SRK and his Big Bucks.. !!

Well, please don't be of the impression that I am a big SRK fan because I am NOT. Just decided to put down my thoughts when I read about the shocking news (to me) a couple of days back which said 'SRK pays Rs 27 crore as advance tax'. Isn't that really hair raising stuff. A man pays Rs 27 crore only as advance tax. Just imagine his income. On further reading the article I was even more shocked when it said his earnings could be somewhere around Rs 150 crore for the year 2007. Wow! I'll be fortunate to own such a huge amount ever in my life.

Then I was left wondering how and where would he spend it (if at all he needs to). Rs 150 crore, with some math here and there, it comes to roughly around Rs 1 crore every 2 days.. !! Wow again.. I mean somewhere we talk about the management graduates from the IIM's getting amazing pay packages close to around Rs 1-1.5 crore annually, and here we have a man earning the same amount roughly in 2 days. Not that I am comparing SRK to the IIM graduates, but I am just amazed at the huge difference.

Ofcourse, all said and done, ultimately we are talking about someone who has an outstanding fan following throughout the world, someone who can attract a maddening crowd at the London premier of his movie where the next day's Tom Cruise movie premier saw empty cinema hall and above all someone who is given the title of the King of Bollywood.