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First weeks get bigger, better; In fact, Bollywood’s man of the moment @BeingSalmanKhan’s #Bodyguard is reportedly the first Hindi film…!

Tanvi Trivedi, TNN | Sep 15, 2011
Once, garnering ` 50 crore in the first week collection of a B-Town blockbuster seemed like an impossible feat to achieve.

Today, hitting the 50-crore mark comes easy to Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Ajay Devgn and their ilk - superstars whose 2011 flicks have grossed the 50k mark and then some more. In fact, Bollywood’s man of the moment Salman Khan’s Bodyguard is reportedly the first Hindi film to have netted the fastest ` 100 crore collection in its first week, going on to add another ` 10-11 crore in the next three days and counting. Before that came Rohit Shetty’s Singham that earned around ` 50 crore, Zoya Akhtar’s urban bromance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, ` 45 crore, Ready, directed by Anees Bazmee collected ` 68 crore in the first week itself.
Guess what are the formula(s) no.1 for ensuring big bucks in the first week of a film’s release?

Filmmaker Rohit Shetty who has hit gold with his Golmaal franchise and Singham, feels that the kind of films he makes, caters to almost 80-90 per cent of the audience in the country. He says, “My budgets are too high to take a risk with my film. You can’t make ` 60 crore films with someone who is not a saleable star. An entertaining film does not have a hit formula today but the first week collections are guaranteed only with a saleable star like Salman or Ajay, and the script is always larger-than-life. That’s how it works.”

Opening score
Bodyguard : 101.45 crore
Ready : 68 crore
Singham : 50 crore
ZNMD : 45 crore
Double dhamaal : 45 crore
Delhi Belly : 36.5 crore
Murder-2 : 36 crore

With giant budgets for promotions and publicity of films, a film is treated like a ‘product’ when it hits the market. Says trade analyst Komal Nahta, “The initial hype created about the film and festivals are great audience pullers for a film. When you are releasing a film during Eid or Diwali, the number of people hungry for entertainment is many folds more. Also the initial bombardment of the film promotions on the viewers is so strong that a film belonging to the three Khans is definitely going to be seen once. It has all to do with excellent promotions, entertaining film with hit music and a festival release.” But filmmakers disagree that a film works because of its publicity.

As Bollywood’s BO collections get bigger and better, we wonder what kind of returns will soon-to-release biggies like David Dhawan’s Rascals (Sanjay Dutt-Kangna Ranaut-Ajay Devgn), Farhan Akhtar’s Don 2 (Shah Rukh Khan-Priyanka Chopra), Anubhav Sinha’s Ra.One (Shah Rukh Khan-Kareena Kapoor), Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar (Ranbir Kapoor-Nargis Faqkri), Shreeram Raghvan’s Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan-Kareena), Anurag Basu’s Barfee (Ranbir-Priyanka Chopra-Ileana), Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger (Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif), Priyadarshan’s Tezz (Ajay Devgn-Anil Kapoor), Maneesh Sharma’s Ladies Vs Ricky Behl (Ranveer Singh-Anushka) promise! Will they reach the 150 crore or better still even the 200 crore club and create new highs for blockbusters?
Excerpt frm: TOI

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Salman's big return

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It was believed that Salman will return to India only in January after shooting for YRF’s Ek Tha Tiger. But we are the first ones to inform you that Salman will be in India by the end of this month to shoot a couple of episodes for Bigg Boss season 5. After shooting for the reality show he will fly back and complete the film’s shoot.

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Salim Khan On Salman Khan; @BeingSalmanKhan is back to doing what he loves most…! God Bless Salman Bro nd His Fam<3!!

September 14, 2011
After painful surgery in the US, Salman Khan is back to doing what he loves most – shooting. So he’s back on the sets of Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin. Khan was suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia, a nerve disorder that caused intense pain in his face. “The actor is back facing the arc lights. He is enjoying facing the camera and shooting in full swing for Ek Tha Tiger in Dublin,” says our source.
But the actor will have to return to the US for a check-up three months later. Salim Khan told us, “I am constantly in touch with Salman as well as the doctors, and they have told me that he may have to have minor surgery if there is a problem. He is fine now.”
Salim Khan adds, “People were not aware that there was a disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia. Many were not aware that there was a cure. With Salman’s disease receiving wide coverage, people are now aware of this. Earlier, people thought such pain was caused by a toothache that would make the nerves go numb. I hope this helps people to be more careful in future.”
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Hazel Keech: 'Salman's very sensitive'









By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, Sept. 15 -- While Salman Khan-starrer Bodyguard was being shot, it created headlines for an unexpected reason - the action star's link-up with co-actor Hazel Keech. The half-British, half-Indian Hazel played Kareena Kapoor's best friend, Maya, in the film, and was dubbed as the 'new girl' in Salman's life. But Hazel isn't perturbed, saying, "I did read those stories. At first, they were funny, so there's no need to comment on rumours."
But Hazel accepts that her beefy co-star helped her during the filming, saying, "Salman was my mentor during Bodyguard, giving me tips on various aspects of the film. It was nice to have someone like him advising a newcomer like me. He is a very sensitive and kind human being."
The model-turned-actor has been offered numerous scripts post-Bodyguard, and says, "Talks are on, but I haven't signed anything yet. Life has been extremely busy after Bodyguard. It feels nice to be in demand."
Born to an Indian mother and British father, Hazel began her on-screen career making cameos in three of the Harry Potter movies. "I did the second (Chamber of Secrets), third (Prisoner of Azkaban) and fourth (Goblet of Fire) installments when I was in school. I played Harry's friend, and was in Gryffindor," she says, adding that she was acting even before becoming a model.
As for her desi accomplishments, she acted in the 'Kahin Pe Nigahen...' music video, besides doing television commercials and the Tamil blockbuster, Billa (2007). Ask if she looks up to someone like Katrina Kaif, who's had a similar journey in Bollywood, and she says: "I really admire the kind of hard work people like Katrina put in, but I don't really look up to anyone. It's great that such people are setting good examples for other actors like me."

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Sallubhai superstar; The massive success of #Bodyguard has confirmed @BeingSalmanKhan as a phenomenal star…!

Rachel Dwyer | September 15, 2011
The massive success of Bodyguard has confirmed Salman Khan as a phenomenal star, surpassing even his record-breaking Dabangg. Academics and journalists have discussed Aamir Khan’s extraordinary talent as a producer and marketer as well as his risk-taking selection of roles as an actor, and Shah Rukh Khan’s rockstar qualities, which could launch him internationally if he wasn’t busy getting on with being so successful in India.
But we seem to have forgotten Salman, the third of the trio of Khans that were part of the shift from ‘Hindi cinema’ to ‘Bollywood’ in the 1990s and its rehabilitation among India’s metropolitan elites.
It’s commonplace to think that Hindi cinema belongs in the metro multiplex, in India or overseas, on the internet and DVD, and is part of a huge and powerful media network, recognised as the vanguard of India’s soft power.
Parallel to this, it sometimes seems as if the old Hindi cinema of the lower classes and the working class male disappeared in the late 90s, as the industry scrambled to follow Yash Raj’s ‘glamorous realism’ — a vision of modernising India — currently celebrating its 40th anniversary though tracing its roots back to a more middle class Hindi cinema of the 1930s.
Salman is here to remind us that another type of cinema hasn’t gone away.
Govinda, whose brilliance as an entertainer, dancer and comedian shines in films that present us with what Ashis Nandy called “the slum’s eye view of India” — depictions of the poor and their fantasies of the rich. Hugely popular, it is significant that his comeback film was the blockbuster, Partner (2007) co-starring Salman.
The movie presents us with the worldview that is less of the slum than of the lower stratum of the new middle classes, which are rising in small towns and metropolises.
Salman, whose stardom was inaugurated more than 20 years ago as Prem of the Barjatyas, has taken a wide range of roles from those in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Khamoshi and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to the good guy in films such as BR Chopra’s Baghban, took on a more fixed star persona as a comic hero, whereas his latest roles involve far more action — in the style of superstar Rajinikanth.
His more recent characters have memorable names such as Chulbul Pandey and Lovely Singh, perhaps chosen precisely to distinguish them from Salman Khan the star.
In his last few films, a new star persona has evolved, which is closely linked to Salman’s off-screen image. His muscular, shaven physique is now adopted by all the stars, but remains central to the male working class ideal of the body. Salman is willing to parody his famed removal of his shirt to display his torso — an essential part of his screen image.
His roles as a lower class guy pick up his offscreen persona as a man of the people — Sallu and Salmanbhai to his fans — despite his famous family and considerable wealth.
He is not an international figure, the transnational Indian, who wears western designer gear and is as at home in London and NYC as he is in Bombay and Delhi. Salman dresses in an Indian style, with earrings, bracelet, bright clothes and patchwork designs. He lives in the same building as his parents where he grew up, and, though a Muslim, participates in the Ganpati festival.
He is seen as a local boy from Bandra, which itself has shifted its dominant image from a Catholic suburb, via Beverley Hills, to the boho media hub of today.
Salman’s star persona embodies many of the values of the lower middle classes. After girlfriend troubles, the black buck hunting case, and the American Express Bakery incident, many thought that his image was tarnished forever.
However, Salman has virtues that are much admired by his fans, like his devotion to his family and his generosity towards his friends and people who work for him. He is known to pay medical bills, gift expensive watches and make other extravagant gestures.
He is not seen as an intellectual, less rational than emotional, who expresses himself in painting and is a child at heart, protected by his family.
Dabangg, a brilliant and hugely entertaining film set in small town UP, is a romance between a Brahmin policeman and a potter woman. It’s a movie where the hero’s widowed mother has remarried, family members steal each other’s money and the drunken father of the heroine kills himself. It is a curiously unethical film with no admirable figure or sense of morality.
All these strange features are part of the film’s experimenting with Bollywood’s unique form to find a new way of regenerating itself. It’s a film obsessed with textual reference from older Hindi films, not least its stars (Dimple, Vinod Khanna) and the ghostly presence of Shatrughan Sinha — through his daughter who even uses his catchphrase, ‘Khamosh!’ — as well as a host of international films (from Ghost, The Incredible Hulk to The Matrix), as well as to fiction (A Case Of Exploding Mangoes).
A series of set pieces of action and comedy is interspersed with catchy item songs as undeveloped characters wander in and out of the story.
There is only a brief escape from the dystopia of Laalgunj, whose institutions are all corrupt and useless, for a honeymoon to the UAE, where the couple fly falcons, dune bash, take the metro and the great romantic scene in the luxury suite cuts to a fluttering UAE flag.
Perhaps this is a nod to Salman’s huge fanbase in the Gulf.
The success of Ready and Bodyguard shows that Salman’s star persona and cult remain rock solid over the decades, however much the cinema and India have changed. It’s just that the rest of us only noticed it when he came back with Dabangg.
(Rachel Dwyer is professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The views expressed by the author are personal)
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