DUBAI Magazine - Mar/Apr/May - 2017

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The glamour of India’s Bollywood is all right here – the dance, colour, theatre, food, even the stars themselves. We spend the day with the ‘King of Bollywood’, Shah Rukh Khan, for whom Dubai is a second home

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e owns a palatial villa on Palm Jumeirah, he’s shot some of his biggest movies in the emirate, and it’s here that he mixes business with pleasure. Shah Rukh Khan (more familiarly known as SRK) is certainly no stranger to Dubai: “Whether I’m here on vacation with my family and friends or here to work, it’s a city I truly relate to on so many levels; it’s driven, passionate and spirited,” he says. “I like the fact that I have a house here. My kids love the beach; everybody has something to do. It’s my home away from home.” In a recent collaboration with us at Dubai Tourism, the megastar was filmed surprising and delighting unsuspecting visitors around the city with his presence. Little did a group of daredevil skydivers know they’d be joined on their jump by the star; or a party of friends out for dinner that they’d be served by SRK posing as a waiter; or a lone jogger that she’d run into her on-screen hero…

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