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This is an archive article published on October 30, 2011

Shah Rukh ‘self-proclaimed Nishan-e-Pakistan’: Thackeray

Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray on Saturday saw a conspiracy in the fake Twitter profile of Amitabh Bachchan,saying it was an attempt to defame the actor by posting negative comments about Shah Rukh Khan’s film Ra.One.

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Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray on Saturday saw a conspiracy in the fake Twitter profile of Amitabh Bachchan,saying it was an attempt to defame the actor by posting negative comments about Shah Rukh Khan’s film Ra.One.

“I see a conspiracy to defame Bachchan,who is the last king (Shahenshah) of Bollywood,” Thackeray,a close friend of the megastar,said in an editorial of the Sena mouthpiece Saamna and also sought Bharat Ratna for Bachchan. At the same time,he dubbed Shah Rukh as a “self-proclaimed Nishan-e-Pakistan”.

Taking a dig at Shah Rukh — who had earned Thackeray’s wrath for endorsing inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the IPL — the editorial said though Ra.One makers claimed a historic box office collection,the reports were contrary. It said a joke was doing rounds that stocks of painkillers ran out on October 26 (when Ra.One was released) and government had announced compensation for those who suffered due to the the film.

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“Even though it is difficult to say whether the smear campaign against Bachchan is linked to the failure of Shah Rukh’s film,such things are not new to Bollywood,” the editorial said. “Controversies are manufactured in Bollywood to attract audiences… The possibility of this being a reason to mentally harass Bachchan cannot be denied. I know Bachchan for several years… he is a megastar because of his simplicity,elegance,humane nature and because he is a nationalist to the core. Some people have taken the help of Twitter and Facebook to defame him,” it added.

Bachchan had on Friday tweeted that a fake id in his name was being used to post negative comments about Ra.One.

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