It is now well past midnight in India. Meaning the SRK Birthday celebrations have officially begun, and I cannot possibly keep up with all the news coming out. But if you have insomnia, or really good social media skills, or are just obsessive about trolling for stories, you can post them all here!
It’s raining in Bombay, but as usual thousands gathered on the street in front of Mannat. Shahrukh came out around midnight to wave to them, and asked them to be a little quiet and not wake the neighbors (so sweet!). Also as usual, once midnight ticked over, various celebrities started wishing him on twitter, and fans started sending in messages and fan art presents. Over the course of the day we will learn how he is celebrating, what else he is doing for the fans, and so on and so forth.
Share all your favorite bits of the wonderful November 2nd celebrations here!
dontcallitbollywood 
Very interesting article from a journalist who first met SRK (and his mother!) in 1989.
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/films/the-king-and-i
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Thank you! Really wonderful to get a second view of his mother, which matches his view so closely (warm, loving, sure of his future success)
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This was beautiful. Thank you so much for linking it.
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I tweeted him my birthday wishes then spent some time going through tweets this morning – would have been around 3-4am in India. So nice to see the dozens and dozens of good wishes sent to him. Someone pointed out that the top 12 hashtags trending in India were SRK- birthday related. With so much negativity towards him in recent years, from both media and social media we have to grab and enjoy these opportunities of goodwill and happiness.
It made me so nostalgic to see the footage of him waving at midnight. I was there a few years ago, both at the midnight viewing and again later in the day. The midnight one was a little quieter, fewer people, slightly less hysteria, but it felt more comfortable and personal. At one point in the afternoon viewing I was sure we were going to be crushed to death by the crowd. It’s quite scary for someone not used to such masses.
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I really like Karan Johar’s birthday wishes. They feel heartfelt: https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Vf0J-JR05/?igshid=cq1caxvokf36
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Aww, that’s sweet.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I like what Netflix India tweeted:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NetflixIndia/status/1190473184585236480
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There are some viedeos out on YouTube. I’ll post this one because it concentrates on ShahRukh greeting the crowd. There is a long one (over 20 min), but one should only watch the last 3 min to get an impression of the unanimous cheering when ShahRukh climbs the steps…and before the fact that traffic is still on until just this moment where the crowd is allowed on the street…it gives a very strong feeling…
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and here a very short one from SRKUniverse, but showing the crowd while cheering:
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This one is 2’20 and has the same perspective then the short one but with more focus on ShahRukh:
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It’s impressive from where people came (i.e. Peru, USA, Austria, Switzerland, Germany). I think it were about 25 different countries, even if only represented through few people.
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there were two representants from the Russian fanclub with a huge framed picture of his kids…very well made:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIS8hmLX0AAWLu9?format=jpg&name=large
and her some pics:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIT8GKcWoAA5Lzf?format=jpg&name=medium
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Thank you! I can never manage to find the good videos, but these all make me feel like I am there, a little bit.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 5:20 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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a tweet from the musician/singer/lyricist from Vishal-Shekhar duo (OSO, Ra.One, ChennaiExpress, HNY, Fan theme)
VISHAL DADLANI
@VishalDadlani
Happy B’day to @iamsrk who called late one night, to check the spelling of the names of a few new lyricists we’d worked with cuz “if our names are printed wrong it doesn’t matter, but for new guys it means a lot.”
I bet he doesn’t even remember, but I always will.
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Oh, I love that one! That is such a nice message.
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Thank you!
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 4:56 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Greeting his fans in Daylight:
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and THIS is the rush to him…
(an extraordinay experience when living it!)
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at a fan gatherin in an Auditorium in Bandra this afternoon
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What does he say (the Hindi part?)
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He says “I owe it to you guys because when I make a good film, you get so happy. And when I make a bad film, you get so sad. It’s not that that I try to make a bad film – it just happens. I don’t try to make a good film either – it just happens.”
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Thanks a lot!
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The adulation is beautiful but I’m feeling stressed just watching it!
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I’m torn. On the one hand, I like the idea of thousands cheering for me to start off my birthday with a bang. On the other hand, I kind of like just having small birthdays with my family. I will say that, generally speaking, I hate the idea of the street celebration. I’m not a Times Square on New Years Eve kind of person. But this is maybe the only street celebration I would enjoy being a part of.
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I’m a fan but I would still not enjoy standing outside Mannat. So much noise and so much waiting on the street for 2 minutes of SRK. No thanks. I’m happy with photos and videos.
Btw, SRK distributed food packages (with sandwiches, cake, chips and juice) to everyone who was standing there.
https://twitter.com/iamSRKsYodha1/status/1190592042692268033
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He’s just the best.
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I’m glad he knows about the billion good things. 🙂
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Anil!!! 🙂
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“Inshallah, I get healthier”???!!!
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Avinash Gowariker sent a pic with his congratulation…I don’t remember to have seen it before:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIW7isdX0AEnJOZ?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
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That’s well fitting for what you wrote, Margaret:
Faridoon Shahryar @iFaridoon
Happy birthday @iamsrk
Sir. U r much more than a movie star. U stand 4 unique values,for diversity,for secularism, tremendous respect for women and of course the wit n sense of humor is legendary
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ShahRukh + Pooja = birthday Duo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIYYk-hXYAIX26s?format=jpg&name=large
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It’s funny, I don’t think of them together particularly, but after Amrita Singh and Aziz Mirza, Ashutosh is his oldest film industry connection.
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I think you got confused because their names are similar. This is Avinash Gowariker, a celebrity photographer, not Ashutosh Gowariker, the director.
Avinash often photographs SRK and his family and shares photos sometimes.
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Oh thank you! I was confused.
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Yah what did he mean by that?
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The last (???) one…Dubai:
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There were two women from Russia (those with the big pic of the kids)…when they came home this evening from the celebration and party, they found this in their hotel room:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIYlqBxWsAYT11z?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIYlqByXsAAE2-D?format=jpg&name=large
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I found a far better Dubai-Video:
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…and nice Salman 🙂
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This is so touching. Love coming all the way around, Shahrukh loves them, they love him, and it made these anonymous hotel employees love them.
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That is so sweet
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Leave it up to Salman to do this. And SRK keeps up his streak of never picking up anyone’s phone calls. After singing Happy Birthday, Salman shouts at SRK “at least pick up your phone!!”
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HA! Also, yuch, Aayush Sharma.
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Oh sorry, Anonymous…I didn’t scroll far enough to see your post *blush*
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