‘Shootout at Wadala’ stars wow Dubai fans

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Published Sunday, April 28, 2013

By Bindu Suresh Rai

They came, they smiled and that was all it took for Dubai-based Bollywood fans to be impressed by the star power that descended onto the city Thursday, in a bid to promote the upcoming 'Shootout at Wadala'.

The glitterati included John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor and Sophie Choudhary, who gushed, danced and simply made merry for all of 15 minutes at Ibn Battuta, but yet managed to bring the house down with their media savvy stance.

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Hundreds descended upon the popular shopping mall hours before the 6pm start time for the concert, which ultimately kicked off with the celebs in action only at 7.45pm.

But fans didn't appear to care, as many performed routine song and dances on stage with the presenters, while sending up cheers every few minutes thinking the stars have finally arrived.

And when they did, the deafening noise was enough to drown out the attempts by the stars, until finally Anil Kapoor made the appeal to pipe the chords down so they could interact with fans.

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Mouthing their most famous dialogues from Bollywood films, Anil did his "jhakaas" routine, while Tusshar aped his character from the "Golmaal" series.

Manoj, of course, couldn't escape without a stint from "Satya", but the crowd wanted John and they got his raw power as the hunky actor mouthed a dialogue from the upcoming "SAW".

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Fans were also pleased to see Sunny finally unleased onto the emirate, minus the cage that saw her gig cancelled last weekend.

The stunning starlet shook a hip to her item song "Laila" with John and Tusshar in two, while Sophie put her vocal chords to the test with "Ala re Ala".

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