Bollywood Celebs to take part in Mumbai Marathon 2012 organised on 15th January 2012

Mumbains are all set to run for noble cause in 9th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon organized on 15th January 2012. The marathon will kick-off at dawn tomorrow. Registrations have already been housefull and are closed months ago. Nearly 39,000 participants will be running in the Mumbai Marathon 2012. John Abraham & former tennis player Vijay Amritraj are the Brand ambassadors of the grand event.

This year 250 running places in the full marathon and 1,000 in the half-marathon for women runners.

Talking about the event, Bruno Goveas, Director - media relations for the promoters, Procam International told that a huge prize amount of  $340,000 will be distributed in different categories of Marathon. Also, there is an overall increase of $15,000 for the different categories of winners, including prizes for the top three winners, as compared to 2011.

Even Indian athletes will be entitled to compete for a separate prize fund for the full marathon, with $52,000 offered, which is $10,000 more than last year.

Accordingly, the top Indian male and female winners will gain $7,500 each while amateur winners in the open marathon will get $1000, $750 and $500 each for the top three slots respectively.

A total of 3,500 people will run for the Full Marathon &11,000 for the Half Marathon. The Dream Run will have 22,000 participants, 1,800 in the Senior Citizens’ Run and 200 in the Wheelchair event.

It will start from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in south Mumbai and go up to Bandra via the Rajiv Gandhi Bandra-Worli Sea Link, before taking a different route to return to the CST.


Bollywood Celebs to take part in Mumbai Marathon 2012:-

As reported many Bollywood celebs will do participate in the Mumbai Marathon-2012. A total of 30 celebs are to take part including Ritesh Deshmukh, Shilpa Shetty, Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Rahul Bose, Vivek Oberoi, Anil Ambani, Anjali Ambani, Tina Ambani, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Chitrangada Sain, Gul Panag, Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor

Madhuri Dixit may work in Ishqiya-2

Madhuri Dixit seems to come back on the silver screen with the most dashing role she would have yet played.  This has been revealed by Sher Lock Homes that she has been called up for sequel of Vishal Bharadwaj’s Ishqiya which starred Naseeruddin Shah, Arsha Warsi and Vidya Balan.

Sequel might be named as Dedh Ishqiya (1-1/2 Ishqiya) and the film might start on the floors later this year. It’s been heard that she was very much impressed with Ishqiya while watching it in US and her words of appreciation have been heard in India too. So, Vishal thought to cast Madhuri in sequel and has convinced her too. Also, Madhuri agreed to do the film. 

Still, final approval will only be made when he will narrate complete script to Madhuri. 

Have your say…Who will be better? Madhuri Dixit or Vidya Balan