Dubai got to breathe the same air as Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone as they filmed Happy New Year in September last year. As the city gears up to host the star-studded premiere on Wednesday at Atlantis, The Palm, featuring its lead cast, tabloid! has put together some numbers behind the scenes and the impact it had on movie-mad Indians:
1 million: The number of views for Padukone’s raunchy song Lovely, nine hours after its release.
3000000: The number of views for the video of Manwa Laage featuring Khan and Padukone in 65 hours.
2000: The number of rotten tomatoes thrown at the cast during a scene filmed at Atlantis, The Palm.
200: The number of extras from Dubai hired for scenes set here.
110: The number of rooms booked at the Palm Jumeirah-based hotel for the Happy New Year crew.
50: The number of hotel staff from Atlantis, The Palm that were hired to act in the film.
21: The number of days that the Happy New Year gang stayed in the hotel property to film scenes.
19: The number of days that the Happy New Year crew filmed at Atlantis, The Palm.
10: The number of scuba divers required for a scuba diving dance scene shot at the Ambassador Lagoon.
10: The number of dance teams that will be seen competing in Happy New Year, a heist thriller-meets-splashy musical.
8: The number of wreathes installed in the Grand Lobby at Atlantis. Also: the number of abs that Khan built to play Charlie in HNY.
6: The number of cities that the Happy New Year cast staged their Slam! The Tour (song-dance concert) in the US and Canada.
3: The number of helicopters used for Happy New Year’s Dubai-set sequences shot over seven days.
3: The number of languages that Happy New Year will release in. Watch out for Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
2: The number of dolphins needed for a video shoot and the number of times that the Happy New Year crew pulled in an all-night shoot from 6pm to 6am.
1: The number of giant Christmas trees that was installed in the lobby for a scene.
1: Happy New Year is the first Indian film team to visit the Google Headquarter and Twitter Headquarter in San Jose, USA.
