bangalore at a sparkling evening lit up with crackers shah rukh khan told the teeming thousands naan nin jathe madbeku lets do it together when the crowd roared he added with a twinkle ok ok i know this is a family programme the muchawaited temptations 2005 began with this cracker of sorts at the chinnaswamy stadium on sunday and to the crowds relief there was no rain to water down their spirits item numbers boxoffice blockbusters and songs that families sing by rote were on offering to step up the tempo bollywood stars zayed khan and lara dutta gyrated to charttopping numbers by raghav the balle balle thumping aaja nachale while zayed chorused a predictable i luv you bangalore lara dutta said this is the first time my parents are sitting in the audience this is my hometown showchoreographer ganesh hegde crooned the breezy bheege hont tere and then exhorted the audience to join in airlifted from somewhere the star of the night srk emerged and boomed youve come back for the show thank you this is my mothers city my childhood city i was too young to go to pubs then i could check it out now a pair of blue jeans white vest skin glistening in a chaiyya chaiyya trainload of sweat the superstar did numbers from films like main hoon na kal ho na ho dil se their pet peeve was that they couldnt see him in person maybe youd run into him at a pub on monday rani from a box not quite even though citybased magician ramesh tried to do the same promising a ravishing rani mukherjee from the magicians box he got out a scrawny middleaged man the real rani came later to the accompaniment of kuch kuch hota hain and other chartbusters gateway to the temptation weve paid rs 1 lakh please let us in pleaded accounts executive preeti khanna who had got her elderly parents for the show no there is a stampede we cant let you in maintained organisers sanghamitra foundation and ginger networks we have to pay a hefty sum wait for hours and then get treated like dogs ranted marketing executive rajesh nair a huge melee at every entrance more so at the heftytagged rs 10000 chaos reigned supreme as the wannabe audience tried wielding power im related to the main organiser please let me in im going to call the minister if you dont let me in view from the gallery is that shining white speck srk wondered many at the gallery seats maybe it is him look everybody is screaming they reconciled before adding to the crescendo of shaaah ruuukkkkh we love you