Baadshah of hearts
By Surendra Kumar

CONFIDENCE, thy name is Shah Rukh Khan! Five years back, as usual, the media was going to the town claiming that the era of the super stars was long over. And after the repeated failure of the films of ‘Big B’ after his return from semi-retirement, and the almost oblivion from films of Rajesh Khanna, Hindi filmdom’s first super star, many saw some validity in such prophesies. But, obviously, these observations hadn’t reckoned with the phenomenon called Shah Rukh Khan.

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