Serena is back writing a series of guest blogs about the behind the scenes action of the latest film releases at Tips Industries – where she works and oversees social media marketing. You can follow her on twitter @serenavora where she tweets about Hollywood, Bollywood, music and all things viral.
It’s an exciting time in my office as we gear up for the release of two films – Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story & Race 2. We’re also close to starting production on a new film directed by Prabhudeva starring Girish Taurani. With marketing brainstorming sessions going on in full force my favorite part of the discussions is hearing about what happened behind the scenes at the shoots. In a series of guest blogs I’m going to be sharing some of the interesting and fun stories from the making of our films.
We’re almost done shooting for ‘Race 2’ and as you can imagine we’re extremely excited. Directed by Abbas-Mustan, we have a stellar cast consisting of Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Jaqueline Fernandez & Ameesha Patel. The music has been composed by the versatile Pritam and yes, Atif Aslam has sung two songs. The stars had a grand time shooting in Turkey over a period of 2.5 months where they shot approximately 75% of the film.
Since Ameesha’s birthday happened to be during the time of the shoot she took the opportunity to host a grand party to celebrate at the Mardan Palace in Antalya. Every invitation that was sent out went accompanied with a cute teddy bear – isn’t that adorable?
The party was attended by the cast & crew along with her best friends who flew in especially for the occasion. Everyone obviously partied all night but still made it to the shoot the next day. Now here’s the kicker. The last 2 times Ameesha celebrated her birthday on the set of a film were during the shooting of Kaho Na Pyaar Hai & Gadar – both of which went on to become super duper hits in the history of Indian cinema. Good omen? We sure think so!