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Akshay and wife Twinkle were amongst the first to arrive at the Mata ki Chowki.

And proof that this bonhomie was real was seen when in return Akshay invited his co-stars Sanjay Dutt and Zayed Khan for the finale of his show ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi – 2′. All the three male leads of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd.’s underwater action thriller BLUE have recently shot with the final contestants for the nail biting finale of this season!

Looks like the gossip mills will have to resign themselves to their friendship and look for other fodder!

BLUE, an underwater action thriller directed by Anthony D’Souza, is not only Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd’s but also Bollywood’s most ambitious and promising projects till date.

BLUE captures the fast paced action, above and below the ocean as never seen before in Indian Cinema! With a dream cast of Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Rahul Dev and Katrina Kaif, this underwater action thriller promises to set your pulses racing this Diwali!

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And when you talk of a film based on underwater sequences, how can you miss out on the most adorable sea animals – the dolphins?

In Shree Ashtavinayak’s BLUE directed by debutant director Anthony D’Souza, you can see Sanjay Dutt and Lara Dutta frolicking with the dolphins!

The audiences will get to see Sanjay and Lara cavorting delightfully with the sea creatures in a romantic song ‘Aaj Dil Gustak Hai’ in the film.

Says director Anthony, “It was very difficult to shoot with the wild spotted dolphins and we had to travel overnight to Bimini to shoot with them. It was well worth all the efforts as the outcome was spectacular! We were extremely lucky to find a cluster of them and the delightful tricks which the dolphins learnt especially for the song make for a visual treat.”

The song has been picturised on the actors playing with wild dolphins in all their majestic glory in Bimini Islands. There were also scenes which required them to shoot at close range for which they had specially trained dolphins at the dolphin encounters! These mammals were specially taught tricks which are shown in the film. Not just the actors even the dolphins were trained for their roles!!!

Even after the required shots, Sanjay and Lara would stay back in the dolphin encounters and play with the dolphins!!! And being very intelligent creatures, the mammals picked up the tricks very fast and were loved and petted by the entire team!

Slated to hit the theatres on 16th Oct ‘09, this oceanic spectacle features Bollywood stars like Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Rahul Dev and Katrina Kaif.

Dr. A R Rahman has composed the tracks for the film with the winning combination of Resul Pookuty engineering the sound.

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However, acting runs in his blood. Not many will know (as the shy and humble actor does not like to reveal) that his acting lineage goes back to the master actor, the late Balraj Sahni and his well known son Parikshit Sahni. But Anuj preferred to go the hard way and did not capitalize on his family connections.

He attended Barry John’s acting school and also engaged classes later on. Anuj made a fine debut with Nitin Manmohan’s NAYEE PADOSAN. He followed it up with a good performance in Shri Ashtavinayak’s comic adventure FUN2SSH, opposite a stalwart like Paresh Rawal. Then came the horror flick NAINA, opposite the then ‘Rangeeli’ Urmila Matondkar, where Anuj essayed the role of a dignified doctor with elan. Later he won accolades for his performance as an innocent postman in the hard hitting CHINGAARI, opposite Miss Universe, Sushmita Sen. He also won many a hearts with his dumb act in Deepak Tijori’s TOM DICK AND HARRY.

Realizing that things were not exactly going the way as he had planned, Anuj took a break, hit the gym, developed a six pack abs like SRK, took stock of things, sorted out his career and is back with a vengeance, with many new films, prominent amongst them being BRIDES WANTED, 3 NIGHTS 4 DAYS and MR. FRAUD etc. And with the way things are going we are sure that there are many more bigger and better project to come.