Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who had awesome six- pack- abs at one point of time and can guarantee super hit flicks at the box office, can not control themselves from heavy smoking and still need a hefty eight packets and three packets per day respectively.
These two biggest of Bollywood stars have the will to make that fabulous physique but do not have enough will power to quit smoking and the strangest part of the story is that both of them truly want to kick the habit. In fact, Shah Rukh Khan, who is famous as a doting dad to his kids Suhana and Aryan, wants to quit the habit for them as he knows that the kids did not like their dearest father smoking tobacco.
King Khan also admits that it is due to his kids’ dislike that the habit is somewhat restrained, as he avoids as much as he could from smoking before them. Even the perfectionist Aamir Khan, who had in fact kick the habit for some months during the preparation of his blockbuster ‘Gajini’, could not desist the habit just before the release of next venture and blamed the habit on stress and tension due to new film’s release.
However, one good thing about our big stars is that they all want to leave the habit and do not indulge in it or feel proud about it. Sources say that even among Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan, it’s the King Khan who does the maximum damage to his lung by smoking heavily.
In fact, Shah Rukh Khan would feel very uncomfortable if he did not get a cigarette to smoke every three hours or sometimes even before this. Shah Rukh Khan is totally addicted to it and can not work without this stimulant.
On the other hand, Salman Khan loves to indulge himself whenever he is in the company of his close friends and sometimes his count comes to three four packets per day. However, Sallubhai is intelligent enough to keep himself limited to the milder brand of cigarettes.
Fortunately, now smoking is not considered sexy or masculine in bollywood flicks and is used seldom, if at all, only on the demand of the script. Earlier, the situation was worse when hero would smoke a cigarette in a particular signature style and people’s mind would get vitiated.
Recall Amitabh Bachchan’s character smoking in a particular style in ‘Deewar’ or ‘Trushal’. Then there was Pran smoking in a particular villainous way in old bollywood flicks. Sometime director even tried to make lady villains smoke on the screen, especially Vindu and Helen in olden days.
Hollywood was not far behind in the smoking matters. In fact, Brad Pitt in ‘Fight Club’, Audrey Hepburn in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Humprey Bogart in ‘Casablanca’ made style statements with the help of their cigarettes.
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