If there’s one Bollywood actor who can sell salt from the ocean, then it has to be Shah Rukh Khan. Consider this: last year around the same time, SRK swooped down to Dubai with his slick ponytail, six-pack abs and in less than an hour, peddled the release of the hit Om Shanti Om, which also made a sculpted body seem like the most natural progression for a 40-something actor. Cut to 2008, the smooth-talking romantic hero has a different strategy up his sleeve. Khan’s long hair has been chopped. The retro ruffled white shirt, unbuttoned at the chest had been replaced by a conservative black suit housing a suave lean, but not mean, businessman. At the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai on Sunday, the Bollywood icon was hawking the idea of his Dh8 billion beachfront property on Dana Island in Ras Al Khaimah as a perfect petri dish...
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