New Delhi: “Are we a virgin?” asked a new singer in Mani Ratnam’s ‘Dil Se’ to Shah Rukh Khan. And usually like SRK had roughly choked on his food during that doubt in a film, a viewers were forced to get adult and take notice of a immature zesty Preity Zinta.

Back in 1998, Preity’s entrance opening in ‘Dil Se’ came as a exhale of uninformed air. The girl, who was a famous face on TV interjection to her appearances in several ads, looked real. And even yet she stranded to simple blurb cinema and did films like ‘Soldier’, ‘Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega’ and a likes, Preity’s picture as a bubbly lady subsequent doorway finished her one of a renouned heroines of a early 2000s. Even in a required roles, there was something about her that all of us could describe to. She wasn’t a common Hindi film heroine.

She spoke her mind, stood adult opposite a strong underworld by testifying during a Bharat Shah box and even certified that she had perceived hazard calls from a underworld, something that many of her colleagues in a film attention were frightened to admit. Hailed as a usually ‘Man in a film industry’, Preity’s honest proceed to many things ghastly finished her mount out from a herd. Few films with a industry’s large daddy’s – Karan Johar and Yash Chopra, some blockbuster hits like ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’, ‘Koi Mil Gayaa’ and ‘Veer Zara’ and it seemed there was no looking behind for this Shimla girl.

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  Bollywood stars came in full assemblage to hearten their crony Preity Zinta on her quip film ‘Ishkq In Paris’.

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  Preity Zinta and Rhehan Malliek poise for a shutterbugs during a special screening.

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  Abhishek Kapoor and Kangana Ranuat during ‘Ishkq In Paris’ special screening.

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  Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar during a film’s screening.

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  Dino Morea, Kangana Ranaut and Anil Kapoor poise for a shutterbugs during a film’s screening.

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  Esha Deol and her father Bharat Takhtani make their approach to a film’s screening.

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  Zaheer Khan and Niharika Khan poise for a shutterbugs during a film’s screening.

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  Rhehan Malliek, Preity Zinta and Prem Soni during a film’s special screening.

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  Sophie Choudry looks superb during a film’s screening.

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  Anil Kapoor and Preity Zinta during a film’s screening.

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  Mugdha Godse looks glamourous in a dress during a film’s screening.

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  Preity Zinta looks beautiful in a pinkish dress during a screening of a film.

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  Anil Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut hail any other during a film’s screening.

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  Sunny Deol, who has worked with Preity Zinta in few films, was also benefaction during a screening.

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  ‘Chashme Baddoor’ singer Taapsee Pannu during a film’s screening.

Preity Zinta’s contemporaries and even her seniors are now solemnly treading a trail unknown.

But somewhere, during that dream run, something went wrong. Movies started unwell during a Box-Office, her IPL group got into controversies and roughly got criminialized from a tournament, and Preity’s personal life became provender to fill adult report columns of tabloids. The proud Zinta’s discerning rebuttal on all issues underneath a object became less.

When she announced her lass prolongation venture, ‘Ishkq In Paris’- her fans hoped to see their favourite singer behind on a shade with a same mutation that they have compared her to all these years. But during a time when new kind of stories are being narrated in Hindi cinema, adhering to a stereotypical adore story was maybe not a best thought to make a quip in a film industry.

From flaws in a script, to fallacious underling plots, Preity’s come behind venture, that she had co-written with executive Prem Raj, is a disturbance to contend a least. Stuck in time, Preity seemed to have played a same bubbly chirpy lady that she has always been personification on a large screen. Sure during 23 it matched her, though during 37 it looked forced.

Her contemporaries and even her seniors are now solemnly treading a trail unknown. Kareena has finished a ‘Heroine’, Rani has attempted to come out of a comfort section in ‘Bombay Talkies’ and even Sridevi finished a conspicuous impact as Sashi in ‘English Vinglish’. The assembly has been receptive to all new kinds of films and roles.

In an try to hang to her comfort zone, Preity’s quip try has incited out to be a hurriedly put together film comprising of elements from other blockbuster films. But a Hindi film assembly has come a prolonged approach given a final time Preity finished an coming as a lead in a film (it was in 2008 in a film called ‘Heroes’) and a singer is clearly not wakeful of that.

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Indian cinema, now imprinting a centenary, is not synonymous with “Bollywood”, a tenure practical to Hindi-language renouned cinema from Mumbai (formerly Bombay).

India also offers productions in informal languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri and Bengali, and “art cinema” – whose best-known filmmaker is Satyajit Ray – in several languages. There is “independent cinema” catering to English-speaking civil audiences, and a “B category” cinema in Hindi, producing films shown especially in a tiny towns of northern India and mostly featuring elements of fear and magic.

Still another difficulty is “diaspora cinema” constructed around a world, in English by filmmakers such as Mira Nair (The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2013) and Deepa Mehta (Midnight’s Children, 2012).

The art cinemas in several Indian languages, carrying grown adult in partial interjection to state sponsorship, are sincerely comparison in concerns and form.

But India’s several renouned cinemas are not all alike, and a differences among them are not limited to language. They residence opposite identities; a denunciation communities infrequently comparison inhabitant boundaries, as when Tamil cinema is followed avidly in Malaysia.

“Bollywood” is a recent, tellurian appellation, though mainstream Hindi cinema attempted to residence inhabitant concerns even underneath colonial rule.

Hindi films’ theme matter and diagnosis have constantly evolved, reflecting changes in amicable and domestic concerns.

In a early days, Hindi films addressed people opposite a country, many of whom knew small Hindi. So they limited their wording to a handful of difference – such as love, justice, good, bad, burglar and kill. Consequently, bargain a Hindi film is intensely simple.

These films authorised people opposite a immeasurable domain to feel that they were partial of one nation. They assisted in formulating a clarity of nationhood. These films also had a transparent dignified discourse, ancillary honesty, loyal adore and regard for a poor.

By addressing open concerns, Hindi cinema done itself political, though never categorically so. Rather, it couched domestic concerns in a denunciation of myth. Its process was allegorical and covert.

Its many successful directors were those closest in sensibility to a assembly – Raj Kapoor and Mehboob Khan, rather than auteurs such as Guru Dutt and Bimal Roy – and they common a same concerns, subconsciously. But unfamiliar audiences could also describe to Hindi cinema, nonetheless customarily as undying parables rather than as tracts impending to stream affairs.

Hindi cinema grown a denunciation that depended on a philosophical preoccupations of a subcontinent. Rather than understanding with individuals, it dealt with archetypes and stereotypes, and these came to paint a domestic entities and players of a time.

At pivotal moments in complicated Indian history, new motifs appear.

During colonial rule, amicable scientists suggest, a Indian open suffered from a predicament of masculinity; this finds thoughtfulness in Hindi cinema in a design of a diseased male – and a converse, a clever woman. Devdas (1935), for instance, is about a diseased immature man, his authoritarian father, a clever lady he can't marry since of family compulsions, and his skirmish into alcoholism.

In a initial films after independence, policemen and judges, who had come to paint a dignified management of a state, acquired a new gravitas. The courtroom became dedicated as a place where law can't be denied. A implicitly imperfect decider can himself be indicted in justice (Awaara, 1951).

Lawyers also began to spin up, representing a politically absolute category – many of India’s new leaders were lawyers.

Another design of significance is a rich-poor divide, that appears strongly after 1950.

Until that year, primary apportion Jawaharlal Nehru’s domestic skeleton had faced antithesis within a Congress from another critical leader, Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

But he died in 1950 and after his death, Nehru went forward with his revolutionary programme – that translated on to Hindi-cinema screens as a need for a abounding to caring for a bad (in, for example, Amar, 1954).

Nehru wanted a complicated India, though traditionalists were heedful of such changes. The churned feelings towards modernisation were reflected in dual motifs, “good modernity” represented by a alloy (as in Baazi, 1951) and “bad modernity” by a gambler, a nightclub and western-style dance.

Also critical in this duration was a idea of a city, as an button of Nehruvian modernity. If a city is a reason for confidence in Aar Paar (1954), it also has disastrous connotations as in Barsaat (1949) and Kala Bazar (1960).

Other motifs of significance embody secularism, that becomes poignant in films as early as 1943 when it became clear that Hindus and Muslims would have to live together in eccentric India (Humayun, 1945).

Then came agrarian disturbance and land remodel in a 1950s (Mother India, 1956). Also critical is a only mother, who became a cinematic button of a republic (as in Awaara, 1951, and Mother India, 1956).

As might be expected, a rising stars who populated these films had personalities and images that assistance them seem as applicable amicable types. Ashok Kumar, for instance, played a androgynous favourite before 1947 (in Azad, 1940), while Dilip Kumar portrayed a male impressed by existential leisure in the1950s (in Babul, 1950).

Dev Anand was a implicitly changeable figure not given to scruples though who still reforms (in Baazi, 1951). Raj Kapoor grown his character, on a basement of Chaplin’s Tramp (in Shri 420, 1955), as a bad male who recognises a crime in society. Hindi cinema has always been patriarchal; a many critical womanlike star was Nargis, who played a eccentric woman/mother in a late 1940s and 1950s (as in Andaz, 1949).

A duration of good confidence for India non-stop in 1950, and a renouned Hindi cinema took adult a charge of addressing a complicated eccentric republic in earnest.

But all that finished in 1962, with India’s better in a Sino-Indian War. After that, Hindi cinema retreated into amicable unresponsiveness for several years. Escapist party – gadgets, unfamiliar locations and glorious – flourished.

The climb of Indira Gandhi around 1970 was a subsequent critical impulse for Hindi cinema, that responded to her code of populist radicalism. A pivotal origination in this duration is a “Angry Young Man” as played by Amitabh Bachchan (Deewar, 1975).

Hindi cinema maybe began to shelter from a socio-political duty after 1991-92 when India deserted socialism and embraced a giveaway market. After this, Hindi cinema starts to understanding exclusively with a abounding (as in Hum Aapke Hain Koun…!, 1994).

Patriotism destined outward a republic (Border, 1998) replaces intra-national mercantile dispute (Damini, 1992) as thematic content.

Gradually, after that, Hindi renouned cinema incited into a Bollywood we know, a tellurian artefact addressing non-resident South Asians most some-more than it speaks to farming Indians.

The globalisation of India has separate a republic as never before and while an English-speaking civic category has risen, a farming open has been left behind. This means that Bollywood has also divided, so that some films applaud element enrichment (Three Idiots, 2009) while others defend feudal virtues (Dabangg, 2010).

The arise of Salman Khan as a tip star can be accepted as a insurgency of rural/semi-urban India to global/anglophone India.

Bollywood has been hugely successful economically, though one envisages a destiny for it as a tellurian brand, with usually limited connectors to a Indian nation, only as Coca-Cola is currently a tellurian brand, no longer alone American.

 

MK Raghavendra is a author of Seduced by a Familiar: Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema, and 50 Indian Film Classics

Cannes is all about stargazing on a red runner and 100 years of Indian cinema has incited into 100 years of Bollywood, contend Onir Co. There’s income for a 4 crore starry jubilee during Cannes, though behind home, there aren’t many theatres for a festival-hopping films. onir lashes out during a double standards in India

Bollywood celebs might be preening on a Cannes red carpet, though behind home, many festival films never get a correct release. Onir, who was instrumental in starting Save Indie Films during Cannes final year, lashes out conflicting a enlightenment of celeb worship, a travails of indie filmmakers and how 100 years of Indian cinema is branch into 100 years of Bollywood. Excerpts:

The jubilee of 100 years of Indian cinema is grabbing eyeballs during Cannes. But all we see is Bollywood…
The Hindi film attention comprises 25% of Indian cinema, though strangely, films from no other attention was suspicion good adequate to be taken to Cannes. Also, around 4-6 crore is splurged on an India night during Cannes. Why do we need such a PR practice when a films comparison for Cannes don’t even get a correct release? Miss Lovely, that competed in a Un Certain Regard final year — a territory aloft than Directors’ Fortnight where Gangs of Wasseypur was screened — is nonetheless to recover in India. The same binds loyal for Peddlers (2012). Does a Ministry, while supporting budgets, ever check after if a films are releasing? Just being to Cannes is not adequate when all of India is deprived of examination a movie.

You’ve been espousing a means of indie films for long…
World over, cinema is deliberate a youngest form of art. Strangely, in India, it comes underneath a IB ministry, not art and culture. As filmmakers, we are denied any advantage that an artist enjoys. In France or even in Hollywood, some of a best films come from a eccentric space. In France, whenever permit is given to a multiplex, it becomes imperative for them to haven one shade for eccentric cinema. Whatever taxation is lifted from a film, goes behind into cinema supports that unite eccentric films. Here, what does a state do, solely for organizing parties? NFDC, when it was conceived, was meant to build theatres among other things. Today, it has a lot of films fibbing with it, that no one gets to see since they are expelled in, say, 4 theatres. Until recently, they did not even have a account routine for imitation and announcement (PA). It’s ridiculous! Instead of creation 14 films a year, make seven. Keep a rest to emanate theatres in smaller cities. See, supervision has a money, it’s all bulls**t when they contend they don’t. It’s 100 years of cinema and there’s not one entertainment in Andaman and Nicobar. NFDC said, ‘We are thinking’. Why can’t we open a film bar in Kashmir? All that’s indispensable is a giveaway venue to engage people. You’ll afterwards also emanate an assembly that’s not bustling pelting stones. Now, unexpected we have Cannes. Hundreds of officials are going to a festival on taxpayers’ income — doing what? What’s their grant to Indian cinema? How many Indian films get sole for general distribution? Today, we need to emanate a film culture, where we don’t have to desire people to give us space. Let’s emanate Goa Film Bazar in such a approach that a whole universe comes there to buy Indian films.

Bollywood doesn’t doesn’t lift a voice ever…
Anyone can go to a marketplace in Cannes and explain to have walked a red carpet. Big deal! It’s a joke. Cannes, for most, is a holiday destination. Why should people from a Hindi film attention complain, when their business focuses on India and NRIs? Cannes is usually an appendage for them. People who get influenced are those who know Cannes was once deliberate a dedicated space for good cinema. Today, Indian tourism is huge. Suddenly Bollywood is apropos a centrepoint, not Indian cinema. If a Marathi singer wins a National Award, no one will know her name. The concentration will be on Parineeti Chopra, who gets a special mention. People are articulate about Mallika Sherawat… we are unapproachable that she is wearing good clothes, though what is her grant to Indian cinema? Has anyone seen a sketch of Ritesh Batra, whose Lunch Box is a many talked about Indian film during Cannes this year? No one knows what other films have left to a festival exclusive Bombay Talkies, which boasts of directors like Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap. At a International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, where 100 years of Indian cinema was celebrated, a dance series was choreographed by Saroj Khan. Neither Satyajit Ray nor Adoor Gopalakrishnan get a 10-second representation. we have zero conflicting a film, though Bombay Talkies has a strain in a finish featuring actors usually from a Hindi industry. Sorry, it’s 100 years of Indian cinema, not 100 years of Bollywood. Even a Tamil attention is huge, so because was it that a Kamal Haasan or a Rajinikanth were not partial of a dance?

Did anything come out of a criticism a day brazen of a National Film Awards this year?
After it, Doordarshan has given a 10 pm container for a ‘Best of Indian cinema’, that will uncover National Award-winning films right from 2000 and those that have finished it to 16 listed film festivals. For a screening, a films will get 15 lakh as conflicting an progressing 5 lakh. If there’s a premiere, it will get 25 lakh. It’s a tiny step brazen — though a step nonetheless. But there’s still no space for docus and brief films. Take for example, a box of Ashvin Kumar. Who has seen his Inshallah Football, Inshallah Kashmir? Nobody. They are an critical discourse with a people of Kashmir. A day after a National Award, IB apportion Manish Tiwari announced that Madhavrao Theatre in Delhi will be converted into a heart for eccentric cinema. When Tagore’s centenary was celebrated, a routine was finished that any state collateral in a nation will have a Rabindra Bhavan/ Rabindra Sadan as a centre of behaving arts. As Indian cinema turns 100, because can’t we have a same? The supervision is spending 300 crore on replacement of aged prints. Who is going to watch them? Something has to be finished about display these films. Also, cinema has to be in a non-political bulletin space, so that a Parzania or a Firaaq doesn’t get criminialized in Gujarat. Once a bury house passes a film, no one should be means to stop it. we also have issues with a approach immature filmmakers are kept out of decision-making. Why can’t adult films be shown during 11 pm? It’s a problem of parenting. Nothing in newspapers, mags, internet or TV is censored, so because films?

The bury house seems to have evolved. Bombay Talkies got a U/A certificate notwithstanding a happy theme, since we had to onslaught for 6 months with I Am…
Even then, we had to undo a lick between dual men. we was told that dual group looking during any other romantically is not good for children to watch. we asked them to give it to me in essay as what they pronounced was conflicting a law. Delhi High Court had already decriminalized happy sex. It’s fine for children to watch Ghajini, violence, murder, though they can’t start a routine of usurpation homosexuality? But Bombay Talkies got a U/A certificate with a lick straightaway. This discriminates conflicting films that don’t go to a mainstream space. Or has a bury house altered in one year?

So, we feel discriminated against?
I Am, notwithstanding a U/A certificate and a National Awards, has no satellite! My Brother Nikhil doesn’t have a satellite anymore! It will not be shown even on World AIDS Day! I’m told there’s no assembly for it. At a Delhi screening, there was a packaged audience. Illinois University is celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema and they’ll be screening My Brother Nikhil and I Am in November. But within a country, there’s no awareness. Public memory is really short. There’s small gender attraction within a industry. What are object songs? If a tip singer refuses an object song, there are 10 others replacing her. The concentration is on group and women are replaceable. We are not in a nation where a Julia Roberts can direct a arrangement a same as a tip actors. Here, it’s critical for a singer to know who she is expel opposite.

Bombay Talkies is being praised as a initial blurb film with a happy theme, display dual group sealed in a kiss… My Brother Nikhil (2005) was a mainstream film whose executive protagonist was gay. I Am was most bolder. Though independent, my films are mainstream, my actors are mainstream. People have not usually lost a lick in I Am though also a fact that it came during a time when a nation was debating Section 377. we remember being on a speak uncover during a Delhi High Court judgment, a church clergyman told me, ‘We’ll move we on a right path’. Another minority village personality said, ‘You are a pollution’. But my films don’t have Dostana-type characters. They are about happy people, though their lives don’t revolve around their sexuality. What we favourite about Zoya’s film is there a boy, who wants to dress adult as a girl, tells his sister something like, ladki hona kya bura hai? But either it’s a structure or a content, Bombay Talkies is zero new.

TAG: Diana Penty, Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in Cocktail, a film was partly shot and set in Cape Town.

INDIAN cinema proudly celebrates 100 years in 2013. This iconic film industry, that produces some-more than 800 films a year in several Indian languages, has entertained audiences charity a accumulation of film-making styles with a low-pitched musical measure during a heart of roughly each film.

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival a largest fortuitous from a Indian film courtesy to date are present. Vidya Balan (Parineeta, Dirty Picture) is portion as a jury member.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan was there to paint a courtesy and to symbol his coming in a Hollywood film The Great Gatsby.

Bachchan is filled with regard for rising Indian film-makers.

“I feel good since they are really capable, doing a good pursuit and all of them are relocating in a right direction.”

From a time Raja Harishchandra was filmed in 1913, song was always an essential aspect of a storytelling technique. It seemed an unavoidable choice for film-makers as early cinema decorated stories formed on Hindu mythology that contained many poems set to music.

Cut to benefaction day, and mainstream Bollywood cinema, that has turn a buttress of a industry, still uses song to good effect. While a character of song has really changed, mostly being shabby by tellurian trends and audiences’ seductiveness in Western music, a film-making character has also been shabby in identical fashion.

Generally concurred as a Golden Age of Hindi cinema, a 1940s to1960s featured many critically and commercially acclaimed films like Awaara, Kagaz Ke Phool, Madhumati, and Pyaasa. The latter is listed in Time magazine’s 100 best films of all time.

Mother India, destined by Mehboob Khan in 1957, decorated a predicament of farming farmers in a arise of India’s industrialisation. It was a initial Indian film to be nominated in a Best Foreign Film difficulty during a Oscars.

Actors like Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt and Balraj Sahni valid their eagerness and their womanlike counterparts like Nargis, Madhubala and Vyjanthimala stood their belligerent with equally shining performances.

Many films reflected amicable themes, depicting a life of working-class India. It was a time when equal courtesy was paid to character and substance.

Between a 1960s and early 1970s intrigue took centre stage, presumably as a outcome of amicable norms changing slightly. In a film Julie in 1975, a initial on-screen lick was shown in a Hindi film. Prior to this, when it came to a large moment, lovers hid behind a tree or a camera cut to an capricious shot of flowers blooming.

Stars such as Dharmendra, Biswajeet and Shashi Kapoor were a regretful heroes of a era. But in a 1960s it was positively Shammi Kapoor who wore a crown, usually to be transposed as aristocrat by Rajesh Khanna in a 1970s.

Thousands of fans used to group around them when they done a open appearance. But nothing of a acclamation could be surfaced when a mythological Bachchan seemed on a china screen. The tall, dim and large actor with his particular baritone voice swept each lady off her feet and had group imitating his heading hip sways in song scenes. He was a strange “angry immature man”, his several characters fundamentally waging fight opposite an unfair system. Bachchan was means to comparison this image, showcasing his ability and excelling equally during comedy and drama. In 1999 he was voted Star of a Millenium in a BBC online poll.

After a 1970s there was a pierce to furnish together art-type films with some-more substance. Directors like Shyam Benegal, Saeed Mirza, and Govind Nihalani offering a opposite viewpoint and character of film-making, mostly being hailed during film festivals worldwide.

Actors like Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil worked effectively in both styles of cinema and in English-language films as well. The gifted Anupam Kher was recently seen to good outcome in The Silver Linings Playbook.

The moniker Bollywood, by a way, was presumably coined by Amit Khanna, a former lyricist, in a late 1970s. He is now conduct of a Indian-owned Reliance Entertainment, that finances a films constructed by Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg’s company.

From a mid-1990s a complicated character of film-making emerged with a new call of directors, heavily shabby by a changing India, bringing a exhale of uninformed atmosphere to internal cinema. Directors like Farhan Akhtar, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar, Anurag Basu, Rajkumar Hirani and others done a good symbol with films like Dil Chahta Hai, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (it’s been personification for a record violation 18 years in Mumbai), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Barfi and 3 Idiots.

Actors like Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan became inclusive producers as well. Aamir’s Lagaan was nominated for best design in a unfamiliar film difficulty during a Oscars. Shahrukh has turn a tellurian fable with a fibre of box bureau hits.

Women have also lifted their form in a party courtesy with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Balan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif, among others, receiving most commend for their performances.

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