Race 2 Grosses 66 Crore Nett In Week One

Race 2 grossed 66 crore nett in week one as collections fell from Monday on wards  The fall was bigger in the mass circuits as places like CPCI came down quite fast. The film held up a bit better in Delhi/UP and East Punjab.

The first week collections are the highest for a film featuring Saif Ali Khan or John Abraham and has already crossed the figures of Race (2008) but the film has not gone on from a good weekend. Race (2008) had grossed around 61 crore nett.

The second weekend is all important for the film and will tell where the film is going.

Release Dates 25th Jan 2013

Release Dates

25^th Jan 2013

	25-Jan-13
1	Race 2

Balaji Motion Pictures splurging Rs 150 crore on six releases for 2013

Ekta Kapoor’s films Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai 2, Ragini MMS 2,Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi, Shootout at Wadala, Ek Thi Daayan, Lootera will release in 2013

Not content with being queen of the idiot box, Ekta Kapoor has decided to take on Bollywood in a big way. Her Balaji Motion Pictures’ strategy had hitherto been to keep budgets under control and thus gain return on investments superior to big budget films. Not anymore it would seem. With millions of rupees being so much chump change in Kapoor’s cavernous rear pockets, Balaji is splashing out Rupees 150 crore for their six 2013 releases.

Tanuj Garg, CEO, Balaji Motion Pictures, who is very close to Kapoor, said, “We have put together a strong line-up with a lot of variety. The significant ramp-up in our slate demonstrates the seriousness and passion with which we are growing the movie business. We believe that an equal focus on co-productions and acquired properties is not only a financially prudent approach for us but should also accelerate our growth momentum. We’re pleased to be the only entity with market dominance in television and films alike.”

Balaji’s first two releases of 2013 will take on the mighty Indian Premier League (IPL), the only competition where an Indian team will always win. April 18 sees the release of supernatural thriller Ek Thi Daayan, starring Emraan Hashmi, Huma Qureshi, Kalki Koechlin and Konkona Sen Sharma, co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj and directed by newcomer Kannan Iyer. On May 1, it’s the turn of well-known plagiarist Sanjay Gupta’s , the prequel to Shootout at Lokhandwala, starring Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Kangna Ranaut, Tusshar, Manoj Bajpayee Sonu Sood and Ronit Roy.

Releasing on June 7 is yet another Delhi-set comedy Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi, a title bound to baffle non-NCR types and open to obscenely creative interpretation. A co-production with Bejoy Nambiar, it marks the directorial debut of adman Aman Sachdeva and launches Siddharth Gupta and former Miss India Simran Kaur. Enough is enough. Can Bollywood now please leave Delhi alone and victimise another city now, say, Faizabad? Vikramaditya Motwane’s love story Lootera, starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha, releases July 5 and will test whether the director has it in him to make a commercial film. It’s a co-production with Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl of Phantom Films.

Milan Luthria’s Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai 2 (earlier called Once Upon a Time Again), starring Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Sonali Bendre is Balaji’s standard-bearer for the year and it releases August 8. And finally, Bhushan Patel’s Ragini MMS 2, starring pornstar-turned-Sati Savitri Sunny Leone opens on October 11, hoping to attract the sleaze demographic to theatres.

John Abraham shows off girlfriend Priya Runchal officially!

John Abraham shows off

girlfriend Priya Runchal

officially!

The beefy actor who has guarded girlfriend

 Priya from the media until now finally takes it 

easy

John Abraham wasn’t so protective when he was seeing Bipasha Basu. That was probably because Bips was used to handling the media.Or, more importantly, it did a whole lot of good to their brand value! But after the hunk started dating the non-filmy Priya Runchal, he has been quite protective, at times even physically guarding the poor girl!

However, this week at the GQ awards, the actor was spotted showing off his pretty partner and blushing uncontrollably in front of the shutterbugs! And the couple looked like a million bucks – John all bulked up while Priya looking elegant and slender in a bright red dress.

Makes one think, why was he hiding her all this while! Obviously, the hoopla around his break up and the controversy surrounding his relationship with Priyanka had to die down before he could come out in the open, right?

And, although the duo made an appearance together, he did not let Priyanka speak with the media. When the time came for media bytes, John quietly told Priyanka to leave! Sneaky, eh?

We wonder what gave John the new found confidence to go all out to declare his love? A little birdie told us the couple has quietly tied the knot in a temple and are keeping it under wraps.

Anyway, after this week’s appearance, it is clear that John is slowly becoming comfortable appearing in public with Priya.

 Well, keep it up John. In any case, you can run but you can’t hide! Guess we’ll just have to wait a little longer before we can get to speak to your special girl!

"I’m a refined actor" –Bipasha Basu

"I’m a refined actor"  –Bipasha Basu

Fresh from the success of Raaz 3, Bipasha Basu speaks about her ups and downs in Bollywood

From a model to a popular Bollywood star, Bipasha Basu’s journey hasn’t been one without her share of ups and downs. But she has taken every experience in her stride and says she has emerged as an evolved person.

“Today, I am a refined actor, lived a little more life, have seen a lot, handle situations, not just a relationship, career-wise I have fallen down, come up again. I have had my run of relationship crises, staying away from my parents for a long time, loans to pay at times I didn’t know how to pay,” Bipasha said to a radio channel host.

The 33-year-old made her Bollywood debut in 2001 with Ajnabee. She was dating her Raaz co-starDino Morea that time, but parted ways with him in 2002. Then she became romantically involved with her Jism co-actor John Abraham, whom she dated for around eight years.

Professionally, her career picked up with films like No Entry, Dhoom, Corporate and Bachna Ae Haseeno. Her latest release Raaz 3 received a good opening, and Bipasha is happy the way life has shaped up for her.

“From 1997 to 2012, I’ve lived a wholesome life, moved from one room to one BHK (bedroom, hall, kitchen) to two BHK sharing with a friend. Then bought a car, but didn’t know how to drive and also couldn’t afford a driver. Finally, my friends ended up driving, so I realised there was no point of buying a car. I had a very broken life, yes sometimes broken down, sometimes very strong, so I feel I am a very evolved human being right now,” she said.

For now, Bipasha awaits the launch of her second fitness DVD, and her debut international project Singularity, will hit the screens early next year.