Ungrateful Deepika

Farah Khan, the ace director of Shah Rukh Khan- Deepika Padukone starrer Om Shanti Om and mentor of the actress, is miffed with the sexy starlet for not keeping in touch with her after the release of the film.

Farah is peeved at the ungrateful attitude of the newcomer and attributes it to the fact that Deepika considers her ‘useless’ for the time being as the impending motherhood would not allow her to direct any new film for a year or so.

Sources say that the sizzling hot and sexy actress has not bothered to get in touch with the gutsy director for months now after the release of her film. Even on Farah Khan’s birthday, when everybody from her directed films went to her home to wish her birthday, Deepika Padukone was conspicuous by her absence. Later, she sent a formal SMS wishing her happy birthday on January 9 and since then there has been no contact between the two ladies.

However, Farah Khan does not want to give importance to the issue saying that if it had been Shah Rukh Khan ignoring her or not keeping in touch with her she would have taken very seriously. Deepika did not matter much to her and so despite the feeling of hurt, does not nurse any grudges. Farah understands that this is the way of the world. People tend to ignore their mentors once they have tasted success and no longer need them. They move on to greener pastures.

Same is happening with Deepika Padukone too. She has been shooting in Australia for a Yash Raj film and no longer needs the help of Farah Khan. The latest sexy siren of bollywood has already bagged projects with prestigious banners like Yash Raj and is in talks with several others. So obviously, she has moved on in life and do not want to look back.

But except the dusky beauty Deepika, all other cast members like Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade from ‘Om Shanti Om’ keep in touch with Farah and she is very proud of this. Even the actors Sunil Shetty, Zayed Khan, Amrita Rao from earlier directed film ‘Main Hoon Naa’ keep in touch and come regularly to meet her.

It may be recalled that Deepika Padukone got a dream break in Farah Khan directed ‘Om Shanti Om’ and went on to become a star overnight. Her character of Shantipriya was very much appreciated by the audiences as well as industry watchers and she reaped the benefit by signing prestigious projects after the film became a super duper hit at the box office. Deepika has also been linked with dashing cricketer Yuvraj Singh and even celebrated her birthday with him in Australia where she had gone to his matches.

Sonam and Hrithik together in Next Venture

Sonam Kapoor, the gorgeous beauty who made her debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya, is set to star opposite Hrithik Roshan in Filmkraft’s next production to be directed by none other than Rakesh Roshan, who had directed the blockbuster Krrish.

Rakesh Roshan made this offer to Sonam’s father Anil Kapoor while visiting his home and sought his permission to cast her opposite Hrithik in his next directorial venture(yet untitled).

Sonam was thrilled with this dream offer and immediately agreed to be part of the film, as a film opposite the only Indian superhero Hrithik Roshan would upgrade her status to grade one heroine. She has already been doing a film ‘ Dilli 6’ with Abhishek Bachchan under the direction of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and this new film with Hrithik Roshan goes to prove that the lady has really impressed the bigwigs of bollywood with her performance in ‘ Saawariya’.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Rakesh Roshan was very impressed with Sonam Kapoor’s performance in Sanjay Bhansali’s Saawariya and wanted her to be part of a film with his company. Another reason is said to be that Rakesh Roshan wanted the pairing of Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor to become popular before Abhishek- Sonam starrer ‘ Dilli 6’ starts its publicity campaign.

Earlier, there was talk of Sonam Kapoor pairing with Hrithik Roshan for a film to be produced by Eros International- Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, but things are still not very clear. And now it seems that before Eros’ project gets underway, Filmkraft will have its way and will showcase the two hottest stars together in its upcoming project.

Meanwhile, Hrithik Roshan’s parents and other members of his family are planning a havan and puja today on his thirty fourth birthday. As the handsome hunk has still not fully recovered from his knee injury, he is expected to celebrate a quite birthday at a suburban restaurant with his wife and baby. No big birthday bash has been planned this year for the Indian superhero.

Shakira in Pokiri

International pop singer Shakira is going to dance in the remake of ‘Pokiri’ movie. Vijay,Asin starrer ‘Pokkiri’ is going to remade in Hindi. The lead roles in this movie are going to be portrayed by Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia. Prabu Deva is going to direct this movie. Boney kapoor has approched pop singer Shakira to dance in one of the songs in this movie. Shakira has been approched to dance in this movie but she has not replied. Her manager has expressed that she’ll agree to this dance. Boney kapoor has mentioned that it will be a proud moment if Shakira agrees.

Tanushree in adventure movie

Tanushree datta is acting as a action heroine in an adventure film for children. The film features six kids, wild animals and professional fighters. Of late Tanushree has been hitting the gym and training in Kathak to tone up her body for ‘Ramma - The Savior’ the adventure movie for kids. When asked why she chose to do a movie for children she says:

I am bored of the glamourous roles. Its boring to sing a song around the trees with the hero. I want to act in different roles. I have acted in a negative role in ‘Raqeeb’. Even the movie was not sucessful, I got good reviews for the movie. Now I am acting in a children’s movie. I have taken special training and learnt martial arts for the actions scenes in this movie.

Akky in BLUE

Akshay Kumar, the handsome hunk with one of the fittest bodies in bollywood, has agreed to work with Priyanka Chopra in upcoming project of Shree Ashtavinayak’s ‘Blue’.

The film will be an action oriented romantic love story to be mounted on a grand scale. This is for the first time after Vipul Shah’s ‘Waqt: The Race Against Time’ in the year 2005 that Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra will be working together in a film.

Earlier, Twinkle Khanna, Akshay Kumar’s wife had prohibited the actor from working with the sexy actress, as she feared that their relationship was getting too cosy for comfort. Though Priyanka Chopra had no objection to working with Akshay Kumar, but Akki was not prepared to create disharmony in his household for the sake of his colleague.

Akshay Kumar- Priyanka Chopra combination have given several hit films at the box office like ‘Andaaz’ in 2003, ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karoge’ in 2004, Aitaraaz in 2004, ‘Waqt’ in 2005 and due to this reason several producers wanted to repeat the jodi in their movies. But Akki was adamant on not working with the sexy siren and hence no project could take off. Even, Sajid Nadiadwala had approached Akshay with a project to work with Priyanka but things did not work out at the time and nothing came out of it.

But now for this Ashtavinayak film, Akshay Kumar is himself taking keen interest to include Priyanka Chopra in the cast as he thinks only she can perform the required action sequences for the film. Priyanka has an agile and athletic physique and has no qualms about performing the stunts. Even in Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Don’ she had performed action sequences with quite ease.

The latest Ashtavinayak film will also have Sanjay Dutt playing an important role in it and the sexy bombshell Lara Dutta will essay his love interest in the ambitious flick.

Cruzing Hrithik

Hrithik Roshan, the handsome hunk of bollywood, is all set to act opposite Hollywood’s gorgeous beauty Penelope Cruz in an upcoming Filmkraft production to be directed by ace director Anurag Basu.

Rakesh Roshan, the producer of the film and Anurag Basu, the director, have already reached Los Angeles to finalize the deal with Penelope Cruz to star in the film.

The script of the film required a sizzling hot beauty from outside the country to play the character of a foreigner in it and Rakesh Roshan zeroed in on Penelope Cruz after consulting his actor son Hrithik Roshan. Even, director Anurag Basu, who had earlier directed such acclaimed films like ‘Gangster’ and ‘Metro’, felt that only Penelope could play the role convincingly in the film and so it was decided to approach the actress.

After Filmkraft office in Mumbai got in touch with Cruz’s office in Los Angeles and an appointment was fixed that they proceeded to sign the actress for the coveted project. Now, the director is planning to start the shooting for the film by the middle of this year. The film belongs to romantic action genre and is expected to be on the lines of ‘Dhoom 2’.

Penelope Cruz is an acclaimed actress of Hollywood and had won the best actress ensemble award at Cannes Film Festival for her acting in Pedro Almodovar’s film ‘Volver.’ She was also nominated for Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Bafta Award. She has been acting in several languages films like Spanish, French, English, Italian and Portuguese and has been appreciated for her acting skills.

On the other hand, Hrithik Roshan too has become an internationally acclaimed performer after he showed mastery of gadgetry and other hi fi things in Yash Raj’s ‘Dhoom 2’ and Rakesh Roshan’s‘ Krrish’. He is now the only bollywood actor who has played the character of superhero in his films with such aplomb and conviction.

The handsome hunk of bollywood has played the character of Mughal Emperor Akbar in the recently released Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘ Jodhaa Akbar’ and his display of histrionics is being widely appreciated by the audience as well as the critics. He is perfectly successful in getting into the skin of the character of the emperor but unfortunately the film as a whole is not as wholesome as ‘Dhoom 2’ or ‘ Krrish’ were earlier.

Hmm….hmm…..whatever may be the fate of other movies but there is no doubt that Hrithik’s Greek god looks combined with the stunningly gorgeous Penelope Cruz can create wonder at the box office in the upcoming Rakesh Roshan’s flick, no??

Johnny Gaddar - movie review

With a truckload of interesting references, Johnny Gaddaar proves that audiences need not be treated as dumb asses looking for juvenile fun and that they do not mind getting sucked into the vortex of an intelligently crafted thriller, provided the screenplay is appropriately coherent. Dharmendra’s Sheshadri is mature and nuanced with some ace dialogues while Vinay Pathak and Zakir Hussain make for a zingy cat and mouse combo. Debutant Neil Nitin Mukesh is the only sore point, with two expressions - one completely blank, and the other, a half smirk which perhaps refers to his amusement that he has been chosen for this project. Ashwini Kalsekar as Vinay’s wife is fantastic even in that limited role. The other highlight is the way music is blended without being an irritant and the fact that every scene is constructed in such a way that there’s a second layer to it that makes us go, ‘Hey, this director is smart’, a lot of times. The ending is both punchy and convincing, bringing together all the threads with a complete bang – literally. Johnny Gaddaar is one of the best films to have hit Bollywood in a long time! Don’t miss it, and spread the word!

Aamir Snubs Kangana

Aamir Khan, the perfectionist actor-turned-director who had a resounding success with his Taare Zameen Par, snubbed the gorgeous starlet Kangana Ranaut at a function recently.

Kangana Ranaut, who rushed to greet the actor after spotting him at the venue, got only a dismissive response from him. The lady became furious at this attitude of the perfectionist Khan and returned to her friends murmuring ‘what the hell Aamir thinks of himself.’

The sources present on the occasion say that Kangana Ranaut was very excited and rattled off the names of several of Aamir Khan’s films, which she had seen and immensely liked, but his response was limited to single words like ‘okay’. Not only this, Aamir Khan even ignored her and continued with the conversation that he was having with some other guests at the time.

The buzz doing the rounds is that Aamir Khan’s strange behaviour with Kangana Ranaut was the result of Kangana’s overenthusiastic attitude during the time of casting for ‘ Ghajini’ remake. At the time of selecting the female lead for the remake, Aamir Khan was seriously considering Kangana for the lead role and talks were in final stages. But Kangana Ranaut could not keep this secret till the time of finalization of the cast by Aamir and hence was ousted from the project.

As everybody knows in the Industry that Aamir Khan never wanted anybody to know about real casting for the movie till he finalized and announced it on his own end. Kangana, being new to the way of bollywood and Aamir Khan’s style of working, could not maintain this secrecy and the information leaked in the media. Aamir was terribly upset about this and perhaps the strange behaviour at the function was his way of getting even with the ‘ Gangster’ star.

But another school views the cold behaviour of Aamir Khan as a proof of his vindictive nature and arrogance in the industry. Recently, Aamir was also in controversy with Big B over Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘ Black.’ Aamir Khan’s unwarranted comments had hurt the sentiments of Amitabh Bachchan and the two fought the war in media about their films ‘ Black’ and ‘ Lagaan’.

Perhaps Aamir’s arrogance has further increased with the great success and critical acclaim that he received from the success of ‘ Taare Zameen Par’ at the box office.

Parthiban in Selvaraghavan

Parthiban is an intelligent man and has learnt that realism goes down well with the audience. He is almost 50 now and is aware that romancing and making prankish dialogues on screen cannot last for ever.

As a result, he is being approached with good character roles like his writer role in ‘Ammuvaagiya Naan.’ One such offer is ‘Aayirathil Oruvan.’

Directed by Selvaraghavan, the film stars Karthi, Reema Sen and Andrea.At a time when several films featuring the biggies are in the pipeline, Selvaraghavan’s Aayirathil Oruvan seems to be the most expected of the lot. Well, it has all the reason to be.
For one thing, fans and critics are eager to see Karthi’s performance in this flick after his spellbinding performance in Paruthiveeran.Selvaraghavan invited Parthiban to do an important character role in the film. Instead of insisting that he play the solo hero, Parthiban who likes to be different, accepted the role immediately.

Next year, he plans to do a film with his daughter Keertana. It is about a father-daughter relationship and could well be their real life story. Keertana is to write the film’s scenes.

It is noteworthy that she has already made a short film.

Added to this is Selvaraghavan’s reputation as a master storyteller who can spin tales poignantly to touch the hearts of the audience. Music, among other things, is what the director concentrates, for all his films have had songs that were chartbusters. And his earlier ventures with Yuvan Shankar Raja bear testimony to this fact.

Adding one more to the feathers in his cap, in Aayirathil Oruvan, will be a guest performance by Parthiban, no surprise that an actor of his stature has agreed for a cameo as he has done it before in Anthapuram. But then, Parthiban is always experimenting and is open to new ideas and roles and we expect his role in Aayirathil Oruvan to be as different as it was in Anthapuram.

And that is not all! Even Dhanush, the younger brother of the director will appear in a guest role. With Aayirathil Oruvan having an array of actors like Reema Sen, Andrea and Karthi it is quite natural that the film is drawing a lot of attention.

Salman and Shahruk together

Shah Rukh Khan, the badshah of bollywood, is all set to feature with the macho man of the industry Salman Khan in a remake of Hollywood’s Tom Cruise starrer ‘Jerry Maguire’ made in 1996. Salman and Shah Rukh Khan finalized the plans about making the remake at the birthday bash of actress Amrita Arora, which was held on January 31. The two superstars were present throughout the night and held a detailed discussion about the project.

Sources say that the project is likely to be made by Salman Khan’s younger brother, Sohail Khan. He has already prepared a bound script of the hit Hollywood flick and had a meeting with a major studio in this regard. Sohail’s plan is to cast Salman Khan in the role of Cuba Gooding Junior while Shah Rukh Khan will essay the part of the ambitious agent. Cuba Gooding Junior’s role was awarded with the best actor trophy at Hollywood Academy Awards in the supporting actor category.

However, before deciding on the future of the remake of Sohail Khan’s ‘Jerry Maguire’, UTV wants to know about the confirmation of dates from Shah Rukh Khan, because the movie is a big budget and they do not want to start anything prematurely. If this project gets underway, this will be after a long time that Salman and Shah Rukh will work together in a bollywood flick. Earlier, they were together in a film ‘ Karan Arjun’ made by Rakesh Roshan and the film was a super duper hit at the box office.

After that relation between Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan became bitter to the extent that they stopped talking to each other. This was due to undue interference by Salman on the sets of Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘ Chalte Chalte’ where Aishwarya Rai was playing the female lead. In those days, Aishwarya and Salman were dating each other and Salman would often go to the shooting sites of the gorgeous lady to meet her. Shah Rukh, obviously, did not like this and the two Khans had a showdown.

The peace returned in the relationship of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan when the duo met on the occasion of director Farah Khan’s Sangeet ceremony in December 2004. Both the actors had good relation with the ace director and did not want to create a scene there. Salman hugged Shah Rukh Khan on the occasion and the decided to forget the past and forgive each other. Since then, the two have maintained a good relationship and Salman Khan had even attended the special episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati on a television channel which was being anchored by King Khan.

Veer Movie will sport Hulky Salman

Salman Khan, the macho man of bollywood, has been told by the producer Vijay Galani to increase his weight by one and half times to fit in the role of a warrior, which he is going to play in the upcoming flick ‘Veer’.

Sallubhai has already started work on this and presently taking special diet under the supervision of his personal trainer to increase his chest and weight. In the last four weeks, Sallubhai has increased his chest about four inches and still working hard to increase it further.

But it is not for free that Salman Khan is making this huge effort. He is charging a whopping Rs 25 crore to act in the film and will also get the credit of story writer. Though the film is being produced by Vijay Galani and directed by Anil Sharma, it was Salman who wrote the story of the film and is now sweating out to fit in the character of a warrior.

But script of the film is being written by someone else and not Salman Khan. The producer is also making certain changes in the storyline to suit the modern conditions and times, as Salman wrote this story over a period of time and not at one go.

Originally, Salman Khan wanted girlfriend Katrina Kaif to act in the film but as the gorgeous lady had signed several big movies recently, she declined the offer. Now, producer Vijay Galani and director Anil Sharma are pinning their hopes on athletic and sexy Priyanka Chopra to play the character of main female protagonist in the film.

Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra have worked together in several hits like ‘Mujhse Shadi Kaogi’ and Salaam-e-Ishq and are fairly comfortable with each other. Their working chemistry in ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’ was terrific and movie did a roaring business at the box office.

However, their relations had turned sour when Sallubhai insisted with the producer of ‘London Dreams’ that Priyanka Chopra should be shown the door and his girlfriend Katrina Kaif should feature opposite him in the film. But Rajkumar Santoshi, who was supposed to direct the film at that time, had refused to follow Sallu’s dictates and preferred to shelve the film itself.

But according to grapevine Sallubhai and Priyanka Chopra have decided to forget and forgive the past and work in this film together. However, the real picture would emerge only after the produce makes a formal announcement about the cast of the film.

Hmm…..hmm…..seems Sallubhai is taking his role in ‘Veer’ seriously and doing every thing possible for it, but his sizzling hot girlfriend Katrina does not seem to be taking him seriously, no??

SRIK in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Shah Rukh Khan, the Badshah of bollywood, is all set to play the lead in Aditya Chopra’s next venture ‘ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ opposite a new cute traditional Indian beauty, for which Yash Raj Films will launch a nationwide talent hunt.

The new flick from the Yash Raj stable will also mark the return of Shah Rukh- Aditya jodi after ‘Mohabbatein’ which was almost eight years earlier. The shooting for the film is likely to start in May with expected date of release at the end of the year.

As this flick will see the return of Aditya Chopra after almost eight years, everything is being planned minutely. The perfectionist director has instructed his production team to scout for a girl in the age group of twenty to twenty four, who is not only beautiful and exudes the cultural charm of India, but also has an athletic body.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Aditya Chopra wanted to sign Shah Rukh Khan for a film much earlier after ‘Chak De! India’ proved a super duper hit at the box office, but King Khan was too busy with his ‘Om Shanti Om’ to say yes to Adi’s project. Even, after his home production ‘Om Shanti Om’ became a hit with the audiences, Shah Rukh had not signed the ‘Rab….’ as his dates were booked for Karan Johar’s upcoming ‘ My Name is Khan’.

But somehow Karan Johar’s film got postponed to September this year and Shah Rukh’s dates became free up to that time, hence he signed this new Yash Raj’s flick to be shot from May onwards and released at the end of this year.

This new Aditya Chopra’s film like his earlier films ‘ Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ and ‘ Mohabbatein’ will have mushy romance of the lead couple in typical Yash Chopra style. ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’, the title of the film, has been borrowed from a song of Manmohan Desai’s super duper hit film ‘Suhag’ starring Big B, Shashi Kapoor, Rekha and Parveen Babi.

The grapevine has it that in order to make a super duper hit film, Aditya Chopra is also in talks with Hrithik Roshan to act in a supporting role in it along with Shah Rukh Khan and a fresh beauty. If everything goes according to plan, the audiences can expect another super casting and a super hit masala film from the King of mushy romance, the Chopra.

Neil's Tantrums

Neil Nitin Mukesh, the dashing actor who made his successful debut with Johnny Gaddaar, has walked out of Tigmanshu Dhulia’s upcoming film ‘Good Night’ just one week before the shooting was to start in full swing.

Neil Nitin Mukesh wants the director to postpone the film towards the end of this year or to early next year, as he needed at least three months time to get into the skin of the character of the said film

Earlier, Neil Nitin Mukesh had signed the film only after having listened the script from the producer Vinay Kumar Sinha and the director Tigmanshu Dhulia. In fact, initially the actor was very excited about the character and wanted to start shooting as soon possible for the film. It was only after that the date had been fixed as February and he accepted the signing amount.

But later, Neil changed his mind and when director Dhulia called him to talk about the impending outdoor shooting spell of Rajasthan, he simply put forth new conditions for working in the film. Neil has been trying to impress the director that he is a perfectionist like Aamir Khan and want to act in a film only after preparing for it in the best possible manner.

But director Tigmanshu Dhulia and producer Vinay Sinha are in a fix as they wanted to make this movie as quickly as possible and can not wait for the actor to complete his homework for months. Now, they are planning to change the lead actor and rope in someone else in his place to complete the film in time.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that Neil Nitin Mukesh’s unprofessional behaviour towards Tigmanshu Dhulia is the result of his signing a big banner film like Yash Raj’s next, which is being directed by Kabir Khan of ‘Kabul Express’ fame. In order to make time for this film, Neil has been trying to sideline his earlier commitments towards the producers.

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