Aamir Khan’s latest movie Lall Singh Chaddha flops – could be removed from cinemas

Normally Aamir Khan’s movies are super-duper hits. However, his latest movie Lall Singh Chaddha is not doing well. Its performance at the box office has been miserable. Its business at the ticket counter fell by 85 per cent. It started off with a bang earning Rs 460 million in its first four days but lost its tempo. It dropped to Rs 18.5 million to Rs 21.5 million on its fifth day. Its total collection was Rs 480 million. This has come as a terrible setback and it is possible that LSC could be removed from cinemas. Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha expected to be removed from cinemas six days after premiere. The total collection was less than Aamir Khan’s last release c which also failed to do good business.

The media says LSC has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. LSC is an official remake of Forrest Gump, a film of Tom Hanks. The budget of Aamir’s film was Rs 1.8 billion. However, it did not appeal to the Indian audience. There were campaigns to boycott it because it shows disrespect to Hindu sentiments and the Indian army. This is a bit strange for a Bollywood man who gave movies like Sarfarosh (1999), Lagaan (2001), 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014) Dangal (2016) etcetera,

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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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Britain rolling out the red carpet for film-makers to make blockbuster films

This is good news for investors who would like to invest in blockbuster movies like ‘Gravity’ and ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’.
Britain is offering incentives to film-makers to make more blockbuster films in the UK because its plans to increase tax breaks have been approved by the European Union.
The measure had first been announced in Chancellor George Osborne's 2015 Spring Budget. It gives film and TV productions 25% off their tax costs if they then invest the funds back into their projects. In other words - on a film costing £40m, there would £1m in tax relief.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 August 2015.

Tax breaks for British productions had been introduced several years ago but, under the new policy, it will raise the percentage films can claim back under tax relief. Previously the 25% rate only applied to the first £20m of a production's budget – that is now being extended to cover all tax paid on a project regardless of budget and size. To qualify for the tax breaks a film must be considered a British production or co-production. This means it has to pass a cultural test run by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and spend a minimum of 10% of its budget in the UK.
The move would give a boost to an industry that has already brought in billions of pounds of investment and hundreds of jobs to Britain.
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