Barfi! Has Excellent Weekend

Barfi! Has Excellent Weekend

Barfi had an excellent weekend of around 34 crore nett as per early estimates. The film opened very well at multiplexes on Friday and the multiplexes which opened lower jumped huge either on Saturday and Sunday. By Sunday the film was doing well all over apart a from a few single screen dominated areas.

The film was released on around 1300 screens on 700 theatres and these collections are phenomenal for such a release. The occupancies were huge at multiplexes with houses running at capacity or near capacity. Other big openers are being released on 2500 screens nowadays with likes of Ek Tha Tiger even going close to 3500 screens.

The trending on the weekend suggests it will hold up very well on Monday as multiplexes will see very strong collections. The weekend has emerged the biggest for a Ranbir Kapoor starrer edging out the multi-starrer Raajneeti which collected in the 33 crore nett range.

Raaz 3 Second Weekend Business

Raaz 3 Second Weekend Business

Raaz 3 collected 8.25 crore nett in its second weekend taking its ten day business to 60 crore nett. The film was hit at multiplexes due to the response to Barfi! but single screens did well. the film is doing very well especially in UP and Bihar. The drop is around 75% from the first weekend. The second weekend business from some circuits is as follows with first weekend figures are in brackets. Delhi/UP - 200 (735) East Punjab 84 (308) CI - 31 (143)

   Rajasthan - 47 (194)

   All above figures in lakhs

Say Happy Birthday to "Kareena Kapoor"

Happy Birthday 

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Heroine......The Wait Is Over

The Wait Is Over

Saif and Kareena to get engaged on the 16th of october?

Saif and Kareena to get engaged on the 16th of october?

Finally the date has been announced. All the hype and guessing surrounding Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s wedding ceremonies may soon come to an end.

If reports are to can be trusted , Saif’s mother and actress Sharmila Tagore has started with preparations for the wedding and apparently, a lot of invites have already been sent to people for the wedding which according to reports will take place on the 16th of october, as planned.

Last month, as we reported that the wedding would take place in two stages, with an actual ceremony in Delhi followed by a lavish celebrity affair in Mumbai.

Sharmila Tagore had said that the big fat royal wedding would be attended by close family members.

And reports also suggest that Saif’s younger sister Saba Ali Khan, who is a jewellery designer, is in-charge of the wedding preparations along with Sharmila.

"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.

"why he picked me for this role, it was so unlike me" – Ranveer Singh

“I asked Vikram why he picked me for this role, it was so unlike me.”

– Ranveer Singh

Mention Ranveer Singh’s personality and the first words that come to mind are bubbly and energetic. Its no suprise then that Ranveer himself was shocked when he was chosen to play a reserved character in his next film Lootera. Vikramaditya Motwane’s period romance will be his third release but will be a first for the new actor in terms of leaving his hyper character in Band Baaja Baaraat and Ladies vs Ricky Bahl behind. For Ranveer however, this task appears to be one of his most challenging in his career.

During a recent interview Ranveer describe his difficulty saying, ”I am full of high energy, very talkative and extrovert in real life but my character is very reserved in Lootera. He is intense, almost brooding. I was just not able to crack this role during the workshop and felt frustrated. I asked Vikram why he picked me for this role, it was so unlike me.”

Describing how he ended up in the film, Ranveer says, “I loved Udaan and when when I met him [Motwane] at Filmfare award function I told him that I would love to work with him and immediately without blinking for a second he said, ‘I have something for you’. Next day we met over lunch and he handed me the complete bound script of Lootera. I cried when I read the story. It is one of the best scripts I ever read and it has shaped up beautifully on the screen.”

To prepare for his role Ranveer admitted to turning away from the tv, his phone and computer to help get into his character given that the film is to be shot in 1950s Bengal.  Despite his initial doubts, Ranveer says he is surprised with himself but does not credit that to his preparation but the guidance and confidence his director has in him. “Vikram used to tell me that I have a side like this. He used to tell me, ‘Trust the power of camera’ and it really helped me a lot during the filming. This role was something that could have gone easily wrong for me.”

It seems that after successful performances in his first two films the Bombay boy will have a variety of roles to play after recently bagging Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram Leela with Deepika Padukone and Yashraj’s next film Gunday along side fellow Yashraj heart throb Arjun Kapoor.

For Ranveer however, all his energy is focused toward Lootera which is set to release in March next year. The  O Henry story ‘The Last Leaf’ adaptation will see Ranveer share the screen with fellow fresh talent Sonakshi Sinha for the first time.