ShahRukh Khan - King Of Smoking

A humble public letter to Shakrukh Khan, famous and popular Indian Bollywood film star, and the king of smokers:

Bollywood is a Big show Business that goes beyond the boundary of India. Every year thousands of Indian films are released and watched by millions in the world. Bollywood stars are famous and popular around the world. Their fanbase has no limit: from young babies, young children, teenagers, young people to adults and old people. These include non Indian speakers too.

Many fans watch the films of their favorite stars over and over again and wait desperately to watch their new releases. They will pay the price and travel to any destination and will talk about the film for months. They will even memorise the lyrics of the songs and the line of the dialogues delivered by the actor. Among the most popular film stars is Shahrukh Khan.

Shahrukh Khan loves films, work, children, people, his wife, his children, his films, his performance and his family. He also loves smoking. Heavy smoking. He loves every one except himself, his health and the young children who are his fans.

The popularity of Shahrukh khan is unlimited of course, due to his dedication and his work, his commitments and his gift of God. He can make people laugh, smile, cry, be happy, but he can also make them be ill and kill. Shahrukh khan is very well spoken, very mature, and a very understanding person. He is well educated and he can speak the dialogue in one take. He can can read anything written in English, that is apart form the warning on cigarette packages.

Government Health department officials fully agree with all the research and evidence provided by health expertise, and around the world every cigarette packet has a warning about the risk and effects of smoking. Government bodies around the world spend fortunes for public health on advertisements of warnings against smoking, yet the message has not reached to Shahrukh khan.

In many films the government has restricted smoking. No matter how important your character in the film, showing smoking cigarettes is prohibited, in public places smoking is prohibited and selling cigarettes to children under the age of sixteen has been very much prohibited.

We Asians, love Bollywood. We spend many hours watching Indian television channels such as Star Plus, Star News, Colors, Sony TV, IPL cricket, film star interviews, the making of films, day with the film stars and many more programmes on television, played in the weekends and evenings, and our children watch these with us too.

My young grandson is 10 years of age and he is fan of Shahrukh Khan. He watch all of those programmes related to or focused on Shahrukh Khan. He also acts out the dialogue he speaks, and, like many young children in the world, he watches him smoke. When then see Shahrukh Khan, their idol, smoking publicly... what do you expect them to do? Do you give warnings that these images will harm your body and your health? Do you have any answers as to why you are smoking? How would you justify your actions?

You can smoke millions of cigarettes a day. I don't care. You can do to yourself whatever you want to do. You can avoid all those warnings if you want, but if you care for the children of other people, and if you want to be the super hero, then stop the smoking engine. Whenever you talk, the exhaust from your mouth damages the environment and other children's health. So please do my children a favour and stop smoking in public places. Your job is to entertain children, not to kill them.

I love your title of King of Bollywood... but your smoking in public places...? You are more like the King of Smokers.

Some of my thoughts would doubtless upset Shahrukh Khan, but I would be happy to see him upset over smoking, rather than seeing him ill. Sorry Mr King of Smoking Khan Entertainment: "Ke liye itana to karega" (stop it for the sake of entertainment please).