QuickE: Celebs at Salman Khan’s 50th Birthday and More Stories

Take a look at the celebs who turned up to party with Salman Khan on his birthday and other entertainment stories

Salman Khan held a birthday party at his Panvel farmhouse to ring in his 50th year (Photo: Yogen Shah)

1. Guests at Salman Khan’s 50th Birthday Party

The grand bash for Salman Khan’s 50th birthday was at the star’s farmhouse in Panvel. Besides family, some of his best friends from the industry turned up to wish the Bajrangi Bhaijaan star. Take a look at the guests who came in to wish Salman on his half-century.

Salman Khan at his birthday party in Panvel (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Sonakshi Sinha arrives with her mom (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Kangana Ranaut (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Kriti Sanon (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Bajrangi Bhaijaan’s Munni - Harshali Malhotra (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Amrita Arora (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Sooraj Barjataya (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Jacqueline Fernandez (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia (Photo: Yogen Shah)

2. Salman Khan’s Online Return Gift to His Fans

Salman Khan gave his fans a return gift on his birthday. The star tweeted the link to an online store named KhanMarketOnline.com and promised a special treat for his fans who register on the portal on his birthday. The site has nothing to do with Delhi’s popular shopping paradise Khan Market, but is a website dedicated to the star. However, what special treat his fans who registered would get still remains a mystery. The site itself seemed to have trouble loading owing to traffic from Salman fans who were looking for freebies from the actor.

A screen shot of khanmarketonline.com

3. Shah Rukh Khan Will Always Have the Bigger Opening: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Photo: Yogen Shah)

After Dilwale raced ahead at the box-office against Bajirao Mastani, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali conceded that a Shah Rukh Khan film would have a better opening on any day since he is a bigger star.

Shah Rukh is a bigger star. He is such a big star that even if he would have come on any day he would have got a good opening.

<b>Sanjay Leela Bhansali (PTI)</b>

However, Bhansali is happy that Bajirao Mastani’s collections have been increasing thanks to word of mouth publicity. The film also garnered better reviews than Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale, which released on the same day.

It is heartening to know that people are loving our film so all that numbers and mathematics eventually collapse when you like a film or you don’t like a film. So, when I have more number of screens but if people don’t like the film it doesn’t matter.

<b>Sanjay Leela Bhansali (PTI)</b>

4. Ayushmann Khurrana’s Brother in Dangal

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana is excited and happy that his brother Aparshakti will be sharing screen space with none other than Aamir Khan soon. Ayushmann’s younger brother will be seen with Aamir in the upcoming biographical sports drama Dangal, which is directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Disney. When asked if Ayushmann had given any tips to his brother, he said:

I am happy. It is an amazing opportunity to work with Aamir. I did not give him any tips. He is a very good actor himself. We had similar influences, but we are different at the same time.

<b>Ayushmann Khurrana (PTI)</b>

5. Excerpts from Salman Khan’s Biography Being Salman

Cover of Being Salman (Photo courtesy: Penguin Books India)

On the occasion of Salman Khan’s 50th birthday, Delhi-based journalist Jasim Khan released the actor’s biography titled Being Salman. The Quint has an exclusive excerpt from the book, which talks about one of Salman’s earliest love affairs that never became public because he was still a struggler at the time. The biography by Penguin books India is now available at all leading bookstores.

Read the excerpt here on The Quint.