Entertainment

Mumbai, May 24: After facing the wrath of political affiliates while doing a bold and scandalous bikini photo shoot for a men’s magazine, actress Neetu Chandra has now developed cold feet.

Recently, while the actress was shooting for The Man magazine at a 3-star hotel with model Krishikka Gupta, a group of regular male customers started shouting “Jai Maharashtra’ slogans and threatened action from Raj Thackeray’s Maharashrtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). They even tried to confiscate the camera, resulting in the shoot having to be abruptly called off.

Mumbai, May 24: Recently, when actress Neetu Chandra (of Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! fame) agreed to do a bold photo shoot for a men’s magazine, she hardly realised it would spark controversy and outrage from political affiliates.

Neetu, who had agreed to do hot and sexy cover for ‘The Man’ magazine, was shooting along with model Krishikha Gupta outside the lobby of a 3-star hotel, when a group of the hotel’s regular male customers watching it by the pool, suddenly started raising strong objections, by indiscriminately shouting at her and the magazine crew.

Mumbai, May 23: Heart throb and the darling of millions of women, Bollywood badshah Salman Khan has officially acknowledged German supermodel and Hollywood actress Claudia Ciesla as his “special friend”.

According to a report in a national Kolkatta-based newspaper, Salman Khan has ‘confirmed’ to the Indian press his friendship with Claudia and has even introduced her to his family’.

Mumbai, May 23: Asin Thottumkal is finally ready to live independently. She recently moved out of her parents’ Lokhandwala apartment and has shifted into her own house at Green Acres, which is in the same locality. The actress permanently shifted base from Kerala to Mumbai once she made her mark in Bollywood with Ghajini after which she bagged films like London Dreams and The 19th Step among others.
A close friend of Asin said, “She has been house hunting since 2007. It took her two years to move out of her parents’ house. She decided to stay by herself the day she turned 21.”

Mumbai, May 23: Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan might be a big fan of Indian Premier Legue but the actor says that he does not have enough money to buy a team.

“I dont have as much money as Shahrukh. He has money and so he owns a team,” the actor said in an interview to Zee news.

Like the millions of Indians, the mega star too loves cricket as he never misses IPL matches.

“I watch almost all the matches of IPL,” Bachchan said.

Mumbai, May 22: To apparently cash in on the popularity of top Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai , the makers of a soft porn film have titled it ‘Aishwarya’ and given it the catchy punchline – ‘Based on true rumours’.
Apart from the mainstream Hindi film industry, there also thrives an industry of soft porn films starring struggling girls from towns and cities. At times the makers of these films rope in girls who have facial resemblance to Bollywood actresses.

Mumbai,May 21: Actress Kareena Kapoor has been losing sleep… and it’s not quite over Priyanka Chopra and ex-beau Shahid Kapoor’s alleged love affair.

Or so we’re told! “What else can you expect when you’re shooting for four films simultaneously?” says a friend of the actor. Currently working at completing 3 Idiots, Kambakkht Ishq, Agent Vinod, Qurbaan and Main Aur Mrs Khanna, Bebo now prides herself in not having slept a wink for 36 hours.

Toronto, May 20: Lisa Ray, the Indian origin actress who catapulted to international recognition through Deepa Mehta’s Water has been featured in the Canadian edition of Hello magazine as one of the ’50 Most Beautiful People’ of the country.

The 37-year-old supermodel-turned-actress features along with Ruby Dhalla, a Canadian politician, in the list which features only two Indians, reported Hello online.

While reacting to her inclusion in the list, Lisa Ray said, “I guess I need to thank my parents for this. I am really proud to feature along with such prestigious people.”

Mumbai, May 19: Freida Pinto instructs her lawyers to sue blogs using pics from a 2006 calendar shoot…. Websites and blogs are picking up pictures from an old calendar shoot she did in 2006.

The scans of her calendar made an appearance on the net a few weeks back. They were first uploaded on a US-based celebrity blog and were later picked up by many popular blogs and sites.

After seeing the old pics, the Slumdog Millionaire actress has now asked her lawyers to take legal action against any site making these pictures more popular.

Video leak

Mumbai, May 10: Calling Mallika Sherawat ”a pure soul,” Shreemad Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shree Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji, the 36th and present pontiff of Shree Ramachandrapura math, made a special invitation to Mallika Sherawat to visit his new ashram in Karnataka and organized a number of special pujas in her honor.

Mumbai, May 01: Enough is enough. Kareena Kapoor apparently suspects a conspiracy behind the repeated linking of her name with that of Shahid Kapur .

Mumbai, May 01: Contrary to reports, Shahrukh Khan is not planning to sell his IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) which has performed shockingly poor in the ongoing tournament so far.

The passion that he puts in his work, SRK poured that in building up his IPL team, right from choosing the cheerleaders for KKR to the team’s extensive publicity campaign. But the team hasn’t performed up to the expectations of SRK and its many KKR fans.

Mumbai, May 01: So what if his last two movies were duds? Akshay Kumar still demands an amount that can make any producer’s jaw drop.

Something like this happened with writer Rumi Jaffrey while directing the comedy film ‘Life Partner’. According to some reports, Akshay Kumar was approached to play one of the lead characters and the actor apparently made his dates available for the movie.

London, April 30: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has flown to India from South Africa to cast his vote in the 2009 general elections. Actress Shilpa Shetty regrets that she won’t be able to exercise her franchise this time because of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Mumbai, April 28: Preity Zinta’s Kings XI Punjab won the match against Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in Durban as also against Shilpa Shetty’s Rajasthan Royals yesterday. Preity is apparently very happy with her team’s tremendous performance as they beat out Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals in yesterdays match. A close friend of Preity reveals, ”Preity always feels that winning against any team is an entire teams effort and she is very proud of her team for having put on winning efforts.

IPL and the search for a new Bollywood starlet

Mumbai, April 22: How will fans react when a superstar makes his mobile number public? Obviously, they will spin into a dialing frenzy! Something similar happened recently, when UAE telecommunication provider du released an advertisement that listed Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s mobile number alongside endorsement of a product brand.
Three other celebrities from the Arab world are also endorsing the campaign.

More than 8,000 calls with over 1,000 personal voice messages were recorded for the four celebrities, including Khan, du said in a statement.

Mumbai, March 29: Kangana is getting ready for the biggest challenge of her career. Kangana Ranaut

She’ll be playing whom she considers the most beautiful woman in the history of Indian cinema. It’s a thought that flatters and terrifies her. Kangana is afraid she may not look beautiful enough on screen.

Mumbai, March 29: We didn’t say that. Sushmita Sen said that about herself! In the city to attend an event, Sush made a candid confession. When asked what was that Sushmita Sen one thing in her life that she would not want to talk about in public, she said, “Meri zindagi ek khuli kitaab hai.

Mumbai, March 11: John Abraham says the best thing to happen to him in 2008 was his brother’s marriage. And the most unusual happening in his life in 2009 could be his first stage performance, thanks to the success of his Desi girl number in Dostana.

“My brother’s marriage in Romania was beautiful. Standing there at his wedding as his best man as he took the vows with his wife in a beautiful old church I felt so content. I was never happier. And I liked being the best man. Because I’m the best. People ask me where I’m going from here. And I tell them, I’m only going to get better.”

London, March 01: Just months ago she was a virtual nobody, but with the eight Oscar sweep by her debut film “Slumdog Millionaire”, Indian model-turned-actress Freida Pinto is now hot property for magazine covers. Being the obvious new darling of Hollywood, Freida has also become a much in-demand magazine cover girl back home for obvious reasons, reports dailymail.co.uk.

The actress will dominate the newsstands across India in March, with men’s magazine Maxim opting to put her face and knock-out body on its cover, as will women’s magazines Cosmopolitan and Vogue.

Mumbai, March 01: Bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra were declared the best male and female actors respectively at the glittering 54th Idea Filmfare Awards ceremony here late Saturday night.
Hrithik won the award for essaying the role of Emperor Akbar in “Jodhaa Akbar”, while Priyanka walked away with the black lady statuette for her performance in “Fashion”.

“Jodhaa Akbar” pipped “Dostana”, “Ghajini”, “Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na”, “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”, and “Rock On!!” to bag the best film trophy, while the best director award went to Ashutosh Gowariker for “Jodhaa Akbar”.

Mumbai, February 28: Indian actress Freida Pinto Made it to the U.S. without doing the same old song and dance.

Though the 23-year-old former model from Bombay auditioned for melodramatic Bollywood roles, she’s going Hollywood with her film debut, playing a child of the ghetto in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. Hood never looked so good.

How hard is it to break into India’s film industry?
It’s really difficult. You have to have a godfather or parents who can get you in. I got into modeling for the visibility factor, hoping that portals would open up for me to act.

Mumbai, February 28: His double win at the Oscars has been celebrated and talked about. But not many know that A.R. Rahman had a close shave while rehearsing for his performance at the Academy Awards – a chandelier came crashing down seconds after the music maestro moved away from the spot.

Mumbai, February 25:We are on top of the world! When we stood on the podium, having bagged the Best Motion Picture Award, no one in the audience seemed disappointed.

It was as if they all knew that Slumdog Millionaire would have a clean sweep at the Oscars, which, let me reassert, is the most unpredictable of all awards. From my side, I never had sleepless nights before the ceremony. I was rather composed. Irrfan, Dev, Freida and I told each other that we needed to enjoy every moment of it. The Oscars don’t happen to everyone everyday.

Mumbai, February 25: Delhi-6 was surprisingly a big disappointment from Rakeysh Mehra after the brilliant Rang De Basanti . Somehow Mehra’s handling of social issues through the monkey-man metaphor didn’t gel well with the audiences.

Moreover audiences were expecting the world from Mehra post RDB. Clearly they came out of the hall disappointed. No doubt, the director attempted something different but couldn’t connect with the audiences seamlessly.