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Article: Curry royale: BOND PLANE TO BE ASIAN WEDDING VENUE
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- Eastern Eye
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- April 25, 2008
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JAMES BOND'S Boeing 747 is to be used for Britain's first curry venue in a plane.
Restaurateur Wazid Hassan Shelim has spent over £250,000 to lease the decommissioned British Airways aircraft used by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.
The 36-year-old director of Pride Of Asia restaurant in east London plans to turn the plane, currently stationed at an airfield in Surrey, into one of the most exclusive wedding and conference venues in the country.
He already has his first booking for an Asian wedding in time for the launch this summer.
Mr Shelim told Eastern Eye: "We opened a similar restaurant in Bangladesh last year using a decommissioned Biman plane, and since then, I was on the lookout for ...