The life is not a Bollywood film. Bollywood, it is called the Indian film industry, and their products work like this: man loves woman, woman loves man, usually but not always at the same time and with many obstacles. Which are at the end away, and it is sung and danced. All very colorful. The undisputed superstar of the scene is Shahrukh Khan. At the end of each movie dancing with the girl he loved singing in a colorful sunrise.
In the dock of the Frankfurt district court sitting on a gray October morning father and son. N. Muhammed, 60 years, and his offspring Syed Q., 25 years old. The charge is insolvency.
The two once had an agency. The father was a registered director, Office of the son. In late summer 2008, they sold about 8,000 tickets for the heaviest thing that her agency had ever on the pan, a mega-event: an evening with Shahrukh Khan. The tickets were not cheap. More than 700,000 € came together. That flowed to the agency of the Indian superstar with Pakistani roots.
Suddenly everything changed
Those who came never was Shahrukh Khan. "Two weeks before the tour he was suddenly no longer fly with Lufthansa. He wanted more hotel services such as we had booked. He wanted a completely new stage production. He had previously seen a show by Madonna. Something he also wanted to impress his German fans. "It was more than the small family could afford.
Shahrukh Khan was angry. He declined. Father and son were sitting there with the tickets sold and the money was the devil or to Khan.
What sounds like a pity story, the father and son prove with documents. Just as the written advice of a law firm to delay the bankruptcy - perhaps it is considering still another Khan. A fraud trial, the two already behind. They are innocent. And yet ruined. The agency Khan, based in a tax haven, a few weeks after the cancellation broke into thin air. Shahrukh Khan had pulled this number already with other tour operators, says the lawyer for the two.
Even the prosecutor sees the accused victim of a malicious artist. Yet they have when abducted on an attorney, the bankruptcy. Ergo: 70 times 15 € for the junior, 70 times 20 € for the senior. Mild as it gets.
Life is not a Bollywood film. Shahrukh Khan celebrated his latest film "My Name is Khan" in the Western Hemisphere a huge success. He stands at the zenith of his fame. Muhammad's father now drives taxis, son Syed does not work. The stigma of bankruptcy and the processes weighs like a millstone on them. The words of comfort that is also the judge to help a little. No one sings, nobody dances. And outside of the door, it is still gray.
At least there's no continuation.
Source: http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/der-zorn-des-khan/-/1472798/4849322/-/index.html
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