SCOOP!! & NEWS Bachchan to be UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador14th Apr 2005 10.21 IST By Agencies Mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be formally nominated as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador today. Bachchan will be nominated by the executive director of the UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador at the UNICEF house's Danny Kaye Visitor's Centre in New York, the UN agency's sources said. The event will include a greeting and a signing ceremony. 
Meanwhile, during his visit to the US, Bachchan on Wednesday urged Hollywood to help his Bollywood colleagues find larger US audiences for their films. Bachchan told reporters that cultural barriers and poor marketing have contributed to lackluster US box office results. "Bollywood is a movement known to Americans only through satire," he said. "That needs to change." Bachchan said the Indian film industry could use help from American studios. "We want to discuss how they can assist us. The Americans have a very good marketing system and pattern in place, which can, and should be emulated," he said. Bollywood, the nickname for India's film industry because much of it is concentrated in Bombay, turns out three times as many films each year as Hollywood, many of them escapist musical extravaganzas that captivate cinema fans around the world. In the United States however, the movies have failed to lure big audiences to megaplex theaters where Hollywood shows the bulk of its offerings. Instead, they find much of their popularity among fans of art and independent filmmaking. The recent Aishwarya Rai starrer Bride and Prejudice has generated only $6.2 million at US and Canadian box offices, or about 33 percent of its worldwide total. | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ Hello – Movie Review ~ Akshay Kumar replaces Amitabh in Deepa Mehta film ~ Mona Singh joins '3 Idiots' ~ 'Roadside Romeo' gets shorter? ~ Arjun Bajwa being sought by Telugu filmmakers ~ Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar bhai bhai ~ Shweta Kumar not scared of comparisons ~ Amitabh Bachchan's Hollywood foray still a distant dream ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Shahrukh to be star attraction of Singapore carnival ~ Rekha working on her autobiography ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Hello, Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Heroes , Karzzzz , Golmaal Returns MUSIC Drona , Kidnap celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Salman Khan | Aishwarya Rai | Shahrukh Khan | Akshay Kumar | Kareena Kapoor | Ranbir Kapoor | Priyanka Chopra | Kajol | Mallika Sherawat | Rani Mukherjee | Hrithik Roshan | Vidya Balan | Amrita Rao | Genelia D'Souza | Sneha Ullal | Riya Sen | Preity Zinta | Bipasha Basu | Minissha Lamba | Ayesha Takia | Imran Khan | Nigar Khan | John Abraham | Sherlyn Chopra MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Drona | Kidnap | Hello | Fashion | EMI | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Raat Gayi Baat Gayi | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai | Aashayein | Paathshaala | Dostana | Toonpur Ka Superhero | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi | Rang Rasiya | Chal Chala Chal | Heroes | Karzz | Horn Ok Please | Golmaal Returns | Ghajini | Yuvvraaj | Kambakth Ishq | Dil Kabaddi | Billoo Barber | | 
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