Every holiday is a Sunday: Prachi Desai

Quite contrary to her sweet girl-next-door image, actress Prachi Desai reveals that she has a super-fun side to her. And the Bol Bachchan actor says that this side of her is out on full show especially on Sundays. “Well, I don’t really have any one day where I go all out to have fun or show that lighter side of me, but yes I have always associated Sundays with having more fun than usual,” says Prachi.

“Even as a kid, Sundays would be the most important days of my life back then, as the day meant getting to play, watch TV and no studies. The simplicity of the holiday is probably what I miss the most today as an actor, as Sundays disappear from our schedules,” adds the actor, elaborating that as an actor there are no weekdays or weekends, only ‘working and non-working days’. “So, naturally any holiday that I get now is automatically a Sunday for me,” she adds.

As for her plans for the day, Prachi reveals that she likes to catch up with her friends and that’s priority for her on her holiday. “I don’t party too much, that’s really not my scene, especially when it comes to attending film bashes, but I do enjoy get-togethers with friends. That’s when I can really let my hair down. So, I enjoy long drives and catching up on a movie. I also don’t mind chilling all day at home, because sometimes after long days of shoots, all you want to do is catch up on your sleep,” adds Prachi.

The actor reveals that she also loves to indulge herself once in a while. “That could be shopping or visiting a spa,” says the actor. Prachi reveals that though she started off her career on TV, she hardly gets any time to watch it these days. “So, on my holiday, I try to watch TV though I tend to gravitate towards movies more than shows,” reveals Prachi.

“I also love listening to music, And since it’s rainy season, if time permits I would love to head out of town. I have grown up in Panchgani and it’s always been so beautiful there, so I often plan to drive down there on Sundays, but then it's always so much to do in that one holiday that travelling is out of the question. But yes, no matter what the day, I do try to make the most of it, and live it to the fullest,” smiles the actor.

Bol Bachchan collects Rs 12.10 cr at Box Office on first day

Director Rohit Shetty's latest movie Bol Bachchan has opened to a very good response at the Box Office in India. The Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan starrer film has raked in Rs 12.10 crores nett at the collection centres across the country on the first day. Its business is expected to grow up in the following days.

Bol Bachchan registered 60% to 70% occupancy in the morning shows in the cinema halls across the country. The movie received very good response in Mumbai circuit, where it had occupancy ranging between 70% and 85%. But its business was affected by the wide release of multilingual movie Eega in the South India.

Meanwhile, it should be said that Punjabi movie Jatt and Juliet, which was released last week, has been still running strong at the Box Office in the North India. Trade analysts opine that this movie has also affected the collection of Bol Bachchan. This movie has turned out to be a big blow on the latter film.

The movie got positive reviews from film critics. In addition to this, the positive feedback from the film goers boosted the collection in the noon shows. Its occupancy grew further in the evening shows. Trade analysts feel that the word of mouth would play a magic in its collection on Saturday and Sunday.

However, Bol Bachchan has got good opening at the International Box Office. The movie, which hit the screens in UAE on Thursday, has collected Rs 1.86 cr (AED1,230,000) in the country in two days. The film, which released on Thursday in Australia, has grossed Rs 30.52 lakhs (A$53,950) in two days. It has collected Rs 8.21 lakhs (NZ$18,578) at the New Zealand Box Office. It has collected Rs 33.68 lakhs (£39,251) from 50 screens at the UK Box Office.

Movie Review: Bol Bachchan

Movie: Bol Bachchan
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Asin, Prachi Desai, Archana Puran Singh, Krushna Abhishek
Director: Rohit Shetty
Genre: Comedy

This one’s strictly for Bollywood junkies whose funny bones are easy to tickle. Yes, Bol Bachchan is a hot air balloon with no air, hot or otherwise. So expect no genuine comic highs.

It is certainly not my cup of lassi, as Prithviraj Raghuvanshi, the “I can talk English, I can walk English’ character played by Ajay Devgn, would say.

But that’s not to say there is nobody in this world that might take a shine to this laboured comic carousel. Good luck to all ye hardy souls!

Director Rohit Shetty, as he switches gears noisily from high-purpose action (Singham) to scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel comedy, pays homage to Hindi cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, but it’s all unalloyed Golmaal (hodgepodge) that only goes round (gol) in circles and delivers no goods (maal) worth the name.

Bol Bachchan borrows its basic premise from the Hrishikesh Mukherjee classic, Golmaal – the story of a man who is forced to rustle up a non-existent mustachioed twin to keep his difficult-to-please employer in good humour – and twists it completely out of recognizable shape with a stretched yarn that has neither the charming spontaneity nor the delicious subtlety of the original.

Along the way, Bol Bachchan alludes to Amitabh Bachchan starrers like Deewar, Parvarish, Kasme Vaade and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. The Big B connection is laid on thick right at the outset with a song-and-dance prelude that has the male leads, Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan, match steps with the one-time one-man industry.

“I’m not in the film, only my name is,” the megastar helpfully tells the camera.

That’s the problem with Bol Bachchan at every level – it only skims the surface of all its sundry inspirations. It rips off a Hrishida film but the legendary touch of the man who made the delectable Golmaal (besides other fine comedies) is conspicuous by its absence.

Rohit Shetty has done his share of Golmaal-mongering over the years and made pots of gold in the bargain. With Bol Bachchan, the idea clearly is to quickly mop up Rs 100 crore at the box office before the audience can cotton on to the ploy. Do narrative niceties really matter in such a scenario? So there.

Abbas Ali (Abhishek Bachchan) is the Ramprasad Sharma of Bol Bachchan. But he is neither a nerd nor a nice guy in the Amol Palekar mould.

Out of work and down on luck, the Delhi boy and his little sister, Sania (Asin Thottumkal), relocate to Ranakpur, a village that looks like it would rather be a dusty city.

In the so-called village, Abbas breaks a temple lock to save a drowning boy. To ward off the ire of the devotees, he assumes a false identity.

Now known as Abhishek Bachchan, he lands a job with the local feudal lord, the aforementioned Prithviraj Raghuvanshi, a muscle-flexing marauder who plays Frisbee with human bodies and has violent bust-ups with a cussed cousin and his henchmen to protect his turf.

Prithviraj’s writ runs in Ranakpur. He detests liars and digs English as it’s spoken in his backyard. ‘English is a funny language: pineapple has neither pine nor apple,” he says, pointing to a birthday cake.

That’s true of the film itself. Bol Bachchan is a funny film where all the fun comes at the expense of the film.

Each time Abbas’ bluff is in danger of being called, he cooks up a new story to save his skin. He talks an ageing mujra dancer, Zohra (Archana Puran Singh), into standing in as his mother when his boss insists on visiting him.

He then spins a yarn about the existence of an effeminate Muslim twin only to have the fictitious guy being promptly hired by Prithviraj as kathak tutor for the latter’s sister Radhika (Prachi Desai).

As the lies multiply and Prithviraj’s English goes from bad to worse (success is the keyhole to saxophone; every penny discounts; your eardrums are playing drums; boy in armpit, hyper city noise pollution, et al), the film dutifully keeps pace with the worsening lunacy.

Bol Bachchan ends the only way it could have – on a see-sawing car dangling from the side of a precipice with the two male leads negotiating long-term peace between their warring families.

The acting is generally so unabashedly hammy that you might be forgiven for wondering whether you have wandered into a pigsty.

Be warned. Bol Bachchan is a comedy so absurd that it could reduce you to tears of despair. Conversely, if you have the stomach for such rampant silliness, it might propel you into paroxysms of delight. The call is entirely yours.

Southern actor Asin Thottumkal wants to reach masses with commercial films

Asin, who featured in Hindi films like London Dreams, Ready and Housefull 2, wants to reach out to the masses with the help of commercial movies.

"I am satisfied with the work I have done till now. These are my initial years in Bollywood and I want to reach out to maximum number of people and only commercial films can help me achieve that," Asin told IANS.

"Creative satisfaction is important for me. Right now I am looking for characters which can give me creative satisfaction within the commercial format," she said.


The 26-year-old made her Bollywood debut in 2008 with Ghajini, a Hindi remake of her own Tamil film of the same name. Before foraying into Bollywood, she was already an established name down south.

She made her Bollywood debut opposite Aamir Khan in Ghajini and in her four years in the industry, she has already featured with actors like Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar.

Now she has Bol Bachchan. Directed by Rohit Shetty, it is coming out Friday.

Asin says her character is down to earth and did not require homework. "Playing Sania was not much of a challenging task for me. A lot of homework or research from my side was not needed. But I have to say that she is the most down to earth and grounded character in the film," she said.

Even though inspired by the 1979 comic flick Gol Maal, Asin says that she had no prior reference for her character and relied purely on the script. "I had nothing to fall back on. I only relied on what was written in the script. The basic idea is that it is inspired from Gol Maal where the females did not have much to do. But it has been rewritten and does not stick to the original. So, I could not rely on the old one and had to go by the script which was written for this movie," she said.

After featuring in three back to back comedies Ready, Housefull 2, Bol Bachchan, the actor clears the air about sticking just to comic roles and says, "It is just a co-incidence" and that she doesn't have "a special affinity towards comedy. But I like doing comedy, especially when I have great co-stars like Ajay and Abhishek Bachchan on my side. It's fun and entertaining but obviously I would like to try out other genres as well," she said.

Bol Bachchan in trouble on eve of release?

According to reports Ashtvinayak Films, the producers of Bol Bachchan, have been declared as defaulters by the Bombay High Court over the non-payment of dues to a well-known film financier Raju Shah. It is reported that after the cheques issued by the Corporate production house bounced, the financier had moved the High Court for relief. Shah has reportedly claimed dues of Rs.41 crores.


The Court has also directed the company to come clean about its business dealings and various rights related to its latest film Bol Bachchan, scheduled for release on 6th July 2012. The film is directed by Rohit Shetty and stars Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan (in double role), Asin, and Prachi Desai. Even Big B has performed a song and dance number in the film. BOL BACHCHAN has been acquired by Fox Star Studios for a whopping price of 72 crores according to trade buzz.

The sources suggest that the release of the film may not be affected at this juncture since on record the film has already been 'delivered' by the processing lab Reliance MediaWorks Ltd. It is a common film industry practice whereby an aggrieved creditor may approach the concerned film lab to block the delivery of the film until his dues are paid. Hectic negotiations are on to settle the matter between the financier and Ashtvinayak Films and work out a compromise formula.

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Bollywood success bashes are just for effect: Ajay Devgn

Ajay Devgn says that celebrations are being held for flop films too now 

 

For your latest, Bol Bachchan, how did Ajay Devgn, the actor-producer of the film, agree to the title which is so quintessentially about another person? No insecurities here?

 
None at all; once you see the film you'll understand what I mean. The characters are very well defined and everyone has their place. Bol Bachchan is apt since it is about this one guy who is trying to con everyone and he keeps giving these bol bachchans. That's where it comes from. As part of the movie's team, when we were discussing the name, I agreed that it was perfect.

What kind of movies do you believe in producing?

 
I feel instinctively about the films I should produce, like Son of Sardar. The film has to be commercial and when I say commercial, I just don't mean masala. Even parallel cinema can be commercial. The point is to make the film run in theatres. We are not in the business of teaching art to the world. We have to entertain the audience.

Last year you'd said in an interview that you want to be a commercial hero. Since the first Golmaal (and all its sequels) Singham and now BB, Rohit Shetty and you seem to have hit upon some kind of winning formula. What is making you two click at the box office?

 
It's repetitive, but it's the understanding that we should make entertaining, commercial films. Both Rohit and I believe in commercial cinema. He just wants to entertain his audience and right now I am also in that mode. I'd rather do films that I don't have to worry about. I have done films like Zakhm which have won National Awards, but nobody comes with a script that great anymore.

Even an acclaimed actor like you worries about the box office success of a film?
Of course, you have to worry about the box office numbers. Otherwise, people are ready to run you down at the slightest chance. When you experiment with roles or genre; you have also to worry about its box office fate.

But doesn't your place in the top six actors of the country justify your choices (of roles) lately?
What you are calling success and wise choices comes with experience. I keep telling some of the younger kids, I wouldn't name them, that they should also attempt the kind of cinema we're doing. This cinema, which comprises out-and-out entertainers, has mostly got 1 or 1.5 stars from critics. But, it's the audience that likes these movies. You have to show your art and talent to them.

As a producer, do you feel jittery when your movies are about to release, even if they are "out-and-out" entertainers? How do you react to box office reactions?

 
Right now I am very happy with Bol Bachchan's hype and also with the response the poster of Son of Sardar has generated. Both films have shaped out well and I hope both are commercial successes. But, I am not hyper about the release. Someone asked Abhishek something similar recently, and he said that on Friday, when the movie releases, you wait for the opening collection, then you wait for the weekend collection, then the first week, the second week, etc, and by that time, you've lost all enthusiasm about it. I just move on after my film releases.

You don't believe in celebrating your movie's success?

 
I've never done that. Those bashes are more for other people. A lot of bashes are held even when a film has flopped. These are just for effect. I've heard people stand in these parties with a drink in their hand and say, 'Yaar mera toh paisa toota hai' , and yet they are celebrating.

You've had quite a busy time lately. How do you avoid getting disconnected from your friends and family?

 
It's most important for me to spend time with family. I've been tied up a bit these past couple of months. I don't shoot on Sundays, for instance. But when you shoot movies back-to-back, you do get disconnected from the outside world. When you go home you're preoccupied. And it's not a great thing. You have to reconnect with some people. My friends understand that. So does my family.

Presented by Fox Star Studios, Ajay Devgn Ffilms and Shree Aashtavinayak cinevision Ltd Bol Bachchan releases on July 6.

Garima Sharma, TNN | Jun 29, 2012, 12.00AM IST