Vidur’s Film Diary – January 2014

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA FEBRUARY 19, 2014 02.30 P.M.

2014 is the 25th year of my acting training career. In the Silver Jubilee year of my acting training career, I am posting …..57 th ……edition of Vidur’s Film Diary.

Month of January 2014 saw the unabated victorious march of ” Dhoom 3 “ , the highest all-time grosser of Hindi film industry. It earned 272 crores within 04 weeks and created a new record after dashing all previous box office records and finally collected 284.27 crores.

” Krrish 3 “ , a Hritik Roshan film , stands second with the All – India net collection of INR 244.92 crore in India and INR 300.00 crore worldwide . ” Chennai Express “ stands third with INR 227.13 crores .

” Jai Ho “, a Salman Khan starrer, was released in the 4th week of January 2014 it and finally ended the long march of ” Dhoom 3 “. It is the new member of 100 crore club. It finally earned INR 110.78 crores.

The Silver Jubilee year of my acting training career is also important and significant for one more reason. ” Jai Ho “ becomes the first ever film to have 8 students of mine in one film . DAISY SHAH , GENELIA DSOUZA , ASMIT PATEL , PULKIT SAMRAT , TULIP JOSHI , VATSAL SHETH , & VIKAS BHALL are the actors and ALVIRA AGNIHOTRI is the Costume Designer of the film .

I am posting links of the two videos, which were made to commemorate the occasion :

1 : http://youtu.be/cZzBa4sHXMQ

2 : http://youtu.be/0WCMfQiPdGI

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Obituary :

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Suchitra Sen :

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Legendary reclusive actor of Bengali films, Suchitra Sen died on January 17 , 2014 at the age of 82 in Kolkata. In a career spanning 25 years , she did 60 Bengali and Hindi films. She will always be remembered by Hindi film connoisseurs for her 07 Hindi films

Posting link of the blog , which I wrote about her :

Kamal N. Chaturvedi ‏@VidurChaturvedi 15h

Suchitra Sen : Ei Poth Jodi Na Shesh Hoi…… http://wp.me/ptyXI-3fY

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New Hindi Film Releases & Me :

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First Week – January 03

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1 – Sholay 3D …………………………………………………. X

2 – Mr. Joe B. Carvalho ……………………………………. Soha Ali Khan

…………………………………………………………………….. Geeta Basra

…………………………………………………………………….. Karishma Kotak

Second Week – January 10

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1 – Dedh Ishqiya ………………………………………….. X

2 – Yaariyan ……………………………………………….. Sayali Bhagat

…………………………………………………………………. Krishan Kumar

Third Week – January 17

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1 – Karle Pyaar Karle …………………………………… X

2 – Miss Lovely …………………………………………… X

3 – Paranthe Wali Gali ………………………………….. X

4 – Strings of Pasion …………………………………….. X

Fourth Week – January 24

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1 – Jai Ho ………………………………………………….. Daisy Shah

……………………………………………………………….. Genelia Dsouza

……………………………………………………………….. Ashmit Patel

……………………………………………………………….. Pulkit Samrat

……………………………………………………………….. Tulip Joshi

……………………………………………………………….. Vatsal Sheth

……………………………………………………………….. Vikas Bhalla

……………………………………………………………….. Alvira Agnihotri

Fifth Week – January 31

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1 – One By Two …………………………………………. Preeti Desai

………………………………………………………………. Amit Kapoor

In total …………… 10 …………….. films got released in January . Out of these ………….. 10 ………… released films ……….. 04 ………… films have …………… 15 ……………. artistes , who are trained by me .

Out of these ………. 15 ……… persons , ………… 12 ……….. are actors . Among the rest ………. 03 ……. Amit Kapoor and Krishan Kumar are the producers of ” One By Two ” and ” Yaariyan “ respectively . Alvira Agnihotri is the Costume Designer of ” Jai Ho ” .

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TV Trivia & Me :

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1 – Viraf Phiroz Patel is playing an important role in ” Ek Boond Ishq “ on Life OK TV .

2 – Manish Naggdev is playing an important character in ” Pavitra Rishta “ on ZEE TV .

My ……………. 02 ……….. students in ………… 02 ……………. shows on TV .

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Commercials & Me :

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1 – Hritik Roshan is the Brand Ambassador of ” J. Hampstead ” .

My ………….. 01 …………… student in …………… 01 …………… commercial campaign .

As an acting trainer / acting tutor , though , it was not a very significant and satisfying month , but still I am happy . My 15 students appeared in 04 films , 02 students in 02 TV serials and 01 student appeared in 01 Ad also . Thus total number of students working in the month of January 2014 comes to 18 .