A media monsoon has snowed under the South Asian subcontinent ever since Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and ex- Pakistan cricket co-captain Shoaib Malik announce their imminent wedding a few weeks ago.

With 63 years of tension, three wars, nuclear power, religious radicalism and Kashmir splitting the two countries separately, the wedding of Malik and Mirza was seen as a cross border love story.

But there’s the other woman.

Ayesha Siddiqui was Malik’s mystery wife. She had been since 2002. But Malik deprived of it.

When Siddiqui hear the declaration, she become a woman scorn and filed police criticism condemning him of meanness and nuisance and even harassment to kill her if she went public. Malik’s passport was detained. He was interrogating in Hyderbad.

Siddiqui told the Indian press that she and Malik common and dear relationship. Siddiqui’s family provides a sign marriage contract. She provided him with financial help when he was a stressed cricketer.

Malik and Mirza held an unrehearsed news discussion to protect their engagement.

A few days later, Malik finally admit to the combination, but said he was dupe over the phone into a mobile arranged marriage state Siddiqui send him pictures of another girl as an alternative of herself. She claims he discarded her because of her weight.

After pressure from community leaders and the danger of DNA testing concerning marked wedding clothes, a hasty, clandestine agreement was reached and both parties finally signed divorce papers. Malik will supposedly pay 15,000 rupees (about $338) as a conclusion. Other publication guesses it’s really more, maybe in the millions of dollars.

Now, nuptials arrangements are sponsor on. About 500 people are probable to attend the ceremony at the Taj Krishna hotel on April 15 in Hyderabad, including Mirza’s ex-fiance.

NEW YORK — Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s trip down the rabbit hole draw huge crowd, as “Alice in the Wonderland” earn a enormous $116.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for a 3-D film.

That total easily surpass all further films in free and gave Walt Disney Studios an even better opening than that of the immensely popular 3-D film “Avatar.” It also noticeable the major opening weekend for a non-sequel.

“This is just one of those enlightening phenomenon’s that has fixed everybody’s interest,” said Chuck Viane, Disney’s president of allocation. “They don’t come like this very often.”

The massive early achievement of the film — which strike forecasts — came on Oscar Sunday, adding to the deception. Earlier than the weekend, Disney and 20th Century Fox compete over the accessible 3-D ready screens; screens prepared for 3-D are quickly growing, but still number less than 4,000 in the U.S. and Canada.

Before “Alice,” many of those screens were still enthusiastic to Fox’s box-office behemoth, “Avatar,” which is up for nine Academy Awards on Sunday, as well as best picture.

In its 12th week of free, “Avatar” earned $7.7 million over the weekend; bring its snowballing domestic total to $720.2 million.

Asked whether the diminishment of 3-D and IMAX screens hurt “Avatar,” Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox, said, “No question.”

“Are we dissatisfied? Sure,” said Aronson. “But there are confident market forces that are past anything we can do. To have an 11-week window is beautiful much to no avail of. It positively permitted this movie to be bare and witness by so many people.”

“Avatar” isn’t failing, while, and it can be probable to regain 3-D and IMAX screens, in particular if it wins best picture.

“We’ll have that compromise tomorrow morning with show, without a doubt,” said Aronson.

The weekend’s second best actor at the box-office was Overture’s “Brooklyn’s Finest,” Antoine Fuqua’s gritty police murder mystery. It earned $13.5 million in its first weekend of free, according to studio estimate.

Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” for supreme followed closely with $13.3 million in its third week of release; bring its growing total to $95.8 million. Warner Bros.’s comedy “Cop Out” came in fourth, adding $9.1 million for a two-week total of $32.4 million.

But “Alice” carefully conquered the weekend, astounding even Disney. The film was probable to open closer to $65-75 million.

It was a record release for the first district of the year, classically a time of inferior box-office outlook and gravely much-admired Oscar contender. The earlier first quarter record was Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ,” which opened with $83.8 million in Feb. 2004.

“We went into Friday thinking that we really had a big hit with us, and then all of a sudden the numbers started to roll in,” said Viane. “They ongoing to roll in from midnight Friday morning and you could tell from the size of the crowd. We did $4 million that day at midnight. You could tell the large notice in the movie.”

“Alice” went on to make $41 million just on Friday.

“We said, `Oh my gosh. This is better than any of us could have probable,” said Viane.

Though review were mostly reverentially negative, much of the film’s draw was definitely in teaming director Burton and his common collaborator, Depp, who plays the Mad Hatter. It also accessible moviegoers with a 3-D updating of Lewis Carroll’s beloved characteristic. While at times dark, it gain a PG rating from the MPAA (for, among other things, “a smoking caterpillar”), which predestined a large number of kids could go to.

But it proves once again how major the draw of 3-D is to moviegoers. The technology has constantly overstated box-office gross for the whole thing from “Avatar” to “gray with a Chance of Meatballs.”

“Alice” also plays across 188 IMAX screens in North America and gave IMAX its best breach ever, with $11.9 million nationally. That beat the preceding record of $9.5 million set by “Avatar.” IMAX chairman and leader Greg Foster said the huge success of “Alice” was unanticipated, but that “Avatar” would get back some of those IMAX screens, whether or not it wins best picture.

“The drive on 3-D is so enormous right now,” said Foster. “They were set for a new movie. They were ready for a new, cool 3-D skill.”

Controversy in spite of, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “My Name Is Khan” has disappeared on to collect in approximately Rs 250 million (about $5.3million) crosswise the world on the opening day.

“My Name is Khan” is directed by Karan Johar and was released on Friday.

“We are pleased with the recital and viewers reaction crosswise demographics. More so, as this is only phase one of the movie free,” Vijay Singh, CEO of Fox Star Studios India, the Indian distributors of the film, said in a report

“In addition to the free across 45 countries, MNIK will be roll out in a phased way crossways 25 non-traditional market from April beyond.”

The film features Shah Rukh as Rizvan Khan who embarks on a trip across America to win sponsor the love of his life, play by Kajol. It shows how, down the way, his traits touch the lives of many and inspire a nation.

The film is being market and dispersed by Fox Star in India, in the US by its sister company Fox Searchlight and in the respite of the world by close relative group 20th Century Fox worldwide.

In New Zealand, the opening day compilation was about $9,727 at the same time as in the Middle-East, the film is previously 50 percent higher than any other preceding film in Bollywood with the earn predictable at $300,000.

There’s also a vast command for extra prints in the existing chains across the Middle East and the print count up is probable to augment to approximately 60 by next week.

According to Fox, the film also will be at large in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Oman and Lebanon in the pending week.

In conditions of compensated previews, the movie earns about $193,000 from 89 sites in Britain, which is said to be the maximum for a single-day sample there. In Australia Thursday, paid previews composed around $34,000 and it rank number 11.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has attributed her colleague Brad Pitt for stirring her to encompass children of her own, insist that she “didn’t wish for to get pregnant” awaiting she meet him.

Jolie had previously adopt son Maddox, now eight, when she meet Pitt, and go on to adopt descendant Zahara, now five, from Ethiopia earlier than she become pregnant with the couple’s initial biological child, Shiloh, born in 2006.

They afterward adopted another son Pax in 2007, earlier than warm biological twins, Vivienne and Knox, in 2008 and Jolie admit she was glad just to take in orphaned children, until Pitt convinced her to turn into a mother herself.

“at what time I met him…I didn’t wish for to get pregnant. I at all times sought after to adopt, but I on no account had the want of experience biological maternity. He taught me to be more tolerant and to take pleasure in the whole thing that exists in the world,” she said.

Romantic drama Dear John has knocked sci-fi epic Avatar off the top mark in the North American box office graph.

The film, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as lovers whose fiction is condensed by the 11 September attacks, took $32.4m (£20.6m).

James Cameron’s Avatar takes $23.6m (£15.2m) subsequent to seven weeks at figure one, raising its home total to $630.1m (£405m).

John Travolta film From Paris with Love opened at three with $8.1m (£5.2m).

Dear John, base on the story by Nicholas Sparks, had not been probable to beat the other-worldly epic but perform very much superior than its probable box office figure of $20m (£12.8m).

It also had a trace opening for Super Bowl weekend – conventionally a quiet weekend in cinemas – top the $31.1m (£20m) entrance for Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert in 2008.

Travolta’s most recent gift was the actor’s nastiest breach weekend because misfire game of chance comedy Lucky Numbers took $4.5m (£2.9m) in October 2000.

Mel Gibson suspenseful story Edge of Darkness and comedy Tooth Fairy starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson completed the top five.

A further new entry in the top 10 was Oscar-nominated Crazy Heart at eight, starring Jeff Bridges as a hard-living country music singer.

for the meantime, Avatar has turn into the most victorious film of all time at the UK box office.

UK cinemas have sold £71.6m of ticket for the sci-fi fable since it premiered on 10 December, surpass the £69.17m Mamma Mia! Took in 2008.

MUMBAI: Katrina Kaif is reconsidering attractive on Abbas Mustan’s remake of ‘The Italian Job’. This is because her role is they say that somewhat inconsequential.

Katrina is having next judgment regarding the film since she read the handwriting, yet while she gamely decided at first. According to source, given that she started generous hits, she has turned into hard to please about her role and won’t sign on whatever thing just because it has big names. She also doesn’t wish for to sign on the film because she believes her role has no extent.

She was enthusiastic on liability the film at initial because it starred Saif Ali Khan. But she had gone attention in the film as soon as Saif left it. This is not the first film she has crooked down. In fact, in new months, it’s the third film she has refuse after in agreement to be a part of it to begin with, the other two being Sanjay Gadhvi’s ‘7 Days In Paris’ and Anees Bazmee’s ‘Thank You’.

Though, she might have the same opinion to be a part of ‘The Italian Job’ if the essential changes in the writing are made.