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The craze of Bollywood stars is not limited to the nation, but it has spread across the world. For an instance, Bollywood films are receiving warm welcome from the international audience and B-Town stars shine at Madam Tussauds wax museum in the form of their spectacular wax statues. Bollywood personalities present in the form of wax statues at the prestigious museum are Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and many more.

Going by the fresh news update, the wax statue of Kareena Kapoor will now be seen in glittering red saree of the actress in her film ‘Ra.One‘ in the song “Chammak Challo”. Earlier, the statue was seen in harem pants and black tank top that Kareena donned in the song “Mauja hi Mauja” from ‘Jab We Met‘. Kareena’s actor husband Saif Ali Khan even clicked the photos of this newly adorned replica of the actress. Kareena is quite happy about the new look of her wax statue and said that she wanted her fans to see her statue in a saree and now the statue is looking spectacular in red saree. Also the eyes of statue match with hers, revealed the actress. As per the report, the figure was completed in four months and with 150,000 pounds.

“Aata Majhi Satakli” is the dialogue that is making the people go crazy over these days. The feisty super-cop Bajirao Singham is raking in huge moolah at the box office by smashing all the records. The lead star Ajay Devgn tasted the mass magic at the recent Dahi Handi celebrations, as the actor wooed the crowd with his dashing punchline “Aata Majhi Satakli”.

The ‘Singham Returns‘ director Rohit Shetty also witnessed the love of the audience for the film during its screening at a theatre in Mumbai. The audience gave seetis and taalis each time Ajay said “Aata Majhi Satakli”. The most interesting thing was plastic whistles from some sari-clad women, as told by Shetty. The viewers went ga-ga over dialogues like “Mein leta nahin, deta hoon” and were seen repeating the lines.

The same mass magic was witnessed by Ajay and Rohit on the day of Dahi Handi celebrations, as the duo garnered lots of love from the enthusiastic crowd.

Abhishek Bachchan and his father Amitabh Bachchan are real sports lovers. The duo even attended FIFA World Cup Finale recently. Abhishek has his Kabaddi team Jaipur Pink Panthers in the Pro Kabaddi League and the team has won 7 out of their 9 matches. The team has grabbed 2nd position in the tournament and today, the team will have their match on their home ground in the city for the first time.

However, before playing this match, the owner Abhishek Bachchan felt that the players need to chill out for a while. Abhishek shares a great rapport and camaraderie with players in the team and that’s what encourages the players. Due to this, the coach of the team requested Abhishek to take the team for a film, reportedly. So, Bachchan junior took the team for a movie yesterday.

The Captain of the team, Navneet Gautam shared the happiness by saying that the players feel great in Abhishek’s company and the actor always attempts to motivate the team. The coach wanted the players to be mentally and physically prepared for the match on our home ground today, added Gautam. The grapevine tweeted that Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan may also arrive in Jaipur today to cheer up the team of Abhishek.

Shruti Haasan, the daughter of the ace actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, landed in Bollywood and earned praises for her beauty and acting. Many of us know that apart from being an actress, Shruti is a very good singer too. But, the actress also has expertise in some other field too. Shruti is a great dancer and very soon, we will get to see her on the dance floor.

Going by the report, Shruti Haasan will be shaking a leg on an item song “Madamiya” in the forthcoming movie ‘Tevar‘. The snap from the song is out now and we can see Shruti and Arjun grooving to the beats of the song. Shruti looks stunning in her glittering outfits, whereas Arjun looks dashing in black attire. Undoubtedly, the sizzling duo will set the stage on fire with their dance moves.

‘Tevar‘ features Sonakshi Sinha as the female lead and the film will release in 2015.

Ajay Devgn‘s latest release ‘Singham Returns‘ is seeing golden days at the box office and the actor is basking in the success of the flick. Going by the fresh news update, Ajay Devgn has donated two brand new vehicles to the Mumbai Police Department.

Recently, ‘Singham Returns‘ director Rohit Shetty and the lead star Ajay Devgn met the State Home Minister RR Patil in order to donate two new vehicles to the Police Department. The actor-director duo showed this gesture towards the Police Department as the team of the film got valuable assistance from the cops for shooting it in diverse locations in Mumbai.

August 15 release ‘Singham Returns‘ is riding high towards the 100 crore club in just 4 days of its release.

Remember the song “Akhiyan Milaoon ya Akhiyan Churaoon” from the film ‘Raja‘? Well, very soon we will get to see the spectacular dance moves of Madhuri Dixit from this song once again on the silver screen, but this time, the shotgun junior Sonakshi Sinha is going to groove on these sizzling dance steps in her upcoming film ‘Tevar‘.

Sonakshi will be dancing to the beats of a special track “Let’s Celebrate” in the forthcoming flick ‘Tevar‘. She will be seen doing some of the dance steps of Madhuri in this track, as per the report. The producer Sanjay Kapoor, who matched the steps with Madhuri in the song, recalled that he was nervous while filming the song as the entire focus was on him and Madhuri throughout the song and there were no background dancers. Talking about comparison between Sonakshi and Madhuri, the producer Kapoor said that “Sonakshi is the best dancer amongst the younger lot but Madhuri is incomparable!”

The song “Let’s Celebrate” will be shot at Filmistan Studios in Mumbai. Imran Khan of ‘Amplifier’ fame has composed and sung this track, which is choreographed by Remo D’Souza. ‘Tevar‘ is slated to release in 2015.

The upcoming much-talked about venture of Yash Raj Films, ‘Mardaani‘ stars Rani Mukherjee in never-seen-before feisty cop avatar as Shivani Shivaji Roy. The actress plays the Crime Branch officer in the film. The fresh news update about the film is ‘Mardaani‘ is the first YRF outing with ‘A’ certificate.

‘Mardaani‘ talks about the efforts of Police to solve a sex trafficking case. YRF head Aditya Chopra thought to get U/A certificate for this flick, as he intended that the children who are above the years of 12 years will watch this movie. According to the new guidelines, the Censor Board issued an ‘A’ certificate for ‘Mardaani‘, thereby making it the first YRF outing with ‘A’ certificate.

Directed by Pradeep Sarkar, the film ‘Mardaani‘ hits the screens on August 22.

‘Singham Returns‘ roared at the box office with shining figures and the movie knows no stopping at the ticket window. The action-drama shattered the records and has become the highest grossing film of 2014 till now. Rohit Shetty‘s directorial collected 32.09 crore nett on Friday and 21.05 crore nett on Saturday, as we reported earlier.

Sunday collections of the Ajay Devgn starrer were 24.50 crore nett and the total first weekend box office collection of the film was whopping 77.64 crore nett, as per the report. The film is anticipated to garner around 14 crore nett on Monday due to partial holiday of Janmashtami in some parts of the country. The total overseas collection recorded by the movie is 14.60 crore nett. So, ‘Singham Returns‘, which is made with an estimated budget of 115 crore, helds its flag high with the total worldwide collection of 92.24 crore nett within just 3 days of its release. By looking at these figures, reaching 100 crore club is like a child’s play for this action-affair.

After entertaining the audience with the recent releases like ‘Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty‘ and ‘Entertainment‘, the action king Akshay Kumar is ready to come up with something different. This time, Akshay Kumar will star in a thriller titled ‘Airlift’ that revolves around the biggest human evacuation.

Akshay Kumar will be seen playing the role of Ranjit Katyal, an influential and affluent Indian businessman, who considers himself a Kuwaiti rather than an Indian. Once he finds his family along with him is in danger and no longer has any influence on Iraqis. Unknowingly, Ranjit becomes the person to whom all the 1,70,000 Indians turn for help for letting them go out of Kuwait safely. ‘Airlift’ talks about the journey of these Indians along with Ranjit Katyal and narration of how they manage to travel thousands of kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan and survive the Iraqi invasion. In the history of the world, this was the biggest and successful human evacuation tried by any nation where 1,70,000 Indians were brought to their home country safely from Amman. The film also depicts how the Indian government flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone for the evacuation of 1,70,000 Indians in 59 days and for bringing them home safely.

Presented by T-Series and Cape of Good Films and produced by Emmay Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and Crouching Tiger Motion Pictures, the thriller ‘Airlift’ is directed by Raja Krishna Menon. Bhushan Kumar revealed that the story will be presented on the silver screen in a great way and Akshay will be essaying a heroic character paired with perfection in this flick.

Gone are the days when Bollywood actors used to play monotonous roles in the films. These days B-Town stars are ready to go on an experimentation spree regarding their roles and looks and the recent one to join the wagon is Shahid Kapoor. The Kapoor lad will go bald in Vishal Bhardwaj‘s upcoming ‘Haider‘ and his bald look has been a talk of the town in the meanwhile.

The further news update confirmed by the director Bhardwaj revealed that Shahid Kapoor is going to rattle off a six-page monologue in the climax scene of ‘Haider‘. Bhardwaj even stated that in this scene, Shahid reminded him of the body language of his father and senior actor Pankaj Kapur, whereas Shahid’s voice reminded Bhardwaj of another veteran star Naseeruddin Shah. Shahid has earned praises from the director for his dedication towards his work in this flick. ‘Haider‘ is an intense love tale and narrates Shahid’s journey from being a student to a killer. The climax scene of the film apparently shows that Shahid looses his mental balance and goes mad.

Based on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, the scenic love story ‘Haider‘ also features Tabu and Shraddha Kapoor. The movie hits the screens on October 2.