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  • Arjun Rampal making documentary on Ashok Mehta

    Arjun Rampal making documentary on Ashok Mehta

    MUMBAI: As a mark to pay respect to his mentor and one of the country’s celebrated cinematographers Ashok Mehta, Arjun Rampal, along with his wife Mehr and journalist Khalid Mohammed, is set to roll out a documentary on him.

    Rampal has reportedly said, “This is something that I wanted to do for him and I am doing it.”

    The documentary will be shot in Mumbai and will be around 90 minutes long.

    The relations between Rampal and Mehta go back a long way. It was Mehta who gave the actor his first break in Bollywood with Mokshain, which he starred opposite Manisha Koirala.

    Incidentally, Mehta was the director of photography in films like Shortkut The Con Is On, Meridian, God Tussi Great Ho, I See You, Family: Ties of Blood, No Entry, Kisna: The Warrior Poet Chalte Chalte, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Gaja Gamini among many others.

  • Aishwarya Rai, Arjun Rampal and Bipasha Basu to grace Cannes fest

    Aishwarya Rai, Arjun Rampal and Bipasha Basu to grace Cannes fest

    MUMBAI: As in the past, several luminiaries from Bollywood are scheduled to be present at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival to be held from 16 to 27 May. Among the notables would be the likes of Aishwarya Rai, Arjun Rampal and Bipasha Basu.

    Rai is most likely to grace the French film festival again this time. She has been attending the festival since 2002 as the global face of L‘Oreal.

    Rampal is expected to make an appearance at the Festival as the ambassador of liquor brand Chivas, the official partner of the event. He is likely to be accompanied by his designer friend Rohit Bal. The actor had recently expressed a desire of showcasing his upcoming film Heroine at the Festival.

    Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar and co-produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Bhandarkar, the film has Kareena Kapoor and Arjun in the lead roles. Randeep Hooda and Shahana Goswami will also be seen in pivotal roles.

    Incidentally, last year the makers had announced Heroine with Rai as the female lead, but she opted out of the film due to her pregnancy. The director then replaced her with Kareena Kapoor.

    Bipasha may also attend the festival to promote her debut international film Singularity based on the first Anglo-Maratha war of 18th century colonial India. Directed by Roland Joffe, Singularity has been lined up to be showcased at the Cannes film fest as part of a promotional drive.

    Incidentally, the actress had walked the red carpet in 2007 to promote her film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal along with her co-star John Abraham.

  • Eros International and Prakash Jha sign three-film deal

    Eros International and Prakash Jha sign three-film deal

    New Delhi: Eros International Media Ltd (EIML) has announced it will be co-producing three films with Prakash Jha Productions.

    The first of the films, ‘Chakravyuh’ directed by Prakash Jha, will star Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Esha Gupta, Manoj Bajpai and others. Written by Prakash Jha, Anjum Rajabali and Sagar Pandya, it has music by Salim-Sulaiman. ‘Chakravyuh’ is scheduled to go on floor on 7 April.

    Commenting on the multi-film tie-up, EMIL Managing Director Sunil Lulla said, “It is great to be associated with good cinema and one can expect thought provoking as well as popular film content from the very talented Prakash Jha. We look forward to this association and presenting quality entertainment to film enthusiasts”.

    Prakash Jha added, “Our association with Eros goes back to ‘Mrityudand’ and we are happy to work with them on a regular and long term basis for creating content.”

  • Sequel of Aankhen in offing

    Sequel of Aankhen in offing

    MUMBAI: Producer Gaurang Doshi is well on way to make a sequel of his 2002 film Aankhen that starred Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Paresh Rawal and Sushmita Sen in lead roles. But this time besides Bachchan, the entire cast is set to change.

    Talking about the fresh star cast, Doshi has said, “There will be a new cast except for Amitabh Bachchan. We are on the verge of finalising things and would make an announcement soon.”

    Though the original was directed by Vipul Shah, the second installment will be helmed by a new director. “We have been working on this idea of a sequel since quite some time. The first part of the film had two endings — one for the Indian market and the other for the overseas audience. The three protagonists in the film would remain blind,” averred Doshi, while revealing his plans.

    The sequel that will be shot in India, Canada and England would go on floors soon and is expected to release next year.

  • UTV to release six films in 2012

    UTV to release six films in 2012

    MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has released the slate of movies that it is to release in 2012.


    To start off, the company will release Ek Main Aur Ek Tu, its co-production with Dharma Productions on 10 February.


    The film being directed by Shakun Batra and starring Kareena Kapoor and Imraan Khan, is a light hearted, tragicomedy about a guy in his mid twenties going through a breakdown in his personal as well as work life. Rahul Kapoor loses his job as an architect in Vegas and by a twist of fate he meets Riana Braganza, a quick-witted hairstylist who is everything he isn‘t. Will this friendship with her turn to love?
     
    Following in May would be Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, a co-production of UTV Spotboy and Anurag Kashyap directed by Sameer Sharma. The film starring Kunal Kapoor and Huma Qureshi celebrates the lovable quirks of a Punjabi joint family with its inherent humour, drama, confusion, emotion, and the secret recipe for a famous chicken curry Chicken Khurana that forms the crux of the plot.


    Releasing on 15 June will be Rowdy Rathore, a joint venture of UTV Motion Pictures and SLB Productions. The film, directed by Prabhudeva, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, is a remake of Vikramarkudu, the superhit Telugu film which was also remade in Tamil as Siruthai. The film will see Kumar returning to his original action avatar.


    Following in July is Barfii, a UTV Motion Pictures product, directed by Anurag Basu. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileyana.


    Then there is the Shirish Kunder-directed Joker 3D that releases on 30 August. The film, a co-production of UTV Motion Pictures, Three‘s Company and Hari Om Productions and Shirish Kunder, stars Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha. Akshay Kumar returns to his hometown, a place that‘s so remote and crazy that it‘s not even on the map. And then what follows puts this forgotten little town not just on the country‘s map, but makes it the focus of the entire globe! Aliens!


    And the last film on the slate is the Madhur Bhandarkar-directed Heroine. The film, a UTV Motion Pictures and Bhandarkar Entertainment product and starring Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal, is based on the life and times of a superstar heroine from the dream factory we call ‘Bollywood‘. The film is an entertaining, daring, emotional, shocking, glamorous, scandalous behind the scenes account of the reality behind the world of glitz and glamour that our film stars inhabit.

  • Ra.One lacks in the script department

    Ra.One lacks in the script department

    MUMBAI: When you have done just about everything and still find yourself at a stage where you want one box office blockbuster to retain the top spot, you want to do something different. So here we have Ra.One, which is purported to serve that purpose.

     

    Producer: Gauri Khan.
    Director: Anubhav Sinha.
    Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Master Armaan Verma, Arjun Rampal, Shahana Goswami, Tom
    Wu, Dalip Tahil, Satish Shah, Suresh Menon.

    TheThe intentions are noble enough. It is the execution and the content which don’t comply! A few reels into the film and you wonder “where is this all leading?”

    We have had a few films about super human – Mr X, Mr India, Krrish– but Ra.One is about bringing a videogame superhero to life.

    Shah Rukh Khan is a computer geek. He and his team are asked to develop a blockbuster video game since the company’s last one flopped badly. If he fails, the office will be converted into a restaurant and Khan and his team will be waiting on the guests; so much for being wizards of the virtual world.

    Shah Rukh plays a docile, meek man whose cute and almost-whiz kid son, Armaan, does not think much of his father, while his wife, Kareena Kapoor, just loves him for what he is.

    The thinking is that to be a computer nerd one has to be a South Indian, so that is what Shah Rukh is cast as while Kareena is supposed to be a Punjabi, for whatever reason.

    The son thinks super heroes are not cool anymore and wants the super villain to be more powerful. With this idea, Shah Rukh begins work on his next video game where the villain is all powerful. This is Ra.One, ArjunRampal, in his final avatar (there being many since he can morph in to anyone’s identity). The hero is a good-hearted G.One, who stands a 0.01 per cent chance of survival against the villain. It is here that the film begins to sag.

    The process of developing the video game and computer lab gizmos make for tedious watching and accounts for almost the entire first half. When the programme is eventually ready and being launched in a grand ceremony, things start going haywire elsewhere as Armaan tries his hand at the game in the lab. He is forced to leave it halfway, which drives Ra.One mad and he decides to emerge out of the virtual world into the real world to destroy Lucifer, Armaan’s video game ID.

    The villain is out on the loose and kills Shah Rukh Khan, who designed him. The mother-son duo go on the run with Ra.One chasing them, first on the trot and later on the bike. One wonders why a villain who can almost fly, leap miles or materialise anywhere out of thin air needs to chase them like a normal human being. But then, this helps provide some thrill, destroying a few cars in the name of entertainment. Meanwhile, Armaan has also managed to bring out G.One to life in the shape and size of Shah Rukh Khan, a protector for the pair. In the end, as it should be, even with 0.01 per cent odds, good wins against the evil. It is a shame that you are too mentally fatigued to understand the intricacies of how and why.

    Ra.One is a technical and special-effects treat if you care for that sort of thing as entertainment. But the fact that it is carried a bit too far is a deterrent. Also, in the absence of decent contribution from the script department, this technical triumph eventually comes to nothing. Dialogue is routine and funnier lines are mostly of the below-the-belt variety. Musically, while, Chhammak Chhalo… has been much hyped, the pick of the lot is Dildaara dildaara. Action is well choreographed but gets repetitive after a point, thereby losing its novelty. Direction is average with many scenes stretched beyond utility point.

    As for performances, Shah Rukh does what he has been doing all along. He is cute and playful when in normal role but when he enacts the video game character, the ghost of My Name Is Khan seems to possess him and he acts as if he is affected by Aspergers syndrome again. Kareena Kapoor is good. Master Armaan steals the show. Rest have limited scope.

    On the whole, Ra.One opened to below expectations response due to wrong release day (Diwali). Having picked up handsomely on second day, it started its slide on third day. The appreciation being poor, the film’s box office potential stand hugely challenged.

    Tell Me O Khuda is a good idea treated in an old- fashioned way

    Tell Me O Khuda is meant to be a re-launch vehicle for the almost forgotten Esha Deol. Mother Hema Malini is the one to do the needful. In what seems like a wise move, the story chosen needs three veteran actors, all stars to reckon with in their own heydays, in Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor.

     

    Producer: Hema Malini.
    Director: Mayur Puri.
    Cast: Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Esha Deol, Arjan Bajwa, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Farooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Madhoo, Johny Lever, Sudhanshu Pandey, Sharat Saxena, Gurbachan.

     Hema Malini herself puts in a cameo along with some critically acclaimed oldtimers such as Faroooq Sheikh, Deepti Naval and Madhu. Further, to make it pleasant to the movie watchers‘ eyes, this three episode drama is shot in three of the most picturesque locations, Rajasthan, Turkey and Goa. The packaging is near perfect.

    Esha Deol is a writer who has been brought up by Farooq Sheikh and Deepti Naval with all the love and affection in the world, until one day she finds out that she is their adopted child.

    Esha decides not to rest until she finds her real parents and discovers why they deserted her.

    It has been 24 years and the municipal hospital is not sure it has all the records since a day after Esha was born; the hospital had caught a major fire. Esha‘s search leads her first to Vinod Khanna, a Rajasthani royal whose wife had a baby girl (though one wonders why a Rajasthan royal‘s wife should be delivering a baby in a Mumbai‘s municipal hospital!). She died in child birth but instructed her maid not to take the baby girl home since the thakur, Vinod Khanna, believed in and wanted only a male heir.

    This section of the film also has some interesting behind-the-scene royal politics between Vinod Khanna‘s nephew and heir apparent. Esha wins over Vinod Khanna while proving she can do anything as well as or better than any son and makes him change his steadfast beliefs about a girl child. But then the maid who was a witness to the child‘s birth 24 years back reveals that it is not Esha but the girl she has brought up as her own who is his daughter.

    Back to square one, Esha pays another visit to the municipal hospital‘s records department. This is quite enjoyable as Johny Lever is the clerk in charge (so what if his desk sports a symbol of Ashok Chakra!). The clerk has another father for Esha to visit, this time in Turkey, where Rishi Kapoor has shifted from his Bandra residence. Rishi Kapoor‘s wife, Turkish actor Meltem Cumbul, has taken her newborn‘s death in the hospital fire badly and gone into a shell ever since. When he sees that his wife is warming up to Esha, Rishi Kapoor goes along with her belief that finally she had found her parents. Meltem Cumbul is cured and Esha realises that these are not her parents but she was only used by Rishi Kapoor for his wife‘s sake.

    It is third time lucky for Esha when her beau, Arjan Bajwa, finds out that there was one more possibility, Dharmendra, who is now a don in Goa. A love child of Dharmendra and Hema Malini, she had been abandoned by the latter to keep her away from her lover‘s illegal ways. Hema Malini herself became a nun!

    Dharmendra‘s being a don also offers scope for an action climax. It all ends happily as all her ‘four fathers‘ are present for her wedding with Arjan Bajwa.

    Tell Me O Khuda swings between the story of a girl in search of her antecedents and a do-gooder, a girl always in hurry to call every next person she traces as daddy.

    It is a good idea treated in an old- fashioned way. The absence of a single director‘s vision is obvious. The film never touches you as nowhere does it make you feel sympathetic towards Esha‘s plight or cause. Esha Deol is as much to blame as is the treatment as both fall short of delivering. Music is of little help. Rest of the aspects are routine. Tell Me O Khuda is a poor contender at the box office.

  • SRK’s Ra.one in copyright row

    SRK’s Ra.one in copyright row

    MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan‘s upcoming superhero film Ra.one has landed in the court. The Bombay High Court has observed that prima facie there had been a copyright violation, while reserving the final verdict for later date.

    The division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi directed the defendants (Sharukh Khan, his production house Red Chillies Entertainment and Eros Entertainment) to deposit Rs 10 million with the court before releasing the movie.

    “The defendants are directed to deposit a sum of Rs 10 million as pay-order to the court and then release the movie,” PTI reported, quoting the bench.

    The court was hearing the petition filed by Beyond Dreams CEO Yash Patnaik, who said that he is the original copyright owner of the concept and the content of RA.One‘, produced by SRK‘s Red Chillies Entertainment.

    The court ordered that if the defendants failed to deposit the money, an injunction against the movie‘s release would become operational.

    “It is the most unfortunate part of the film industry that people use others‘ concepts and then don‘t want to pay or give them credit,” the bench remarked.

    The court has kept the final decision on the issue of copyright violation pending, and would hear arguments in due course of time.

    The movie is to release on 26 October and stars Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal.

    Patnaik had sought a stay to the film‘s release until he was given credit for the concept or 10 per cent of the profits, in case he was not given the credit.

    Patnaik‘s lawyer, senior advocate Ravi Kadam, said that the superhero character resembled the one in Patnaik‘s concept of 2006, in ‘attributes and appearance‘.

    “The super-villain of Patnaik‘s script was called ‘One‘, which has been used by SRK in the movie‘s title,” Kadam said.

    Meanwhile, SRK‘s lawyer, senior advocate Virendra Tulzapurkar, said that his client‘s script was completely different. Also, “Patnaik cannot claim copyright as he had developed his concept with a team of experts he had engaged,” Tulzapurkar argued.

    Meanwhile, Eros Entertainment‘s lawyer, senior advocate Janak Dwarkadas, argued that the company has acquired world distribution rights at Rs 1.50 billion and has already started transporting prints to theatres, so no stay should be granted at the last moment.

  • Rascals: A poor comic film

    Rascals: A poor comic film

    MUMBAI: With most stars turning to film production and also since most are past their romantic role playing age, a comedy film seems to be the only choice.  

    Producer: Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Ahluwalia, Vinay Choksey.
    Director: David Dhawan.
    Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Kangna Ranaut, Lisa Ray, Chunky Pandey, Arjun Rampal, Satish Kaushik.

    The The film Rascals is actor Sanjay Dutt‘s foray into film production; playing safe, he opts for a comedy film entrusting the helm to David Dhawan who has quite a successful track record with this genre. But the fact that a comedy would need a good writer with some very sharp gags seems to have been overlooked.

    Dutt and Ajay Devgn are two conmen, rather born conmen as the animation depiction in the film‘s titles would suggest. Next the duo pick on Arjun Rampal, a self styled toughie; while Ajay Devgn steals his bag with Rs 3 million in cash, Sanjay Dutt makes away with his Mercedes.

    Soon both are headed for Bangkok sitting next to each other on a flight trying to con each other where Devgn emerges the loser as Dutt makes away with all his cash and belongings. Both check into a ritzy hotel and their con business turns to game of outwitting each other to find favours with Kangna Ranaut who they see splashing her money around.

    The rest of the con game consists of both the lead men contesting for who smooches and necks Kangna Ranaut the most! There are a few distractions in the form of Chunky Pandey, Lisa Ray, Satish Kaushik and Hiten Paintal brought in and out of scene at whim; hence, effectively contributing nothing.

    The script has no coherence and the gags on which the film is built are banal and childish, the laughable ones being about three in all! With no script to go on, David Dhawan manages a farce at best and the only time you are amazed at his confidence is when he lives the film‘s end open to a sequel!

    Dutt and Devgn both lacking a natural comic streak resort to buffoonery and seem to be the only ones enjoying what they are doing instead of letting the audience in on it too. Kangna Ranaut is supposed to contribute in oomph; not burdened with much clothing, she manages that amply. Arjun Rampal is wasted while with Chunky Pandey, Satish Kaushik and Lisa Ray nothing is expected and nothing is forthcoming. Lack of catchy songs is made up by bevy of dancers and crowds. Bangkok locations are pleasant. But, then, they have been so in all the horde of recent films shot there! For a funny film, dialogue writing is sad.

    Rascals is a poor example of a comic film which will start telling on its box office performance within first three days. 

    Love Breakup Zindagi: Just another love story
     
     

    Producer: Sahara Motion Pictures, Born Free Entertainment P Ltd.
    Director: Sahil Sangha.
    Cast: Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza, Cyrus Sahukar, Tisca Chopra, Satyadeep Misra, Vaibhavi Talwar, Pallavi Sharda, Umang Jain, Anurita Ghosh.

    Weddings are still the popular tried and tested situations for a new love to blossom; what is more, they also give you scope to use upample footage of a thin story line in the name of colourful marriage rituals like sangeet, mehendi etc.

    Love Breakup Zindagi is one more in the line up of wedding romances with a bit of contemporary where a boy and girl from different worlds meet and are drawn to each other but don‘t instantly say ‘I love you‘, leaving scope open for other part of the film‘s story to materialise.

    Zayed Khan is a well placed adman in Delhi with his associate and friend Cyrus Sahukar as his soul mate. Zayed Khan has a steady girl friend in career oriented Pallavi Sharda who is not totally convinced she is the girl for him while Cyrus Sahukar is twice divorced and, hence, much experienced in the ways of women‘s matters. Dia Mirza is a Mumbai based creative kind whose banker boy friend, Vaibhav Talwar, is too busy for them to find a suitable date to marry.

    There is boy‘s side and there is girl‘s side in a wedding: Zayed Khan and Cyrus Sahukar are from the boy‘s (Satyadeep Misra) side while Dia Mirza is from the girl‘s. Anurita Ghosh, a friend, lands up at Chandigarh to attend their wedding. Somehow, a Punjabi wedding is a norm for film love stories to flourish! A twin love story starts at the wedding, Zayed and Dia Mirza being ones to be attracted to each other and Cyrus Sahukar finding his third love in Tisca Chopra.

    Wedding over, the four are back on their respective desks only for Zayed Khan to be conveniently sent to Mumbai for office work while, also conveniently, her suitor, Vaibhav Talwar having to go to Singapore. The seeds of romance, sowed in Chandigarh, take roots as Zayed Khan is taken on a Mumbai Darshan tour by Dia Mirza. For things to fall in place in the end, she puts all her daily sojourns down in a diary which can work out a quick understanding on parts of all concerned and bring the film to a happy end!

    The problem with Love Breakup Zindagi is that it is just another love story with an Indian wedding as the backdrop. Things are held out on a platter for the duo to fall in love, later meet and date at fancy and bring in the third angle only for the brevity sake at the end. There are a few pleasant moments but not enough to carry a routine film with nil face value through.

    Music is fairly good. While Zayed Khan and Dia Mirza are passable, Cyrus Sahukar and Tisca Chopra perform more convincingly; Umang Jain and Anurita Ghosh are good, considering this is their debut film. Vaibhav Talwar, Pallavi Sharda and Satyadeep Misra are okay.

    Love Breakup Zindagi has had no takers at most centres on its opening day and nothing much is expected to change over the weekend.

     

    Soundtrack has limited box office aspirations
     

    Producer:Sanjiv Goenka, Apurv Nagpal.
    Director: Neerav Ghosh.
    Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Soha Ali Khan, Mrinalini Sharma, Mohan Kapoor.

    Soundtrack is inspired from the English film It‘s All Gone Pete Tong, described as a comedy. Soundtrack, however, shows no traces of a comedy and, if at all it had to be slotted in a genre since it does not fit any regular one, it can be slotted into a new genre — weird film.

     

    The film is about a small town lad, Rajeev Khandelwal, who comes to Mumbai gifted with his zeal for music; soon he is a top sound maker on the disco circuit, almost a genius. The success goes to his head and life is all about wine, women and drugs thereafter. However, the profession of loud noises in nightclubs does take its toll on his life; soon he is losing his hearing, thanks to noise and drug abuse and finally he is stone deaf.

    This all had to happen to him just when he was on the verge of getting a break to score a film soundtrack. While the hero lives his life in fast lane, there is his alter ego, dressed as a clown, one never figures out doing what: is he a good impression on the hero or a bad one? Whatever it may be, the alter ego is surely an irritant for the viewer.

    Now the genius is AWOL since he does not want the world to know about his deafness and all sorts of speculations are made about his act; from RJs to DJs to singers and filmy music composers comment on him and his absence. In-between there are slides quoting the greatest composer in history, Beethovan, who also went deaf but continued to compose, conduct and perform after the handicap.

    Ditched by his woman, Rajeev Khandelwal comes to terms with his plight; he meets Soha Ali Khan, a deaf person, who teaches him to lip read as well as to cope with life after deafness. Rajeev Khandelwal descends back to earth, turns into an obedient momma‘s son and overcomes his shortcoming to prove his genius scoring a number his father taught him as a child to present it in public performance.

    Not much credit can be given to writer/director, the source being a foreign film. Musical score is good, fast paced. Rajeev Khandelwal does a good job carrying almost the entire burden of the film. Soha Ali Khan is okay.

    Sountrack is not the kind of film to nurse any box office aspirations.

  • Gillette appoints actor Arjun Rampal as its brand ambassador

    Gillette appoints actor Arjun Rampal as its brand ambassador

    MUMBAI: FMCG Company Gillette India has roped in actor Arjun Rampal as its brand ambassador.

    Gillette that owns brands like Gillette Mach 3 Turbo, Oral-B and Duracell says that Rampal would soon be seen in all the new March3 Turbo sensitive advertisements.

    Says Gillette brand manager Sharat Verma, “Gillette is a market leader in the category and firmly believes in innovation and excellence in performance. The brand is committed to continuously provide the highest quality products to its consumers to make men look and feel their best. Admired, loved and respected globally, we are indeed very proud to associate with Arjun Rampal as our brand ambassador.”

    Adds Rampal, “Gillette is the best brand when it comes to male grooming products. Since grooming has always been essential for me and Gillette being a brand I love and use everyday, the decision to endorse this brand was not difficult to make. It‘s indeed a great honor to be associated with Gillette.”

  • Vivek Oberoi to make perfomance debut in US at Bollywood awards

    MUMBAI: This year’s Bollywood Awards Ceremony to be held on 26 May at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island will see actor Vivek Oberoi performing for the first time in the United States.

    “The Bollywood Group has brought many performers to their fans in the US for the very first time, and we are excited and proud to add Vivek Oberoi to that list,” said Rajiv Dandona, vice president of the Bollywood Awards.

    The performers announced thus far for the awards this year include Akshay Kumar, Vivek Oberoi, Arjun Rampal, Kangana Ranaut, Raghav, and Pakistani actress and singer Shahida Mini. Also attending will be Hollywood’s Danny Glover, Phylicia Rashad, Anupam Kher, Suresh Oberoi, Upen Patel, Rajkumar Hirani, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN.