Month: December 2010

Mumbai, December 03: Salman Khan is one of those stars on the block who knows how to please everyone with their diplomatic answers. In fact, there is no harm in calling him as diplomacy personified!

Reports carried by various tabloids regarding Salman Khan’s witty side have become the hot topic of discussions. During the special press conferences on celebrity cricket league Salman was questioned, which among the two hot item numbers ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ and ‘Sheila Ki Jawani’ that he has done recently is his favourite?

Mumbai, December 03: Deepika & Imran will be seen communicating with each other through Zen Mobile in their upcoming film , Break Ke Baad. After the success of such films as Mujhse Dosti Karoge, Hum Tum (2004), Fanaa & Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, Kunal Kohli (KKPPL) now comes back with his latest offering, a fresh, vibrant romantic comedy starring Deepika & Imran. Co-produced by Reliance Big Entertainment.

Mumbai, December 03: It’s final. Ranbir Kapoor’s world tour in July 2011 would have him sharing the stage with Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra, Bipasha Basu and Malaika Arora-Khan. A fifth girl is yet to be finalised. But it won’t be Deepika Padukone or Sonam Kapoor.

Says Rishi Kapoor, the 70 per cent producer of Ranbir’s first world tour and the lad’s dad, “Unfortunately Shahid Kapoor can’t accompany us. We’ve got Atif Aslam instead. He’s a huge draw among Asians abroad. The show will be youth-oriented.”

More changes

Mumbai, December 03: Abhishek Bachchan, who has had more misses than hits in his 10-year-old acting career, says he never thought he would be able to survive this long in the Hindi film industry.

“I never thought I would make it through 10 years. I didn’t think they would give me a chance,” Abhishek, the son of megastar Amitabh Bachchan and seasoned actress Jaya Bachchan who made a not-so-successful debut with “Refugee” in 2000, told in an interview.

Mumbai, December 03: Deepika Padukone is sporting what appears to be a Tees Maar Khan tattoo, making director Farah Khan proud.

After Deepika re-designed the RK tattoo into a TMK, Farah is maha thrilled.

She even apologised to the actress on national TV for the comments she made about Dippy on Koffee With Karan.

Yeh hai tattoo ka kamaal!

-Agencies

Mumbai, December 03: Reality show specialist Rahul Mahajan is ironically seen on the small screen resolving family conflicts!

The politician’s son has had his share of personal dilemmas but in UTV Bindass Big Switch 2, he has to keep an eye on tattoo artist Nitin Chauhan and his agriculturist father Ranveer Singh Chauhan and resolve their conflict!

Now after Rakhi Ka Insaaf it is Rahul Ka Insaaf. Viewers are already shouting “Bahut nainsaafi hai yeh!”

-Agencies

Mumbai, December 03: At the premiere of Subhash Kapoor’s Phas Gaya Re Obama held at a suburban multiplex on Wednesday, all eyes were on Ritwik Bhattacharya who was spotted with Neha Dhupia after aeons.

The squash champ had specially arrived to catch Neha’s flick. Is it a break ke baad scenario?

-Agencies

Mumbai, December 03: That when Kareena Kapoor was pondering whether to be part of Golmaal 3 or not, director Rohit Shetty was seriously considering Priyanka Chopra for the role.

But when Bebo’s buddy Tusshar Kapoor heard of it, he told Kareena not to think anymore and say yes to the project immediately!

Hope Bebo is eternally grateful now that the film is such a big hit, and she has received so much praise for it.

-Agencies

Mumbai, December 03: In transition: Aamir Khan at the domestic airport on his arrival from New Delhi.

The actor is growing a moustache for his next project to be directed by Reema Kagti. Buzz is that he is also trying to experiment with a new hairdo.

The cap is to hide the new look, we assume.

-Agencies

Mumbai, December 03: While he’s working on the sequel to Singh Is Kinng with Akshay Kumar, Vipul Shah has decided to first go ahead and make that rom-com with Abhishek Bachchan that he had planned before the release of Action Replayy.

But a special ‘look’ that was planned for Abhishek has been dropped. It is widely believed that it was Akshay Kumar’s 1970s’ nerdy look in Action Replayy that finally did the film in.

Mumbai, December 03: Dancing diva Madhuri Dixit is the latest Bollywood star to join micro-blogging site Twitter. She recieved a warm welcome from her fans and has earned over 11, 500 followers.

“For all of my fans, finally I have joined Twitter. Love, Madhuri, ” she posted in her first tweet.

The actress, currently in India to judge dance reality show “Jhalak Dikkhla Jaa 4”, joined the micro-blogging site Nov 27.

Much before joining the site, Madhuri had said: “If I am on Twitter and Facebook, I will keep in touch with all my co-stars and old friends from Bollywood.”

Mumbai, December 03: Moving from Deepika to Katrina and now to his Rockstar co-star Nargis Fakhri, Ranbir Kapoor is in the news again, for the wrong reason. He is turning out to be quite a casanova.

Rumour has it that, Ranbir has conveniently moved on from Kat to Nargis. He has been avoiding Katrina’s calls from the past few days. The actor is currently shooting for Rockstar, directed by Imtiaz Ali, in Delhi.

Mumbai, December 03: Director Sujoy Ghosh, who has roped in Vidya Balan for his forthcoming film Kahani, believes the actress can indentify good scripts.

“What I like about Vidya is that she is dead fussy, but in a good way. She has an uncanny sense about scripts,” Ghosh said in a statement.

Ghosh is justified in his belief – with roles like a struggling mother of a progeria patient in Paa to a brutally seductive rural woman in Ishqiya, she has always treaded different path.

Mumbai, December 03: When approached, Shruti Haasan’s representative, speaking on behalf of the actress, refuses to accept the fact that she is already a part of the upcoming Kollywood venture. Rather, the representative says that director of ‘Nanbaenda’ Rajesh is still in talks with Shruti Haasan briefing her on the character she will have to portray in his upcoming project, however, the actress has not signed on the dotted line yet.