Mumbai, June 01: Katrina Kaif, dressed in a short black dress, cuddles up to myriad coloured cushions in her favourite corner in her home. As sunbeams light up her laptop, a script, cough medicine (she has this hacking cough and congestion) she is at her sunny best, smiling often as she gets introspective on love, lovers and relationships
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New Delhi, June 01: Gold prices zoomed to an all-time high of Rs 19,050 per ten grams in the national capital Tuesday on skyrocketing global rates amid the ongoing marriage season in India.
In international markets, gold prices surged for the seventh straight day as the European debt crisis increased demand for the precious metal as a safe haven.
Bullion in the Asian region gained as much as 0.5 percent to USD 1,222.47 an ounce, its highest level since May 19, as the euro extended its 2.4 per cent decline against the US dollar last week.
Mumbai, June 01: In bid to end smoking habit he picked up during Guzaarish, Roshan Jr will be using nicotine patches
Hrithik Roshan wants to quit smoking. The actor picked up the habit last year, got addicted to nicotine high during the making of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish, as his character in the film smokes.
First time
Mumbai, June 01: Playing a cop for the first time in his career in the Hindi remake of Kaakha Kakha John Abraham isn’t taking any chances.
He wants to get the spoken language, body language, personality and tone just right.
For this John has not only been re-structuring his metabolism and changing his food and exercize habits and watching as many cops films from Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry to Om Puri in Ardh Satya to Amitabh Bachchan In Zanjeer repeatedly, he has also been socializing with cops trying to understand how their minds and bodies move.
Mumbai, June 01: Ranbir Kapoor is very picky about his screen mothers, and that’s because he has very high standards at home to equal on screen.
Hence he had said some time ago, “My mom was and is a fabulous actress. But the person that I see on screen is not my mother. I see them as two different entities.I can’t see my mom playing my mother.”
At the same time Ranbir is extremely particular about who plays his mom on screen. In Raajneeti the choice was narrowed down even further since Prakash Jha wanted the actress playing Ranbir’s mother to resemble him physically.
Mumbai, June 01: Priyanka Chopra shows off her newest gizmo an iPad. The actress who recently purchased the device has been hooked on to it.
Even while shooting for Saat Khoon Maaf, PC was seen busy downloading new applications and getting a hang of the technology.
Apart from PC, Deepika and Neil Nitin Mukesh were also gifted iPads by their Lafangey Parindey director Pradeep Sarkar.
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Mumbai, June 01: Sri Lanka is in a new era of peace after winning its long fought war against the Tamil Tigers, says actress Jacqueline Fernandez, elated that the IIFA Awards are being held in her home country this year and looking forward to playing the perfect host to her Bollywood colleagues.
“It’s one of the biggest events Sri Lanka has seen to date. I have quite a few roles to play at the IIFA this year, ” Jacqueline told in an interview.
Mumbai, June 01: Saif Ali Khan’s second production finally goes on floors.
Saif Ali Khan’s production Agent Vinod finally rolls. Late Saturday night, the actor shot for the film at a bungalow in Kandivali. His ladylove Kareena Kapoor co-stars.
Saif has shot at this location for his earlier movies like Omkara and Parineeta besides some ad films. The luck factor? “Not exactly, ” says the actor-turned-producer. “It is because the location went exactly with what we had in mind.”
Action scenes
Mumbai, June 01: Karan Johar may not be associated with Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra.1, but the filmmaker believes in lending a helping hand to his buddy’s project.
While visualising SRK in the role of a superhero, KJo provided several inputs that were incorporated in the project. Says an insider, “Shah Rukh gave a draft of the script to Karan for his opinions. He read it thoroughly and suggested changes that were implemented.”
No issues
Mumbai, June 01: Bollywood’s lucky mascot Katrina Kaif is one of the most sought after stars in Bollywood today thanks to all the hard work she’s put in since her debut.
However she does manage to strike the right balance between work and pleasure.
Katrina Kaif recently took time out from her busy schedule to attend Bina Kak’s daughter Amrita’s wedding in Jaipur. Amrita who sung the hit song Just Chill from Maine Pyaar Kyu Kiya recently got married May 29th 2010.
Mumbai, June 01: Rani Mukerji has been sending feelers anew to noted filmmakers, one of them being Rajkumar Hirani.
Now that she is doing a production Rajkumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica outside the Yash Raj banner, she wants it known that she is open to more such films.
Dil Bole Hadippa and Laga Chunari Mein Daag did nothing for her, remember?
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New Delhi, June 01: Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan shot for a new commercial for beauty brand Lux despite an injured back.
“Sometime ago, Abhishek was shooting for ‘Dum Maro Dum’ and while on the sets he hurt his back badly and was down with a sprain. But that didn’t dampen his spirits or affect his shooting schedule with Lux,” said a source.
Mumbai, June 01: Gorgeous Katrina Kaif is every man’s dream girl. Here is good news for all the single men across the world. The lovely lady is looking forward to settle down in life sooner then later.
In a recent interview, the actress admitted that she is open to the idea of marriage but is waiting for the right man to step into her life. Katrina has also confessed that she is an extremely emotional person and would react whimsically at times.
She said that all the link up stories with her co-actors are baseless and often depresses her.
Mumbai, June 01: The 11th edition of the IIFA awards event is going to kick start on 3rd June amidst all the controversies that surround the prestigious International Indian Film Academy. The event will be graced by several Bollywood superstars and their fans, who will be taking a trip to the Emerald Island to meet their stars.
Mumbai, June 01: Brushing aside concerns over a potential clash with the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Cricket Council said the sole point of difference was over the “whereabouts” clause of the WADA code to which it is a signatory.
“BCCI is WADA-compliant. It’s just a question of agreeing on the finer details of the whereabouts clause,” said ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat at a media conference to announce the launch of online sales of tickets for the 2011 World Cup to be held in the sub-continent.
Dehra Dun, Jun 01: Uttarakhand cabinet today decided to extend benefits of Sixth pay commission to the employees of Sanskrit University.
Briefing newspersons after the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, Chief Secretary N S Napalchyal said benefits of sixth pay commission would be extended to the teaching as well as non-teaching staff of Haridwar-based Sanskrit University with retrospective effect from Jan one, 2006.
New Delhi, June 01: India opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has expressed his disappointment at the team’s poor performance in the World Twenty20, saying “any World Cup loss is huge and it stings.” He disagreed with the notion that the IPL had affected the players’ form.
New Delhi, June 01: The BCCI has announced that it will not send a cricket team from India, in both men and women categories, for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. The board said the teams will not be available for the global event between November 12 and 27 because of the international schedule.
“We would not be able to send our team, both men and women, for the Asian Games in China because of international commitments,” the BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty said in Mumbai. “We have communicated the same to the Indian Olympic Association.”
Karachi, June 01: Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan captain, has asked for the infusion of youth for the Asia Cup starting in Sri Lanka on June 15.
“We should have three to four new players along with the seniors so that we can strike the right balance in the one-day side. I think the time is right to start grooming and giving exposure to some of our young lot because we also have to keep the 2011 World Cup in mind,” Afridi said.
Jamaica, June 01: Despite losing six matches in a row to South Africa during the ongoing series, the West Indies captain Chris Gayle has said he was happy with his team’s effort and the spirit within the group. Gayle also said it was imperative that West Indies didn’t reach a stage where they “don’t know how to win games anymore”.
New Delhi, June 01: Joining the Bollywood bandwagon on social networking site Twitter “very soon” is actress Bipasha Basu, who was announced the brand ambassador of Wynncomm Telecom Limited here Tuesday.
“I think the phenomenon of social networking sites is great. I am not on Twitter as of now. But I am getting on Twitter very soon,” Bipasha told reporters at the event.
Mumbai, June 01: It was close to two years back that Govinda starrer NAUGHTY @ 40 was launched with much fanfare. However, as things stand today, there is no progress being made when it comes to this Jagmohan Mundhra directed film reaching the finishing mark.
While Mundhra has completed and released two films in the interim – APARTMENT and CHASE, Govinda too moved on to RAAVAN which is up for release soon. While the industry is again abuzz with the rumours that Govinda has delayed the film’s shoot, the makers have an entirely different take on affairs.
Mumbai, June 01: John Abraham is perhaps one of the fittest actors in B-Town today. For this reason, every filmmaker tries to show as much of his skin as possible. But this skin show comes at a huge cost for John Abraham. The actor has to maintain a strict diet plan and train hard enough to fit into the requirement of his filmmakers.
Hyderabad, June 01: Congress MPs from Telangana region today said they will complain to the high command about the reported remarks of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy against Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah.
“Rosaiah is a veteran leader with a spotless character. He is appointed to the chief minister post by Sonia Gandhiji. Talking about him in a disrespectful manner and holding him responsible for the violent incident at Mahabubabad railway station is highly objectionable,” Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad Madhu Yashki Goud told reporters in Hyderabad.
I Want To Do A Film With Shahrukh Khan, Says Ushoshi Sengupta
Mumbai, June 01: Miss India Universe 2010 Ushoshi Sengupta is quite straightforward regarding her future plans and said that her main objective to become an actress.
The 21-year-old Sengupta stated, “This would be a cliche to say that I don’t want to be an actress. I have grown up thinking of being an actress. I want to do a film with Shah Rukh Khan and given a chance, I would like to do a film like ‘Main Hoon Na’.”