After the hype created over a proposed temple to idolise superstar Amitabh Bachchan by his zealous fans, over 100 starry-eyed admirers of Shah Rukh Khan have whipped up a new frenzy here by dedicating a museum to the Bollywood heartthrob. The Shah Rukh Khan Fans Club, which has joined the bandwagon of social service organisations floated in the name of Hindi film stars, on Tuesday unveiled the museum housing SRK memorabilia in the northern fringes of the city.
Potters from Kumartuli, famed for crafting lifelike images of Goddess Durga and her progeny, were employed to create the life-size clay statue of the teen icon - the centre of attraction of the museum.
"SRK`s latest interviews in leading film magazines, his real life photographs, myriad collections by his fans, a book on his movie Asoka and lots of other interesting nuggets would form part of this museum," initiator of the club Arnab Roy said.
Roy, leading the 121-member club of mostly school and college going teeny-boppers, said there was more in store -- the red Chaiya Chaiya jacket, the Asoka sword and the Mohabbatein violin that the star himself has promised to hand over to the museum during a tour to the city in April. Asked why a museum was being set up and not a temple like the Big B`s, Roy said, "We are not here to worship a human. Our sole motto is to create a centre where the life and times of such a versatile star, whom we admire so much, can be preserved for posterity."
The club has also floated its own event management company Dreamlightz -- a takeoff from SRK`s two production houses Dreamz Unlimited and Arclightz. "There are over 20 Shah Rukh Khan Fan clubs that we know of, but ours is the only one recognised by all the three partners of Dreamz -- Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza," Roy claimed.
And just like all star fan clubs, this one too has its share of AIDS awareness campaigns, programmes in aid of the Missionaries of Charities and Spastics Society of Eastern India on the agenda. Bureau Report