Shahrukh Khan: The Story of Power - Biggest Movie Star

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Who is the world's biggest movie star? Brad? Will? Nah. His name is Shahrukh Khan, and he's the king of Bollywood. It's not just that his romantic flicks make gazillions—it's where those gazillions come from. Khan is huge in the Muslim world, even in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the mullahs ban his films.



Their main appeal is certainly the song-and-dance numbers, but Khan (a Muslim married to a Hindu) makes devoutly secular films where love trounces bigotry. Sonia Gandhi gives Khan's DVDs to visitors, especially Muslim ones. Here's hoping tolerance will leap from reel life to real life.

The Story of Power: The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating. A biography of an ancient human impulse. Top 50 Most Powerful People In the World, 2008

• 1: Barack Obama
  
  2: Hu Jintao
  
  3: Nicolas Sarkozy
  
  4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate
  
  7: Gordon Brown
  
  8: Angela Merkel
  
  9: Vladimir Putin
  
  10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
  
  11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  
  12: Kim Jong Il
  
  13-14: The Clintons
  
  15: Timothy Geithner
  
  16: Gen. David Petraeus
  
  17: Sonia Gandhi
  
  18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  
  19: Warren Buffett
  
  20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
  
  21: Nuri al-Maliki
  
  22-23: The Philanthropists
  
  24: Nancy Pelosi
  
  25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  
  26: Mike Duke
  
  27: Rahm Emanuel
  
  28: Eric Schmidt
  
  29: Jamie Dimon
  
  30-31: Friends of Barack
  
  32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
  
  33: Rex Tillerson
  
  34: Steve Jobs
  
  35: John Lasseter
  
  36: Michael Bloomberg
  
  37: Pope Benedict XVI
  
  38: Katsuaki Watanabe
  
  39: Rupert Murdoch
  
  40: Jeff Bezos
  
  41: Shahrukh Khan
  
  42: Osama bin Laden
  
  43: Hassan Nasrallah
  
  44: Dr. Margaret Chan
  
  45: Carlos Slim Helú
  
  46: The Dalai Lama
  
  47: Oprah Winfrey
  
  48: Amr Khaled
  
  49: E. A. Adeboye
  
  50: Jim Rogers