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Amisha Patel

20 Bollywood stars to go to Pakistan
20th June 2006 11.35 IST
By Agencies

A score of stars and celebrities from the Hindi film industry will appear on Pakistan Television.

Seizing the initiative from private channels, state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) is all set to create history by holding a nine-hour telethon with 20 top Bollywood stars this month to raise funds for victims of the October 8 earthquake.

Amisha Patel , Shilpa Shetty , Neha Dhupia , Zeenat Aman , Jackie Shroff , Javed Akhtar , Shabana Azmi , Aftab Shivdashani , Dino Morea and Celina Jaitley are among the stars who have confirmed participation in the event scheduled for June 25, PTV Marketing Director Khawar Azhar told a news agency.

Sri Devi, Boney Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, Prem Chopra and Gulshan Grover will also take part. Efforts were on to bring legendary Bollywood couple Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu to take part in the programme, he said.

The Indian stars would be brought to Karachi by a special Pakistan International Airline (PIA) flight which would be named "Mughal-e-Azam", the famous Prithviraj Kapoor movie which earned the distinction of being the first Indian film to be permitted for screening in Pakistani theatres, ending a four-decade old ban.

A PTV team would also be on board and record interviews of the artists during the flight and arrival of the artists would be live covered on the PTV, Azhar said.

PTV has built a special set featuring Mughal architecture as the venue for the programme at a cost of Rs three millions. The income generated would be donated for the special quake relief fund set up by President Pervez Musharraf, he said.

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