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Yes, you read it right- ‘Happy New Year‘ release has got postponed. Earlier it was slated to release this year on Diwali on 23rd September, but the latest progression reveals it to be getting delayed by a day. Now, the makers will be releasing it on September 24.

As per the sources, director Farah Khan wanted ‘Happy New Year‘ to be a full-proof Diwali release but the lead actor Shah Rukh Khan called it off. According to him, people are not very keen to step into the theatres on the first day of Diwali. Mostly they prefer to stay at home for Laxmi Puja on that day.

Last year’s Diwali witnessed Rakesh Roshan bringing up ‘Krrish 3‘ on Sunday November 3, which earned him the huge profit but SRK believes otherwise and don’t want to take any chances with the box-office numbers.

There are number of people who are ready to pay thousands of rupees just to get a glimpse of their favourite star performing LIVE. But here comes Farhan Akhtar who hits the record by charging just one rupee from the audience to catch him performing LIVE on the night of 14th August 2014.

For the first time Farhan will be performing his first ever digital concert called “Stroke of Midnight” for his fans all over the world. To enjoy this concert all they need to do is sign up for it for Rupee 1 and they will get the LIVE streaming access to watch the actor singing his vocals.

Multi-talented Farhan has a huge fan-following, with majority of his fans coming under the youth category, who all are devoted net users. Therefore, the organizers believe the concert to be a hit, which is getting readily proven as this online streaming performance has registered 62,000 entries signing up within 11 hours of its update.

Just when there is much of hush-hush for the trailer launch of his upcoming film ‘Happy New Year‘, Shah Rukh Khan will take out time from his busy schedule to release the trailer of his director-friend Abhinav Shukla‘s ‘Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami‘ today.

‘Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami‘ is a comical satire based on the life of a common man, who has dedicated his entire life for the well-being of the society; still he has not got any form of appreciation which he rightly deserves. Until his sons try and give him the ultimate sign of respect and honour through “Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami“.

As per the sources, when SRK heard about this unique plot it touched his heart as it reminded him of his own father. Therefore, he got readily agreed to promote the film and also he is personally recommending everyone to watch it as it unfolds the real issues in a humorous way.

Directed by Ravindra Gautam, ‘Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami‘ stars Anupam Kher, Manu Rishi, Divyendu Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Neha Dhupia and Aditi Sharma.

Yash Raj Films has postponed the release date of their delicious delight ‘Daawat-E-Ishq‘ to September 19, which was earlier slated to hit the theatres on September 5.

Reportedly, Parineeti Chopra‘s ‘Daawat-E-Ishq‘ was facing the clash with her sister Priyanka Chopra‘s much anticipated film ‘Mary Kom‘. Therefore, to resolve this “Chopra v/s Chopra” scenario YRF decided to postpone their release to September 19. In these two weeks of extended slot, the production house is going to adopt some unique marketing techniques to make ‘Daawat-E-Ishq‘ a much bigger treat for the audience.

Directed by Habib Faisal, ‘Daawat-E-Ishq‘ also stars Aditya Roy Kapur in his never seen before “Lucknowi Andaaz”.

Shah Rukh Khan is known for his tech-savy talent in the industry and adding to attributes here his team has chosen an innovative medium of Whatsapp to launch the exclusive trailer of his upcoming film ‘Happy New Year‘ on August 14.

To get the trailer on your mobile phones, you just need to give a missed call or send a Whatsapp message on +91 9819020202 and then you will instantly receive the starry ‘Happy New Year‘ trailer on your Whatsapp.

Venky Mysore, CEO of Red Chillies Entertainment announced this distinct launch stating that the company believes in improving fans experience through innovation. Whether it was the first look of ‘Happy New Year‘ at the beginning of the year through Twitter where fans received the customized posters from their favourite artists or the latest trailer launch on Whatsapp, the production team endeavors to delight the fans.

The reason for choosing Whatsapp platform is that it has got over 50 million active users in India, who share millions of videos and images with their friends and groups daily, which might prove advantageous to ‘Happy New Year‘ trailer. This superlative idea also had a drawback as Whatsapp does not allow its user from sending a broadcasting message to more than 250 friends/ Whatsapp users, but then Whatsapp got this restriction removed specially for this campaign.

Last Friday Akshay Kumar and Tamannaah Bhatia starrer ‘Entertainment‘ hit 2800 screens in India, resulting in the decent box-office collection over the first weekend of its release.

‘Entertainment‘ took off the pile with INR 9.25 Crores on Friday with just 35% theatre occupancy, but the festive weekend made the film flared at the box-office with an overall weekend collection of INR 33.5 Crores with 65% occupancy.

The film is running very well in North and Central India, where Akshay Kumar‘s popularity is at the peak. People have different reasons to for this ‘Entertainment‘ treat, some want to give a laughing exercise to their jaws while others want to go for twinkling Tamannaah. Also, the film has grasped the attention of the tiny minds because of the golden retriever dog- Entertainment; kids are literally pulling their parents towards the theatre to watch the wonders of this four-legged creature.

‘Entertainment‘ failed to please the critics, still we hope performs well on the commercial front as next Friday ‘Singham Returns‘ will get it uprooted from the single screens. Till then, the field is clear for ‘Entertainment‘ to earn at the extreme.

Today director Farah Khan will announce the final pack up to ‘Happy New Year‘ team as the film has completed its entire shooting schedule. Therefore, it’s a permanent pack-up.

It seems that the entire star cast had a blissful experience during the shoots and they are badly going to miss this time as Sonu Sood took Twitter to express his distress. He posted- “We r sad not bec (because) our director @The FarahKhan is yet again 1 hr late but bec it’s d last day of #HNY shoot @bomanirani.”

We do understand his emotions, but soon the entire cast is going to reunite at “SLAM! THE TOUR” to promote ‘Happy New Year‘ across the globe.

With the arriving Independence Day, a sudden patriotic urge has emerged in Arjun Kapoor‘s mind. Recently the actor, who has experimented with romance and thriller genre with the films like ‘2 States‘ and ‘Gunday‘, respectively, expressed his desire to work in a patriotic film on a social networking site Twitter.

Arjun posted, “Felt this sudden urge yesterday to do a film with patriotic undertones… strange how a simple national anthem can get your adrenaline pumping”.

Well, we just hope a nationalist filmmaker is reading this news.

Yesterday audience was treated with a quirky dish of ‘Entertainment‘ starring Akshay Kumar and Tamannaah Bhatia which failed to entertain the critics, but lets see how well it served at the box-office.

‘Entertainment‘ was screened in 2,800 screens in India. It geared with a slow start in the morning shows, with just 25% occupancy at the theatres. But the occupancy witnessed a hike from afternoon to evening show and then from evening to the last night show. Thus, ‘Entertainment‘ made the business of Rupees 9.25 Crores at the box-office on the first day of its release.

As compared to rest of the country, ‘Entertainment‘ did a good business in North and Central India with majority of its audience being the youngsters. Also, the theaters had the tiny footfalls of kids who specially came to enjoy the golden retriever- Entertainment.

Jointly produced by Tips Films and Pen Film Banner, ‘Entertainment‘ was brought within the budget of Rupees 85 Crores inclusive of the promotion cost.

Attending the favourite status in kids mind is not an easy task. But “Aata Mazhi Satakli” track from ‘Singham Returns‘ has fulfilled it, as these days it has become the kids anthem nationwide.

The promotional song “Aata Mazhi Satakli” features Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor and Yo Yo Honey Singh vocalizing the Marathi lyrics for the first time. It is special to kids as they see many children of their age dressed as cops and are dancing with the stars. In fact, a boy barely 6 years of age faces off singer Honey Singh in full attitude while punching the line- “Mala raag yeto aahe” (I’m getting angry).

The song is also a treat to watch as Kareena shows some of her “thumkas” in the Laavani moves. While Ajay stands tall in his Singham avatar. The actor is quite happy, as he wanted a catchy track which the audience will relate to and music composer Honey has given it to him. It has also registered high number of hits on YouTube within few hours of its launch.

Directed by Rohit Shetty, ‘Singham Returns‘ will hit the theatres on this Independence Day- August 15.