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So what is it between Arundhati Roy and Shahrukh Khan? Why's King Khan cut up with the Booker Queen?
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The fairy-tale success in his later years did not blunt the hurt and acute shame of this rejection. It wasn't just that he wasn't good enough, but that his peers were better.... Even after he was anointed King Khan, Shah Rukh did not forget this first failure. In 1997, Arundhati Roy won that Booker Prize for her stunning first novel, The God of Small Things. It was a national celebration. Shah Rukh Khan, now a star, was asked to grace a function in her honor. He declined.