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Shahrukh joins Facebook, to charge 500 rupees for posting birthday wishes on wall

Mumbai. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is all set to join Facebook after joining Twitter. However on Facebook, he is going to be more active and personal with his fans. King Khan is all set to send out personalized birthday wishes to his fans by posting messages like "Happy Birthday my sweetest friend" on their Facebook walls through a Facebook application.

But this is not going to be free for the fans; they will have to shell out some money to see SRK post some finest birthday wishes.

"Just 500 rupees," informed Chanchal Pandey, the publicity agent of the Bollywood superstar, "Fans have to authorize an application named SRKsays and make a payment of 500 rupees through credit card, and their job is done. The application will find out their birthday as per their Facebook profile information and post a birthday message on their wall on behalf of Shahrukh."

The application will post personalized and unique messages on the Facebook walls that will appear to have been posted personally by Shah Rukh Khan from his personal profile. A sample post could look something like this:

SRK wishes Happy Birthday on Facebook

Shah Rukh Khan's Facebook application wishes you a Happy Birthday

The application will also broadcast an update on the Facebook ticker that will read something like "Manish Kumar was just wished by Shah Rukh Khan on his birthday" so that other users are tempted to use the application as well.

When contacted by Faking News, King Khan confirmed the development and hoped to connect with his fans on Facebook on a daily basis. He also termed it as "democratization" of his celebrity status.

Shahrukh Khan dancing

Shahrukh Khan dancing at a wedding party

"See, I have been taking part in weddings of the rich and powerful and acting as if those rich people were my personal friends. But the truth is I did that for money," SRK candidly admitted, "Now if I can act like personal friends of the rich and the powerful, why should I deny the same rights to my fans who are not so rich and powerful?"

Shah Rukh claimed that 500 rupees that he was charging was a modest professional fee that his fans should pay for this "service". In return, fans will get a memory that they can cherish for whole of their life.

"Their Facebook friends will be jealous, and they can frame the screenshots of the wall post to show it off to their non-Facebook friends," SRK's publicity manager explained.

Facebook experts believe that the latest campaign by Shah Rukh Khan is going to be a runaway success and he could earn substantially this way, more than what many other actors earn through box office collections. However some experts foresee trouble for SRK.

"Is this application going to be exclusively for Indian fans only? What if Facebook users from Pakistan are going to authorize this application? We could see another political controversy with parties like Shiv Sena opposing this move," a Facebook expert warned.


Source: http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/09/srk-joins-facebook-to-charge-500-rupees-for-posting-birthday-wishes-on-wall/

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