Ek Ajnabee goes to Hollywood

Producer Bunty Walia is maha excited. "My brother and I got a letter from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Hollywood last week asking us if we could give them the screenplay of Ek Ajnabee to put in their permanent library collection, which means it will be read by people all over the world. It came as a bolt from the blue. We are thrilled!" he says.

So, for Walia's sake, we will ignore the fact that it wasn't an original script to begin with. He goes on to add, "We have moved onto our next project Just Punjabi, which we will launch in 2007.

It will be directed by Apoorva Lakhia and the cast includes Mr Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Abhishek. Aishwarya is on my wish list of heroines." Strangely, the previously flop Ash-Abhi jodi is most wanted on-screen these days…