Hollywood meets Bollywood when Vin Diesel teams up with Deepika Padukone

Hollywood action star Vin Diesel is excited about the prospect of sharing screen space with Bollywood star Deepika Padukone. They will team up for the upcoming “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage” and Vin Diesel admits that he had always wanted to work with the Bollywood beauty.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 29 January 2016.

Deepika would have got a break much earlier because she aas almost cast in Diesel’s “Furious 7” but things did not materialize. However, the 48-year-old actor Vin Diesel has revealed in a video that he is excited to finally get an opportunity to collaborate with the “Bajirao Mastani” star.
He has admitted that he was dying to work with someone from Bollywood. He feels workinh with her would be just such a delight because the world is going crazy over her character.
Deepika (30), on her part, has also endorsed that she is both excited and nervous about her big Hollywood debut. She has been training hard for “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage”, which would be directed by D J Caruso. Apart from Deepika and Diesel, the film’s cast would also have Samuel L Jackson and Jet Li.



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Deepika Padukone to star with Vin Diesel in Hollywood movie

Another Bollywood actress is on her way to act in a Hollywood movie - it is now revealed that Vin Diesel will team up with his leading lady Deepika Padukone in “Xander Cage Returns” which would be the upcoming sequel of XXX franchise. diesel has shared a picture with the Indian beauty on his Instagram.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 7 December 2015.

The 29-year-old Deepika had initially fueled speculation about her possible Hollywood debut by sharing a picture with Diesel. In the picture, she is seen hugging the Hollywood hunk while looking at the camera mysteriously. The 48-year-old Diesel has kept his fans guessing but Deepika’s “Piku” co-star Irrfan Khan has confirmed the news. He has even congratulated her.
There had been reports that Deepika had turned down Diesel’s “Fast and Furious 7” to accommodate dates for her 2014 release “Happy New Year”. But that seems to have been resolved.
“XXX” was a 2002 American action film that was directed by Rob Cohen and it starred Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman and rebellious athlete-turned- reluctant spy for the national security agency.

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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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