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uperstar Amitabh Bachchan who has ctor Sidharth Malhotra’s career is high ctor-producer John Abraham is planning
Schampioned various social causes in Aon action these days. After performing Ato rope in some real football players
the past including his critical work as the hi-octane action in the recently released, Ek for his next production, 1911. John, who
UN ambassador for the girl child, will Villain, Siddharth has now been signed for is closely following the current FIFA World
sponsor the training and coaching of two a film on mixed martial arts titled Warrior. Cup, is known to be an ardent football
talented female athletes for the upcoming The film which is said to be a remake of the fan and is also the co-owner of a football
Commonwealth World Championship 2011 Hollywood boxing drama of the same team- Indian Super League (ISL) Guwahati
and Asian Games in 2014. Bachchan will name, is a story of two brothers who face franchise North East United FC.
sponsor the two athletes Ayonika Paul and each other in a martial arts tournament. 1911 is an inspirational story of the late
Pooja Ghatkar in rifle shooting as part of Siddharth will be training extensively in Indian footballer Sibdas Bhaduri. The film
the Medals4India campaign initiated by the martial arts for his role in the film, to be will be directed by Shoojit Sircar of Vicky
NGO Olympic Gold Quest. produced by Karan Johar. Donor and Madras Cafe fame. John, who
will also be acting in the film, plans to start
shooting for the film in early 2015.

fter training hard for a brawny areena Kapoor has reportedly turned
Aphysique for the role of a world- Kdown Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s untitled
renowned boxer in Mary Kom, Priyanka ctress Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor thriller starring Amitabh Bachchan and
Chopra recently lost seven kilos of weight in Ahave been paired together for a film Farhan Akhtar. The actress who is currently
an incredible span of 20 days for her svelte titled Shandaar, to be directed by Vikas busy shooting for Singham Returns, the sequel
look in her forthcoming film, Dil Dhadakne Bahl who delivered the critically acclaimed to Singham, is in no mood to take a call on
Do. The transformation was difficult given Queen. The film which is a take on destination the project. This is the second film Kareena is
the paucity of time but Priyanka’s fitness weddings will see Alia and Shahid playing said to have refused in the recent past, the
trainer helped her achieve it with a protein characters who are suffering from insomnia. other being Sujoy Ghosh’s Durga Rani Singh.
rich diet and exercise. Priyanka plays the Apparently, it will be their sleeplessness that Sujoy had approached the actress for the
role of a suave businesswoman from a bonds them together and makes them fall in title role after he was turned down by
Punjabi family in the film, which is currently love. Vikas and his writing team have been Kangana Ranaut. Meanwhile there is news
being shot aboard a cruise liner sailing reportedly doing a lot of research on the that Kareena has been finalized opposite
through Europe. subject. Salman Khan for Karan Johar’s Shuddhi.

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