Month: June 2010

New Delhi, June 23: Item girl Meghna Naidu’s email id was hacked and the hacker used her account to write obscene mails about her, a police complaint filed by the actress said.

“I came to know that my gmail account has been hacked Saturday. The person was chatting with my friends and writing all obscene things about me. While talking with my friends, the impostor wrote that I am pregnant and wanted to abort the child,” Meghna told IANS Wednesday.

It was Meghna’s ex-publicist Dale Bhagwagar, who realized that something was fishy.

Mumbai, June 23: While shooting for Paa, Vidya Balan had a tough time recognising Big B in his Auro avatar. Priyanka Chopra found herself in a similar situation recently when her possessive father Dr Ashok Chopra failed to recognise her in her get-up as an old woman.

In Vishal Bhardwaj’s upcoming film Saat Khoon Maaf, Priyanka plays all the different stages of a woman’s life from age 18 to 65 years. Professional make-up artists have been flown down from Australia to create all these varied looks.

Mumbai, June 23: As one can see from the promos of ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI, despite the presence of pretty girls like Kangna Ranaut and Prachi Desai as the leading ladies, the film isn’t loosing its focus by diverting its attention towards the love story angle.

Based on warring gang lords, the film has stayed in the right direction and isn’t allowing any distractions in its way.

Still, Emraan’s pairing with Prachi means that it would pretty much amount to two entirely different personalities coming together.

Mumbai, June 23: Bipasha’s ‘burqa’ clad, de-glam appearance in Rahul Dholakia’s LAMHAA may not have been the subject of conversations of the movie buffs like Katrina Kaif’s makeover in RAAJNEETI, but many have questioned Rahul’s decision to cast the dusky beauty in the role of a Kashmiri girl, a role that up till now been essayed by the likes of Saira Bano, Sharmila Tagore and Preity Zinta etc.

Mumbai, June 23: Ravi Khemu, father of Kunal Khemu, the veteran actor who has contributed his acting talent to Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti, feels that he is genetically connected to Katrina Kaif. And that was the reason why Prakash Jha chose him to play Katrina’s father.

Mumbai, June 23: Veteran filmmaker Sudhir Mishra cast Kareena Kappor as a sex worker in his film Chameli and she ruled everyone’s heart with her acting skills. The role of Chameli was made immortal by the actress.

Now, another renowned Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is also going to cast the hot actress as a sex worker in his next film Heera Mandi. Bhansali is having talks with Kareena on this project. If everything goes well, the actress will definitely give a much better performance than Chameli.

Mumbai, June 23: Indian filmmaker Prakash Jha has a dream project Draupadi, in which he wants to cast Hollywood star Anjelina Jolie in the lead role.

After the success of Rajneeti, which was inspired by the great Indian epic Mahabharata, Jha is ready for another movie, which will also be based on the same epic.

Draupadi is believed to be a dream project of Prakash Jha. Earlier, the filmmaker wanted to work on the project with the once Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit in the lead. But the project got shelved due to budget issues and lack of authentic adaptations.

Mumbai, June 23: There has to be something really flawed about a film which is based on ‘Ramayana’, has Mani Ratnam at the helm of affairs, stars the Bachchan couple, boasts of music by A.R. Rahman and has the who’s-who from the technical department. Still, ‘Raavan’ hasn’t worked with the audience. We analyse why!

Boring narrative?
Everyone understands that ‘Ramayana’ was about the triumph of good over evil. As an audience you are prepared to see what is going to unfold. But pray, why make it all so boring?

Mumbai, June 23: It’s now well known that Sara Khan will be leaving ‘Bidaai’ for the greener pastures of Bollywood. It is believed that Sara Khan will feature in a film that is being produced by her boyfriend. However, we hear that there is a slight twist in her tale.

Apparently, we learnt that while Sara is all set to step into Bollywood, it’s not going to be in her boyfriend’s film. Instead, she’s said to be featuring opposite the popular Bollywood actor, Riteish Deshkmukh.

Mumbai, June 23: I Hate Luv Storys is releasing on July 2, but Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor have just begun to promote the film.

And this is due to none other than the film’s producer Karan Johar’s largesse. Karan had booked the dates of his two lead stars to promote the film, but he had to free them for shooting for Break Ke Baad and Mausam respectively.

When Mausam’s makers requested Karan to free Sonam’s publicity dates so she could shoot for Mausam, Karan agreed.

Mumbai, June 23: And that too minutes before its shooting begins.

Ekta Kapoor recently shocked Pritam and Milan Luthria when she stopped the shooting of a song minutes before it was to begin, because she had second thoughts about the track.

Ekta felt the track, which plays an important part in the film Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, should be groovier. So Pritam then worked on the song the whole night and presented a second version the next day, which Ekta loved.

The shooting of the song was then started without further delay. The song features Emraan Hashmi and Prachi Desai.

Mumbai, June 23: A guest’s expensive diamond earrings went missing at Apoorva Lakhia’s bash at home. And were returned the next day. This one had the makings of a thriller…

“Why do people steal things that do not belong to them? Come on….”

The party might have ended but Apoorva Lakhia isn’t going to forget it in a hurry, as his status message on a social networking site indicates.

The filmmaker recently got into a tough spot when one of the guests at his bash found her diamond earrings were missing from her handbag.

Mumbai, June 23: Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has been approached to star opposite James Franco in the prequel of “Planet of the Apes”.

Variety.com reports that in “Rise of the Apes” Pinto will play Caroline, a primatologist. Franco will be seen as a scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.

Set in present day San Francisco, the film deals with the aftermath of man’s experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

Mumbai, June 23: Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has been approached to star opposite James Franco in the prequel of “Planet of the Apes”.

Variety.com reports that in “Rise of the Apes” Pinto will play Caroline, a primatologist. Franco will be seen as a scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.

Set in present day San Francisco, the film deals with the aftermath of man’s experiments with genetic engineering that lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

Mumbai, June 23: For those 70 MLAs and Vasundhara Raje who have got themselves into serious trouble for watching a pirated dvd of Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti in a luxury hotel in Rajasthan on Tuesday, Jha has a special gift coming up.

He will gift a legitimate dvd of the film to each of the MLAs when the dvd is officially released in two weeks’ time.

“I hope they would finally see the difference between the grainy bootleg version of the film that they allegedly saw in Jaipur and a legally manufacted dvd of Raajneeti.” Says Jha a tad caustically.