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Mallika Sherawat to star in Hollywood film on Obama
MUMBAI: Mallika Sherawat will star in Doug McHenry‘s romantic political comedy, Love, Barack, a film that tracks the romance between a Democratic campaign volunteer and her Republican counterpart in the run-up to last year‘s US Presidential election.
The film has Sherawat‘s character Aretha Gupta inspired by Kamala Harris, the attorney general of San Francisco.
Sherawat is presently working on an American accent for the film, which has an all-American cast.
Says Sherawat,”It‘s an amazing role on which I‘m working hard at. One of the great things about western cinema is the diversity of female roles…Kamala is a great inspiration and to play a part inspired by her is an actress‘s dream.”
Kamala is the first woman district attorney to be elected in San Francisco and the first African-American elected as district attorney in California. She is also a candidate for the prestigious post of attorney-general of California in 2010.
Love, Barack has been scripted by Gary Goldstein who had earlier co-produced the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere film Pretty Woman.
Incidentally, Sherawat‘s upcoming film, Jennifer Lynch‘s Hisss, has also been delayed for some unknown reason.
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Dhurandhar the revenge storms past Rs 1,000 crore in a week, rewrites box office records
Aditya Dhar’s spy thriller sets fastest run to Rs 1,000 crore with record-breaking weekday hold
MUMBAI: The box office has a new juggernaut—and it is moving at breakneck speed. Dhurandhar the revenge has smashed past the Rs 1,000 crore mark worldwide in just a week, clocking a staggering Rs 1,088 crore and resetting the rules of the blockbuster game.
Backed by Jio Studios and B62 Studios, and directed by Aditya Dhar, the spy action sequel opened to the biggest weekend ever for an Indian film globally—and then refused to slow down. Unlike typical tentpole releases that taper off after Sunday, this one powered through the weekdays with rare muscle, posting Rs 64 crore on Monday, Rs 58 crore on Tuesday, Rs 49 crore on Wednesday and Rs 53 crore on Thursday.
The numbers stack up to a formidable first-week haul. India collections stand at Rs 690 crore nett and Rs 814 crore gross, while overseas markets have chipped in Rs 274 crore, taking the worldwide total to Rs 1,088 crore in just eight days.
The film’s opening weekend alone delivered Rs 466 crore, laying the foundation for what is now being billed as the fastest climb to the Rs 1,000 crore club in Indian cinema. Every single day of its first week has set fresh benchmarks, from the highest opening weekend to the strongest weekday hold—metrics that typically separate hits from phenomena.
A sequel to the earlier hit Dhurandhar, the film has not just built on its predecessor’s momentum but obliterated previous records, emerging as the biggest global blockbuster run by an Indian film to date.
At this pace, the film is not merely riding a wave—it is creating one.
