Oh the exaggerations and hyperboles that these film stars resort to, only to sell their products! King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan and rosy-cheeked Katrina Kaif are working together for the first time in a Yash Chopra film which is these days being shot in London. When a pen-pusher somehow made it to the sets of the film and asked SRK about his experience of working with Katrina K, the actor, in his usual glib-talking manner, replied, “I think she is a stupendous actor. Everyone says about her being hardworking and talented. It is more important how we work as a team.”

Man, this guy knows how to massage the ego of a co-actor so that she also speaks goodie-goodie about him, which means, even if the film does not do well at the box office, things will not go sour between them.

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