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shah rukh is a birbal fan

Amir Khan is not the only Bollywood superstar who goes home and picks up a book instead of the television remote. Shah Rukh Khan is also a voacious reader. King Khan truly believes that if you want to be a keen reader. For his latest film My Name is Khan  - in which his character has Asperger's syndrome and also shades of autism - SRK read several books on the subjects to keep himself updated. The Bollywood Badshah also confesses that he often finds himself reading several books at a time. " I read everything from news magazines to kids books and even graphic novels," he says. And, he also enjoys telling his children, Aryan and Suhana, stories of Akbar and Birbal. "I'm a huge Birbal fan," confesses SRK. "Some ill -informed people have reduced the far-thinking Birbal to some kind of court jester in Emperor Akbar's court. The fact of the matter is that Birbal is actually one of the sharpest minds in history."