It’s the year-end and time to chuck your dog-eared diary and withered 2007 calendar for fresh new ones.
Rashmi Hemrajani updates you on the ‘celebrity’ calendars for the year 2008
MUMBAI: It’s the year-end and time to chuck your dog-eared diary and withered 2007 calendar for fresh new ones. Isn’t 2008 the right time to chuck all those blah looking calendars with the dates staring at your face in big black fonts along with pictures of flowers, monuments and pets on it? Just go ahead and acquire the best of calendars that has the whole nation drooling on them.
Wondering what are these calendars? Here’s a low-down to three among the best calendars launched this season.
Girls’ eye candy
Well, this one would certainly be a treat for the female species (it was for me!). You have 24 great looking men to ogle at for the next 12 months. And they are best a girl can get - Hrithik Roshan, Bobby Deol, Ranbir Kapoor, Upen Patel, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Zayed Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, Ritesh Deshmukh, Askhay Kumar, Kunal Kapoor, Shiney Ahuja, Vivek Oberoi, Rahul Bose, Dino Morea, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan and John Abraham.
Now that he has succeeded in putting these many hunks together, we ask Dabboo Ratnani about how the experience was like?
“It was simply great. At every shoot we had loads of fun. While shooting Arjun Rampal, a huge crowd gathered to see him ride a chopper bike clad in a ganji. After taking couple of shoots, I insisted that he ride the bike bare-bodied. He initially refused but later gave in. By the time we finished the shoot, people were screaming and cheering for Arjun,” recalls Dabboo.
Babes on the beach
Here we are talking about Atul Kasbekar who has lined up for a treat for all the boys. He has got India’s best models clad in a bikini to shoot for the Kingfisher calendar. Says the photographer, “The entire shoot was done in Ladakh, Andamans and the Nicobar, Udaipur and Goa. It was challenging to shoot in India, because as a country we are not location-friendly and all our images promote the scenic locations more than the models.
Also movement of man and material was not at all an easy task. But I think this is one of the best calendars we have shot so far.” This calendar features names such as Deepti Gujral, Sheetal Menon, Monikangana Dutta, Shruti Agrawal, Preeti Desai, Melissa Mehra and Tamara Moss.
Anything but funny
Subi Samuel’s calendar has a unique concept this time around. He has shot 24 big Bollywood celebrities and has transformed each picture to look like a page out of a comic book. Well, how often would you get to see Shahrukh Khan cause a car explosion with a lighter, Hrithik Roshan arm wrestling, Abhishek Bachchan walking away after doing a hit job and Preity Zinta bashing her newly married husband. Ooh so much drama!
“It is a homage to comic books,” says Subi. He further adds, “The calendar is called Alchemy 2008 and features 12 male and 12 female actors. Shooting the calendar was exciting as we shot 24 celebrities in two months.”
h_rashmi@dnaindia.net
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