Actor Akshay Kumar, who we can see in latest advertisement Tax Department advertisements these days, urging people to pay their taxes, has become the highest tax payer from Bollywood. He was the highest payer last year also.
He has paid Rs 9 crore as an advance tax in March, 2010. This would take his total advance tax payment for the year 2009-2010 to Rs 18 crore. Last year, he paid Rs 31 crore after a stint of huge hits.

He said, “It feels good and privileged to be the highest tax payer. It is also a greater sense of responsibility.” He is right now shooting for a movie named Tees Maar Khan which is being directed by Farah Khan. Akshay Kumar is followed by Aamir Khan who paid Rs 12 crore as advance tax and is followed by Superstar Shahrukh Khan who has had only 1 release in the year 2009-2010, My Name is Khan in January 2010. Salman Khan is the fourth highest tax payer with Rs.5.5 crore in the year 2009-2010.
So far, Kumar has had a difficult year as all of his five releases have failed to perform well on the box-office. The much hyped Chandni Chowk to China, Tasveer 8 x 19, Kambakht Ishq, De Dana Dan and Blue all struggled to impress the audiences.

Akshay had signed all these films amidst the success of his previous year’s films. Hence, they fetched him a huge sum as fee. The actor also endorses Thumbs Up, Dollar Vest, LG and Levis which has also contributed to his income.

He said, “Along with fulfilling my tax duties, I also feel the time has come for me to give back to society and the country at large. Which is why I am also using my brand status to do an ad for service tax. If I can get my message across to even half the people across, I feel it would be worth it.”
Abhishek Bachchan paid Rs 4.15 crore in advance tax, while Aishwarya Rai’s advance tax was Rs 2 crore. Amitabh Bachchan has filed Rs 2.9 crore as advanced tax in March, 2010 which has taken his total tax payment to Rs 4 crore.

Saif Ali Khan paid Rs 1.52 crore as advance tax which is quite low from his last year’s amount Rs, 5 crore. His girlfriend and actress Kareena Kapoor has paid Rs. 1.45 crore which has taken her total tax for 2009-2010 to Rs. 3.65 crore.

Akshay Kumar has reasons to smile. His much hyped ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ has managed to build a good hype amongst the audiences, something which is reflecting from the favourable response that it has received via a healthy advance booking. Though quite a few multiplexes and single screens opened their advance booking only on Wednesday (which is the norm), some major chains (like PVR) opened it early as Sunday to gauge audience’s interest in the film. Thankfully, it was all positive, something which would definitely have contributed to sudden plans for paid previews that were hosted on Thursday.

However, Sajid Nadiadwala and Co. took a guarded approach as instead of going ballistic with paid previews and playing multiple shows all through the evening and night, they kept it low profile with only a show each at select multiplexes in major cities. Moreover, the show timings were also quite late in the night with some of them beginning as late as 11 PM. Obviously, the makers and especially the leading man Akshay Kumar have learnt the lesson from ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ debacle where negative reviews had started flowing as early as 9 PM Thursday night once the first paid preview (at 6PM) had come to a close.

Though sources indicate that the makers of ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ are quite confident of their product, it made sense to have a restricted viewing of the film rather than it being a wholesome affair, lest it led to any negativity. In any case, record number of prints are being circulated across the country which means that opening weekend collections should be quite a bountiful.

There have been murmurs around the promos not being really strong for this Akshay and Kareena starrer. However, one just hopes that the team of ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ is hiding the real stuff in the background rather than revealing it all in the promos itself; a mistake that recent release ‘Paying Guest’ made and suffered badly. It would be better for a film with such a huge scale to let audiences warm up to the film and that’s a path this Sabbir Khan directed film seems to be taking.

As are the indicators right now, the film should fetch good numbers in the opening weekend even if they aren’t record breaking per se. While ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ and ‘Singh Is Kinng’ hold the record of netting 40 crores or more in their first week (with ‘Ghajini’ going through the ceiling with a 60 crores + opening, it would be fair if ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ crosses 35 crores mark at the least. This is where the film seems to be headed as well and even though a few may complain that these collections would be less for an Akshay Kumar biggie, one has to keep in mind that he has suffered two recent flops in ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ and ’8X10 Tasveer’, something which is looming large on audience’s mind. Moreover, 35 crores is not a bad number too as long as the film can sustain in weeks to come.

With ‘Shortkut – The Con Is On’ being the only major release in week to follow and ‘Jashnn’ arriving on 17th July, ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ now has to be just a decent enough film to keep showing steady collections before ‘Luck’ arrives on 24th July.

Kambakkht Ishq is upcoming bollywood movie that is going to release on July 10, 2009. This movie is remake of Tamil film Pammal K. Sambandam, that was released in 2002. Akshay and Kareena are in lead role and aftab and amrita arora in supporting role.

Cast

*Akshay Kumar … Viraj Shergill
* Kareena Kapoor … Simrita Rai
* Aftab Shivdasani … Lucky Shergill
* Amrita Arora … Kamini
* Kirron Kher …
* Javed Jaffrey …

Special appearances (in alphabetical order) by:
* Denise Richards … Herself
* Brandon Routh … Himself
* Sylvester Stallone … Himself
* Holly Valance … Herself

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