Well, Salman Khan beat among others, Lata Mangeshkar, Madhuri Dixit, Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan in a poll to have a place in the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. He is reported to have polled 10,000 votes to be chosen the next "Bollywood Star" at Madame Tussauds. He personally is reported to have chosen the clothes his wax image would wear. He is the fourth person from Bollywood after Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai to be immortalized at Madame Tussauds.
It is defnitely an amazing world at Madame Tussauds. All life size wax images, most of them life-like.
A good honour for Salman Khan, but is he worthy of it? The actor, who has been sentenced to five years in jail for poaching, was given permission by the Jodhpur High Court to travel to London for the unveiling of his wax image. Is it only about being an actor?
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That was news for me and I had been to Madame Tussaeuds few times. We need to go by the judgement and poll. Hmmmmmmmmmm..... I do not know what to say. Probably more women would have voted. This is the country which voted Shilpa for the Big brother as well.
:D maybe madame fell in love with his arms :) it could be because he is a "handsome" that they chose to get him waxed. to us it should make no difference for we know more history of salman than them.
anyways, gandhi appears to have been made from "Munna Bhai's" actor!!!
Vajpayee's wax?
Suchin,
This Gandhi in Madame's have been there for long time even before Munna bhai was released.
yeah i know. i was just kidding. basically saying that it doesnt look like gandhi
and rama really thought that gandhi was the one from munna bhai. look how she is hiding from the camera? she didnt want the focus lights on her for now. she's next munni ben!
Oh yeah, but many of those celebrities from the west also might be having such credentials. Shoplifting (Winona Ryder?), drugs abuse etc. I think it is plain popularity that they take in the case of such celebrities. And there are a lot of blind fans for him in India!
BTW, have Hitler, Mussolini etc got a place there?
Jo,
No.. Hitler and Mussolini are not there upto my knowledge. Probably I shall find out.
Balaji,
True, we need to go by popular vote but sometimes I feel that should India's showcase in such places be filled with people like Salman? We do have better people surely. But again, the popular vote.
Suchin,
Gandhi, though did not look exactly like how we know him, nevertheless, seeing Gandhi at Madame's was an experience in itself, in the midst of all other wax figures. I would like to think that Munna Bhai's makers got the inspiration from this wax image :)
About Munni Ben..., I have cropped the image to focus only on Gandhi :)
Jo,
I dont remember seeing Winona Ryder there. But Hitler is "waxed" in the London museum. Mussolini, not sure.
This page has a list of people whose wax figures are found in Madame Tussauds. It seems to be inclusive and not exhaustive. Check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Tussauds#Some_of_Tussauds_wax_figures
Brits seem to have been smitten by the presence of his muscles and absence of buttons on his shirt
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