“I am an overseas actor,” says King of Repartee-n-One-Liners Shahrukh Khan. He also happens to be the most bankable star on the Bollywood Box Office. His last film ‘Paheli’ may have been another failed attempt at going out of his comfort zone (Raj and Rahul kinda cinema), but the second half of 2006 is undoubtedly going to belong to him. For Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ and Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don’ are the most eagerly awaited films of the year. Having spent most part of this year traveling all over the world, Badshah Khan is settling down in the rain-n-media-squelch of good-ole-Mumbai. By staking his claim at the overseas territory for ‘Don’ (worth Rs 12 crore), he becomes the highest paid actor in Bollywood.

He knows it well that there are people who are spreading rumors about his alleged fallout with his childhood icon Amitabh Bachchan. He rubbishes such reports by stating that how can he even think of having differences with Big B as no one can come close to him. As for his discomfiture with the growing popularity of Abhishek, all he has to say is that he missed the Junior B when he had to go back to India during the shooting of KANK. In spite of both Abhishek and Hrithik being much younger to him, he still considers them as ‘good friends’.

A lot has been written about SRK’s ‘differences’ with the mercurial Ram Gopal Verma who recently shelved ‘Time Machine’ where both were coming together for the first time. It was said that Shahrukh was incensed with RGV for making fun of Karan’s films (RGV had stated in an interview that ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum’ was his favourite horror film) and for also stating that working with SRK will be like going back to school insinuating about Khan’s limited vocabulary as an actor. SRK clears the air by saying that at any given time he receives 10 – 12 offers, out of which he rejects 10 and accepts only two. And ‘Time Machine’ is one of those ten that he refused as it was not measuring up to the mark. But the diplomat that he is, SRK is still saying that the SMS he sent to Ramu was: “We shall tell another story some other time”.

IndiaGlitz looks forward to SRK rocking the Box Office in the later half of an year that is proving to be the best ever year from business perspective of Bollywood.