Chandi Chowk to China - World Premiere
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Chandi Chowk to China - World Premiere
Hundreds of fans turned out in London's Leicester Square for the world premiere of the action comedy Chandi Chowk to China. The movie, which has been described as Bollywood meets Kung Fu, is about a cook from Chandni Chowk who is mistaken as the reincarnation of an ancient warrior by residents of an oppressed Chinese village. Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar says it is a cinema first: "Well, this is the first sort of Bollywood Kung Fu film, so it was something new. Bollywood has never seen a Kung Fu Masala. So it's like getting curry and noodles together." Model-turned-actress, Depika Padukone, believes it is something different: "This is the beginning of taking Indian cinema to a whole new level. The fact that Warner Brothers is associated with the film and also the type of film that we've made. "It is primarily an Indian film but at the same time the scale of the film is international and it's going to appeal to people all over the world." The film is going to be released on more than 125 screens across the US and Canada making it the biggest-ever Bollywood release in North America. It is released in the UK on January 16.
ITN | January 13, 2009
