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A rough ride: Shah rukh

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for Shah Rukh Khan in 2013. While the Baadshah of Bollywood ended the year on a high note with his Chennai Express going on to garner over Rs 200 crore at the box office (some reports peg the number closer to Rs 300 crore in gross earnings), it was a year of much personal turmoil as well.

In May, he underwent a surgery his eighth for an injury he sustained while shooting for Chennai Express. No sooner had he recuperated from the procedure, that was performed at Mumbais Lilavati Hospital, that reports emerged of a new addition to the King Khans family. While Shah Rukh soon shared news about his and wife Gauris youngest child AbRam (born through surrogacy) with the world, he found himself embroiled in a fresh controversy after allegations that the Khans had undergone a pre-natal sex determination test later established as untrue.

Then, just when things were beginning to look bright again for the superstar there was a much-publicised hug with Salman Khan at an iftar party that was believed to have ended their long estrangement (although both stars camps said they were just being polite) he was stuck in a plagiarism row over a speech he made at the All India Management Association.

Of course, theres no balm like success, but even his triumph with Chennai Express was tinged by controversy. Heading into a box office clash with Balaji Telefilms Once Upon A Time in Mumbai 2, SRK and production house UTV reportedly struck a deal with Ekta Kapoor to push back OUATIM2s release by a week, in exchange for freeing up a few screening venues at that time. The OUATIM2 team alleged that the Chennai Express makers backtracked on the agreement, and caused huge losses for their film.

With all the controversies now in the past, heres hoping SRK has a Happy New Year to look forward to in 2014 in more ways than one.

Katrina Kaifs Bikini-gate

Resourceful fans have been leaking photos of Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor online for a long time now. But in late July, photos surfaced of a bikini-clad Katrina frolicking on the beaches of Ibiza with Ranbir. The images were widely published. While she has since claimed to be okay with it, Katrina didnt seem as sanguine when she wrote this open letter in August: I feel most upset, distressed and invaded at my pictures (being) published... The pictures were taken while I was on holiday by someone who has shot without permission and used the pictures for commercial gain.

Ranveer-Deepika link-up

She is yin to my yang, said Ranveer Singh of his Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela co-star Deepika Padukone. We are complementing energies.

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The censors' scissors were never idle during the Franco dictatorship. The movie industry, with all its provocative and insinuating images, was a great source of headaches for the watchdogs of public morality - especially since going to the movies was the main form of entertainment for society in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.

And so censors were very careful to ensure that any film that was screened in Spain contained no negative influences on issues such as religion, politics, the army, prostitution, divorce or adultery.

Sex became a real obsession for the regime, and it was persecuted with all the weapons at the censors' reach. Poster draftsmen and movie theater impresarios had to really stretch their imaginations to make their billboards reflect the American, English or French realities. This was not always achieved.

A new book, La censura franquista en el cartel de cine (or, Franco's censorship in movie posters), by Bienvenido Llopis, analyzes 40 years' worth of censorship in Spain through films. The conclusion is that cleavages were reduced, legs were covered up, and scenes with beds in them were avoided altogether.

Legs were covered up, and scenes with beds in them were avoided altogether

"Movies were banned and stills were cut out," Llopis notes. "But it was just as important to control movie advertising. Major Hollywood stars who embraced the Republican cause - James Cagney, Joan Crawford or Robert Montgomery - had their names pulled from Spanish movie posters, while titles that might suggest a double meaning were changed."

Llopis spent more than three decades acquiring posters, programs and magazines that reveal the work of the draftsmen and censors of the era.

"It was no easy task because many documents had been lost. There are six of them that I was unable to obtain, but they are included in the book courtesy of their owners," adds the writer and researcher.

The book includes movie posters, magazine covers, comic strips, novels, news stories, photographs, postcards and collectible picture card albums showing the work of censors who became nothing short of fashion designers in their efforts to please the regime. Esther Williams, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida were seen in Spain wearing dresses that had little in common with their original designs.

The idea for the book came to Llopis one Sunday morning at the Madrid flea market, the Rastro. There he was, sitting at his stand, selling movie memorabilia, when a man showed up saying he had a program for the movie Camino de Santa Fe, which had obtained the censors' approval everywhere in Spain save for the city of Burgos. The archbishop there insisted that Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland's kiss be hidden with a seal.

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