instead, she enacts the role of a junior artist.Laughs Farah, “Well, this is the irony we wanted to bring about. Imagine me playing a junior artist in the film. In fact, I am seen along with Shah Rukh in the opening sequence of the film itself.”

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Director Farah Khan is so friendly with Shah Rukh Khan that she has scrapped her movie ‘Happy New Year’ starring SRK, Priyanka Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan, in favor of SRK and Gauri Khan’s joint production ‘Om Shanti Om’. No sooner Farah finished her ‘Main Hoon Na’ starring Shah Rukh Khan and Sushmita Sen (already released ), than she not only wrote the script but also accepted to direct SRK starrer ‘Om Shanti Om’. Industry circles say that ‘Om Shanti Om’ is based on the Hollywood movie titled ‘Chances Are’ made as early as in 1989. Farah has a special interest in ‘Om Shanti Om’. That’s why she has assigned an item number to Colombian Latin pop singer -cum-song writer Shakira. But in view of its theme, the story of ‘Om Shanti Om’ seems to based on the Hindu philosophy of reincarnation.

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Enough trouble is brewing on the home front to keep Farah Khan busy before the release of her film, Om Shanti Om. First, her husband Shirish Kunder parted ways with her best friend Shah Rukh Khan because of irrevocable creative differences, and the ambitious film, Joker will now no longer have SRK in the superhero avatar.

Later, her brother Sajid Khan’s film, Heyy Babyy didn’t showcase trailers of Om Shanti Om at the special screenings organised for the high-profile industrywallahs across the city.

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Not only has Shah Rukh Khan’s sporting exploits in the recent super hit, CHAK DE! INDIA conquered the box-office and critics, his sportsmanship has floored the B R Chopra family too!

As per reports, for his guest appearance in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer, BHOOTNATH, Shah Rukh Khan is not charging even a single penny from the Chopras. Not only that, the superstar was even ready to turn up for shooting in his own personal clothes, declining remunerative offers, even for his fancy attires.

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