Desi Sensation

Lara Dutta was supposed to be a part of the much talked about Bachchan family’s tour called Unforgettable. One will be able to see stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Ritesh Deshmukh in the show. But Lara opted out at the last minute due to her leg injury. She is really upset that she can not be a part of the tour. Akshay Kumar on the other hand was supposed to be a part of the earlier but also stepped out the last minute. But the news now is that Akshay Kumar is very much a part of the show. Due to his date problems Akshay will not be the part of the show in all the cities. Talks are going on to sign more bollywood stars for the show.
Looks like the Unforgettable tour is becoming quite a hot proposition!

Abhishek Bachchan calls his father the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, Pa and shares a very friendly relationship with him. Abhishek Bachchan is busy these days shooting in Rajsthan for his film Dilli 6 with Sonam Kapoor of Sawariya fame and daughter of Anil Kapoor. Dilli 6 is directed by Rakesh Mehra who was brilliant with Rang De Basanti and the hindi song of the title track was a super duper hit, lets hope that Dilli 6 also has good songs. During the shooting Abhishek Bachchan realized that he has an entire day off from shooting. To make the best out of it he took the first fight to Mumbai to surprise his father Amitabh Bachchan where he was shooting for Shoojit Sarkar’s Shobite. None at the shoot had a clue that Abhishek Bachchan is going to land up there anytime. Abhishek did not even inform his father Amitabh. Amitabh Bachchan was shocked to his son on the sets when he least expected him to be there. But he was very happy and spend lot of his time with Abhishek in his and van both also had lunch together.

Our top Bollywood stars are amongst the highest taxpayers. Bollywood is certainly going the corporate way. Multi-film deals, stars and their contracts with film studios, multiplexes getting in box office figures – corporate Bollywood have finally arrived. Our top Bollywood stars are amongst the highest taxpayers. 2007 surely seems to belong to Akshay Kumar as he has been reported as the highest Bollywood tax payer of the year. The actor has paid a whopping Rs. 26 crores ($6.5million) this year in taxes as he has signed a couple of big budget projects. The estimate of the tax figure paid by the top seven stars is expected to touch the Rs 100 crore-mark, which indeed will give a boost to the Income Tax Department. Last year, Amitabh Bachchan paid a whopping Rs 15.59 crore in taxes. This was followed by Hrithik Roshan who paid Rs.15.10 crore. Shah Rukh Khan shelled out Rs 14 crore in taxes.

After the success of the film Don King Khan is again working in Big B’s film Dewaar’s remake. Shahrukh Khan will play the role of Vijay in Dewaar which was played by Amitabh Bachhan. Yash Chopra himself will direct the film. Shashi Kapoor’s role will play Saif Ali Khan, Neetu Singh’s role will be played by Kareena Kapoor. As Priyanka Chopra has already played the role of Zeenat Amaan in the film Don will play the role of Parveen Babby here. And for the role of Nirupma Roy, Shefali Shah is being choose. Well let’s see how far this film will get success.

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom did not prove to be a great hit, but many people have liked it. I know I defiantly loved the movie, all the starts did a fantastic job, especially Abhishek Bachchan, and his performance was very good. Although Amitabh Bachchan had no major role in the film, he looked good as ever.

The British have been used as a symbol of tyranny and torture in many Hollywood films. I once got a chance to see a film named “Mard” in which Amitabh Bachchan played the role of a pony driver who was actually the lost son of a great king of a territory annexed by the British. The British officers are portrayed as the villains in this film and they always tortured Indians and made them work without proper food and even water was not given to the workers. The hero does a commendable work of fighting the tyrants and securing back the freedom to his people and the family.

Amitabh Bachchan will be returning back to work in Bhojpuri films. Amitabh was busy with son Abhishek’s wedding for 2-3 months, but will now return back to his work. He work will continue for the Bhojpuri film Gangotri. Along with Amitabh Bachchan the film will also cast Bhumika Chawla, Ravi Kissen and Nagma. The film will be shot and finihsed in five days, just before Amitabh leaves for the IFFA Awards in Yorkshire.

As we all know that Ram Gopal Varma is in the process of making the new remake of Sholay. The latest of this film is that the song Mehbooba has been completed, and the membooba is Urmila Mathonkar. Along with Urmila there will also be Amitabh Bachchan and son Abhishek Bachchan grooving to the song. Urmila said she was very excited to have worked with two great stars and both were a good laugh on the sets.

Urmila is going to be back after a very long time, this time she is back doing an item number in a film. Urmila is going to be seen in the Ram Gopal Verma’s Sholay. Urmila will be swinging hips with Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan. Urmila says that this item number is quite different as it has been choreographed by Ganesh Hegde and she says she has performed to the best of her ability.