As a George Harrison song goes, it’s all about money, money, money. Shah Rukh Khan is one of the richest actors in the world. So, he can buy whatever he wants. Exactly.

Recently, the actor bought a white BMW 18 from a showroom near Delhi which was home-delivered to him on June 15. The moment he laid his eyes on it, SRK sat in the driver’s seat and went for a test drive. Two of his guards were in vehicles ahead of, and behind, him. A paparazzo somehow got wind of the news and he too started following the actor. SRK did not mind and in fact asked the guard behind him to clear the way for the shutterbug so that he could take pictures of his car. Now, isn’t that clever marketing, both for himself and the vehicle!

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, June 26th, 2016