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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Amitabh KBC team in legal trouble

A private complaint was filed in a court of Bhopal, alleging promos of the upcoming season of TV quiz-show Kaun Banega Crorepati present the legal profession in a derogatory manner

Amitabh Bachchan, KBC team in legal trouble

Aug 1, 2013, 01.05 PM IST

A private complaint was filed in a court of Bhopal, alleging promos of the upcoming season of TV quiz-show Kaun Banega Crorepati present the legal profession in a derogatory manner.

It names actor Amitabh Bachchan, the show's host, as one of the respondents. The complaint was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Pande by Nasir Ali, legal cell coordinator of 'Gondwana Gantantra Party'.

The court has fixed a hearing on August 23 to record the statement of the complainant to decide whether any case can be registered against the respondents.

The show is to be aired on Sony.

Apart from Amitabh Bachchan, the complaint names Big Synery Media Limited's Managing Director Siddharth Basu and Multi Screen Media Private Limited's Secretary, Rajkumar Bidvatka among others as respondents.

Ali, who is a lawyer, has sought registration of a police case under section 500 (defamation) of Indian Penal Code, and under the Information Technology Act.

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Mahendra Gorele

Big B refuses Zanjeer remake; okays song

TNN | Aug 1, 2013, 05.07 PM IST

Amitabh Bachchan may have refused to be a part of Apoorva Lakhia's Zanjeer, a remake of the classic that starred Big B.

But has agreed to be a part of a song from the film titled Mumbai Ka Hero. Lakhia is known to be on very cordial terms with the Bachchan family so it was only natural for him to take permission from Big B to use his dialogues from the original Zanjeer and add it in the new song.

Sources report that Mr Bachchan was taken aback with the line Acche Acche Ki Gand Phat-ti hai in the song and had reservations about it. But Apoorva convinced him that the G word would be beeped which finally convinced Mr. Bachchan and he gave Apoorva the go head.

Although Amitabh Bachchan does not have the rights to dialogues from the original, it was courteous on Apoorva's part to ask him and courteous enough of Mr. Bachchan to agree!

With Ram Charan Teja stepping into Big B's shoes, will he be able to create the same angry young man image that Amitabh Bachchan did and will audiences accept him? Tell us what you think!

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Mahendra Gorele

Amitabh Bachchan objects to the G word

Thursday, Aug 1, 2013, 9:08 IST | Agency: DNA

Apoorva Lakhia initially planned to cast the original 'angry young man' Amitabh Bachchan in the remake of Big B's Zanjeer. But Senior Bachchan was unwilling to make an appearance in the remake. However, now Lakhia has found an ingenious way to incorporate him into the neo-Zanjeer.

The film will feature a song entitled Mumbai Ka Hero which would be interspersed with Big B's most celebrated dialogues from the original. Last week, Lakhia went to the Bachchans' home Jalsa to seek permission to use Big B's voice and dialogue from the original Zanjeer. Says an insider, "He didn't really need to take Amitji's permission to use the dialogues from the original but he shares a very long and warm relationship with the entire Bachchan family. He had to play the song for Amitji and show him how his voice and dialogues were interwoven into the track."

According to a source close to Lakhia, when Bachchan heard the song, he froze at the line Achche Acche Ki Gand Phat-ti hai. "Are you going to use that line in the song?" he asked Lakhia calmly. Lakhia assured him that the 'G' word for the posterior would be beeped out in the song. "Then it's fine," he said. When asked about the song in the film which would now feature his voice, the Big B said, "My voice is part of the dialogue from the original Zanjeer. I don't possess the rights over my dialogues. As a gesture of courtesy Apoorva Lakhia asked me and I approved."

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Mahendra Gorele

Amitabh Bachchan meets youngest kids to climb Mount Everest

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan met with a group of students from The Lawrence School (Sanawar) for being the youngest people to climb Mount Everest on last Sunday.

Big B, who meets with his fans every Sunday, also met with this group of seven students.

Amitabh Bachchan also gave them personally autographed copies of his book To Be Or Not To Be during their visit last Sunday. He also felicitated and congratulated the students.

Big B wrote on his blog about it: "….. these fantastic team of young students from the Lawrence School, Senawar on the hills of Simla, who … hold your breathe … have all climbed Mt Everest … and the youngest of them is a record holder .. Raghav, second from left is only 15 and a few months .. just so incredible !!"

Lawrence School, Sherwood and a few other Schools established during the British Raj, in the mid 1800's as Army Schools, still continue the code of the army in their curriculum. Such a joy to be with them, and recollect our own years in School and in boarding. The happiest days of our life …"Read more on srbachchan's blog

Big B personally congratulated the principal of the school for the success.

Producer Bunty Walia and director Apoorva Lakhia, who are the alumni of the Lawrence School, Sanawar also tweeted about the students' achievement.

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Mahendra Gorele