Bollywood film industry celebrates Holi, the festival of colors, to welcome spring

Holi is a festival of colors and the celebrities of blockbuster movies join in the merry making and fun. They host their own parties and their guests add to the charm. Raj Kapoor in his lifetime threw lavish Holi parties at the RK Studio. They used to be joyous occasions for the entire film fraternity of Bollywood to come to a common platform, let down their hair and enjoy the songs and dances. In his hey days, Amitabh Bachchan sang a few memorable Holi songs. His house is the venue for high profile celebrations every year. Then there are others like Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar who throw Holi parties. Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri are no exception.

It is customary for Ekta Kapoor to throw lavish Holi parties. Many stars from the world of TV and Bollywood attend the celebrations. Bollywood is in Mumbai, the financial capital of India. The city is accessible by rail, road and air and is a favorite travel destination. It has a cricket team Mumbai Indians that has won the Indian Premier League IPL trophy many times.


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It has now been confirmed that Bollywood would now see two stalwarts of Hindi cinema join hands in the movie Thugs of Hindostasn - the actors are perfectionist Aamir Khan and the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan. They will come together for the first time in the history of Hindi cinema.
It will be Yash Raj Films’ new project titled Thugs of Hindostan which will be directed by writer-director Vijay Krishna Acharya. He has previously directed Aamir in Dhoom 3 but has never directed Amitabh Bachchan.
The movie is scheduled to release on Diwali next year and the leading lady of the film is yet to be announced.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 7 September 2016.

Right now Aamir Khan is busy with his next Dangal, which is based on wrestler Mahavir Phogat’s life and his struggles to make his daughters, Geeta and Babita, wrestlers. Dangal is scheduled for release this Christmas. Big B is, at present, busy promoting Pink starring Taapsee Pannu, Angad Bedi, Kriti Kulhari, Piyush Mishra and Andrea Taring. It will release on September 16.
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West Bengal tourism plans to ride piggy-back on Amitabh Bachhan starrer 'Te3n' to attract tourists to the state. The producers of the film have recently approached the West Bengal tourism department with a proposal of co-branding with the movie 'Te3n' which has been shot extensively in the city of Kolkata.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 6 March 2016.

'Te3n' is a thriller produced by Sujoy Ghosh and directed by debutant Ribhu Dasgupta. It is being shot in West Bengal and stars Amitabh Bachchan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the state government wants to use it to attract tourists. A proposal to this effect has been put up and the modalities are being worked out. West Bengal Tourism is keen to gets a credit in the trailer.
There are already plans to have a Bengal tourism advertisement along with the film trailer because it will soon launch its TV commercial 'Experience Bengal — Sweetest Part of India’ featuring Shah Rukh Khan. A number of hit Hindi films have been shot in the city even in recent years, and this would be the first time that Bengal tourism will be promoted through a Bollywood film.
'Te3n' also stars Vidya Balan, who feels Kolkata is her second home, in a special appearance. It was shot in different parts of the city like the Raj-era Writers Buildings. Incidentally, Bollywood has been associated with several movies like the 2012 superhit mystery “Kahaani” starring Vidya Balan. In the same year, Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor’s “Barfi!” presented the beauty of the little explored parts of the city and the mystic charm of the hills of Darjeeling. And, more recently, Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone’s father-daughter tale of “Piku” was also shot in the city.


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