Arshad’s accident on the sets of Sunday

Recently while shooting for his forthcoming film, Sunday, Arshad Warsi, met with an unfortunate accident. The man with a funny bone, is playing the role of a tourist guide.

For one of the sequences, the shooting was to be done within an old monument. As the shot was being taken, one of the reflectors fell on Arshad’s head and he had to get a CT scan done as the pain refused to subside.

Such accidents usually do happen, but mostly while shooting action sequences. In spite of not being an action sequence, it was just plain unfortunate that Arshad had to go through this mishap.

Halla Bol release pushed to 11th January

The release date of Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan starrer, Halla Bol, has been postponed. The Raj Kumar Santoshi film, which was supposed to release on the 21st of December, will now be out in the theaters from the 11th of January.
It was alleged that there were no distributors to buy the film. However, director Santoshi said that, the film has been sold at a very high price and the actual reason is something else. He explained that on the same day, two other films, Aamirs’ Taare Zameen Par and Akshay Kumar’s Welcome, will be releasing. To avoid a clash of the three films, the makers of Halla Bol decided to postpone its release date.

The producer of Halla Bol says that the story of the film is quite different. So there was no question of failing to find a distributor. Moreover they needed more time for the marketing and promotion of the film. Well, this just means that the audiences will get to watch this hatke film a little after the expected date.

Hrithik takes a break due to knee injury

“I’ve been meeting directors and producers with my legs resting on the table,” says Hrithik Roshan, nestled comfortably on his sofa in his plush apartment in Juhu, legs perched on a low table, “but I tell them that this is not because the success of Dhoom 2 has gone to my head!” he laughs.

The reason behind this demeanour is that Hrithik had pushed himself to the limit during the shoot of Krishh and Dhoom 2 and as a result, he had torn a ligament in his right knee. Last night, the actor left for Singapore for a well-deserved, six-week break to rest and recuperate from the injury but before that, he spoke to BT about the complications that led to the same.

“I think too much of abuse during Krishh and Dhoom 2 and some portions of Jodha Akbar where I had to do a lot of action stuff led to this. I basically succumbed to the notion that we’re all heroes and pain doesn’t matter,” he says. So Hrithik has been strapping himself and going through the pain and getting the shot done. “I understand now how foolish I have been!” he smiles.

The actor has identified Singapore as the place where he can get the best medical treatment for his problem and will be undergoing aggressive physiotherapy sessions for the next six weeks. He will be going there alone for the time being, but wife Sussane has plans to join him later.

But Hrithik admits he’s not a good patient. “It’s very hard for me to do nothing. I have to force myself to rest! It’s the hardest thing for me to do. If you tell me that I have to run 24 hours a day for the next 10 days to make my knee better, I will do it, because I have something do! That’s a challenge for me. Resting is against my personality,” he says. But maybe that’s the reason he’s reached this point where he has to force himself to rest? “That’s true,” he admits with a laugh.

The actor will be back in Mumbai sometime in January, close to Jodha Akbar’s release date. “The film has taken far longer than what we thought it would take, but then time is immaterial when you’re talking about climbing an Everest. Jodha Akbar for me is an Everest, so it doesn’t matter how much time it takes to conquer that peak, as long as we’ve achieved that task and that has been done. It has juiced me out completely and I can say that I deserve this little break now,” he smiles.