Advance booking of Om Shanti Om is breaking records

At present Om Shanti Om is releasing in single screen theatres only, and except for Inox, all the other multiplexes have decided not to budge on the demand of Eros demand for more moolah.

The advance bookings of Om Shanti Om open up at a few multiplexes in Delhi like Satyam Cineplexes, MMX Galaxy, Silver City, Movie World, Movie Palace, SM World and M4U.
While bookings at the ticket windows opened only this morning, there have already been bulk bookings for the film prior to this. “Across three properties of Satyam Cineplexes there has already been a booking of 18,000 tickets till Saturday. As of today, the bookings have amounted to Rs 27.30 lakhs,” According to Eros International regional head North India Rajneesh Budhraja.

In Delhi’s single screens like Golcha, Sheila and Vishal, the advance bookings have amounted to Rs 1.64 lakh, Rs 1.52 lakhs and Rs 1.35 respectively. According to Budhraja,It is the highest ever in Delhi.

Sources : http://www.businessofcinema.com/ | http://www.omshantiom.org/

Good News - Pooja Bhatt's Dhokha goes Tax-Free

For all the wrong reasons that Dhokha was marred with, this news comes as a breather for director Pooja Bhatt, that Dhokha has been exempted from tax in Maharashtra and Delhi. Needless to say, that she is on the seventh heaven now. It is indeed a big thing for her considering the fact that the other two films that came out with Dhokha are out of the theatres. When IndiaFM spoke to her about this, a beaming Pooja said, “It’s indeed a great feeling. It is a very big thing for us as the ticket prices getting slashed to almost half will make the film accessible to the masses who need to see and learn from a film like this. We released Dhokha only in the multiplexes, since we could not get the single screens. Aag demanded and commanded more respect from the exhibitors and they gave them a kind of a much better peg, as it had the whole of the industry in it and was also the remake of Sholay.”

She added that Dhokha was not as controversial as Jism, which had a lot more to offer on the surface than Dhokha. Dhokha is more of a story’s film. She considers the ‘Tax-Free’ status as a great validation for the entire unit since they feel that their hard work has finally been paid off.

Looking at the trend of ‘sequels’ mushrooming in the market, when quizzed if she plans to do a sequel to Dhokha, Pooja laughed it off stating that she too busy enjoying the moment and was not in a mood to think anything else. On a lighter note, she added that if ever she was to make a Dhokha Part 2, she will follow the idiot box way and change the face of the actor! If that doesn’t work, then, she will take a cue from her grandfather, who was into the mythological films, and who would ‘transform’ the actors who used to throw tantrums, into animals!

Chak De India: Character Briefs

The Coach: Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan): Once the hero of Indian Hockey, the best Centre forward in the world, the man a nation found a hero in.And the man it sentenced to hell.Now he has decided to make a last comeback to the game heonce loved, to reclaimhis lost honour and prove his point to thenation he still loves.By doing the impossible.Making a rag-tag bunch of loser girls a team.And the World Champions.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Preeti Sabarwal: Preeti went to the best public schools, but on her way to Harvard from there, took a sharp left towards the Punjab University and its hockey team for reasons best known to her. Chandigarh captain, she looks like Princess Leia and plays like the terminator, the only one she's close to is her iPod. Would you then blame the rest of her mostly rural team-mates for calling her mem? She has a secret, but then, that's a secret.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Komal Chautala: The Rohtak Express, also known as chhokra in her village for her tomboyishness,and as chhipkali in her team for her devious dribbling. Born to tough Jats, she has just one regret - that she wasn't born a boy. But she's doing all she can to make up, including not using make-up. Ever.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Bindia Naik: Experience corrupts, and too much experience corrupts completely. A veteran of field positions, federation politics and award manipulations, she could make any team's dirty tricks department proud, if she wasn't the department herself in real life.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Vidya Sharma: Just married. And it already looks like she will have to divorce hockey. She knows this is probably her last tournament but can she give up hockey for marriage?

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Aliyah Bose: Sexy Aliya should have been born in the swinging 70's. The world is a winery of boys and she's the taster-in-chief. And she takes her job very seriously. In spare time she also plays hockey, unfortunately she's good at it, and so year after year, team managers and coaches have tolerated her.

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Gunjan Lakhani: This Hyderabadi potti has seen it all, because she knows when to shut her eyes.Playing with seniors Bindia and Aliya has taught her only one thing - there are more games off the field than on it. And a smart player knows how to stay out to stay in.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Soimoi Kerketa: From Jharkhand Grameen Adivasi Balika Kalyan Kendra Vidyalaya on the edge of Ghamaorni jungle, straight New Delhi. Dicey Hindi and devious English confound her as much as hair-raising roads, blood-curdling cars and monstrous skyscrapers. Not to mention the other creatures around her who call themselves girls. But she knows what to do with a stick and a ball. That she knows.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Nethra Reddy: The grounds-man's little daughter who grew up in stadiums among players, and dreamt of being one herself. All she ever wanted to do was to make her dad proud,and finally, she's an inch away from her dream...

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Morry Zimik & Mary Ralte: They are clubbed as one because that's how they eat, live and behave. Their school books taught them that they are Indians but Indians taught them otherwise.The only reason they play for the national team is that it is the only national team they can play for. They'd love to belong, but not to the team that calls them 'foreign',and definitely not to the people that call them 'loose'. So they stick together and play.For the love of the game, and the honour of their people.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Rani Dipotta: What Soimoi is undergoing now, Rani underwent when she moved from her jungle village to Ranchi Sports School. And that makes her an expert on how to handle the city-breeds, or manhandle them if need be. She knows enough Hindi to offend anyone and enough English to defend herself, especially on the field.

Chak De India: Character Briefs

Gul Iqbal: Hockey legend Zafar Iqbal's grand-daughter. Her family's history is Indian Hockey's history. And nobody ever lets her forget that. Whether she wants it or not.