Kareena Kapoor Is Riding High On Box Office Success

Kareena Kapoor and Asin are undoubtedly the two hot and happening heroines of the Hindi film industry who have the distinction of acting in two movies that have crossed the 100 crore mark. Kareena with 3 IDIOTS and GOLMAAL 3 was the first double centurion and Asin with GHAJINI and READY the second.
However, as things stand today, it appears that Kareena Kapoor is all set to score another double century and get way ahead of her competitors. Yes, it’s very obvious that we are talking about two of Kareena’s upcoming films that in all probability will definitely cross (at least) the 100 crore mark.
The first is BODYGUARD, which is all set to witness a tumultuous response this Eid, and seeing the way most of Salman Khan films have performed at the box office, this goes without saying that BODYGUARD will be Kareena’s third film to cross 100 crore.
After Eid, it will be Diwali and the film that is expected to cross the 100 crore mark is Anubhav Sinha’s RA.ONE. This co-incidentally is the second film that Kareena stars in and trade is certain that Shah Rukh Khan’s RA.ONE will set the box-office on fire and will definitely cross the 100 crore mark, what with RA.ONE being the most anticipated and eagerly awaited movie of the year.
Well, without doubt it does gonna be Bebo Bebo during the festivals! Source
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Spain Benefits With The Success Of ZNMD

Spain is seeking to leverage on the sucess of the Bollywood hit Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara to promote the country associated with bull fights and flamenco dancing as many of the dramatic scenes in the film are tempting Indians to experience it in real life.
The Tourism Office of Spain, which saw around 75,000 visitors from India last year, was quick to spot the opportunity during the making of the film that’s raking in big bucks at the box office now.
“The theme of the movie was about a holiday in Spain. We saw it fits with the storyline and we collaborated with the producers of the film,” Madhu Saliankar, market analyst at Tourism of Spain Mumbai, said over phone.
The team of ‘ZNMD’ toured the country for two-and-half months to shoot the film
Directed by Zoya Akhtar, the film is about three friends - played by Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar, who take off for on an extended, adventurous bachelors’ party in Spain. The trio undertakes a picturesque road journey to the cities of Costa Brava, Seville and Pamplona to try out an adventure sport of each person’s choice, and they also make time for the Tomatino festival in Bunyol.
The deep sea diving, sky diving and the dangerous running with the bulls have been captured beautifully in the film, tempting the viewers to fly there and experience it in real life.
The team of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara stayed in Spain for about two and a half months to shoot the film and the Tomatina festival was re-created for the shoot in Bunyol, Valencia, Spain.
Producer Ritesh Sidhwani said,”To recreate the Tomatina festival, we had to call for some 16 tonnes of tomatoes from Portugal as the tomatoes in Spain were not ripe.”
For the scene, 24 tonnes of tomato puree were used and it was shot in the same location where the festival actually takes place on the last Wednesday of August.
“We had to shut the town down. The residents of Bunyol were extremely sweet and in turn they celebrated Tomatina twice last year…once for Spain and once for India,” said Zoya.  Source
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Bollywood Is Wishing For Team India’s Success In World Cup 2011

Many Bollywood stars, including Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu, cheered for the Indian cricket team in the World Cup 2011. “Big day today! India will win for sure! Wishing Mahi n his team to do the magic:) We want the Cup!!! Let’s cheer for them (sic),” Bipasha posted on her Twitter page.
An excited Akshay Kumar posted: “Da Greatest Festival of evry Indian has finaly arrived” da Cricket World Cup” :) All da Best 2all da teams, especialy INDIA. Ps: Husbands do not neglect ur wives”.
Legendary singer Asha Bhosle was quite upbeat about catching the match on TV. “I don’t know about you but I’ll be glued to the idiot box this afternoon for 1st match of The World Cup. JAI HIND!” she posted.
Some actors like Dia Mirza and Jackky Bhagnani, who are busy with work, have asked their fans to keep them in the loop for the updates on the match. “Too much happening with our shoot on right now. Going to miss watching all the world cup action! Keep me posted! INDIA! let’s go for GLORY,” said Diya.
Jackky, who will be seen in F.A.L.T.U. soon, wrote: “Jeetege bhai jeetege india jeetega! What’s d score guys, I am dubbing!” Even former beauty queen-turned-actress Neha Dhupia missed out on the match, and remarked: “Long day at work and I’m only half way through… envy those who are home, watching the match!” Source
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Emraan Hashmi Is Flying High On His Film’s Success

After making a career out of playing a bad boy in majority of his films, Emraan Hashmi is relieved that now he also has a comic success up his sleeves. His DIL TOH BACCHA HAI JI has shown an escalation at the box office after taking a decent start and is pretty much in a comfort zone now with weekend collections expected to be around the 15 crores mark.
“Yes, this was my first out and out comedy and I am glad it has turned out to be a positive outing”, says Emraan who had to convince himself before coming on board for this Madhur Bhandarkar directed film.
He had all the right reasons to be apprehensive though. After all, his earlier attempt at comedy was a disaster with JAWAANI DEEWANI resulting in quite a few detractors pouncing on him due to film’s ‘below the belt’ humour.
“Technically, I still don’t consider that film as a comedy”, says Emraan with a straight face, “JAWAANI DEEWANI went into a completely weird space and the slapstick humour there didn’t work at all. I knew there and then that if I had to attempt a comedy, it had to be situational and funny.”
No wonder, today he is smiling the most with his conviction in DTBHJ coming true. “Yeah, this experience was far better”, he says with a broad smile, “A funny situational comedy like this is anytime welcome.”
Well, seems like here is one actor who may just about change tracks now! Source
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Rani Mukherjee Silences Her Critics With The Success Of ‘No One Killed Jessica’

Rani Mukherjee has finally given an answer to her critics who were in tearing hurry to label her chapter closed in bollywood. With NO ONE KILLED JESSICA getting an upbeat response from the audiences, Rani is hogging the spotlight once again.
The success of the film has made Rani more forthcoming with the media too. Some time back, Rani used to shudder with fear about media being on an overdrive to fathom the truth surrounding her personal and professional life.
Now, it’s a different story. Rani is upbeat about her professional life and loves to share a slice of it often.
Speaking about her personal and professional life in one breath, Rani says, “The success of NO ONE KILLED JESSICA is my answer to critics who thought my career was over. Not only my professional life but my personal life is witnessing a high too. To be honest, I look better than my twenties now. I’m being honest about this. Growing in age has never bothered me. I have just entered my thirties and I think I’m set for the best years of my life.”
With Rani finally getting the much awaited success with NO ONE KILLED JESSICA, let’s hope this fact is here to stay. Source
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Anushka Sharma Completes Her Hat-Trick Of Success With Yash Raj Banner

First RAB NE BANA DI JODI, then BADMAASH COMPANY and now BAND BAAJA BAARAAT. Yes, you are absolutely on dot, these are lead actress Anushka Sharma’s hat trick of successes for India’s premier production venture Yash Raj Films.
Although Anushka has been refuting the news of a three film contract with Yash Raj and she cites Nikhil Advani’s PATIALA HOUSE (which she claims to have signed even before BAND BAAJA BAARAAT) to substantiate her point, but as things stand today Anushka has indeed completed her three films with Yash Raj and that too very successfully.
All her above mentioned films will go down as profitable ventures for Yash Raj Films obviously with the blockbuster RAB NE BANA DI JODI being the most successful of them all, thanks to King Khan. Though Anushka was not credited much with the success of RAB NE…, despite a brilliant all round performance that too opposite SRK, yet there is no doubt that it’s incredible success did help her become an instant hit with the mass and class (very much like what OSO did for Deepika and DABANGG has done for Sonakshi). This translated into a wonderful second innings via BADMAASH COMPANY and then came BAND BAAJA BAARAAT1, where Anushka was one of the only few known faces.
As we had been saying time and again, BAND BAAJA BAARAAT has indeed turned out to be the dark horse, and though it did open slow but it’s positive word-of-mouth worked beautifully and the film has shown one of the best trending of 2010, as it has been good and steady even in its second week which means that the film indeed would turn out to be a successful venture for Yash Raj. The final outcome though is still awaited but all credit to Anushka for pulling this off and we are sure that after this Yash Raj (and especially Aditya who showed so much faith in her) would want her do more films for them, as was Anushka’s wish (we had informed our readers that Anuskha is ready to do ten more films for Aditya!)
Here’s wishing many more hat tricks for Anushka and Yash Raj Films, separately or as a team. Source
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