There is more to Blue than anyone who watches this film could ever imagine!!! It’s not just the colour Blue, (not since I cracked my head open and bled like a stuffed pig 100ft under water!!) This experience has pushed just about everyone involved to their absolute limits. From the producer’s bank balance, to the director’s maximum efforts for his first baby which just happens to be the most dangerous movie I’ve ever been a part of. To all the actors and actresses, the pressures and fitness levels we all had to reach; before any of us could even enter the water; to the amount of amazing talent and resources and crew effort... The list is endless... Seriously, if people hadn’t given their utmost love and dedication to the film; I don’t think anyone of us would have gone anywhere near that many sharks! People always ask me whether I’m mad to work with first-time directors on such huge movies! My answer is always, I’d be mad not to.
What I loved shooting about this film other than the extreme stunts, the pressure, and hardcore diving sessions with all those hungry sharks around, was the fact that I got to work with the toughest, the most professional and most talented team I’ve ever come across. Pete Zuccarini, the underwater cameraman is a person I’ll never forget. He taught me not only to look like a fish but act, swim and feel like I belonged underwater, and that’s why I pushed myself to my limit in this film.
I trained myself to be able to handle whatever these guys could throw at me. When there is an entire crew waiting for you to nail a shot, you do not want to be the fool to get it wrong, I respected their time and effort and therefore they respected my attempt at being a human dolphin for them!
There are a million thank you’s I’d love to give, but I just want to say that if this movie gets appreciated half as much as it deserves I’d be a very happy man. Blue has created a new Bollywood dimension and no matter what the outcome may be, I take my hat off to everyone who made this insane movie come true. Even when it got rocky, Tony my friend, you made the waters calm...
Love,
Yours Akshay...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Battle Is Over...
Hello Everyone…
Three down, two more movies to go this year, I almost feel like a cricketer, if I Hit two more wickets this year India’s won, and if I don’t then I think I’m off the team, ‘He He’ ;o) I’m only kidding, I aint going anywhere,coz right now I’m so happy and tension free. If you saw a picture of me two weeks ago, I looked like someone had put a gun to my head and was being forced to create world peace… But now, post ‘Kambakht Ishq’ I look like I’ve been on holiday, I haven’t, but at least I look like I have. I feel great, my audiences have given me a Huge Hit, I’m back to my funny usual self, meaning I’ve put my head straight into another movie, yes wait for it, Sajid Khan is back with an almighty bang. We’re into our 4th day of shooting ‘House Full’ in oh so sunny England, (seriously it rains here more than Bombay, no wonder Londoners get depressed…) I have to say even in the rain Sajid Khan is probably the funniest Indian on the planet, I can’t tell you much as its too early into the film, but he’s already made one of the heroines fall out of a window, he’s made me destroy an entire living room and lets just say there was a parrot on set, but he doesn’t flap anymore…
It’s so cool here in London, no wonder there are so many NRI’s here, there’s a cinema on every corner, beautiful parks, loads of restaurants, and I know I’m a guy but the shopping is wicked, my family is having a ball. I’ve been taking my wife and son to Hyde Park everyday, even Aarav trains with me at 6 o’clock in the morning. We’ve hired out mountain bikes, we’ve been conditioning on the monkey area in the kids adventure playground, he loves it here, there’s so much to do… Even though I’m buzzing with excitement, diving head first into a new movie is not an easy task. I sat one whole day with Sajid and the writer to get the feel of my new character, we didn’t move from the room for 10 hours, we just ate curds to keep us alive. We just went over and over on how we’re going to entertain our audience in a bigger and better way than before. Sajid has worked solidly on this movie for 2 years now since he directed ‘Heyy Babyy’, Now it’s up to me, Ritesh D, Lara D, Deepika P, and the rest of the nutty gang to deliver Sajid's enthusiastic genius comedy timing on screen. So the pressure's back on but we’re all loving it. The stories you're all gonna hear about what we’ve been getting up to on the sets will be hilarious enough let alone the movie at the end of it…
But for all of you who are living in Bombay, be safe, stay inside when the storms are bad, stock up on food, and take care, the rains are God’s way of feeding us, just be careful…
Much love and care,
Your Akshay…
Three down, two more movies to go this year, I almost feel like a cricketer, if I Hit two more wickets this year India’s won, and if I don’t then I think I’m off the team, ‘He He’ ;o) I’m only kidding, I aint going anywhere,coz right now I’m so happy and tension free. If you saw a picture of me two weeks ago, I looked like someone had put a gun to my head and was being forced to create world peace… But now, post ‘Kambakht Ishq’ I look like I’ve been on holiday, I haven’t, but at least I look like I have. I feel great, my audiences have given me a Huge Hit, I’m back to my funny usual self, meaning I’ve put my head straight into another movie, yes wait for it, Sajid Khan is back with an almighty bang. We’re into our 4th day of shooting ‘House Full’ in oh so sunny England, (seriously it rains here more than Bombay, no wonder Londoners get depressed…) I have to say even in the rain Sajid Khan is probably the funniest Indian on the planet, I can’t tell you much as its too early into the film, but he’s already made one of the heroines fall out of a window, he’s made me destroy an entire living room and lets just say there was a parrot on set, but he doesn’t flap anymore…
It’s so cool here in London, no wonder there are so many NRI’s here, there’s a cinema on every corner, beautiful parks, loads of restaurants, and I know I’m a guy but the shopping is wicked, my family is having a ball. I’ve been taking my wife and son to Hyde Park everyday, even Aarav trains with me at 6 o’clock in the morning. We’ve hired out mountain bikes, we’ve been conditioning on the monkey area in the kids adventure playground, he loves it here, there’s so much to do… Even though I’m buzzing with excitement, diving head first into a new movie is not an easy task. I sat one whole day with Sajid and the writer to get the feel of my new character, we didn’t move from the room for 10 hours, we just ate curds to keep us alive. We just went over and over on how we’re going to entertain our audience in a bigger and better way than before. Sajid has worked solidly on this movie for 2 years now since he directed ‘Heyy Babyy’, Now it’s up to me, Ritesh D, Lara D, Deepika P, and the rest of the nutty gang to deliver Sajid's enthusiastic genius comedy timing on screen. So the pressure's back on but we’re all loving it. The stories you're all gonna hear about what we’ve been getting up to on the sets will be hilarious enough let alone the movie at the end of it…
But for all of you who are living in Bombay, be safe, stay inside when the storms are bad, stock up on food, and take care, the rains are God’s way of feeding us, just be careful…
Much love and care,
Your Akshay…
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Kambakkht Hit!
Whoo Hooo… Yippeeeeee… I’m So Excited And I Just Can’t Hide It, No No No No No, I don’t Know What To Do But I Think I Like It ;o)…
I know I must sound drunk right now but honestly I’m not, I’m just so high on life and it’s all because of youuuu!!! To Everyone out there that has supported me, and made this recording breaking Block Buster Smash Hit come true for me… I want to thank you all for your faith, love and support that you have given me, I’m sorry it’s taken a year but I’ve finally given you a Hit that you are hopefully as proud of as I am. I also want to thank you all for not listening to the negative critics, you have made my entire career this weekend and I owe you many hours of entertaining for years to come for you to feel my genuine thanks. For words cannot describe how happy we all are because of you, our fantastic fans who stood by our movie through all it’s madness and spice, despite what some people are trying to do to it, and for judging the movie for yourselves, it makes us all really proud when our own audiences makes the final decision…
Bollywood is back in Business, lets roll on the hits for everyone this year… ;o)
God Bless you all
Love your
Akshay Kumar
I know I must sound drunk right now but honestly I’m not, I’m just so high on life and it’s all because of youuuu!!! To Everyone out there that has supported me, and made this recording breaking Block Buster Smash Hit come true for me… I want to thank you all for your faith, love and support that you have given me, I’m sorry it’s taken a year but I’ve finally given you a Hit that you are hopefully as proud of as I am. I also want to thank you all for not listening to the negative critics, you have made my entire career this weekend and I owe you many hours of entertaining for years to come for you to feel my genuine thanks. For words cannot describe how happy we all are because of you, our fantastic fans who stood by our movie through all it’s madness and spice, despite what some people are trying to do to it, and for judging the movie for yourselves, it makes us all really proud when our own audiences makes the final decision…
Bollywood is back in Business, lets roll on the hits for everyone this year… ;o)
God Bless you all
Love your
Akshay Kumar
Kam-Back finally!!!
Hello Everyone…
Whoo Hoo rains are finally here, so no more garden parties for me for a while, thank you God!!! Not that I’m complaining, but I think even if the Queen of England asked me to one I think I’d have to pull a sicky I’m afraid. I talk too much in my films to have to talk off screen so animatedly as well… Speaking of screens what are you doing reading my blog, you should be at the cinema watching ‘Hangover or maybe this other really funny movie Kambakkht Ishq’... Did your mother ever tell you ‘laughter is the greatest medicine for the heart,’ unless you die laughing of course and then it’s not so funny :o(
I know none of you right now can tell but if you could see the anxious slightly constipated look I have on my face you’d all laugh at me, not with me ‘at me’… This whole release thing is worse than a marathon, I swear, I mean I totally agree that marathons are like the longest race’s in the world but even they get over, this has just been the slowest week ever…I thought Chandni Chowk’s release was tense what with all the wonderful things that were (Not) being said but this has been positively tense. Releasing your own movies is like being asked to dig your own grave, it’s slow and painful and you don’t know when anyone’s gonna kill you off…
I know I definitely owe my wife another holiday for sure…
So for those of you who have seen my movie let me know what ya think…I like to know where my people are at!!! And if you haven’t then don’t make me come over with a pair of nunchaku, get out there and let me feel your vibes, I swear I’m only doing all this promotion so you can hopefully enjoy yourselves (Oh and so my producers can earn their money back of course or I’d be out of a job and you’d be bored on a Friday night.)
But I must say I’ve had an overwhelming response to ‘K I’, I just hope we can make the world proud of Indian cinema that’s all. I think we’ve all been through a lot this year from strikes to recession to depression, (or is that only me!!) So I hope I’ve somehow got it right this time… And I wanna say I thought ‘New York’ was Fab, John, Neil and Katrina acted very well I was extremely impressed with their film, to the point I was on holiday in New York and took my family to see it…
Oh and congratulations on being Gay in India, I thought the day would never come, I’m relieved you can all love each other freely now, it’s not like it was a secret or anything but I’m glad you don’t have to live in fear anymore. Gay Ho!!!
Love and Prayers
Yours stressfully
Akshay ;o)
Whoo Hoo rains are finally here, so no more garden parties for me for a while, thank you God!!! Not that I’m complaining, but I think even if the Queen of England asked me to one I think I’d have to pull a sicky I’m afraid. I talk too much in my films to have to talk off screen so animatedly as well… Speaking of screens what are you doing reading my blog, you should be at the cinema watching ‘Hangover or maybe this other really funny movie Kambakkht Ishq’... Did your mother ever tell you ‘laughter is the greatest medicine for the heart,’ unless you die laughing of course and then it’s not so funny :o(
I know none of you right now can tell but if you could see the anxious slightly constipated look I have on my face you’d all laugh at me, not with me ‘at me’… This whole release thing is worse than a marathon, I swear, I mean I totally agree that marathons are like the longest race’s in the world but even they get over, this has just been the slowest week ever…I thought Chandni Chowk’s release was tense what with all the wonderful things that were (Not) being said but this has been positively tense. Releasing your own movies is like being asked to dig your own grave, it’s slow and painful and you don’t know when anyone’s gonna kill you off…
I know I definitely owe my wife another holiday for sure…
So for those of you who have seen my movie let me know what ya think…I like to know where my people are at!!! And if you haven’t then don’t make me come over with a pair of nunchaku, get out there and let me feel your vibes, I swear I’m only doing all this promotion so you can hopefully enjoy yourselves (Oh and so my producers can earn their money back of course or I’d be out of a job and you’d be bored on a Friday night.)
But I must say I’ve had an overwhelming response to ‘K I’, I just hope we can make the world proud of Indian cinema that’s all. I think we’ve all been through a lot this year from strikes to recession to depression, (or is that only me!!) So I hope I’ve somehow got it right this time… And I wanna say I thought ‘New York’ was Fab, John, Neil and Katrina acted very well I was extremely impressed with their film, to the point I was on holiday in New York and took my family to see it…
Oh and congratulations on being Gay in India, I thought the day would never come, I’m relieved you can all love each other freely now, it’s not like it was a secret or anything but I’m glad you don’t have to live in fear anymore. Gay Ho!!!
Love and Prayers
Yours stressfully
Akshay ;o)
Friday, April 17, 2009
My Family...
Hi guys,
As promised I'm back. My whole purpose of being present on the internet was to connect with you guys and share everything about my life.
Hence I would like to start off with introducing to you all, my family without whose love and support I would have never made it.
At home, I share my life with my wife, Tina, my son, Aarav, my mother, Aruna Bhatia, sister, Alka, little niece, Simar and of course my dogs, Stitch and Okie.
At work, I am dependent on my key staff members, who have become family to me...
My driver, Ravi
My trainer, Jennifer
My manager, Lokesh
My executive assistant, Zenobia.
My assistant, Nitin
My hair dresser, Milind
Make up artist, Narendra dada.
I hope to continue sharing about my life and family with you here, until then take care.
Love,
AK.
As promised I'm back. My whole purpose of being present on the internet was to connect with you guys and share everything about my life.
Hence I would like to start off with introducing to you all, my family without whose love and support I would have never made it.
At home, I share my life with my wife, Tina, my son, Aarav, my mother, Aruna Bhatia, sister, Alka, little niece, Simar and of course my dogs, Stitch and Okie.
At work, I am dependent on my key staff members, who have become family to me...
My driver, Ravi
My trainer, Jennifer
My manager, Lokesh
My executive assistant, Zenobia.
My assistant, Nitin
My hair dresser, Milind
Make up artist, Narendra dada.
I hope to continue sharing about my life and family with you here, until then take care.
Love,
AK.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Greetings...
Hi guys,
Though I'm not the most computer friendly person, I've heard this is the best medium to interact with fans. So here I am, trying to acquaint myself with the internet. I'm a quick learner but till then please be patient with me. Though I cannot really put a time line in place, I promise to write as regularly as possible.
Love,
AK.
Though I'm not the most computer friendly person, I've heard this is the best medium to interact with fans. So here I am, trying to acquaint myself with the internet. I'm a quick learner but till then please be patient with me. Though I cannot really put a time line in place, I promise to write as regularly as possible.
Love,
AK.
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