Mumbai, December 13: The newest stud in Bollywood, Ranbir Kapoor, is merely four films old, but he is already being compared to the Badshah of Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan.
Well this comparison comes easy, as Ranbir does romantic scene with as much ease as the suave Shahrukh Khan, who is a veteran in enacting romantic scenes.
Mumbai, December 13: The poignant story of Auro in R. Balakrishnan’s “Paa” led to two brothers suffering from progeria getting government aid, but critics say patients of the premature ageing disease don’t look like Amitabh Bachchan in the movie. Bouquets or brickbats – the filmmaker is only happy that it has made people experts on the disease.
A prominent director had said: “That isn’t how a progeria patient looks. Balki has made Mr Bachchan look like a rubber doll.”
Mumbai, December 13: French actress Helene de Fougerolles, who was here for the French film festival, says she loves Indian movies as they cater to everyone unlike cinema in France.
“I love Indian cinema because it’s made for everyone. It’s unlike French cinema, as there are different sects of audiences for every genre and you can’t satisfy all with one film,” Helene told IANS.
New Delhi, December 12: The search for the perfect bride finally came to an end late Saturday with 25-year-old Rumpa Roy being crowned the winner at the grand finale of the “Lux Perfect Bride” reality TV show.
Rumpa, who was paired with Hitesh Chauhan was competing with Priyanka Sharma, paired with Rajbeer Singh, for the title.
The show, which ran for nearly three months and initially started with 10 brides and five grooms, will see the winning couple getting married on television.
Mumbai, December 12: to find a solution to this mysterious problem. Meanwhile, the police begins investigating the mysterious dissappearance of the computer repair specialist.
Adding to the strange goings on is the shocking death of Prakruthi’s father. And it is all left to the tantrik to unravel and stop the mysterious happening.
Except for the film’s hero Santhosh and well-known television actor Vikram Soori, most of the artists in the film are fresh faces. And their inexperience does affect the film.
Thiruvananthapuram, December 12: Censor board chief Sharmila Tagore Saturday inaugurated an exhibition titled “Women in Malayalam Cinema” as part of the ongoing 14th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
The exhibition is being held as part of an exercise to document the history of women in Malayalam cinema – in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes.
Inaugurating the exhibition, Sharmila said that the Malayalam cinema industry has a great range of women characters starting from Rosy in 1928.
London, December 12: A representative for Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston has denied reports that the actress is looking to adopt a child.
The former “Friends” star had sparked speculation that she was to become a first-time mom after visiting the Casa Hogar Sion orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and devoting her time to infants in the nursery, reports starpulse.com.
However, Aniston’s spokesperson insists that the actress is one of the charity’s sponsors and only purpose of the trip was to lend her support.
“Jennifer is not adopting a baby,” said her representative.
Johannesburg, December 12: Gibraltar’s Kaiane Aldorino was Saturday crowned Miss World at a glittering pageant here at which Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, herself a former Miss World, was one of the judges.
Mexico’s Perla Beltrᮠand South Africa’s Tatum Keshwar were declared the first and second runners-up respectively.
India’s Pooja Chopra failed to make it to the final round of seven competitors, dashing the hopes of many an Indian of getting the title back to the country.
London, December 12: Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor is sick of false rumours about her health splashed across the tabloids and insists that she is perfectly fine following her recent heart surgery.
Taylor, 77, went under the knife in October to fix a leaky heart valve. However, Taylor was then hit with a flurry of stories speculating about her health with one publication reporting that she was planning her funeral and saying goodbye to friends, reports starpulse.com.
Mumbai, December 12: Priyanka Chopra, who is here on the panel of the judges to crown Miss World 2009, feels it is wrong to expect the winning beauty to change the world.
“Miss World is not the President of a country, and people should not expect her to be that,” Priyanka, who won the title in 2000, said.
The 59th edition of the contest that takes place here this evening will see beauties from 112 countries participating and Priyanka says that the winner of the pageant is just another girl doing her bit to help.
Thiruvananthapuram, December 12: The second International Afro-Asian Theatre Festival would be held at Thrissur from December 20 to 29.
The plays would be staged at two venues under the Malayalam Theatre Panorama and Afro-Asian Theatre Panorama sections during the ten-day event.
World classics and stage translations of epic literary works would be the highlights of the festival, a release from the Afro-Asian Theatre Festival 2009, said here.
Mumbai, December 12: Well, Claudia Ciesla was the only foreign contestant in the Bigg Boss 3, and stayed more than two months in the show. After getting out from the Bigg Boss house, she is trapped in several questions.
When Bigg Boss’s host Amitabh Bachchan asked Claudia about her relationship with Pravesh Rana, she blushed and said that they both are good friends and very much focused on their life and career.
Los Angeles, December 12: Singer Michael Jackson next month will receive a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement, along with six other artists, organizers of the music industry’s top awards said.
The others honored with the annual award are Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, blues musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards, country starLoretta Lynn, pianist Andre Previn, fluegelhorn player Clark Terry and the late singer Bobby Darin.
Mumbai, December 12: In a unique marketing strategy to promote his upcoming film ‘3 Idiots’, Bollywood actor maker Aamir Khan has virtually disappeared into thin air before the film’s release.
The star cast of the film during a media conference held here on Friday disclosed that Khan would be on an adventure trip throughout the country for two weeks.
Mumbai, December 12: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar says that Aamir Khan starrer ‘3 Idiots’ reminds him of his “naughty days” as a youngster.
Sachin, who watched the film at Ketnav studios in suburban Bandra along with his wife Anjali and friends including cricketer Ajit Agarkar, told reporters that he loved the film.
“It has every thing from comedy to romance and I was reminded of my naughty days as a youngster,” he said.
Mumbai, December 12: It’s finally time for Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor to reunite on-screen as their long delayed film ‘Milenge Milenge’ is set to hit theatres on March 5, 2010.
The release date has been confirmed by producer Boney Kapoor who continues to be passionate about his pet project in spite of it being in the making for half a decade.
“The principal shooting of the film is wrapped up and we are neck deep in post production. 5th March has been confirmed for release and we are finalising our marketing and promotional strategy,” Kapoor told PTI.
Mumbai, December 12: Katrina Kaif who is enacting a very intense role of a politician in Prakash Jha’s ‘Rajneeti’ expressed her ardent desire to shake her legs in an item number.
She does not want to be typecast as a serious actress and to break the stereotype, she wished to be an integral part of the song. But Prakash Jha is showing lack of interest in the idea.
Mumbai, december 12: Desh Ka Aadesh said that Claudia Ciesla should go out from the Bigg Boss house. Claudia being a German picked up Hindi very well in the Bigg Boss house. She played the game with calmness and gelled well with every member of the house.
This time every member of the house was nominated by Bigg Boss as they fail to complete the task given by Bigg Boss and finally audience voted Claudia out. She was very popular in the house for her chemistry with Pravesh Rana. Claudia and Pravesh spent good amount of time with each other.
Chennai, Dec 12: Tamil superstar Rajnikant quietly ringed in his 60th birthday today while at work, shooting for his upcoming film ”Enthiran”, even as his fans pressed him to join politics amid raucous celebrations here. The actor, busy with the multi-crore film directed by film maker Shankar, is out of town, said sources close to him.
London, December 12: Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz’s hands were bruised and cut during the filming of musical “Nine”.
The “Volver” star revealed that her hands got injured while she was shooting on ropes for the movie, reported imdb.com. “I didn’t want the marks that I got from the ropes to go away,” said Cruz.
“They were my little medals. Of course they went away. I was so used to them after three weeks of training that you don’t even feel physical pain any more,” she added.
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Mumbai, Dec 12: Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar says that Aamir Khan starrer ”3 Idiots” reminds him of his “naughty days” as a youngster. Sachin, who watched the film at Ketnav studios in suburban Bandra along with his wife Anjali and friends including cricketer Ajit Agarkar, told reporters that he loved the film.
“It has every thing from comedy to romance and I was reminded of my naughty days as a youngster,” he said. ”3 Idiots” releasing on December 25 has 44-year-old Aamir play a 22-year-old engineering student along with actors Madhavan and Sharman Joshi.
Mumbai, December 12: Sophie Chaudhary gives Himesh Reshammiya a run for his money as she can sing in five different voices where as poor Himesh can manage only two.
In her latest album “Sound of Sophie’, Sophie puts this talent to use and belts out tracks after tracks in five different vocal tones!
Liking to keep it versatile Sophie feels, as a singer, one should keep experimenting and should be able to sing in different tones.
Mumbai, December 12: Shruti Haasan, the daughter of actor Kamal Haasan who was last seen in the slick flick “Luck’ opposite Imran Khan, has shown off her multi-tasking skills time and again.
The girl has been keeping busy with belting out hits for her dad’s film “Unnai Pol Oruvan’ in Chennai, doing a film in Hyderabad and sifting through scripts in Mumbai! And still looking pretty at the end of the day! Phew! Way to go girl!
Mumbai, December 12: Named as the Indian Shakira in ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007′ by Bappi Da, Mauli Dave is all set to make her entry into acting with Amjad Khan’s next film titled Tomorrow.
We hear the lissome singer who took the stage by storm back in the year 2007 has signed up this film in which she will be seen belly dancing to the tunes of an Arabic dance number.
Mumbai, December 12: Ace Bollywood hottie Katrina Kaif has once again topped the list of world’s 50 sexiest Asian women after defeating other actresses, former beauty queens, supermodels and pop stars.
Katz, who keeps hold of the ‘Eastern Eye crown’ she bagged in 2008, had 8 of the top 10 positions, with British TV star Laila Rouass and Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat finishing the list.
The sexy actress, who is glad after gaining her recent ‘Sexiest’ label, expressed gratitude towards all her buffs, who always appreciated her work and brought her up to the top position.