Jodhaa Akbar will be celebrating 100 days tomorrow. The film was declared a flop at release by many but it beat all the odds to emerge a big hit. The film did nett business of nearly 63 crore in India. The gross buisness was 96.50 crore in India while overseas contributed 31.25 taking its worldwide total to nearly 128 crore. It is the seventh highest grossing hindi film ever in terms of worldwide collections. Jodhaa Akbar had to withstand many bans across the country by various groups and still has not seen a release in Rajasthan but it emerged victorious at the end with public acceptance wherever released.

Jodhaa Akbar starred Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Sonu Sood, Khulbushan Kharbanda, Poonam Sinha and Raza Murad. The film was directed by Ashutosh Gowariker who also produced the film alongwith UTV. Music was by A R Rehman and lyrics by Javed Akhtar.

The euphoria will not die: Abhishek

While dad Amitabh Bachchan has been ‘blogging’ his views and opinions, son Abhishek Bachchan has been missing from action for a while now. Apart from making a few cursory appearances with wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Jr B has been keeping a low profile for a while now. “I’ve been busy working,” explains Abhishek.

Now, with his film Sarkar Raj about to release, Abhishek is out of exile. While his performance in the original Sarkar as Shankar Nagre was appreciated, the sequel is believed to be more challenging as it apparently rides on his shoulders. “I don’t think Sarkar Raj focuses on me. Sarkar was about a son taking over the day-to-day running from the father. Sarkar Raj is about how Shankar Nagre takes over the decision making for the family and lets the father do what he likes,” he explains.

Real vs reel
The relationship between Subhash (Big B) and son Shankar in the film has an underlying conflict. Has that ever happened with him in real life? “Dad and I have the same comfortable relationship that the duo has.

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Even as director Ashutosh Gowraiker moves on to his next movie, What’s Your Raashee, based on a Gujarati novel called Kimball Ravenswood written by Madhu Rye, his magnum opus Jodhaa Akbar has completed a run of 100 days.
It is believed that the makers of Jodhaa Akbar will be celebrating its successful run at a celebration on Saturday, which will be hosted by Gowariker and his wife Sunita. Besides Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who were the cynosure of every eye in the film, Jodhaa Akbar also gave the careers to actors like Sonu Sood and singer Illa Arun a major boost. Poonam Sinha, wife of Shatrughan Sinha, too received praise for her appearance in the film as Akbar’s mother.
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Mumbai, May 23 (IANS) “Lagaan”, “Swades”, “Jodhaa-Akbar”… After three intense films, Ashutosh Gowariker is ready to get into a light frothy romance that he says requires “no research”.

“What’s Your Rashi?”, which will star Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja, takes him “far away” from his earlier three films, says Gowariker.

“In ‘What’s Your Rashi?’ I don’t have to go into historical details. But a good comedy is a challenge of its own. The process of arriving at the humour is extremely difficult,” says the acclaimed director in an exclusive interview to IANS.

SRK takes blame for dipping TRPs of Paanchvi Pass

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Friday said that he took the blame for the dipping TRPs of his television show Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hain because he was the biggest attraction on it and did not become attractive enough to get the desired viewers.

“Even in my films, it is said that it will get a good opening because I am there. If I consider the same yardstick, a star of my calibre should have brought enough audiences before the television set. If there is no opening and lack of appeal for the show despite my presence, then I think I am responsible. But, I do my best whatever I can do creatively,” Shah Rukh said while interacting with a select group of journalists on the sets of Paanchvi Pass at film city in suburban Mumbai.

However, he defended his decision to do the show because it was educative and he liked being in the company of children. “May be the format was not appealing, but we were binded by the original format (Are you smarter than the fifth grader),”he said

At least, not to me. Imran Khan is taller at 5’11, and he’s got a leaner, softer and dreamier look. Whereas Aamir Khan, his famous uncle, well if you’ve seen him lately, gives every indication of going the Mike Tyson way. He’s raw energy and all chunky, rippling muscle; very intense, yet without Iron Mike’s crazy killer expression. But Aamir has got into the skin of a role. He’s in character for his new action film Ghajini. And as nephew Imran, a keen follower of the Aamir Khan method of acting, puts it, “Maamu doesn’t act, he understands the character, gets a grasp on what he’s supposed to do, and then just flows.”

Aamir has produced the film, but he’s not acting in it, and nor is he launching Imran through Jaane Tu… “If I wanted to present Imran with anything, I’d give him a car, not a film,” says Aamir with a touch of exasperation. But, yes, Aamir is very interested in how Imran’s role is shaping up. He was generous enough to share Imran’s first photograph with his fans on his blog recently. Till then, nobody outside Bollywood had seen his nephew. “I thought I’d introduce him to my fans,” says Aamir. The response was instantaneous. “Go check it out,” Aamir tells me, “it ranges from ‘Imran’s a hot hunk’ to ‘My God, he looks so much like you’.”
I ask Aamir what he sees in young Imran. And the nephew quips, tongue firmly in cheek, “A return in investment!”

But Aamir says, “He has an unusual personality on screen, the camera likes him, he’s got a lot of screen presence, his personality suits the script and his character.” Jaane Tu… will release on July 4, but Imran has two more films coming up soon after, Kidnap with Sanjay Dutt and Luck. How does it feel to be an actor, I ask him. “I don’t feel like a star, if that’s what you mean,” he replies. “For me, acting is just another day at work. I like my work, but acting is in the family, making films is our business.”

First weekend performance of latest releaseJANNAT has taken a huge opening all over and it is only going to be ‘mauja hi mauja’ from here on for this Emraan Hashmi starrer. Reason? Not just the film stays on as the only release of the week, the days to come would also be hardly throwing much challenge on it’s way. Though Bhatts had a hat trick of box office failures in the form of DHOKHA, AWARAPAN and SHOWBIZ in the year gone by, JANNAT has brought the smiles back on their faces.

The film not just took a good opening on Friday, it continued to show a constant escalation on Saturday and Sunday as well. Cricket theme, Pritam’s superhit music, Emraan Hashmi’s pull, fantastic promotion, solo release - everything just about fitted in perfectly well for JANNAT which has made it one of the biggest openers this year that has only seen RACE and JODHAA AKBAR as the two bona fide successes. Now JANNAT is all set to be the third big success of the year and it only has to be seen that how big a success it eventually turns out to be. As of today, the film is a HIT for sure!

Last week’s movies

There were two things brought to attention in this column last week. a) It was plain hogwash about BHOOTHNATH showing constant escalation as days passed by. The fact always remained that the film was always on a sticky ground. b) Second weekend was crucial to the film sailing past the safety line. Well, as of now JANNAT has clearly disrupted the chances of BHOOTHNATH to sustain itself at the box office.

With only 14 crores coming in the first week, it would require a close watch to declare the box office outcome of BHOOTHNATH. However, at maximum, the film appears to be a coverage preposition. The film was best in Mumbai with 3 crores while Delhi was a decent 1.5 crores.