It’s been a great week in Bollywood this far. Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh’s Padmaavat released on January 25, but the week gone by was spent celebrating its success and the huge box office collections in India and abroad. The film crossed the Rs 150 crore mark in India by Wednesday itself, inching closer to the coveted 200. It is doing phenomenally well in the worldwide markets as well and is all set to beat Dangal and Baahubali 2 and PK in Australia, by becoming the only fourth Indian film to have crossed the A$ 2 million mark.
The lead stars of the film are obviously in news but Shahid Kapoor made heads turn when he and his wife Mira took to the ramp on the first day of Lakme Fashion Week 2018, making a ramp debut as a couple for designer Anita Dongre. The two looked gorgeous and a couple right out of a fairy tale. Shahid and Mira were continuously talking, laughing and also did a little dancing on the ramp, regaling the onlookers. The pictures have been going viral ever since.
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Another couple had made headlines this week was Sonam Kapoor and businessman beau Anand Ahuja. There is a renewed buzz that the two are getting married in June 2018. The families are currently deciding on the venue and mulling over a destination wedding. Whatever is decided, we are sure that this will be one big fat Punjabi shaadi that will have everyone look up and take notice. There is no official confirmation from Sonam or her family members as yet but reports suggest that her wedding trousseau is already being readies by designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla. Read details here
Bollywood couples reigned this week. While we saw Shahid and Mira make a ramp debut, we saw Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan fly out of Mumbai with their daughter Aaradhya. The trio seems to have headed for Australia for a vacation where they will ring Jr AB’s 42nd birthday which falls on 5 February. You can see their pictures and read the entire report here.
And here’s another celebrity duo which might turn into a couple very soon. Rumours are abuzz about Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor’s growing closeness. India.com exclusively informed its readers about how Alia has been on cloud 9 ever since she signed Brahmastra opposite Ranbir and now that she has started prepping for the film with her “crush” turned co-star, she is unable to contain her excitement. The actress has been going around talking about the film and how elated she is to be pairing opposite Ranbir and calls this film her dream come true. Read the full report here.
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Film wise, we saw a few new films go on floors. While Shraddha Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor have started prepping for Batti Gul Meter Chalu, Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor starrer Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga went on floors this week. Sonam also posted an emotional message from her first day of shoot with her dad. Also, Ayushmann Khurrana and Sanya Malhotra have started shooting for Amit Sharma’s Badhaai Ho. And now, talking about an interesting, awaited upcoming film. Anushka Sharma’s psychological thriller Pari is all set to release on March 2, Holi weekend and a new teaser – Screamer 2 – was released on Friday.
The teaser is spooky with a complementing background score that will make your heart beat faster. The actress released the teaser on social media and fans have been in frenzy ever since. Anushka definitely has something very intriguing in store for us and this new teaser is making us wait for next month.
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Another celeb who rocked social media this week was when Amitabh Bachchan declared that he would quite social media site Twitter. The megastar had been the most most followed Bollywood celebrity with 32,906,458 followers on Twitter and suddenly, Shah Rukh Khan raced ahead of him with almost 40 lakh more followers (32,947,526). Big B, who is very active on social media was taken aback and when he realised that the social media itself was behind axing its numbers of followers, he decided to go off it, “T 2599 – TWITTER ..!!!?? you reduced my number of followers .. !!??HAHAHAHAHAHAHA .. !! thats a joke .. time to get off from you .. thank you for the ride .. 😠😠😠 .. there are many ‘other’ fish in the sea – and a lot more exciting !! (sic),”
However, today morning, the superstar returned to the site with a message that made his fans heave a sigh of relief. He said, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA …social media – you are a delight !! Following Followers & Tweets – you are a delight .. who to follow, you are a delight .. India Trends – you are delight .. Each human in World a delight .. coz’ we are all TWITTERED.” So he is not going anywhere!
All in all, it has been a happy week in Bollywood. The upcoming week will see Padman and Aiyaary hit screens while it will be interesting to note the box office records unstoppable Padmaavat shatter and the new ones it makes. Stay tuned to India.com for all the latest Bollywood updates.