New Year Dreams of Dream Girls

New year has just set-in and the celebrities of entertainment business are making sensational news through their blogs or the media. Publicity a must for those who are trying settle in here or want to make a come back.

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The celebrities in glamour business have no choice but to work hard to be in news. For this reason when they announce their new year plans its different from the common man. On her blog Sherlyn Chopra and Pooja Bedi disclosed their hidden desires more to create ripples in the gossip world than anything else.

After getting exit from Big Boss Sherlyn dreams only big. On her blog she wrote, “At this point in time, my thoughts are revolving around big things in life. The bigger the better. Bigger films, bigger cars, bigger house, bigger pay cheques”.

She continues this big chase to her body treasures as well. She mentions that for quite sometime, she had secretly wished for a bigger butt. “Guess, my mind strongly believes that my bum is petite,” she writes and informs that she would fly down to US and meet some highly skilled surgeons and get their first hand opinion about whether or not butt implants are safe to acquire desired result.

She finds Russian Roulette Rihanna’s latest video truly intoxicating where she moves her body under water like a snake. Sherlyn also wants to learn underwater swimming.

Anothet glam doll of past Pooja Bedi wants to start a new talk show in the new year.”I love to talk and get paid so well to do it.. however, I’ve been so busy with reality shows past couple of years”, she writes.

Last year her foundation THE GRASSROOTS FOUNDATION was born. In the year 2010 it is her resolution that it would bring over 500 solid homes, livelihood skills, education and farming reforms to the 5 villages the foundation adopted in Amethi.

If in 2009 she learnt Urdu and got her name linked to Savannah and Adnan Sami. She also hanged around with Hanif, her man of the past. She also painted house of Shekhar Kapoor.

For the new year she is ready for the romance, yet again. “In 2010 I’m going to focus on learning the most romantic language on the planet... Italian”, she discloses her plan and also clarifies,” It is in no way connected to the fact that George Clooney currently has an Italian hand wrapped around his waist.” But she does dream for the man with mould as George Clooney. Man check your romantic mould if it matches try your luck.

Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan has resolved to make 2010, a year with “no boyfriends”. The 23-year-old actress posted a picture on her Twitter account and wrote, “Starting my new year off with friends and family, the way it should be. No boyfriends and the other drama.”

Lohan is best known for her troubled romantic liasions in 2009. The actress was dumped by DJ Samantha Ronson in April thereafter this blonde beauty has been dogged by a string of dating rumours with Jason Segel, Entourage star Kevin Connolly, and Gerard Butler. The latest one is Gucci model Adam Senn.

Tisca Chopra, who is known for the versatility in her roles, recently shot for a commercial with Shahrukh Khan. She has a wish to work with Amitabh Bachchan in new year.

She is one of the few actresses who have worked with both, Shahrukh and Aamir Khan. The talented Tisca was last seen in Aamir’s home production ‘Taare Zameen Par’ as the loving mother of Darsheel Safary.

Vidya Balan mother of Auro is also inspired by Amitabh for 2010 action plans., “Watching Mr Bachchan at work I realized that I was going on the right track. Being focused on your work to the point of shutting out everything else is not something I needed to feel guilty about.”

For the new year she has high hopes from the next film “Ishqiya”. Her role is of full-blown, seductive, sexually-charged woman. “It’s a role, character and territory that are totally alien to me. I enjoyed getting into the sensuous space. It brings an entirely new perspective to my personality for the audience. That’s what I’m hoping for in 2010… to find new aspects to my personality through the roles I play.”

For a man in her life she is not as open as Pooja Bedi nor have closed the door like Hollywood actress Lidsay, but is awaiting a man as cultured and suave as Gulzar Saab to change the status from single.

PAA Revives ABCL but fails Offshore

CAN PAA give the same lift to ABCL, the production house of Amitabh Bachchan, as Zanjir did to Big B in the seventies?

The box office report of Paa has confirmed that the film is a hit and may become the biggest super hit for the year 2009. The film released on Friday, December 4, had a lukewarm start because of its subject - an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated ageing. However, the movie picked up the next day, following encouraging reviews and word of mouth publicity. The week ends had almost 95 per cent occupancy in theatres of big cities.

Paa was made with a relatively small budget of Rs 15 crore, as a co-production of ABCL and Anil Ambani’s BIG Pictures. According to industry estimates, the film had a collection of over Rs 20 crores in the first three days itself and has raked a profit of about Rs 15 crores so far from the domestic market only. Small cities like Agra, Ambala, Baroda, Pune and Panipat normally have a dull response for movies with serious subjects. However, the collection in such cities for Paa is also reported around fifty per cent. The block buster in these towns has up to 60 per cent occupancy.

Before giving a hit, Amitabh Bachchan in his acting career gave nine flops in a row. After Zanjir his graph kept on moving only upward. Likewise his production house ABCL so far has given string of dull performances on box office with movies like Aks, Major Saab, Mrityudaata and Tere Mere Sapne.

In fact, after getting established in 1996, during the last 13 years, except for hosting the Miss World pageant at Bangalore the company has never been in highlight. It was considered to be an unsuccessful adventure of the Super Star. Now, with Paa rocking the theatres with outstanding performance of its artists and direction of R Balakrishnan, a turning around of ABCL seems to be on the cards.

If audiences do not forget Pran in Zanjir the impression of the look of Auro will not fade out from their memories for years. The character has come up to such a height only because of brilliant makeup done by Christian Kifle, Oscar winner from Hollywood.

Link to Merinews.Com

http://www.merinews.com/article/abcl-revives-with-the-success-of-paa/15790408.shtml

Paa begins dull in overseas market


THE BACHCHAN family production Paa has failed to get a warm reception in overseas market. The initial box office response to Paa in the overseas market is dull. First three day collections in US, UK and Australia was just Rs 1.6 crores from 111 screen.

Beginning with a dull start, the film did pick up on Sunday, December 6, but could not be as great a success as it saw in the Indian domestic market. Per screen average earnings in US, where it was shown on 67 screens, was less than two lakh dollars, approximately Rs 93 Lakhs. The average collection per screen was $2,974.

Average per screen collection in Australia too was below 3,000 dollar. The film was at twentieth place and recorded a collection of $ 24,986. Similarly, in UK it was on the eighteenth position in its opening weekend. From 35 screens, the collection was reported to be around Rs 51 lakh.

http://www.merinews.com/article/paa-begins-dull-in-overseas-market/15790441.shtml