Kareena Kapoor's Mumbai plans

Actress Kareena Kapoor will be flagging off a global exhibition of the ‘Bollywood figurines’ of Madame Tussaud’s museum.

It was decided earlier that the figurines will be traveling to six metros in the world but now Kareena has decided to flag it off herself. Sources also say that the actor has requested that her figurine be bought down to Mumbai as well for her fans.

“There has been a request from Kareena asking us if we can bring down her figurine to Mumbai. Since it is an ongoing global exhibition, it can be brought down to Mumbai (there’s Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan etc among the wax figurines on exhibition). They are fuguring out the logistics,” says a source.

Sources say that bringing the wax figurines down from Dubai (that is the nearest location from Mumbai where the exhibition is being held) will be a time consuming and expensive affair but it is not an impossible task.

“The wax statues need to be packed at a special temperature and it has to be maintained all through. They  also need a proper place to set them up. There are plenty of places like that in Mumbai and therefore not impossible. However, some of the officials don’t want a change in the earlier chalked out schedule. But the request has been taken into consideration,” the source adds.

Kareena’s wax figure will be unveiled in October 2011. The six cities that the Bollywood wax figures will travel to include London, Hong Kong and Bangkok, thus reflecting a growing global interest in Bollywood.

Kareena Kapoor seemed too ecstatic at the developments.

“It is an honour and a privilege for me to have my wax-figure at Madame Tussauds and even more so to flag off a global Bollywood exhibition. This is a moment of pride for Indian cinema,” the actor said.

The management at the Blackpool branch of Madamde Tussauds, UK, also confirmed  that Kareena has consented to flag off the tour but didn’t confirm whether Mumbai is on their agenda or not.

“We are very excited to have Kareena in Blackpool to launch our Bollywood figures. It is a real honour to have her here and we know that UK will be very excited to see her and her new wax figure. It is the first time she has been immortalised in wax and the first time these figures will be grouped together. It is the perfect place to launch our Bollywood World tour with the dedicated Bollywood room and look forward to welcoming her fans when the figure goes on display in October,” said Matthew Titherington, General Manager at Madame Tussauds, Blackpool.