Bollywood and cricket blended seamlessly to make for a glitzy opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Tuesday night with a special performance by Hollywood's India-lover Katy Perry. Tens of thousands of people at the YMCA ground cheered lustily as Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Prabhudeva, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra went through their routines during a pulsating two-hour colourful ceremony.
Ranbir Kapoor is playing a deaf and mute boy while Priyanka will be seen as an autistic girl in the forthcoming film "Barfi", but Ranbir claims that despite such characters audiences will not see any "disability" in the film. "Whatever disability you see right now, you will not feel in the film.
A sensitive love story, a 3D extra-terrestrial dramedy and a behind-the-scenes saga of a Bollywood heroine -- UTV Motion Pictures is set to release a mixed bag of films - "Barfi!", "Joker" and "Heroine" - in the coming months. "Barfi!", starring Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor will hit screens Aug 31.
It's romance versus crime at the box office this weekend with out and out romantic drama "Teri Meri Kahaani" and reality-based crime thriller "Gangs Of Wasseypur" hitting the screens Friday. Kunal Kohli's "Teri Meri Kahaani" will see hit 'jodi' of "Kaminey" - Shahid Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra - serenading on the screen in three avatars in three different time zones.