Amyra Dastur is upbeat over her film “Kung Fu Yoga” with Jackie Chan

Actress Amyra Dastur is upbeat about her film “Kung Fu Yoga” as she has begun shooting for Chinese superstar Jackie Chan’s upcoming action-adventure movie which is being directed by Stanley Tong. It is a Chinese-Indian co-production of Taihe Entertainment, Shinework Media (China) and also stars Aarif Rahman and Sonu Sood.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 19 December 2015.

Amyra Dastur, the 22-year-old “Mr X” actress will be portraying the role of a tough girl and will be seen doing a lot of action. She has yet to meet Jackie Chan but has completed a five-day stunt schedule in Beijing with the rest of the cast.
She now becomes the latest Indian export to international cinema and, Amyra admits that there is a fear lurking in her about her future in the foreign territory because she was very much into Bollywood and he South. She never expected to land a Hollywood project.
Her dates are packed since she will be shooting for this film and, simultaneously, a Bollywood project ‘Ticket to Bollywood’ and will have to shuttle between the two.

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Amitabh Bachchan. Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar in Vogue’s list of top 10 high earning actors but not SRK

Vogue has, for the first time, made public a list of highest paid actors and, as far as Bollywood goes, the list has Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar among the world's top ten highest-paid actors but Shah Rukh Khan does not find a place in the list.
The list has actors right from Hollywood to Hong Kong and Bollywood.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 5 August 2015.

Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are placed at joint seventh place, with estimated earnings of $33.5 million in the past year while Akshay Kumar is placed at ninth place with $32.5 million.
As far as Shah Rukh Khan’s rankings goes, he is at 18th and Ranbir Kapoor at 30th position – their estimated earnings are believed to be $26 million and $15 million respectively.
Bollywood stalwart and superstar Amitabh Bachchan has starred in more than 150 movies in his 50 year career and he continues to earn good money for his roles in movies like the 2014 movie "Bhoothnath Returns."
In contrast, Salman Khan has appeared in some 80 movies since his 1989 breakout role "Maine Pyar Kiya" while Akshay Kumar has appeared in some 150 movies since his 1992 breakthrough movie "Khiladi."
The others in the top 10 are Robert Downey Jr (1) with earnings of $80 million, Jackie Chan (2) with $50 million. Then comes Vin Diesel (3), Bradley Cooper (4), Adam Sandler (5), Tom Cruise (6), and Mark Wahlberg (10).
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