Giving expensive gifts is normal in Bollywood

katAccording to a report on Bollywoodlife.com, Deepika Padukone sported the golden clutch gifted by her rumored beau Ranveer Singh, at a recently held award function. The report claimed that the actress who wore a stunning black number, chose to accessorize her look with a golden clutch that was reportedly gifted by Ranveer Singh on her birthday. The golden Bottega Veneta Knot clutch added to Deepika’s attire and also complimented the temple earrings she was wearing.

Ranveer perhaps wanted to indulge his ladylove with an expensive clutch but he isn’t the only one. When it comes to gifts, Bollywood sure thinks expensive is better.

It is a well known fact that Salman Khan likes to give away some interesting paintings to his B-Town friends. The actor loves to paint and often gifts the same to his buddies. Last, we heard, he had gifted a painting to his Kick co-star, Jacqueline Fernandez. Reportedly, he gifted some paintings to close friends from the industry during the festive season of Diwali as well.

According to a report on Dnaindia.com, Salman took some time off from his busy schedule and painted portraits to give away as Diwali gifts. The report further stated that a few of Salman’s paintings fetched a whopping Rs 2.5 crore!

If rumors are to be believed, Jacqueline Fernandez had received another expensive gift – a 3-BHK flat in Bandra, from Salman Khan. A Bollywoodlife.com report said that the flat she shifted into had been allegedly gifted by Salman. In fact, both of them had been spotted together several times and were openly praising each other in the media

Salman had compared the Sri Lankan beauty to yesteryear actress Zeenat Aman. The gorgeous couple were also spotted together at Sidharth Malhotra’s Ek Villain success bash.

Earlier, Salman Khan had gifted his former girlfriend Katrina Kaif a black SUV on her birthday. In 2012, when Salman and Katrina were still together, Sallu bhai had gifted his ladylove an expensive Audi. However, after the two parted ways, rumors of Katrina contacting an agent to sell the same car made its way.

Shah Rukh Khan is known to maintain a high-profile lifestyle off the silver screen as well. Over the years, King Khan has gifted expensive tokens of appreciation to his friends and well-wishers. Shah Rukh also gifted Abhishek Bachchan a Harley Davidson motorbike.

From what we can gauge from SRK and Abhishek’s tweets, SRK gifted Junior B a Harley after the latter gifted SRK a bicycle!

Earlier, Shah Rukh had made headlines when he gifted his director friend Farah Khan a Mercedes Benz E Class for their film Om Shanti Om and a Hyundai SUV after the release of Main Hoon Na.

Even though his superhero film Ra.One did not live up to expectations, SRK spent Rs 1 crore gifting Arjun Rampal, Anubhav Sinha and Rajinikanth, a BMW each.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s gift to Big B is one ‘gift’ that has stayed for long in public memory. In a publicized event of sorts, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra gifted a Rolls Royce Phantom to Amitabh Bachchan for his performance in the film Eklavya. What followed however, was an altogether different story.

Soon after Chopra’s flashy gift to Big B, news of Big B returning the same to the showroom the next day appeared. If that wasn’t all, this ‘gimmick’ was seen as a way of waiving off taxes. According to reports Big B charged just a rupee for Eklavya and hence, Chopra gave him this extremely expensive gift.

Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra’s relationship has been on the media’s tenterhooks for ages now. While the media was busy playing the guessing game on their alleged affair and later marriage rumors, Aditya’s move grabbed eyeballs. Apparently, in true filmi style the celebrated filmmaker gifted an Audi A8 W12 worth Rs 1.25 crore to Rani in the year 2012.

Aditya never professed his love for Rani publicly, although rumor mills had always been abuzz about their romance. Aditya’s very expensive gift to Rani was touted to be his present to her before they tied the knot.

Filmmaker Karan Johar, who is known for making larger-than-life films for the big screen, is a man with a big heart. We know that because the celebrity director apparently gifted nothing less than an extravagant Ferrari to actress Katrina Kaif. The story that went around this big gift by the filmmaker is that Karan Johar asked Katrina Kaif to do an item number in his film Agneepath.

The actress agreed and reportedly refused to charge anything for the same. So overwhelmed was Karan by this gesture that he apparently decided to return the favor and gift something to the beautiful actress. Karan is believed to have gifted Katrina a Ferrari for shaking a leg to ‘Chikni Chameli.’