IPL Miss Bollywood winners to debut with ‘24×7 Raftaar’
By IANSTuesday, July 7, 2009
NEW DELHI - Dune Kossatz, Genna Cloud and Dunay Nortje - the three winners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Miss Bollywood contest in South Africa - are set to make their debut in tinsel town with 24×7 Raftaar.
All the three South Africans, who were chosen during the five-week Twenty20 extravaganza in April, will be seen together in Percept Picture Company’s (PPC) movie along with Indian actors Emraan Hashmi, Aditya Pancholi, Neha Dhupia and Sagarika Ghatge, said a press release from the film production company.
Bollywood has always appealed to the world. IPL has done a highly commendable job. The winner and runners up will come to India in August for the promotion and shoot of the film, said Navin Shah, CEO, PPC.
The movie, being directed by Shamin Desai, is based on the life of an acclaimed TV reporter who tries to show what lies beneath the world of glamour, money, power and the enviable life of media.
While Kossatz, 35, a model and actress, was named the winner, 24-year-old Genna Cloud, a graduate in business marketing from Johannesburg, won the title of the First Princess, while Nortje was crowned Second Princess.
When the winne’rs name was announced, Kossatz had confessed that she had not seen any Bollywood movies yet, but would start watching them soon. She had also said that she would start learning Hindi as well.
