As he turned 50 on Thursday, Anil Kapoor has much reason to be happy and proud, the most immediate being the fact that his American television series 24 premieres in New York on January 14. And his presence in the globally popular series has been extended from 10 to 16 episodes. Confirming this boost in the contract, Anil says, "Initially I was under contract for just ten episodes. Then seeing the way my role developed, they decided to have me in sixteen episodes. I must say I was as happy with the whole experience as I was with Slumdog Millionaire." Anil laughingly recalls how a lot of people advised him against doing American television. "But I was also advised not to do Slumdog Millionaire. Some Bollywood actors had turned down that part before me. I took it up because my wife and kids were in favour. Can you imagine how I'd feel right now if I had turned it down?...
- 1/5/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
As he turned 50 on Thursday, Anil Kapoor has much reason to be happy and proud, the most immediate being the fact that his American television series 24 premieres in New York on January 14. And his presence in the globally popular series has been extended from 10 to 16 episodes. Confirming this boost in the contract, Anil says, "Initially I was under contract for just ten episodes. Then seeing the way my role developed, they decided to have me in sixteen episodes. I must say I was as happy with the whole experience as I was with Slumdog Millionaire." Anil laughingly recalls how a lot of people advised him against doing American television. "But I was also advised not to do Slumdog Millionaire. Some Bollywood actors had turned down that part before me. I took it up because my wife and kids were in favour. Can you imagine how I'd feel right now if I had turned it down?...
- 1/5/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese True to the aforementioned saying, the age factor has nothing to do with our today's birthday boy. He is someone whose mere screen presence makes the audiences go cheese; for he is none other than Bollywood's one and only ageless wonder Anil 'Jhakkaas' Kapoor! Having started his career as early as in 1979 with Hamare Tumhare, Anil went onto do films that became more than Oscars' equivalent! Each and every film of his only adds glittering testimony to the fact that 'Legendary actors just cannot be made…they are simply born'. Some of the path-breaking films that Anil has been associated with include the likes of Tezaab, Ram Lakhan, Mr. India, Vijay, Rakhwala, Eeshwar, Kishen Kanhaiya, Parinda… to name a few! His true-to-life performance in the smash-hit film Nayak still has every countrymen asking for more! Join Bollywood Hungama in...
- 12/24/2008
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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