Tag: Vidhya Balan

  • Farhan Akhtar turns jingle writer in ‘Shaadi Ke Side/Effects’

    Farhan Akhtar turns jingle writer in ‘Shaadi Ke Side/Effects’

    MUMBAI: Time and again Farhan Akhtar has caught the fancy of many fans interested in poetry with lyrical lines on the social networking sites. However, in his upcoming film, Shaadi Ke Side/Effects the actor-director-producer plays a struggling musician Sid who takes up the job of a jingle writer-composer to pay his bills.

     

    However, since Farhan loves music and his guitar, the role was special to Farhan and thus he gave a spin to the featured jingles.

     

    Director Saket Chaudhary and the brand team of Skore condoms, an in-film sponsor in Shaadi Ke Side/Effects whose jingle Farhan’s character in the film was supposed to sing in the film, were in for a pleasant surprise when Farhan added his own lines to the jingle. He included the line – ‘I love my mother-in-law!’ referring to Rati Agnihotri who plays Vidya’s mother in the film.

     

    While this part has now been edited out of the film, Producer Rangita Pritish Nandy says: “Watch out for it in the gag-reel at the end of the film!”

     

    She adds: “This was massively funny while we were shooting! The whole unit cracked up and we almost kept it in the film as well but then decided against it. But watch out for it in the gag-reel at the end of the film which also features the reprised version Tauba Mein Pyaar Karke Pachtaya now re-christened Tauba Mein Vyaah Karke Pachtaya!”

     

    Shaadi Ke Side/Effects, produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Pritish Nandy Communications, releases on February 28, 2014.

  • Chaalis Chaurasi nets Rs 13.5 mn at BO

    Chaalis Chaurasi nets Rs 13.5 mn at BO

    MUMBAI: Chaalis Chaurasi has done fair business at single screens and collected Rs 13.5 million over the opening weekend.

    Ghost has netted Rs 14 million during its first weekend while Sadda Adda‘s collections remained poor.

    Players, the first of the three-film structural deal project between Viacom18 and Wave, has proved a debacle all around. Though Rs 360 million had been paid till the film’s delivery by Wave, the cut off recovery target was set at Rs 260 million with the balance amount to be treated as advance. Wave is said to have recovered about Rs 90 million by selling circuits excluding Delhi-UP, Punjab and Bombay.

    The heist film has been able to collect a mere Rs 216 million in its first week. As things stand after the film’s poor show, Viacom 18 is reported to have offered Vidhya Balan starrer Kahani to Wave for nil consideration as compensation.

    Don 2 has added Rs 50.5 million in its third week to take its total to Rs 1.08 billion.

    Ladies Vs Rikcy Bahl‘s collections at the end of five week reached Rs 342 million.

    The Dirty Picture collected Rs 50 million in its sixth week to take its total to Rs 830 million.