Abhishek stars in Aamir’s Delhi Belly

Abhishek Bachchan has had an interesting year with a slew of interesting films. He himself has been saying this, “My first release this year was ‘Sarkar Raj’. I went on to ‘Drona’. Now I end the year with ‘Dostana’. Then comes ‘Dilli 6′. I’m happy with the work I’ve done regardless of whether the film has been successful or not. The important thing is to enjoy the journey. I look back on the year with fond memories.”

Now he’s starring in ‘Delhi Belly’ director Abhinay Deo’s next film.

He’s confirmed it, “I’ve always been impressed by his ads. When I heard he was making feature films I was keen to work with him.”

Now he has Rajiv Menon’s film who has earlier directed his wife Aishwarya in the Tamil film ‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’.

It is a subject which is just similar and isn’t exactly a remake of ‘Abhimaan’ and both have said yes to the project. Then there’s Rohan Sippy’s next which will be as different as Bluff Master. Then there’s Rakeysh Mehra’s ‘Paanch Kaurav’ with Pa.

So it’s obvious that there’ll be a lot of Abhishek on screen in 2009.

Hollywood body double for Abhishek

The ‘Dilli 6′ unit has hired a body double for AB Jr. This has spared Abhishek the risk of doing dangerous stunts in the film.

Sounds so much like a blessing for baby B. After all he must have got fed up of doing stunts and so much hard work uselessly for that huge flop called ‘Drona’.

To make things easy for him director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra decided to hire a body double for him from Hollywood, no less for the life risking stunts.

The 25 year old Dean Alexandrou has previously done stunts for small time Hollywood films like ‘Vampire: The Turning’ and ‘The Kingmaker’. He has also won the British blackbelt Taekwondo championship in 2001.

He was also Imran Khan’s body double in another super flop ‘Kidnap’.

According to a source, “Dean is known for performing very risky and difficult aerial and acrobatic stunts. He is British, Rakeysh’s film needed Abhishek do a lot of aerial stunts and Dean was the perfect person for doing those. He is trained in martial arts and he is also a champion in Taekwondo. He has done some amazing and risky stuff in the film.”

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