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Bollwood ticket sales escalating in Poland

Recently Poland had the annual chance to be part of and relish different flavours of Bollywood in an exclusive Hindi film festival titled as "Ticket To Bollywood".

Anil Wadhwa surely will be a proud man today seeing the growth of the seed that he had sown with great expectations some years back.

Anil, a former Indian ambassador to Poland was the first person to sense that the Hindi films can find a great market in the European country. He drew out solid plans for the Hindi films to get a foothold there.

This is for the forth time that this film festival is being organised in Poland which now has accepted films from B-Town to a great extent with several Hindi films becoming super hits over the years.

"Ticket To Bollywood" is a one month long event and this time the screenings were held across 12 places.

The movie which captivated the citizens of Poland the most was the period flick 'Jodhaa Akbar'.

The impact made by Ashutosh Gowariker's movie can be assessed by the reaction of Gabellia Krzyzowska who is a great lover of India.

She says " 'Jodhaa Akbar' gives us a few glimpses of the medieval history of India. All these years we were glued to the beauty of the Taj Mahal alone. Now we can understand the intricacies of a secular experiment of the great Mugal king Akbar".

'Paheli' having Shah Rukh in the lead role, Ajay Devgan's 'You Me Aur Hum', 'Dor' directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, 'Mr & Mrs Iyer' filmed by Aprana Sen etc..are some other movies which showcased the style of film making from Bollywood.

All the movies were shown with Polish subtitles.

One among the hardcore Bollywood lovers from Poland Bogna Zakszewska after watching the films said that 'Mr & Mrs Iyer' impressed her a lot as it presented entirely different dimensions to human sensitivity and the quality of the movie is not inferior to any Hollywood film.

Ghajini – History Maker in Indian Box Office

Of course, everyone in town including biggest banners of Indian Film Industry is just awestricken with Ghajini's tremendous opening. Indeed, it's the first time a film's name is mentioned in business sections' of each top-charting newspaper. Wow! It's so fantastic to hear that Aamir's 'Ghajini' made a collection of Rs. 35Crores by advance booking on first day itself. None of the year's best super hits including 'Singh is King' and 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' had leaped with such big collections.

In fact, Yash Raj Film's 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' starring Shah Rukh and Anushka could fetch merely around Rs. 10Crores on the first day across all the centres.

Well, now Aamir Khan and Director A.R. Murugadoss undoubtedly get ennobled as 'History Makers in Pages of Bollywood'.

Fine! Its a billion dollar question whether Bollywood's superstars would now let Murugadoss getting back to Kollywood. Sources have revealed that King Khan had already requested Murugadoss for a more powerful script than 'Ghajini'…