SRK ditches Dubai for Patna to promote Don 2

‘Bad’ Shah of Bollywood cancels Dubai premiere of 'Don 2', chooses to promote the movie in India

Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar will not keep their date with Dubai for the ‘Don 2’ premiere this coming Thursday, Emirates 24|7 has learnt.

Even though Dubai rolled out the red carpet for one of the most sought-after Bollywood stars, Shah Rukh Khan, and his ‘Don 2’ team in the Dubai International Film Festival just a couple of weeks ago, the ‘Bad’ Shah of Bollywood, as Shah Rukh Khan has come to be known in the industry for his narcissism, has chosen to promote the movie among the audience of the Hindi belt states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh instead of the international audience.

King Khan disappointed Dubai despite the crew eager to visit the emirate for the promotion. Sources from the crew told Emirates 24|7, “Don 2 team wanted to travel to Dubai for the premiere on Thursday. But they rescheduled it with a Patna visit.”

So, SRK canned his Dubai 'Don 2' premiere and the cast has to stay back in India and promote the movie at home. “Not that they don’t want to visit Dubai – it’s just that they had recently been to Dubai and so felt that they cannot disappoint their Patna fans,” the crew member added as an afterthought. Sure.

Nevertheless, earlier, it was fans in the eastern Indian city of Patna that were disappointed when SRK cancelled his plan to visit the city. Shah Rukh also reached out to his fans through Twitter: “Was super excited with my first ever visit to Patna, but district authorities said some security issue...Will come some other time. Damn!!!”

Now, however, Patna fans have a reason to feel happy. Shah Rukh kept his word and chose Patna over Dubai. He will visit the city on Thursday for the promotional event.

The team is currently touring New Delhi. SRK's 'Don 2' 10-city promotional tour of India ends in Patna.

The 'Don 2' team started their multi-city promotion tour in non-metropolitan centers in India on Tuesday and visited cities like Nagpur, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

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Comments

  • Ram 22 December 2011 11:21 0 0
    Good Work SRK, Patna is more valuable for you than Dubai. Great Work.
  • Mohammad Faraz ahmad 22 December 2011 10:39 0 0
    But I missed that opportunity to meet my lifetime favourite actor SRK - I went there on 12th December but SRK didn't come, it's my bad luck but no matter I am feeling better that SRK is coming to Bihar... We all love u SRKKKKKKKK
  • Packers and Movers in mumbai 22 December 2011 10:09 0 0
    Wow! Nice article. Keep it up
  • Karan 22 December 2011 04:17 0 0
    Then Imran, that means don 2 isn't a flop movie and btw ra.one wasn't a flop and it was promoted in dubai, u might argue otherwise but ra.one is the 2nd highest worldwide grosser
  • Rony Rathore 21 December 2011 16:23 0 0
    I think you are the reason why those movies became flop... you always presented there with your bad luck...:P
  • Imran Niazi 21 December 2011 11:53 0 0
    My experience here in Dubai is that all the actors for promoting flop movies only come to Dubai. I have been to many Bollywood premiers but my experience is that all that movies were flopped.

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