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Vipul Shah would be a happy person after realizing his strength of direction skill that even fetches an ever sold price for his yet to shot film London Dreams. It is now officially confirmed that a deal for the film including Satellite, theatrical, video and music rights crossed a billion INR mark. Theme of the film is based on the contemporary Asian underground music group's rise and fall. The film starring Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan will go for shoot in September and mainly in London. Based on the track record of the Producer-Director which includes recent hit Singh is Kinng, Aankhein, Waqt'€”Race Against Time and Namaste London, The Indian Film company has bought the rights for such mammoth price. Global Indian musician A R Rahman is composing music for this Indi-Rock band based film which is an unconventional Bollywood musical genre.
Upen's ' LONDON DREAMS' comes true!!
With a very successful dream debut in '36 CHINA TOWN', super hunk UPEN PATEL is back in his hometown to savor the success with his family who are based in London. His mom, who is high profile with a political background, is quite proud of her son's achievement that too on his own steam. She is extremely pleased with his well deserved success. Says Upen, "It feels so amazing!! It's like the whole world has changed around me. It's my dream come true. Though I'm the same as before since the time I packed my bags and set out to make it in Bollywood, everyone here now treats me like a star. Right now I'm celebrating the success with my near and dear ones. But its just the beginning. Thanks Bollywood for accepting me with open arms!" Sure Upen, considering the number of big banners that you have signed, now sky seems to be the only limit.
"I am planning to bring LONDON DREAMS by June 2009" - Vipul Shah
Vipul Shah is currently stationed in Europe for the shooting of LONDON DREAMS. It is after close to two years that he is weilding the megaphone again after NAMASTEY LONDON. "These have been exciting times", says Vipul, "There were celebrations galore after the super-success of SINGH IS KINNG and from there on I have moved straight to Europe for filming LONDON DREAMS. Life is busy and fun. I am enjoying working with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan since it is the first time I am getting together with them." Divulging his plans around shooting for LONDON DREAMS, Vipul says, "One thing that I have learnt after working on films like NAMASTEY LONDON and SINGH IS KINNG is that it always pays to hire a foreign crew when choosing a location outside India. They understand the dynamics best and in case of an emergency, they come handy. I started this practice for my films with NAMASTEY LONDON and later for SINGH IS KINNG too, I hired a local crew. In fact whenever any portion of my films has been shot outside India, the crew has been out and out local." "I had a fruitful experience doing so and now I am sure that each of my projects, including LONDON DREAMS which is being prominently shot in London apart from some shoot in India as well, would have some very good contribution from the local crew", Vipul informs. After a non-stop month long schedule in London, the cast and crew would return to India for some crucial portions to be shot. "We should be able to wrap up the principal shooting in quick time post which there would be good investment in post production, something which is quite vital in current times", reasons Vipul, "I am planning to bring the film in May/June 2009 timeframe."
London bows with awe to Bachchan &Co
The day truly became unforgettable for the thousands of lovers of Bollywood in London as the glittering stars led by Mr. Amitabh Bachchan made the show an experience for the viewers to cherish for ever. The thousands who eagerly flocked to the stadium saw their favourite stars perform and take them for a journey down the alleys of the Hindi Tinsel Town with the grand and stunning dance shows and other programes. The presence of the now international celebrity Shilpa Shetty and her fantastic dance performance made the crowd asking for more. Shilpa looked stunning in a golden colour shining outfit and with each graceful move of her astonishingly maintained figure proved when it comes to performing live why she is still a hot property. She performed to chart busters like 'It's Rocking' and 'Mauja Hi Mauja'. After each superbly choreographed performances of Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta and Ritesh Deshmukh the whole stadium had to say only one thing - " truly once in a lifetime'.
London welcomes WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR
Shyam Benegal's film to be screened at the upcoming film festival on Oct 25th & 26th. The prestigious London Film Festival is all geared up to extend a warm welcome to veteran film-maker Shyam Benegal's latest offering - Welcome to Sajjanpur. Presented by UTV SpotBoy set to release on September 19, 2008 in India, the film is a delightful satirical take on life in contemporary rural India and will feature in the competition section of World Cinema at the Festival. This would also be the UK and European Premiere of the film. London Film Festival will be held from Oct 15-30 at London and 'Welcome to Sajjanpur', featured in the competition section will play on the 25th of October at 12.45pm at OWE1 and on the 26th at 16.45pm at Waterman's Art Centre. Welcome to Sajjanpur revolves round Mahadev, one of the few educated young men from Sajjanpur. Gifted with a flair for words. His ambition is to be a novelist. But life-circumstances demand that he eke out a living by writing letters. So, he sits next to the post office and writes letters for all and sundry. His letter-writing is persuasive and powerful and that makes him popular with the largely non-literate population of the town. Soon Mahadev uses his talent to manipulate people with amusing and sometimes not so amusing results. 'Welcome to Sajjanpur' is an entertaining, musical and comic interpretation of characters and events that are at once hilarious and poignant. "Welcome to SAJJANPUR is a journey to the real India and shares with you some harsh and some not so harsh reality of that India. It also brings alive the simplicity and the beauty of the heartland which is far removed from the city life. Its Mr. Benegal's supreme and uncorrupted storytelling style that makes you thoroughly enjoy the ride to this India." Vikas Bahl, COO UTV Spotboy. Welcome to Sajjanpur starring Shreyas Talpade, Ravi Kishan, Divya Datta, Amrita Rao and others follows on the trail of other Benegal films which were screened at the London Film Festival. These include path-breaking ventures like, Manthan, Kondura, Mandi, Trikaal, Susman, Suraj ka Saatwaan Ghoda and Samar.
London Remembers Mohamed Rafi
At the age of three, he first sang a song of the legendary singer Mohamed Rafi on the stage. After several years, having landed up in Mumbai, he started off the innings to attain his long cherished dream to become a playback singer by again singing the iconic singer's evergreen songs. And now at a time when he has become one of the senior most and hugely successful Bollywood vocalist, Sonu Niigaam supported by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra once again gave life to the heart touching immortal songs of Mohammed Rafi at the London Coliseum. Sonu Niigaam can be proud that today he has been able to carve a special niche as one of today's finest singers as well as one who has a voice that resembles the voice and singing style of the late musical sensation Mr.Rafi the most. As a tribute to a person who Sonu considers as a wonderful, ever smiling, versatile, humble, spiritual and simple hearted guru, an album titled as "Rafi Resurrected" has already been released in Europe and is on its way to India. Sonu Niigaam with his perfect soulful rendering of Rafi Saab's songs took the audience in London for a musical trip which they will love to remember for ever and also left so may moist eyes after the concert. The heart throb of today's Bollywood started off the concert with a silent tribute to the master singer. The unimaginable response displayed by the audience proved that the songs sung by Mohamed Rafi have the strength and charm to leave the audience to ask for more for several years into the future as well. With the brilliant backing of the 75-piece orchestra, the event became a spell bounding one as the voice of Sonu floated around bringing back memories with the haunting golden tunes of tracks like "Dil Ke Jharoke Mein" and "Mujhe Teri Mohabbat Ka Sahara" The track "An Evening In Paris" was changed to "An Evening In London" to honor the occasion. The magical hours when the Indians at London remembered one of the countries most loved musicians can be seen on September 21 at 8.00 pm on Sony Entertainment Television. An evening in London-Rafi Resurrected was brought to London by the premiere Record label Saregama India Limited.