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The actress talks about her newly unveiled statue at Madame Tussauds, London Although her recent film RA. One released on Wednesday, Kareena Kapoor had lots to celebrate the next day. The actress is proud to share space with the who’s who at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. Kareena Kapoor With Her Wax Statue st Madae Tussards Kareena Kapoor's Wax Statue at Madame Tussauds Kareena Kapoor Wax Statue at Madame Tussauds Wax Statue of Kareena Kapoor at Madame Tussauds Kareena Kapoor at Madame Tussauds Kareena Kapoor With Her Wax Statue at Madame Tussauds Kareena Kapoor With Her Mother Babita at Madame Tussauds Kareena Kapoor and her Mother Babita With Kareena's Wax Statue at Madame Tussauds Interestingly, Bebo’s wax replica sports her look from Jab We Met as against the much talked about ‘size zero’ from Tashan. “ I didn’t want a western look. An Indian look would stand out better. Besides, Jab We Met is an iconic film for me,” she enthuses, recalling how girls went ga- ga over...

No First Day Box office Record For Ra.One. Ra 1 makes approx 14.63 crore at the box office on Day 1 of release Ra.One will not set a new first day record as the final day 1 collections coming in are well off record pace especially in North and Central India. Some circuits are 50% short of Bodyguard while others are similar. Ra.One has collected around 14-15 crore nett on its first day as per early estimates. The collections are only for its Hindi version and regional version may have added around 1 crore nett. It may turn out to be the second or third highest first day ever but around 30% less than the record of Bodyguard which released 2 months back comparing like and like and just its Hindi version. South India has fared best comparatively while in North India the first day collections are lower than Ready and Yamla Pagla Deewana as well as Bodyguard for the films released in 2011. Diwali puja could have contributed to the lower collections however, given the hype around Ra.One, the ...

Box office Report of Ra.One No First Day Box office Record For Ra.One. Ra 1 makes approx 14.63 crore at the box office on Day 1 of release Ra.One will not set a new first day record as the final day 1 collections coming in are well off record pace especially in North and Central India. Some circuits are 50% short of Bodyguard while others are similar. Ra.One has collected around 14-15 crore nett on its first day as per early estimates. The collections are only for its Hindi version and regional version may have added around 1 crore nett. It may turn out to be the second or third highest first day ever but around 30% less than the record of Bodyguard which released 2 months back comparing like and like and just its Hindi version. South India has fared best comparatively while in North India the first day collections are lower than Ready and Yamla Pagla Deewana as well as Bodyguard for the films released in 2011. Diwali puja could have contributed to the lower collections however, given ...

I've often heard people say, film-making is nothing short of a gamble. And as any gambler will tell you, you've got to gamble huge to triumph huge. Going by this logic, Shah Rukh Khan is The Supreme Gambler of the year. What's at stake, beside the big money invested in RA.ONE of course, is a dream, a vision, an aspiration to make a film which appeals to kids and kids at heart. In short, attempt a film that appeals to the universal audience. At the same time, it ought to raise the bar for Hindi films. Also at stake is SRK's once-unchallenged supremacy as the reigning idol of Bollywood and that elusive thing called reputation. When you invest your repute in your dream project and stick your neck out, you expect nothing short of a mega-success. Movies like KRRISH and ROBOT initiated the trend of superhero films in India, with fantasy making deep inroads into mainstream Hindi cinema. Now RA.ONE raises the bar, takes not a step or two, but a giant leap and adheres to interna...

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History Channel Unveils Campaign With Salman Khan: Crafted by McCann Erickson, the campaign is on-air right now watch the 3 TVCs here. A+E Networks TV18, a joint venture between A+E Networks and TV 18, has launched three TVCs for their soon-to-be-launched factual entertainment channel "History" in India. The brand has unveiled the new campaign online first, to be followed by TV. The ad features Bollywood actor Salman Khan challenging people's perception of ˜achievement and newness". The idea for the campaign, concept-alised by McCann Erickson, came from the insight that history, an otherwise mundane topic, needed to be put in the most interesting and engrossing manner. Thus, the campaign plays with the copy reading ˜Watch History being made’, ‘Kuch Naya Dekho and ˜History Bante Dekho’. Speaking about the launch campaign strategy, Sangeetha Aiyer, General manager, Marketing, AETN-18, said, The factual entertainment genre as a whole is witnessing a growth of 30 per cen...