It's that time of the year when everyone says
Goodbye! to the year gone by and get all geared up to say
Welcome! to the New Year.
In between the departure of the old year and the advent of New Year lies something like the midnight for which everyone waits with bated breath, to welcome the New Year with open arms.
For the urban crowd, the New Year celebrations include shelling out money in some of the 5 star mega structured hotels to see some of the Bollywood heroines, performing live.
But the flip side of the coin is that this money gets translated into a pot-full of moolah, for these heroines, and these pot-full goes to the tunes of anywhere between a few lakhs till crores, depending upon the saleability quotient of the star.
Bollywood Buzz brings to you an insight of the star-charges and the places where you can go star-hunting (with the damages, of course!)
Topping this year's pricey-list is none other than
Bipasha Basu who will be performing at the
JW Marriott, Juhu.
She is reportedly said to be charging a staggering Rs 90 lakhs!
The costs of the tickets are kept at Rs 11,500 per person (including taxes and food). But then, who needs booze when the intoxicating
Bips is around!
Though some portion of the market says that the figures have just been exaggerated (and that the actual figures rest at Rs 72 lakhs), whereas the other portion of the market says that the figure quoted is lesser than what she is charging (and that the actual figures rest at a staggering Rs 1.23 crores!)
Rumors have it that come what may,
Bipasha cannot be a
Mallika Sherawat as the latter's pull is far greater than the former.
Last year,
Mallika pulled off a show-stopper of a show with a price tag attached of Rs 50 lakhs for a half-an-hour performance!
The Drama Queen
Rakhi Sawant, along with her boyfriend
Abhishek Awasthi and
DJ Whosane, will also be performing on New Year's Eve.
You can find all of them performing at
Tulip Star Hotel, Juhu. The charges here are Rs 7000 for a couple entry with unlimited food and drinks.
Rakhi is reported to have charged the organizers a whopping Rs 51 lakhs for her performance!
Rumors are also rife that
Rakhi will make the most of this platform to project her
angst against Star TV for their allegedly
rigged voting system in
Nach Baliye, where she and her boyfriend
Abhishek lost to
Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali.
Not far behind are
Tanushree Dutta and
Koena Mitra, who will be joined along with the songster
Mika in
Sahara Star, Mumbai.
The rates of the tickets here are priced at Rs 20,000 for couples and Rs 11,500 for singles.
Koena is supposedly charging the organizers Rs 27 lakhs for her 16 minute performance whereas
Tanushree Dutta has been signed up for Rs 15 lakhs for her 24 minutes performance.
The next in row are an array of celebrities who will be India-trotting as a part of their New Year performances:
Amrita Arora (performing in Bangalore) and
Malaika Arora (performing in Delhi)
Neha Dhupia - performing in Ahmedabad.
Udita Goswami - performing in Pune.
One of the event organizers said, "The charges of these stars are directly proportional to their popularity.
Malaika Arora command easily upto Rs 25-30 lakhs whereas
Amrita Arora charges Rs 12 lakhs.
Neha Dhupia charges anywhere between Rs 15-20 lakhs
and
Udita Goswami, who used to charge Rs 15 lakhs for any performance earlier, has now reduced to Rs 5-8 lakhs."
With so much happening this New Year's Eve, who wouldn't wanna be a sell-e-brity!!
