Getting stuck in controversies has become the latest publicity gimmick of the filmmakers these days. The latest movie to land up in a controversial soup is ‘Jodi Breakers’ against which a case has been filed by the Universal Pictures International France and Ors (a co-producer of Heartbreakers and a part of American entertainment company NBC Universal Inc) in the Bombay High Court for infringement of copyright. The company has demanded Rs 50 crore as a compensation.
The movie which stars Bipasha Basu and R Madhavan in the lead is allegedly inspired from the French film starring Romain Duris and Venessa Paradis. As such, the French producers have filed the case against five people the producer, Prasar Visions Pvt Ltd, director Ashwini Chaudhary, the writer, the processing lab and Dariwala who claimed that the producers stole her idea.
The Neolegal Associates (a leading intellectual property firm which handles many such litigation for Hollywood studios) represents the Heartbreaker producer.
While the makers of the flick handle the legal troubles, you check out Bipasha Basu on the sets of ‘Dance India Dance’ for the promotion of ‘Jodi Breakers’…….
Former Kingfisher girl Mia Uyeda is getting her moves just right by getting the right amount of publicity with her steamy scenes with Kunal Khemu in her upcoming film ‘Blood Money’. Though the movie has Amrita Puri in the lead, Mia’s steamy scenes are pocketing in enough publicity for the film and the actress alike.
The scene which is doing rounds on the net was released by the film’s PR on Saturday and has been shot in an office where Kunal is seen hotting it up with Mia on the top of the table. The passionate smooch between the two is quite a long one, enough to let the eyeballs pop out.
While Mahesh Bhatt camp cashes in on steamy scenes from the flick, you take a ride with a few glimpses of the same..
Actress Anushka Sharma looked as gorgeous as ever at the launch of designer Ritu Kumar’s new flagship store at the Raghuvanshi Mills, in Mumbai. Anushka was clad in a blue-coloured lehanga with broad gota work, an Indian-textile inspired ensemble, from Ritu Kumar’s couture collection ‘Panchvastra’ at an event in the city recently.
The impressive guest list who was present there to congratulate the designer included Reena Wadhwa, Sabina Singh, Nethra Raghuraman and Chhaya Momaya were present to congratulate her. Taking a keen look at the vibrant colour palate, mirrorwork, gota and zardosi embroidery was Akanksha Agarwal, Anjana Sharma and Aarti Surendranath.
The year 2012 turns out to be an year of marital alliances in Bollywood. After the much glam wedding ceremony of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza, Bollywood gears up for yet another high profile wedding as actress Esha Deol gets engaged to her beau Bharat Takhtani. The event took place in a private and close gathering of friends and well-wishers at Hema Malini’s bungalow in Juhu, Mumbai.
Hema Malini told reporters: “We are very happy today for Esha and Bharat. It is a happy moment for all of us. Bharat is a very nice person. It is a private function.”
An elated Esha Deol said, “I am happy and I thank everyone for their blessings.”
The wedding date is yet to be decided and once the date is decided, Hema Malini has promised to make an official announcement for it.
Actress Deepika Padukone chose to walk away from ‘Race 2’ after being offered a Hollywood project despite the fact that she had already shot for a week for the film. The makers of the film have decided not to take this lying down and as such, producer Ramesh Taurani has filed a case against her with Cine & TV Artistes Association (CINTAA) and Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP).
Ramesh Taurani says, “I have been a part of the Hindi cinema industry for 25 years. I have made several blockbusters. But I have never faced a situation like this before. Our directors and the other actors are extremely annoyed with her.”
If Deepika fails to respond to the complaint, then the case will pass onto the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE). If still not addressed, then she would have to face a Non-Cooperation Directive (NCD).
Senior producer Pahlaj Nihalani explains, “If Taurani has filed a complaint against Deepika, she will have to honour the dates which she had allotted to him. If she has given the same dates to any other producer, she cannot shoot for the other project.”
Actor Imran Khan is on a high these days. Not only has his awaited flick EMAET hit the screens today, he had also been invited for an official dinner, to be hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in honour of the visiting Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, and his wife Veena. The dinner took place at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
However, Imran is busy these days with the promotion of ‘Ek Main Aur Ek Tu’, but he would surely not want to miss this honour. “Imran has become a well-known Bollywood face in the island country. He is excited to have been invited by the PM, since not many get this honour so early in their career. He’s making sure he doesn’t miss out on the opportunity,” says a member of his entourage.
An elated Imran says, “It’s a great honour to be invited for dinner by PM. Since I am in the middle of promotions, I have requested Karan to give me a couple of hours off to attend the special event
Sajid Khan raked moolah at box office with ‘Housefull’. He is back once again with ‘Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen’. The film stars Akshay Kumar opposite Asin Thottumkal in the lead. While Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor and Chunky Pandey carry on from the original, Asin, John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Zarine Khan, Shazahn Padamsee, Shreyas Talpade, Rishi Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty are the new entrants.
Filming of the movie started on 9 June 2011 in London & Peterborough. The first look of the film has been revealed and the release date has been fixed for 5 April, 2012. Malaika Arora Khan has done an item-number in the film and Sajid-Wajid are the music directors of the movie.
Bollywood hottie Riya Sen and actor Arya Babbar were captured by the lenses as they shot for a song of their upcoming movie Zindagi 50-50. The movie also features Veena Malik as the female lead. Rumours doing rounds are that the director of Zindagi 50-50 wanted to shoot an item number featuring both Riya and Veena Malik. However, both the actresses seemed reluctant to share screen space in an item number!
This particular song was shot at Metro Cafe and Club and post the shooting, director Rajiv Ruia, treated the cast and crew with cakes, pizza and soft drinks. Director Rajiv Ruia, actors Rajan Verma, Supriya Kumar, Riya Sen, Arya Babbar, singer Manak-E of Paisa Paisa fame who had flown specially from UK, composer Vivek Kar, choreographer Sabina Khan, and the entire unit had a ball.
Have a look at Riya Sen and Arya Babbar during the shoot of the song……
Post two ministers getting caught watching porn in Karnataka assembly and having now resigned, celebs are taking their dig by cracking jokes about the same on their social networking site. Bollywood’s small time actress more known for her loud mouth and striptease acts, Poonam Pandey, joked on Twitter:
“2 ministers caught watching porn in assembly were confused souls. They heard ‘Get ready for erections’ instead of ‘elections’. #HEHEHEH.”
“The Karnataka ministers at the assembly were actually celebrating the commencement of Valentine’s Week #porngate #heheheheh,” she added.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma tweeted, “Ministers watching porn in the assembly is a sure sign of an emerging and shining india..jai ho”
Chetan Bhagat chose to tweet about some of the interesting excuses given by the ministers.
“Let’s give the poor ministers some #PorngateExcuses . Will RT the best. “I was just checking download speeds on the 3G network.”,” Bhagat tweeted.
“Its my son’s phone. I am just checking out how naughty he has been these days. #PorngateExcuses,” Bhagat retweeted another one.
Social networking sites are taking the celebrity fights and dramas to a higher notch. The latest celebs to fight on Twitter are Ayesha Takia and Mallya prince Siddharth Mallya. Ayesha Takia expressed her allegations towards the Kingfisher staff for misbehaving with her sister Natasha who was supposed to travel by Kingfisher Airlines from Delhi to Mumbai.
Ayesha had tweeted, “My heart is beating so fast with anger that a girl at an airport gets treated this way by airport staff! Vinay Podwal ( KA staff) misbehaved with a passenger and tore her boarding pass. Vinay at Delhi airport, threatened and yelled at my sister saying he can throw anyone out and tore her boarding pass.”
“She is unwell and has a horrible backache, I can’t believe this happened to her rite now! Is this how a girl alone at an airport gets treated by the staff of the airline she is flying?” asks Ayesha.
Reacting to this, son of Vijay Mallya, Siddharth tweeted: “Been getting retweets about Ayesha Takia & KFA. Not too sure who she is, an actor of some sorts?? But it seems something has upset her! Don’t know why Ayesha Takia is tweeting so much when she wasn’t even present. There are always two sides to a story.”
Shocked by Siddharth’s rude comments, Ayesha retorted on the micro-blogging site: “My sis is a normal Indian girl, traveling economy so of course you won’t give a shit, I know the whole story because it happened to my sister. I will rant Siddharth Mallya. This is your way of dealing with a hospitality business! Learn manners and respect.”
“We are going to take serious action against this and go to court with it, let the law handle it, so that this doesn’t happen to any girl again,” says a defiant Ayesha Takia.
However, the senior Mallya brought an end to this ugly episode by apologizing to Natasha for the behavior of the airlines staff. Mallya tweeted, “My personal apologies 2 Natasha Ayesha Takia’s sister if she was disappointed with our service. Will have her allegations fully investigated.”
After reading Mallya’s response Ayesha tweeted, “I appreciate the response and hope the matter is seriously looked into and dealt with.”
After a grand wedding and a grander reception at Hyatt, when people were expecting Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh to be heading for a romantic honeymoon, the couple took a flight instead to head off to Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, to be a part of the Celebrity Cricket League tournament on Sunday.
Well, it did not come as a surprise that with his bonny bride cheering from the sidelines, Riteish delivered his best form taking two wickets in the game. His team Mumbai Heroes eventually won the match.
Yet another reception is awaiting the newly married couple at Latur on February 11, to celebrate in Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh’s constituency.
Speculations have been put to an end with Deepika Padukone being finalized as the lead opposite Rajnikanth in his next film Kochadaiyaan to be directed by Rajini’s younger daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth. The film will be the first in India to be a 3D film with performance capturing technology is being shot in India.
Soundarya tweeted on her social networking site, “Guys. Deepika padukone confirmed to play appa s pair in Kochadaiyaan 
great to have you back with us @deepikapadukone :) big hug!”
It may be mentioned here that Deepika had been finalized to play Rajni’s pair in the previous film ‘Rana’ which got shelved due to the superstar’s ailing health. Tamil actress Sneha has been signed to play Rajinikanth’s sister. A R Rahman will compose the music while KS Ravikumar will supervise the direction.
