MY SHOW STARTS WITH SALMAN, ENDS WITH SHAH RUKH

Farah Khan’s TV chat show begins on August 23

Bollywood choreographer-director Farah Khan says it was a mindful decision to start her new television chat show with actor Salman Khan and his mother Salma, who has never given an interview before. And amusingly, the "Tere Mere Beach Mein" series ends with none other than Shah Rukh Khan.

"It was a joint decision taken by the channel and me. They felt that the episode turned out to be very straight and since Salman has never come on a chat show before, it could be a nice way to hook on the audience to the show. So we start with Salman and end it with Shah Rukh," Farah told IANS.

She said it wasn't hard at all to influence Salman and his mother to be her first guests on the show that starts on Sunday (Aug 23) on STAR Plus.

"Salman has never come on a chat show - neither 'Koffee With Karan' nor 'Oye! It's Friday' and not even 'Rendezvous with Simi Garewal'. It's for the first time he's come on a chat show. His mother has never in her life come on a TV show or even given a print interview. And I just had to tell them once. It was very easy to induce them to come," said Farah.

The filmmaker managed to get several celebrities on her debut chat show but couldn't get her dream guests - former railway minister Lalu Prasad and singer-actor Himesh Reshammiya.

"I really wanted to get Lalu-ji and Himesh together for my show. But he (Lalu) had a cataract operation and so things couldn't work out. But I really hope these two people come to my show, if I have a second season," said Farah.

To give her chat show a twist, Farah has a separate theme for each episode. She brought Salman to talk about being a 'Mamma's boy' and Shah Rukh Khan as a henpecked husband. She had Priyanka Chopra talk about her struggle as an actor.

Asked what the theme for the Lalu-Himesh episode would have been, she said: "I wanted to get them in a category of 'I don't care people'. And these two people are such that no matter how much people imitate them, ridicule them or mimic them, they just don't care. They only do their work."

Other guests on her show will include Hrithik Roshan, Asin Thottumkal, Deepika Padukone, Abhay Deol, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kareena Kapoor and cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan.

"Tere Mere Beach Mein" will be telecast every Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m.

WHAT KANGNA DREADS THE MOST

Kangna Ranaut may be identified for her bindaas ways, both on screen as well as off screen.

And while nothing seems to take aback this feisty actress, what with Kangna having pulled off some of the most daring scenes on camera with much ease, there is one thing that gives her nightmares getting on stage.

Admitting to her stage fright, Kangna says that having to face the audience on stage is what she dreads the most. “Yes, nothing ever makes me worried except speaking on the stage. I still get jitters when I have to do that, even if it’s just to say a thank you,” confesses the actress.

SALMAN STILL TAKES POCKET MONEY: FARAH

Director and choreographer Farah Khan is ready to take on her new role as chat show host. Her show Tere Mere Beach Mein gets celebs and the ‘aam aadmi’ together for entertainment packaged with a social message.

Says Farah, “I had been getting offers for such shows for a long time, but I wanted to do something meaningful. I wasn’t keen on doing a typical celeb show also because it has already been done quite well by Karan (Johar, who hosted Koffee With Karan) and Simi (Garewal).”

The director, who has the A-list of Bollywood as her close friends, admits, “For the first season, the channel was keen to get celebs as this would get the show more attention ... and I guess this will help us pass on the social message too more effectively.”

Viewers can look forward to watching several celebrities on the show, like Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty, Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’Souza, Salman Khan and of course, her favourite producer, actor and pal Shah Rukh Khan. But, with a twist! Each show comes with a theme where the celebs are put on the same platform as the common man.

Farah explains, “Shilpa and Bipasha are daughters who have taken on the responsibilities of their families, traditionally a son’s role. With them, we had a girl from a chawl, who is working to pay off her father’s debts even as her two brothers do nothing to help.”

Genelia and Shahid, stars who got a second shot at shining on the Bollywood marquee with Jaane Tu.. and Jab We Met respectively, come in the segment on “second chances” and were accompanied by a paraplegic who had built himself a car which he could race on the tracks without using his legs. “Genelia was so moved that she broke down and we had to halt shooting till she recovered,” reveals the newbie host.

And while Sonam Kapoor and Karan Johar come on the “weight” issue, as individuals who successfully lost tons of weight, Kareena Kapoor will feature in a segment where she talks about boyfriend Saif Ali Khan, and falling in love with someone from another religious community. Priyanka Chopra and boxer Vijender make an appearance as “small-town” folk who hit the big league.

The show will unveil a never-seen-before side to the stars, promises Farah. For instance, in Salman’s segment, we get to know how Bollywood’s superbrat is still a mama’s boy and chooses to lives in a one-bedroom apartment so that he can live next door to his mom. His father also tells us that the actor falls in love with actresses and then tries to find his mother in them!

The star, who is known to be generous to a fault, having recently been in the news for handing out Rs 25,000 to a beggar, also regularly runs out of money. Farah shares, “Salman is constantly distributing his money to help others and then finally ends up taking pocket money from his parents!”

The segment with Shah Rukh has him make an appearance with his mother-in-law and shows him for the “joru ka gulaam” that he is! “People will see him as a regular guy who also has a mother-in-law like anyone else ... on the show, he gives tips to the ‘ordinary’ man on how to stand up to his wife,” says Farah.

And, is husband Shirish Kunder a ‘joru ka gulaam’ too? Contrary to popular perception, she emphatically states, “While a lot of our decisions are jointly taken, Shirish is quite dominating.”

She’s nonchalant, though, on how she manages to manage triplets and a new show, “The show required me to shoot for barely two months for 13 episodes.”

KANGANA AND HRITHIK ON CHAT SHOW TOGETHER

Post-Adhyayan she’s altered for the better.

Opposing to the rumours that all is not well between Kangana and Hrithik Roshan, her co-star in Kites, the two will be shooting collectively for Farah Khan’s chat show, “Tere Mere Beech Mein”.

Kangana has now submissive with the fact that she is the second lead in the movie.

“Kites” is fundamentally a love story between Hrithik and Barbara and hence more publicity is being given to them. Kangana loves Hrithik as an actor and now she does not even have a problem with the senior Roshans.

Kangana has brought about a theatrical change in herself after her breakup with Adhyayan. She has devoted herself to Lord Krishna. She now has two sources of strength – her God and her family.

On the other hand, after leaving Kangana, Adhyayan has turned to another girl. She is not from the film industry but is Adhyayan’s childhood sweetheart. They are neighbours and the senior Sumans, who were against Kangana, are more than happy that Adhyayan and the girl have started seeing each other again.

AAMIR KHAN REFUSES TO COME ON FARAH KHAN'S CHAT SHOW

While nephew Imran Khan will appear as a guest of Farah Khan's yet-to-air chat show, Tere Mere Beech Mein, maama Aamir Khan has declined to be part of it.

While this is bound to spark off rumor that Aamir has refused the show because of Farah's contact to SRK, or the fact that Shah Rukh's Red Chillies Productions are the line producers of the show, truth is that AK begged off as he is busy with his two releases (Dhobi Ghaat and Three Idiots) this year.

A source from the show says, "Aamir cited date problems as the reason for not doing the show. He also claimed that he wasn't aware about the format of the show and he wasn't comfortable doing something a show, whose tone and flavour he was not familiar with." Aamir never even appeared on Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan either.

Almost all A-List actors of B-Town have already shot for the episode (see box) Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan will join that list shortly.

Even Salman, who is as allergic to chat shows, shot for the show with his mom Salma, so Farah was taken aback when Aamir excused himself. She half-expected him to say yes because she started her career as a choreographer with his film Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander. But when she called the Ghajini actor, he said, 'I am sorry but I will pass.' Farah then told him, 'I was expectant you to say no but I still had to try.'

Farah confirms, "I was very keen to have Aamir on my show but he was busy. He was very polite about declining." She hastens to add, "Tere Mere Beech Mein, which airs in August, isn't just another celebrity talk show. It is based on a specific topic every week. Two guest celebrities and a common man will be interviewed in each episode."

The show is being produced by Farah and her husband Shirish Kunder under their banner 3's Company.

Stars who will appear on the show

Bipasha Basu

Shilpa Shetty

Priyanka Chopra

Vijendra Singh

Kareena Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor

Deepika Padukone

Asin

Shahid Kapoor

Genelia D'Souza

John Abraham

Riteish Deshmukh

Vivek Oberoi

Hrithik Roshan's Frequent Hospital Visits

Hrithik Roshan has been frequently visiting hospitals. No, the actor isn't ill. It's part of his research for his role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish, where he plays a paraplegic. A source reveals that Hrithik makes his visit late nights, so he doesn't get noticed. It seems that, the suburban hospital that he's visiting has given him special access to a ward that has patients suffering from the same disease.

Hrithik obtains himself a Sussanne tattoo

Ever since reports concerning trouble in his wedding have surfaced, Hrithik Roshan has made the entire attempt to prove otherwise.

The most recent is with the intention of he’s got wife Sussanne’s name tattooed on his wrist.

As tattoos are big with Bollywood stars at the moment with celebrities inking their lover’s, children’s in addition to smooth parents’ name, Hrithik too resolute to wear his love for the world to see.

He got his tattoo complete from tattoo artist Sameer Patange, who had previous given tattoos of matching six-points stars to him and Sussanne.

As Sussanne is at present in London with sons Hrehaan as well as Hridaan, Hrithik, who is join them there, has planned the complete thing as a bolt from the blue for her and is said to be enormously thrilled as well as impatient to show the tattoo to his wife.

Farah Khan’s song cut out from ‘Kites’

Choreographer hasn’t been well-informed by Roshans.

Post the birth of her triplets, Farah Khan on the odd juncture choreographs a song. Lack of instance is one of the most important reasons, despite the fact that she does make an exemption for friends.

She choreographed songs in “Billu” as well as “Dostana”, exceptions she made for close acquaintances Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar, who fashioned the two movies correspondingly. The only other song she has choreographed in recent times is for the Hrithik Roshan starrer “Kites”, fashioned by Rakesh Roshan.

The luxurious song, which is a salsa numeral, took two in addition to half days to absolute.

However, according to reports, the song has been chopped from the movie. And, what’s soreness Farah the most is that no one has concerned to inform her concerning this.

Apparently, “Kites” was organization too long in addition to needed a cut. The primary victim of the cut was the song choreographed on Hrithik in addition to Barbara Mori by Farah. On the other hand, the Roshans have yet not told Farah on the subject of her song being deleted from the movie despite the fact that two weeks have approved since the pronouncement was taken.