Akshaye plays chess with Jean Paul Gautier
Bollywood is definitely going places. After George Clooney told Sameera Reddy he wanted to do a item song in Hindi (at the sidelines of the Toronto Film Festival) French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has been talking of nothing but Bollywood when he was in India earlier this week.
He was so keen to meet a few B-Town stars that socialite Aarti Surendranath (of Kailash Picture Company) brought him to the sets of Abbas-Mustaan’s Race at Yash Raj Studios, where the cast (including Reddy, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif) was shooting a video for the title song.
Fascinated
Says a unit member, “Jean-Paul was in Mumbai for a week and was fascinated by Bollywood. When he heard that a big film’s shooting was on, he insisted on meeting with the stars. Aarti Surendranath brought him to the sets and he spent a good two hours chatting with the cast.
Saif explained to him how Hindi films are shot. He asked Akshaye how it felt to work in the film industry and even played a game of chess with him. Later, Jean-Paul was so keen to watch the item number being shot, that he told the directors not to call for a break.”
The girls were not left out of the action. Adds the source, “Bipasha and Katrina took Gaultier on a guided tour of the studio. He seemed fascinated by their styling courtesy Vogue’s new fashion director, Anahita Shroff. He felt the three girls looked like models.”
Producer Ramesh Taurani says of the designer, “Jean-Paul was very excited. He stood for two hours seeing the song being shot and even danced like a little child when the music was on. It was a great privilege to show an esteemed person like him around my set. Jean-Paul was fascinated about everything happening around him.”
However, Reddy says she missed meeting the man himself as she getting her make-up done. “I was jetlagged after my Toronto trip and caught up between takes, but I heard he was very sweet and enquired about everything on the sets. I was resting and didn’t have the energy to go and meet him. It was my loss entirely,” she rues.
Hmm. Isn't chess becoming his latest trademark? It looks dorkish not cool to me. BTW, i couldn't copy the pic from the site, so please go and watch it here.
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It seems from the pic of that site, Akshaye Khanna will dance in Race. Let me watch him dancing in the film after Naqaab.
No offense, but just because you play chess doesn't make you dorky.
I know a lot of people who play chess, and they're aren't "dorky".
Just playing chess isn't dorky but insisting every person you meet play chess with you certainly is.
Hmmm....Yeah!
Well maybe that's his form of timepass.
Even Saif and Katrina were playing chess, together.
And these articles are saying that he insists on people playing Chess with him, well how would you know it wasn't any of them who wanted to play chess with Akshaye?
I don't think he plays chess all the time on the sets, I'm sure he socializes with people as well.
Akshaye Khanna is type of lad whom we must not ignore. He is original bcoz he is really different from others.
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