Mumbai, June 08: After announcing that she was going to learn belly dancing under Shiamak Davar for her act at an upcoming film awards function, Kareena Kapoor has now backed out! Instead, Bebo will accompany boyfriend Saif Ali Khan to England where he will attend the T20 World Cup matches.
T20 has a promotional tie-up with Saif’s home production, Love Aaj Kal. The actress is slated to leave for London tomorrow.
Mumbai, June 08: Salman Khan is upset with Anil Sharma, who is holding the directorial reins of his most ambitious project Veer. Sharma has put the project on hold for a long time now. Sallu, who is emotionally attached to the project, is not happy about it.
Sources say Sallu, who has also written the script for the film, is trying hard for a smooth sail for Veer. Salman had earlier gone for a makeover for the film. He had beefed himself up and gone in for a bronzed look with unusually long hair for his role.
Mumbai, June 08: Bipasha Basu is embarrassed about the news that she is doing love scenes in her first Hollywood movie Chimera. The film, directed by Daniel Silverman and Tapan Sinha, reportedly has several intimate scenes between Hollywood actor Billy Zane and Bipasha.
The news, which was supposed to be kept under wraps, got published recently, leaving Bips embarrassed and upset.
Mumbai, June 08: With movies as diverse as SUR and KAANTE (both of which released in 2002), it had seemed that there was yet another addition to the list of unconventional actors in Bollywood.
Lucky Ali had impressed in both, former being a musical and the latter being a thriller. However, he chose to lie low over all these years and only did occasional films like KASAK and GOOD LUCK, none of them boasting of anything worthwhile to talk home about.
Mumbai, June 08: After two years in a tumultuous relationship, one more cross border love story comes to an end. After being together for almost two years, ex-Miss India Sayali Bhagat and Pakistani cricket star and ex-captain Shoaib Malik have called it quits. Bhagat and Malik were also supposed to be working on a film together which was to be directed by Wilson Louis.
Mumbai, June 08: In the race for the most fit bodies in Bollywood, super star Shah Rukh Khan is not lagging behind. He is all set to acquire 8-pack abs fro his upcoming movie, Happy New Year directed by Farah Khan.
Shah Rukh Khan had surprised all by flaunting six pack abs in his previous movie Om Shanti Om , especially for the song Dard -e- Disco.
Mumbai, June 08: With movies as diverse as SUR and KAANTE (both of which released in 2002), it had seemed that there was yet another addition to the list of unconventional actors in Bollywood.
Lucky Ali had impressed in both, former being a musical and the latter being a thriller. However, he chose to lie low over all these years and only did occasional films like KASAK and GOOD LUCK, none of them boasting of anything worthwhile to talk home about.
Mumbai, June 08: What’s with Bobby Deol! A couple of weeks ago he hurt his groin muscle playing a game of badminton. If that wasn’t bad enough, the younger Deol is back on pain killers.
The actor, who has been following a strict fitness regime, pulled a hamstring while playing badminton in a doubles match at his club.
Mumbai, June 08: Arshad Warsi has been around for 13 years. If there is one thing he hasn’t done in all these years — it is intimate scenes. “I have always avoided doing intimate scenes under some pretext or the other,” says Arshad, who doesn’t wish to embarrass his wife Maria or their two young children with any of his actions. But like they say, in life there is an exception for every rule.
Mumbai, June 08: After Kangna Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman surprised people by hooking up, they went on to make their relationship official with uninhibited public declarations of love.
News of their split, after a year of being together, has shocked many, including Kangna, as Adhyayan has initiated the move.
Mumbai, June 08: You may have heard of actors swimming under the moonlight. But have you heard of swimming in floodlit pools? But Bipasha Basu is different.
The actress and the female members of her staff — including her two dress designers and her hairdresser actually prefer to swim in the dark. In Goa, where they are currently shooting for All The Best, the dusky beauty waits till it is dark and then she and her entourage head towards the hotel’s swimming pool so that no one takes notice of them.
Mumbai, June 08: But this time around, it is not the aspiring crorepatis of the country who will face his rapidfire questions, but students of a B-school. Yes, Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) has roped in SRK to host their annual business and marketing quiz, not just for this time, but for the next three years.
Mumbai, June 07: When everyone seems to be returning to Mumbai from their holidays, Kajol is all set to go on hers.
She is going to Switzerland and France with daughter Nysa, sister Tanishaa and mom Tanuja.
Kajol decided to go on the holiday on her own as husband Ajay Devgan will be busy for next one month shooting in Goa and then in Singapore.
Tanuja is said to have been a bit reluctant to accompany Kajol, but the persuasive Kajol managed to convice her.
——Agencies
Mumbai, June 07: Soha Ali Khan has taken her boyfriend Kunal Khemu to meet mom Sharmila Tagore, as she wants to ensure that the two bond well.
In fact, when Sharmila was in Mumbai recently to meet her, Soha took Kunal along.
As expected, Kunal wasn’t very comfortable during the first meeting. So Soha decided to bring the two together in a lighter atmosphere.
Mumbai, June 07: While Kareena is not the one who does not kiss on screen, wonder why she initially refused to kiss Akshay Kumar in “Kambakkht Ishq” (pictured above)?
Kareena has earlier had lip-locking scenes with Fardeen in “Dev”, and Shahid Kapur in “Jab We Met”. But when she was given a kissing scene with Akshay, she initially refused to do it. She agreed only after much convincing.
Might be she was trying to keep beau Saif happy because we can’t think of anything else that has changed from the times she kissed to now.
——Agencies
Chennai, June 07: Bollywood actress Gracy Singh will begin shooting Wednesday for a Malayalam film opposite superstar Mammooty, director Jayaraj said Sunday.
“Gracy loved the subject when it was narrated to her and gave her dates immediately for ‘Loud Speaker’, an offbeat venture. The first schedule will begin in Thrissur Wednesday. It is Gracy’s first non-Bollywood movie,” award winning director Jayaraj told IANS.
Chennai, June 07: One would have thought that after leading his party to a landslide victory in the general elections, M. Karunanidhi would put up his feet and take a break. But the DMK patriarch apparently has no holiday plans. Instead, he is ready with the script for a Tamil film — his third while in office.
What is surprising is that producers are still queuing up to turn his scripts into film, despite the fact that his last few films have been box office duds.
Mumbai, June 07: Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has become the first Indian beauty to be on the cover of Latin America’s Vogue, Femalefirst reported.
The actress who is also a supermodel visited Lima Peru, last month for a photo shoot for Vogue and Cosas Magazine.
During her visit, the Om Shanti Om actress stayed at the presidential suite at the Miraflores Park Hotel, Lima.
Mumbai, June 07: Kangna Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman are headed for splitsville. The break-up is especially bad for Kangna because she says she didn’t want a separation now.
“It is true that Adhyayan and I have decided to part ways. The decision to move on after a year’s relationship was Adhyayan’s, and I was shocked by it. But we’ve parted ways amicably,” writes Kangna in her blog.
Mumbai, June 07: What does Katrina Kaif have that Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Bipasha Basu do not… and, please, don’t say Salman This is not about her personal life that’s been splashed about in the media enough already. We are talking about sex quotient… the oomph factor, that sizzle and ability to turn on men and drive them into mad slaves over you. Don’t know — right, because Kareena & Co have it all in abundance as well.
Mumbai, June 07: Sonam and Imran are just new in the Bollywood. And Sonam’s first film flopped(Saawariya) and Imran experienced the success(Janne Tu ya Janne Na). But both of them are young in the glamour world.
These two talented couple will come together for Dharma production’s a young romantic-comedy film.
But even before the film shooting, Sonam seems to be quite excited working with Imran Khan as co-star. And she kept on praising him and saying “Imran is gorgeous and one of the most beautiful men she has seen so far”
New Delhi, June 07: The German-made luxury car — the sportiest and most elegant SUV in its class, will easily become the benchmark for style, performance, safety, comfort and driving dynamics in its segment. It joins its ‘big brother’, the Audi Q7, in creating a new market for the smaller luxury SUV admirer in India.
Mumbai, June 07: Television tycoon Ekta Kapoor, who turns 31 Sunday, has planned a big birthday bash a month later at her parent’s home, but says she is not inviting her dad Jeetendra and mom Shobha Kapoor as they still treat her like a 12-year-old.
Mumbai, June 07: For the first time, Hrithik Roshan and his wife Suzanne will walk the ramp together at the IIFA Fashion Extravaganza in Macau during the IIFA weekend.
Just a few days remain for the three-day IIFA to begin in Macau and Hrithik and his wife are all set to strut down the catwalk for sister-in-law Farah Ali Khan.
The fashion extravaganza has been organised on June 12. Sonam Kapoor will be the show stopper for designer Anamika Khanna.
Mumbai, June 07: Despite having vowed to not do anymore cameos in films, Shahrukh Khan went out of his way to make a guest appearance in good friend Makrand Deshpande’s film ‘Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu’.
The movie which carries the star’s name went on the floors on November 2 last year, which incidentally was also SRK’s birthday. But its idea germinated many years ago when Makrand was working with SRK in Swades and proposed to cast the actor in a small role in his directorial venture.