Shah Rhuk Khan in Berlin

Berlin, 22 October 2010 Big hype at today's press conference at the FriedrichstadtPalast announcing the DON-2 film shoot in Berlin! Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan, the German actor Florian Lukas and Indian superstars Priyanka Chopra and Boman Irani presented the project, together with the director Farhan Akhtar, producer Ritesh Sidhwani, German co-producer Mathias Schwerbrock and the German catalysts of the project, Medienboard CEO Kirsten Niehuus, visitBerlin CEO Burkhard Kieker and Berlin Partner CEO René Gurka.

For about 50 days the Bollywood blockbuster DON-2 is being shot in prominent locations throughout Berlin. Among the highlights are the Berlin Cathedral, the Gendarmenmarkt, the Olympic Stadium and the East Side Gallery.

Shah Rukh Khan, Hauptdarsteller: "A proud moment for all of us at DON-2, Germany today houses a huge market for Indian films and it's great to be here shooting for the next 50 days. A landmark city which is part of world history."

Farhan Akhtar, Regisseur: "When I came to Berlin on holiday in 2007 I was amazed and overwhelmed by the spirit of the city and most excited to see the mix of architecture, politics, music, cinema and all the signs of a healthy cultural life. Just like my character – 'Don', this city is avante garde and cutting edge. Two reasons for me coming here - Berlin is the right location for my film DON-2 and Berlin has to be on the Bollywood screens."

Ritesh Sidhwani, Produzent (Excel Entertainment): "Don is a brand which deserves only the best and in this ambitious project of ours it's going to be our endeavour to make it comparable to the best in the world and what better way than to start of in Berlin"

Mathias Schwerbrock, Deutscher Koproduzent (Film Base Berlin): "I am proud to coproduce a film, which will have an audience of approximately one billion eyeballs"

As Medienboard Managing Director Kirsten Niehuus notes: "Shah Rukh Khan, the Berlin Cathedral, Gendarmenmarkt Square, the Olympic Stadium – not just the Indian superstar but the city of Berlin, too, will play a starring role in the film! India has the largest cinema-going audience in the world, which means that a film featuring the most beautiful locations in Berlin will no doubt inspire Don fans to visit the city and to walk in Shah Rukhs footsteps."

visitBerlin CEO Burkhard Kieker: "DON-2 will be our advertising campaign for India. With this film we want to instil enthusiasm in a multimillion audience for the destination Berlin and, in this way, secure our breakthrough on the Indian market."

René Gurka, Managing Director Berlin Partner GmbH: „Berlin has fought off competition from other cities worldwide to be chosen as a shooting location. The decision to film DON-2 here shows once again what a positive image Berlin enjoys around the globe. That is why we and the be Berlin capital city campaign are pleased to support the DON-2 project. The shooting will benefit the local media industry and open up new avenues in Asia for Berlin-based companies."

Source: http://press.visitberlin.de/news-release/shah-rhuk-khan-in-berlin

Shah Rukh Khan is to Bollywood Berlin

If Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan Grandmaster invites to a press conference, can not miss it. So today in Berlin. The crowd at the Friedrichstadt Palace, where the press event took place was expected, huge.

Khan presented the many journalists his new project "Don 2" in front, for which he will be in the next 1 ½ months in Berlin just before the camera. He and the whole "Don 2" crew were to be allowed to turn pride in the German capital. "A great city that is part of world history," said Khan.

And director Farhan Akhtar is excited about Berlin. The mix of architecture, politics, music and movies show that the cultural life in the city is very healthy."Berlin is the place for 'Don 2' and Berlin is one of the Bollywood screens."

As a backdrop for the action flick will serve, among other things, the Gendarmenmarkt, the Olympic Stadium and the Dome.

Besides Shah Rukh Khan, which came in a black suit, white shirt and bright red tie before the press, were the Indian superstars Priyanka Chopra and Ritesh Sidhwani BomanIrani and the producer and the German actor Florian Lukas site.

Source: http://www.tikonline.de/top-stories/detail.php?nr=88983&rubric=Top-Stories

Shah Rukh Khan brings Bollywood spice to Berlin

BERLIN, GERMANY - Bollywood heartthrob Shah Rukh Khan spoke of his love for Berlin Friday as he presented his new film in the city, which hopes his huge pulling power will lure more Indian tourists to its attractions.

"Every time I come here it's very cold and then I feel the warmth of lovely German bodies against me ... I'm really happy to work in this atmosphere," said the superstar at a press conference in a chilly, drizzly Berlin.

"The city is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen ... I have been here for two weeks and I don't feel I'm working," he added.

"I'm just happy to be in Berlin. I love it. If you told me to stand up on a tourist bus and dance, I would do it."

Khan is on location in Berlin to shoot his new film, "DON-2", billed by producers as a "Bollywood version of Bond."

The film features Khan in his old role as Don, the "unbeatable, unstoppable, smartest, smoothest gangster in the Asian drug world," according to producers.

Viewers are promised "an edge-of-the-seat thriller, with a riveting plot and breathtaking action."

"DON-2" is being shot for 50 days in prominent venues in the German capital, including the stadium that hosted the 1936 "Hitler Olympics" and the East Side Gallery, a long, graffiti-strewn section of the Berlin Wall.

The overall budget of the film was 12 million euros (17 million dollars) of which just over half was spent in Berlin.

Known as "King Khan", the 44-year-old actor is one of the most popular in Bollywood, with millions of loyal fans. He was once nominated one of the world's 50 most important people in the world by Newsweek magazine.

And the city of Berlin, already a magnet for film producers, hopes that Khan's star power will encourage other Bollywood productions to be filmed in the capital, in turn boosting tourism from India's burgeoning middle class.

The chief executive of the "visitBerlin" campaign, Burkhard Kieker, said: "DON-2 will be our advertising campaign for India."

"With this film we want to enthuse a multimillion audience for the destination of Berlin and, in this way, secure our breakthrough on the Indian market."

"DON-2" is the sequel to the 2006 "Don: The Chase Begins Again", itself a remake of the Bollywood classic "Don". It is due to premier in cinemas at the end of 2011. --AFP

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20101022-243741.html

Shahrukh Khan at Don 2 Berlin Press Conference

Shahrukh Khan at Don 2 Berlin Press Conference

Indian Actor Shah Rukh Khan Filming in Berlin

Berlin is going Bollywood: Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan is in Germany's capital filming "Don-2," a sequel to the 2006 Bollywood action movie .

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and co-star actress Priyanka Chopra, center and German actor Florian...

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and co-star actress Priyanka Chopra, center and German actor Florian Lukas, right, pose during a photo call in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Shah Rukh Khan is working on his new action movie "Don-2" in Berlin, where some of the scenes are shot. 

"Don," about a sexy but deadly gangster

Director Farhan Akhtar said Friday that Berlin holds a "certain degree of mystery" for Indian filmgoers, who are used to London or Paris for European movie scenes.

Much of the movie will be set around famous Berlin locations like the Brandenburg Gate and the 1936 Olympic Stadium, but filmmakers provided no plot specifics.

"Don-2" has a budget of euro12 million ($16.7 million), euro6.8 million of which will be spent in Berlin. Crews have been in Berlin since early October .

The original Hindi plus English and German versions are scheduled to be released in November 2011.

Source:  ABC News

A Roman holiday for SRK and family

KJo and Gauri to join Shah Rukh in Rome and then Berlin for his birthday

Shah Rukh Khan will be celebrating his 20th wedding anniversary October 25 without his wife. The actor will be working on that day. He is shooting with Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani and Lara Dutta for Don 2 in Berlin, Germany. However, on his birthday November 2 King Khan will have the company of his loved ones.

Tanishaa

Two days before his birthday, SRK will fly to Rome for a special screening of My Name Is Khan (MNIK) at the international film festival being held in the Italian capital. His wife Gauri and children Aryan and Suhana, as well as friend Karan Johar will join him there.

On a break

While Shah Rukh has

requested a three-day break from his producers Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar to visit Rome for the film festival and celebrate his birthday with his family, KJo is taking a short break from shooting his TV show Koffee With Karan 3 to be there. Later, the group will travel back to Berlin together where KJo and Gauri have planned a party with close friends (the cast and crew of Don 2).

Karan confirms, "We are excited that MNIK will be shown at the international film festival in Rome. Post-November, the film will be released in theatres across Italy for the first time. After the screening, all of us will fly down to Berlin to bring in Shah Rukh's birthday. While I will leave after that to spend Diwali with my mom in India, Gauri and the kids will stay back in Berlin to celebrate Diwali with Shah Rukh."

Karan Johar

What gift has he planned for SRK? He laughs, "Haven't decided as yet. What can I give a man like Shah Rukh " barring unconditional love?" And of course the fact that MNIK is the Hindi film which has grossed the most internationally, till now. According to trade circles, MNIK has grossed over 22 million US dollars.

Karan adds, "When I was making it, I knew it was a global film which had a humanitarian message that would penetrate deep and wide and prick many people's conscience. I am gratified that it has achieved that."

Source: http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2010/oct/221010-KJo-Gauri-Shah-Rukh-Rome-birthday-wedding-anniversary.htm

SRK's fashion fundas

On men's clothing
'I really believe men don't have much choice. What's there apart from T-shirts, jeans, pants and shoes? Even as far as accessories are concerned, men should only wear a watch, and maybe a ring. Don't adorn yourself. I'm not too metrosexual about dressing up. I don't like the idea of thinking, 'What should I wear at that party tomorrow?'

On his fashion quotient
I'm not a very fashionable person. I believe that fashion isn't about looks, but about being able to look after yourself physically. I'm 45 now, but people tell me that I have the body of a 17-year-old. So if I look after myself, whatever I wear will look kind of nice on me.

Mostly, I don't choose what I wear. I let the designers choose, because they know what suits me better than I do. I don't even do trials. My favourite designer Naresh, who's been designing for me for 20 years now, says he's done only three trials of mine so far. And my designers have always given me the creative freedom to wear clothes the way I want to.

On his comfort clothing
I honestly believe that you can lead your whole life wearing a t-shirt and jeans — you don't need anything more than that. And a black suit with a white shirt. Yes, you should have variation in your wardrobe, but if it were up to me, I'd always choose a black suit with a white shirt! Even in my films, I make it a point to see that the clothes aren't too proper, because I don't choose my clothes at night before sleeping. I just pick something from my wardrobe half-an-hour before I leave home.'

On filmi fashion
For films, my take on style is, 'Don't take me out of the character'. Even when I'm shooting songs, the clothes have to be in sync with who the character is. He can't suddenly change into something else for a song! I tell my designers, 'Don't make me wear something fashionable. Make me wear something that will become fashionable after the film.'

SRK's Fashion Don'ts
I'm not much of a clothes person, despite being the Belmonte model. My designers know that I'm very careless with clothes. I hardly ever see the costumes before I reach the sets. I usually wear what they ask me to, but I still tell them to keep an alternate costume, just in case. For example, if I'm wearing a tuxedo, I'll tell them to keep an option for the shirt.

No drainpipes (skinny trousers or jeans): I have a motto — 'dead before drainpipes'. I'll never wear them.
Mismatched socks and shirts: I get disturbed if I don't have socks that match the colour of my shirt.
Ill-fitting jeans: I only wear one particular denim fit. I have 100 pairs of jeans in that precise fitting. So if someone tells me my character in the movie wears jeans of a different fit, I will not do that movie!
No boots: I personally don't like wearing boots — I prefer sneakers or shoes. But if the character requires boots, I don't mind.
No churidaars: In films, I never wear churidaars. Instead, I wear salwars. But again, if they tell me to wear it, as a last option, I will.

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