Why, you might be asking, has a video of Indian Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan dancing at the wedding of a billionaire’s child gone viral? Which billionaire’s wedding, is probably your follow-up question. Is this the same multi-mega-loaded person’s wedding that a Trump son danced at? Who can tell? It’s hard to keep up with the vulgar festivities of India’s ultra-rich.
In one clip, a bride in all her sparkling finery asks Khan to repeat the lines from one of his well-known advertisements. Khan declined the insistent bride in his typically self-effacing way; when you do a ghutka (chewing tobacco) ad, they never let you forget it, he demurred. In another viral video, he appears to invite a bride to dance, and she appears to shyly refuse (the groom, however, does try to match his steps). Is it the same bride? I honestly can’t tell. Either way, Khan performing at a billionaire’s wedding is nothing new. Remember him coaxing that rhythmless dud of a dancer, Hillary Clinton, to shake a leg at the wedding of one of the Ambani children (India’s richest family)? Who can forget? …..more
