Amitabh Bachchan arrives today for five-day Gujarat ad shoot

India’s Legendary film star Amitabh Bachchan today arrived back to Gujarat. Bachchan arrived at Ahemdabad airport around noon and drove to nearby Gateway hotel of Taj Group where he stays whenever he visits Ahmedabad.

This will be five-day long visit to Gujarat for Bachchan which will include places like Ahmedabad, Porbandar, Gandhidham and Dwarka where his shooting for phase two of Gujarat Tourism ad campaign is scheduled. The final product of advertisements would be released on TV, in the newspapers and in multiplexes outside Gujarat.

Bachchan is going to begin his phase two shooting at the Sabarmati Ashram of Ahmedabad. It is believed that Bachchan will meet the Chief Minister on same day. He would then go to Lothal the next day and to Adalaj ni Vav. Both places are located near Ahmedabad. On August 18 and 19 he would be visiting Porbandar where Mahatma Gandhi was born. He will also go to Chowpatty of Porbander for shoot, where sand sculptures are to be made to showcase as tourism attraction. Bachchan will spend last two days at Shri Krishna’s kingdom Dwarka, Bet Dwarka and also one of the twelve Jyotirlingas Shri Nageshwar Shiv Mandir, where Lord Shiva’s huge murthy is installed. Big B will then leave for Mumbai.

Bachchan’s third and final visit for propagating Gujarat tourism is likely to take place some time in November at Saputara, the only one hill station in Gujarat.

According to Gujarat Tourism Secretary Vipul Mitra(IAS), Bachchan has accepted Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit Kutch Rann Utsav 2010 in the Rann of Kutch, and VVIP AC tents for him and his family(Jaya, Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan) are already booked.