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They are two of the highest tax paying celebs from Bollywood and now they are urging the aam admi to pay taxes rightly and on time in a latest documentary by the Income Tax Department. The 20-minute-long documentary will have Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan spreading the message of tax compliance. It will have Om Puri’s voice-over and also feature Priyanka Chopra reportedly. The documentary will be unveiled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the first-ever Income Tax day celebrations on July 24 in New Delhi, to mark 150 years of taxation in the country. Akshay and Aamir are exemplary tax-payers from Hindi film industry. Akshay paid an advance tax of Rs 9 crore in March this year, taking his total advance tax payment in the current financial year to Rs 18 crore. Aamir with an advance tax payment of Rs 12 crore stands second.

Director Anurag Basu came up with the strong and powerful subject in ‘Silence’, but the movie has been suffering delay due to the starry issues of the female actresses. Earlier Priyanka Chopra was supposed to play the lead role in the film, but when Asin and Katrina Kaif who were earlier chosen for equally pivotal roles in the film chose to opt out fearing that they would be sidelines with Priyanka playing the plum role, the project’s future seemed to be at dismay. It was then that Piggie Chops decided to take action as she felt that ‘Silence’ is too powerful a project to be stalled. So, she took a step which no leading actress would dare to and she decided to swap roles and go for the one which was comparatively weaker so that the project moved further. Now, PC essays a mentally challenged person alongside Ranbir Kapoor, who enacts a deaf mute guy in the hero and director Anurag Basu intends to take Priyanka Chopra to a mental asylum to help her get into the skin of her role. Confirmi

Superstar Shahrukh Khan’s wife Gauri Khan has been known to shy away from cameras though she has been associated with the entertainment world sharing the background scene. She designed SRK’s costumes for the movie ‘Baazigar’, was the producer for ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’. But this is the first time she will be facing the camera and that for a commercial with hubby King Khan. The duo will be seen together in a commercial for a rather popular furnishing house to be shot by Sunhil Sippy (director of ‘Snip’) and slated to be filmed in Mumbai shortly. The other team members will be Sunhil’s friends Makarand Deshpande and Saurabh Shukla. Though Gauri has had a lot of offers for commercials earlier but things never seemed to work out. This would be her first start and with this, the SRK-Gauri team would give competition to other star couples who rule the endorsement world these days, Abhishek and Aishwarya, Saif and Bebo… to name a few…..