Amazing Bollywood

Inspite of all the flak 'Saawariya' has received, Ranbir Kapoor has become a darling with girls. Will this help him find strong footing in Bollywood? When we quizzed Bollywood's leading publicist Dale Bhagwagar about this, he had an interesting take on the situation.

"Ranbir is already on strong footing. Though he has made some mistakes and needs to immediately look into them. He's been grudging the fourth estate for being too critical of him. He should stop doing that," said the PR specialist.

He analyzed, "It is not Ranbir's fault that he was recklessly over-hyped. Expectations had zoomed putting extraordinary pressure on the debutant to deliver brilliantly. Ranbir has done a relatively good job in the film. He has also shown that he has the potential to become a big star."

"Instead of attacking the media (which will not serve any purpose), he should direct his energies towards expressing gratitude for the vast appreciation the masses have showered upon him.

His media strategies need solid revamp. Cause, right now, by messing with the media, he seems to be going the Salman Khan way."

The hottest dude of Bollywood Akshay Kumar’s Sikh forthcoming movie ‘Singh is Kinng’ has been in controversies from the time the first promotional still of the film was released.

It is being said that his clean-shaven face with a trendy turban is a mere mockery of the Sikh culture.A photo of Akshay on the net is also greatly objected by Punjabi community in Australia.

However, director Vipul Shah tells the photo does not depict Akki’s real look in the film. It was taken without permission. Vipul Shah defends himself by saying that Akshay is himself a Punjabi and is working in close coordination with stylist Shabina Khan for his look in the film. Apart from this, a local Sikh is always on the sets to guide Akshay about how to wear a turban.

Vipul Shah is shooting almost half of the movie in Australia. And the second half will be shot in Punjab, Mumbai and Egypt.

The latest rumour says that the cool dude of Bollywood Hrithik Roshan is making his Hollywood debut with none other than the Hollywood hottie Penelope Cruz.

The film will be extensively shot in Hollywood. Penelope’s agent, who had asked for Hrithik’s profile, was absolutely stunned by his international look and recommended him to the Spanish actress

Bollywood’s the perfectionist and choosy hero Aamir Khan declined the offer from Madam Tussauds, saying “It’s not important to me. I have been approached but I am not interested. People will see my films if they want to. Also, I can’t deal with so many things; I have bandwidth only for that much. So things that don’t interest me, I just let them pass. Each one has their own priorities on what interests them.”

Mr. Khan was approached earlier in the year by Madam Tussauds in London to be the fourth Bollywood figure to be waxed on the famed celebrity museum of London.

Rumours are also on with Salman Khan who unlike Aamir Khan has agreed to comply to be put into the wax museum. Earlier, there was a widespread speculation that Tamil superstar Rajnikanth would be the entry into Tussauds this year however unfortunately that did not became a reality.

Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector and Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a division of Carving Dreams Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the country's leading talent agency have signed Bollywood Superstar Hrithik Roshan as the main lead for their debut co-production venture.

Kishore Lulla, Chairman & CEO, Eros International further added, "We are happy to be working with Carving Dreams, one of the best outfits in the business of celebrity and entertainment marketing. I am delighted that Hrithik Roshan will be playing the lead role. That has elevated out first project together to an entirely different level. We are looking forward to a wonderful relationship & many more such ventures and specifically giving this particular film a great global distribution and marketing platform pulling our entire group's resources together."

Announcing the deal, Bunty Bahl, Director, Carving Dreams Motion Pictures said, "We are very pleased to be collaborating with Eros International, who are clearly the market leaders in film production and global distribution today. Having worked closely with Hrithik Roshan as his business mangers for over two years now, we hope to be sensitive to his creative needs and expect him to be involved in our film beyond the boundaries of an actor. As we foray into film production, Hrithik was the most natural choice for us to fortify our relationship further. The Hrithik-Carving Dream-Eros combo is sure to create waves."

The news is spreading like wildfire that bold actress Kangna Ranaut appeared nude for the cover of a film magazine. However, the actress is unperturbed by the news because she knows what she is doing.

She said that there is nothing wrong with the pictures because she has body suits with no vital organs seen. She added that she hasn't posted nude. In spite of the all the furore the rumour has created, she is not disappointed because she knows that this is part of her profession.

Here is an exclusvie pic of Hansika Motwani where she her tummy and hips by wearing a low waist jeans. And if u notice carefully, she has folded the belt portion of her jeans for the maximum exposure of her booty. Great work Hansika, gud to see u exposing.

Bollywood Stars [from left] Akshaye Khanna, Sameera Reddy, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Saif Ali Khan walk on the ramp at the Provogue Autumn-Winter 2007 Launch

Shilpa shetty has been hogging much of the limelight for Miss Bollywood, Anusha Dandekar has been grossly neglected by everyone. She hasnt really done many movies , although she was noticed in the mumbai matinee item number "loot gaye" and her groovy moves seem to have landed her a role in Miss Bollywood.

The grand finale of the much-awaited musical reality show was held at Andheri Sports Complex. Ishmeet, who hails from Ludhiana, beat Harshit Saxena from Lucknow in the closely contested final. The event, hosted by singer Shaan, had quite a few hi-profile guests including actress Madhuri Dixit and legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. The dancing queen of Bollywood entertained the audience and participants alike by singing a couple of lines of a song from her forthcoming film ‘Aaja Nachle'.

Vivah has made a helluva difference to its lead player Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao. If individually they are now in a position to pick and choose, as a team they’re even more in demand.

Not only did they deliver a hit in their first film Ishq Vishq, they also proved themselves an unexpected bonanza in Vivah. And if director Sooraj Barjatya had his way he would probably have them back together in his next film.

In fact Sooraj confesses he never felt the absence of his favourite hero Salman Khan once Shahid faced the camera.

As for Amrita, the minute he saw her in Ishq Vishq, Sooraj decided no other heroine could play his simple yet elegant and utterly Indian small-town heroine in Vivah.

Kareena who had set her heart on being in Bajatyas’ next after Main Prem Ki Diwani Hai specially when she got to know Shahid was in the film had to be gently told she didn’t suit the role.

Naturally post-Vivah a cluster of filmmakers are keen to sign the Shahid-Amrita pair together, one of them being David Dhawan whose new film for UTV is his first non-comic outing since Swarg and Andhiyaan at the beginning of his brimming career.

After initial consultation, however, Shahid and Dhawan stayed away from each other. A probable reason? The couple would like to remain special and exclusive for Sooraj Barjatya who might want to cast them together again.

Shahid is therefore out, Sidharth the choosy Rang De Basanti Telugu actor has taken over the onus of hero-giri in Dhawan’s film.

Confirming her presence in David Dhawan’s film Amrita says, “It’s not a typical David Dhawan film at all. From what I could make out of the script it’s far removed from the image that he has.”

As for Siddharth, Amrita says she hasn’t met him as yet. “But I’m sure we’ll make an interesting and convincing pair.”

Not too many leading men would seem to suit the petite and painfully tender –looking Amrita. In fact in her next release My Name Is Anthony Gonzalves Amrita is teamed with a newcomer Nikhil Diwedi.

Ever wondered why Bollywood’s hottest belle has seldom been linked with men!

Gossipmongers have been kind to Mallika Sherawat . Except Rahul Bose perhaps, she hasn’t yet been linked with any of her co-stars. It is incredible how the sensuous belle has avoided getting romantically involved with men. But that, it now seems, is not exactly the case.

According to a report in the latest edition of Stardust, there is a mystery man in Mallika’s life.

Without revealing the man’s name, the magazine says he is “an owner of a leading GSM company in India”. Mallika reportedly met him at a party in Delhi and there was an instant chemistry between the two. Their relationship apparently developed over a course of time.

The article also says that Mallika’s secret beau has bought a bungalow for her.

There are other reports that say the couple has also been to a vacation in Europe.

Mallika, who is presently working in Pritish Nandy Communications project Ugly And Pagli , is remaining tightlipped about the rumours. She apparently wants to keep the fling secret because her beau is a married man.

With both OSO and Saawariya outscoring the Robert Redford-Tom Cruise political thriller, ‘Lions for Lambs’, at the international box-office, our desi actors have surely made a mark on the international scene.

To add to that, the latest rumour says that Hrithik Roshan is making his Hollywood debut with none other than Penélope Cruz. The film will be extensively shot in Hollywood.

Penélope’s agent, who had asked for Hrithik’s profile, was bowled over by his international look and recommended him to the Spanish actress.

On the female front, after Ash, it is Rani Mukherjee now who has been offered a role in Hollywood. However, the lady says she wants to do interesting roles and the country she works hardly matters. Rani says that she is not willing to go west just for the sake of acting in a Hollywood movie.

Produce Vipul Shah has come up with a novel idea to keep the cast of his film ‘Singh is Kinng’ happy. All his cast members have taken their families along for the two-month-long schedule at Goa Coast in Australia.

Katrina Kaif is staying along with her family, her mom and sisters, in the apartments at Q1, world’s tallest residential tower. Vipul Shah and Akshay Kumar are also there with their families, following which there is a considerable kids group on the sets. The ‘bachcha party’ includes Akshay’s six-year-old son Aarav, Vipul’s sons six-year-old Aryaman and five-year-old Maurya and kids of the line producers.

Talking about it Vipul says, “It becomes extremely difficult to stay away from your family for over two months. We have a start-to-finish schedule at Gold Coast, and that’s when I asked everyone to bring their families along.”

The chemistry of Sushmita Sen and SRK was breathtaking in ‘Main Hoon Na’. Now, they will share the screen space again in Mudassar Aziz’s debut film ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’. However, Shahrukh only makes a guest appearance in the film opposite Sushmita. The shooting will start in Trinidad and Tobago in March 2007 and Sush is very excited about it.
“I’m looking forward to visiting Trinidad. It was one of the first countries I visited as Miss Universe. I was so touched when Viveck Vaswani (producer) told me people still have my picture in their homes in Trinidad.
Filming there would be fun. And yes, Shah Rukh and I were really good in Main Hoon Na. Dulha Mil Gaya would probably be an encore,” says the charming lady.

You would think he doesn’t need to go on a fitness drive anymore, bulging as he is with biceps and triceps. But John Abraham can’t have enough of fitness- and can’t seem to stop sending out those public awareness messages that gladden the health lobby. The brawny Bollywood hero, after playing the role of a nicotine- craving chain smoker speeding down the highway of doom in Anurag Kashyap’s ‘No Smoking’, has now signed up as the face of the Mumbai Marathon 2008, scheduled to be held in January. And he is not stopping at that- the easy rider has also got himself chosen as the brand ambassador for the English Premiere League, and is reportedly thrilled to be associated with a game he has played since childhood. And all this when memories of a leaf-clad John endorsing vegetarianism are still fresh in most minds. Way to go, John!

The Jaitley girl has been traveling quite a lot these days. In fact, of late, she has been living life literally out of her suitcase. First she was in Egypt as their brand ambassador, then off to LA shooting for her Hollywood project, came to Mumbai for two days and then went to London. From there she flew down to Dubai, back to Mumbai and finally to Mauritius shooting for her film ‘Money Hai to Honey Hai’. Phew! Must say the girl is quite busy these days.

Amrita Rao’s next on the box-office will be ‘My Name is Anthony Gonzalves’ opposite the newcomer Nikhil Diwedi.
Now, she has signed up David Dhawan’s new film for UTV which will be his first non-comic outing since ‘Swarg’ and ‘Andhiyaan’ at the beginning of his brimming career.
Though David initially wanted Shahid Kapoor as his male lead, eventually, Sidharth the choosy Rang De Basanti Telugu actor has taken over the onus of hero-giri in Dhawan’s film.
Confirming her presence in David Dhawan’s film Amrita says, “It’s not a typical David Dhawan film at all. From what I could make out of the script it’s far removed from the image that he has.”
As for Siddharth, Amrita says she hasn’t met him as yet. “But I’m sure we’ll make an interesting and convincing pair,” says the gal.

She is looking all shaped-up, gorgeous and confident. She is still basking in the success of her recent release ‘Jab We Met’. She has already been featured in ads for Globus, Citizen Watches, Emami Winter Care Cream, Lux, and ICI Paints… And now she has signed two more brands, viz., Head & Shoulders and ITC soap.

The ITC soap will be under the baton of Fiama Di Wills’ range of personal products. Besides all of that, she is also in talks with an international company for a personal care product.

That being her endorsements list, Kareena also has her career graph on an upward swing like never before. At present, she is busy with Yash Raj Film’s ‘Tashan’ and Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision’s ‘Golmaal Returns’.

Madhuri Dixit’s dancing skills have not faded a bit with passing years, as is undoubtedly proved by the promos of her forthcoming flick ‘Aaja Nachle’ releasing on 30th November.
Now, Mads will make her fans dance along again with her dance number ‘Dance With Me’. This English track has been written by Asif Ali Beg who in the past has written for films like ‘NEAL N NIKKI’, ‘DHOOM 2’ and ‘VICTORIA NO. 203’, among others. The song crooned by Sonia Saigal will show Madhuri’s grip in western dance too.
Meanwhile, if sources are to be believed this dance diva is unhappy with the way her comeback film is being promoted. Madhuri Dixit feels that the promos and the storyline of the film were leaked too early thus choking the interest and curiosity of the audiences. Anyway, she is keeping her fingers crossed to see the fate of her ambitious project.

Actress Priyanka chopra playing a role of bodyguard to Abhishek bachan in a film Drona.
She is learning a Sikh Martial Arts in Punjab for the movie. she adds “i had to get train for the Sikh Martial Art for using kirpans and chakkars”. she said it was difficult to play the art and it need lot of flexibility. At last she said I’m glad to play the role of Bodyguard.

An application has been filed against actor Shahid Kapoor and actress Kareena Kapoor besides the director and the producer of film ‘Jab We Met’ before local Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court for showing Ratlam as a hub for prostitution.
Advocate Yogesh Sharma’s counsel Santosh Tripathi had filed an application against Shahid, Kareena, film director Imtiaz Ali and producer Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Pvt Ltd under sections 500, 501, 502 and 505 of the IPC.
The application stated that a criminal act has been committed by defaming Ratlam in the film. He demanded strict punishment for culprits.
The CJM recorded statement of Mr Sharma and witness Naman Rathore. The court fixed November 22 for recording rest primary evidence.

Kareena Kapoor has been paired opposite box-office king Akshay Kumar in Sajid Nadiadwala's next Kambakth Ishq. The film will be directed by Sabir Khan.
It is the first film Kapoor has signed post the highly appreciated and successful film Jab We Met. Says Kareena, "This is the first film I have signed post Jab We Met. It's a very unusual love story and I loved the script, and besides I always wanted to act in Sajid Nadiadwala's banner. Besides I am also looking forward to work with Akshay again after YashRaj's Tashan. This will be our fifth film together and we share an excellent chemistry on screen."
The shooting of Kambakth Ishq is slated to begin from January 2008 with nine actors from Hollywood and shot in exotic locales of Los Angeles.

Thanks to London’s famous wax museum, Madame Tussaud,Aishwary Bachcha and former flame Salman Khan will get to be together.
Well, we’re talking about their wax statues at the museum. Salman’s statue at the museum will be unveiled in January 2008. Aishwarya already has a statue dedicated to her at the museum. Our source says, “This will immortalise them together.”
And the reasons for placing the statues together are purely business oriented. “After SRK’s wax figure in Madame Tussauds was unveiled, business quadrupled. If Salman and her statues are paired together, business will further multiply,” the source adds. When contacted, Salman Ahmed (Group Managing Director of Bobby Khan Holdings who now have the rights to open Madame Tussauds in Mumbai) says, “There has never been any branding here but recently, we have been inundated by offers from corporates in India. A new zone called the Bollywood Zone is being created,” he added.
When questioned about whether Salman’s statue was being placed beside Aishwarya, he said, “There is a good possibility for everything, depending on the demand and of course, Madame Tussauds authorities.”

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