Akshay back on Bachchans' world tour

By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, March 27 (IANS) While actress Lara Dutta has opted out of the Bachchans' "Unforgettable Show" world tour because of her knee injury, Akshay Kumar has decided to join it, though he will perform only at select venues. The show's organisers Wizcraft are now in the process of finalising seven to eight big stars from Bollywood to accompany Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan, and Aishwarya Rai at various venues in July and August.

"Akshay is back in the Bachchans' world tour. But he'll join them only at selected venues because that is all Akshay's schedules allow," said a source.

"Likewise, at other centres we're roping in other A-listers who will join the Bachchans as they perform all over the US and later Europe. In this way there would be a couple of big surprise guest appearances by marquee names in every city, though rightly the focus of interest would remain the Bachchan family," added the source.

Composer duo Vishal-Shekhar has been confirmed as a part of the tour. They will be accompanying the Bachchans for all their concerts, just like decades ago Kalyanji-Anandji used to be an integral part of the Big B's concerts.

In fact, an album featuring Abhishek with guest vocals by the Big B that Vishal-Shekhar have been putting together for the last two years will finally be ready to coincide with the Bachchans' world concert.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/lara-out-b ut-akshay-back-on-bachchans-world-tour_10031958.html

I wonder how else they will get in

The Bachchan's Unforgettable concert will see bollywood's biggest names like Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya touring different parts of USA and Europe performing their song and dance shows. The concerts will also have Bipasha Basu and Ritesh Deshmukh as part of the tour. Sources claimed that the organisers, Wizcraft had earlier also approached Akshay Kumar to be a part of the tour; however it supposedly did not work out due to Akshay quoting an astronomical fee. But sources claim that the tour may after all have Akshay Kumar performing with the rest of the group, but only at a select few places.


Sources claim "Akshay is back in the Bachchan's world tour. But he'll join them only at select venues because that's all his schedule will allow." Akshay is also supposedly being paid a huge amount for his guest appearances in the Unforgettable tour. Earlier actress Lara Dutta too was roped in to be a part of the tour; however she recently opted out due to a knee injury. Now it seems that apart from Akshay doing guest appearances at select shows on the tour, Wizcraft is also keen to rope in other bollywood biggies to do guest appearances at select shows of the Unforgettable tour. By having special bollywood guests at select locations, they would also ensure that the main focus stays on the stars Amitabh, Ash and Abhi.


Music composers and singers, Vishal-Shekhar will also be accompanying the Bachchans for the entire Unforgettable tour. The Unforgettable tour is set to take off in mid 2008 and hence all the actors are currently gearing up for the event.

Found another 1
http://www.bollywoodmantra.com/news/akshay-kumar-may-be-part -of-unforgettable-tour/2434/