Shah Rukh Khan’s shoulder surgery successful

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh khan

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh khan’s shoulder surgery ended successfully on February 16, 2009. Earlier in the day Khan was admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital for the operation.

The actor injured his shoulder while shooting for the film ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’. This is Shah Rukh’s 2nd shoulder surgery. The actor decided to get himself operated in Mumbai to avoid the sort of criticism that came his way after he chose to be operated on by doctors in London for a back problem in 2003, says a friend of the actor.

“When he got his back surgery done in London there was criticism about his lack of faith in Indian doctors. Shah Rukh feels that some of the finest doctors in the world are in Mumbai and so he sees no need to go to the West for treatment,” Khan’s friend said.

Post the surgery Khan will be out of action for at least 2 months. Arriving in Mumbai from London, Shah Rukh spoke to the media about his injury. “I will be fine and get back to work in 2 to 3 months. I believe this is a little price that I have to pay for all the goodness that I have got in life”, the very optimistic actor said.

Despite his painful shoulder, Shah Rukh chose to promote his new film “Billu” vigorously during the Valentine week. “After attending the special screening of “Billu” for hairdressers in Mumbai on Feb 12, 2009, Shah Rukh flew to London with Lara Dutta and Irrfan Khan for the film’s premiere. He came back to Mumbai on Feb 15, 2009 to prepare for Monday’s (Feb 16, 2009) surgery,” the friend said.

Shah Rukh will need to rest for a month after the surgery, which has put on hold the filming of Karan Johar’s “My Name Is Khan” till March 14, 2009. But Johar, a close friend of the superstar, is not worried. “Films will keep happening. Shah Rukh needs to be well,” Johar said.

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Rank	Name	Net Worth ($mil)	Age	City
1	Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries Limited)	20,800	51	Mumbai
2	Lakshmi Mittal (Mittal Steel Company Ltd.)	20,500	58	London
3	Anil Ambani (Reliance Communications, Reliance Energy)	12,500	49	Mumbai
4	Sunil Mittal (Bharti Airtel Group)	7,900	51	Delhi
5	Kushal Pal Singh (DLF Limited)	7,800	77	Delhi
6	Shashi & Ravi Ruia (Essar Group)	7,600	64	Mumbai
7	Azim Premji (Wipro Technologies)	7,000	63	Bangalore
8	Kumar Birla (Aditya Birla Group)	5,000	41	Mumbai
9	Adi Godrej (Godrej Group)	4,000	66	Mumbai
10	Gautam Adani (Adani Enterprises Group)	3,900	46	Ahmedabad
11	Dilip Shanghvi (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries)	3,100	53	Mumbai
12	Savitri Jindal (O.P. Jindal Group)	2,900	59	Delhi & Hisar
13	Malvinder & Shivinder Singh (Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited)	2,800	36	Delhi
14	Anil Agarwal (Vedanta Resources Corporation)	2,400	55	London
15	Shiv Nadar (HCL Group)	2,200	63	Delhi
16	Micky Jagtiani (Landmark Group)	2,000	57	Dubai
17	Indu Jain (Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.,)	1,800	72	Delhi
18	Cyrus Poonawalla (Poonawalla Group, Serum Institute of India)	1,600	67	Pune
19	Uday Kotak (Kotak Mahindra Bank)	1,550	49	Mumbai
20	Chandru Raheja (K. Raheja Corp.)	1,500	68	Mumbai

21	G.M. Rao (GMR Infrastructure Group)	1,470	58	Bangalore
22	Vivek Burman (Dabur India Limited)	1,300	71	Delhi
23	Anurag Dikshit (PartyGaming)	1,250	36	Gibraltar
24	Kalanithi Maran (Sun TV Network)	1,200	43	Chennai
25	Venugopal Dhoot (Videocon India)	1,100	57	Mumbai
26	Yusuf Hamied (Cipla Pharmaceutical Laboratories)	1,060	72	London & Mumbai
27	Ramesh Chandra (Unitech Group)	1,000	69	Delhi
28	Subhash Chandra (Zee TV Entertainment)	970	58	Mumbai
29	N.R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys Technologies Limited)	965	62	Bangalore
30	Rajan Raheja (Rajan Raheja Group)	950	54	Mumbai
31	Brijmohan Lall Munjal (Hero Honda Motors Limited)	940	85	Delhi
32	Baba Kalyani (Bharat Forge)	935	59	Pune
33	Tulsi Tanti (Suzlon Energy)	930	50	Pune
34	Jaiprakash Gaur (Jaypee Group)	890	77	Delhi
35	Niranjan Hiranandani (Niranjan Hiranandani Group)	885	58	Mumbai
36	Murali Divi (Divis Laboratories)	870	57	Hyderabad
37	Hemant Shah (Akruti City Limited)	830	55	Mumbai
38	Gracias Saldanha (Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd.)	825	70	Mumbai
39	Anand Jain (Jai Corporation Ltd.)	810	51	Mumbai
40	Rahul Bajaj (Bajaj Auto Ltd.)	760	70	Pune