Sanjay Gupta is very excited about his next project ‘Acid Factory’ and there was no better way to send out the vibes with a bash in association with Kingfisher Force One India, at Aurus Juhu.

The galaxy of celebs present were Sanjay Gupta, Fardeen Khan, Natassha, Manoj Bajpai, Aftab Shivdasani, Suparn Verma, Hansal Mehta, Dia Mirza, Gulshan Grover, Mika, Sanjay Suri, Masumeh, Sophie Choudhry, Anupama Varma, Aryans, Shibani Kashyap, Sudanshu Pandey, Mita Vashisht, Anand Raj Anand, Bappa Lahiri, Manoj Bohra, Teejay, Samir Soni, Saurabh Shukla,

Celebrity D J Akhthar rocked the dance floor palying DJ to the party. Gupta had announced his film just last month. The film to be directed by Suparn Varma stars Fardeen Khan, Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Dino Morea, Aftab Shivdasani and Danny Denzongpa. Since, in the film the lives of all major characters revolve around the acid factory, it will be shot in an acid factory itself.

The gal has finally learnt the ways of Bollywood. After a disastrous ‘Khoya Khoya Chand’, Soha Ali Khan has decided to shed her inhibitions and clothes for ‘Maxim’. So, all we can see is that things are getting hotter this season.

Our words need no proof once you see Soha down to bare minimum on the cover page of fashion magazine, Maxim, in its May issue and gotta say Pals, she is sure to set ardeline rushing in you!

Once again Bollywood has proved it that there is nothing called true friendship or enemity here. Talking about Saif Ali Khan, it was Farhan Akhtar who got Saif’s career on the move with ‘Dil Chhahta Hai’. But now, when things are rocking for Saif and the time calls for a repayment to Farhan, Chhote Nawab seems to have conveniently forgotten the good.

Farhan had asked Saif to guest star in his next production, ‘Voice From The Sky’. Saif agreed to the short role but asked for 20 crore where Farhan was expecting Saif to do the role for free.

So, we have it that he has opted out of the film to be made under the banner of Excel Entertainment because the producer couldn’t pay the money the actor demanded.

Farhan had recently that he was very excited about working with Saif again in ‘Voices From The Sky’. In one newspaper article, he had said, “I’m really looking forward to working with Saif after Dil Chahta Hai. He is a fantastic actor and friend and it would be exciting to join up again.”

But it seems, Saif is keeping the emotions aside and being professional to the hilt.

Rumi Jaffrey’s directorial debut ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ starring Big B, Salman Khan and Priyanka Chopra has been in the making for quite sometime now.

The storyline of the film goes as:

Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan) has been trying his hand at TV anchoring without much success. He blames God for this. Arun is in love with Alia (Priyanka Chopra), a TV anchor, but has not expressed his love yet. There comes in Rocky as an anchor for the channel and Arun is chucked out. He again blames God for this.

The story gets s twist when Arun meets God (Amitabh Bachchan) who gives Arun the power to run earth for seven days as Arun claims that he can do a better job. After Arun becomes God, he becomes successful. He puts Rocky into an uneasy spot and wins Alia’s heart. Also, he grants everybody’s wish. But how playing God becomes a nightmare for him is to be seen on the screen itself.

As for now, take a peek at the first look of the film.

Music video maker turned filmmaker Ken Ghosh was the one who made Shahid Kapoor’s debut movie ‘Ishq Vishq’ and he was the one who cast Shahid and Kareena Kapoor for the first time in ‘Fida’. Not to mention Shahid has a special place in his heart for Ken.

Now, Shahid Kapoor is quite excited about his next project with Ken Ghosh, a musical for UTV and is experimenting with a new look for the film which include opting for a long hairstyle with six pack abs. For the film, Shahid will learn different dance styles and work on his physique not in India but abroad. His dance sequence which will flaunt his six-pack abs will be choreographed by a Hollywood dance specialist.

Talking about it, Ken revealed, “Shahid is making changes in his physical appearance. The new film is an out-and-out dance film, which will be on the lines of a larger than life Broadway musical.”

Shahid said, “I do only one film at a time and hence can take liberty to experiment with my looks.”

At present Shahid is keeping his finger crossed for the release of Tips films ‘Kismet Konnection’ opposite Vidya Balan directed by Aziz Mirza which will hit the theatres on  July 11.

That television’s most popular Bahu, Prachi Desai, is making her big screen debut with ‘Rock On’ opposite Farhan Akhtar is stale by now. That Prachi has gone for an image makeover has been all over the gossip columns for quite sometime now.

The latest one is that this 19 year old female has already bagged in her next project even before her debut film hits the screens. She has been signed as one of the female leads in Abbas-Mustan’s home production ‘Life Partner’ starring Fardeen Khan, Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza to be directed by Rumi Jaffrey.

Prachi confirmed the news saying, “Yes, I have signed the film but it’s too early to talk about it. I can’t reveal many details about Life Partner. All I can say is that when I heard the script, I loved it and am happy that I am a part of it.”

After having her full share of success in small screen, looks like Prachi is ready to sweep off the bigger screen too. Good going, Prachi!

Known as the ‘Ringmaster’ in WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) circle the 6’2” huge, muscular bodybuilder Steve Austin, who is also famous with other names like the Stone Cold Stunner is keen to work in a Bollywood movie.

Steve Austin, who is six times WWE Champion, had stint with Ric Flair to his toughest opponent Bret Hart to The Rock and is credited to win Royal Rumble Championship thrice! in World Wrestling Federation.

Apart from his wrestling career now –a-days, he is concentrating over his acting career as he already acted in the movie, ‘The Longest Yard’ the movie produced in 2005. In the movie, he acted along with, The Great Khali, The Rock and Goldberg and has latest to be released movie is Jack Conard’s action thriller ‘The Condemned’.

Apart, he is also working in a good number of movies and tele series when asked about his most challenging opponents he givse away names of the Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and The Rock. Bret Hart in ring and outside the ring he named The Great Khali and him as good pals. He also seemed interested to work in a Bollywood movie like as ‘The Great Khali.’

What more could a new comer making his debut in the glittering world of cinema ask for than that the premiere of his first film being graced by none other than the ‘Dhak-Dhak’ girl Madhuri Dixit.

Clad in a blue sari, accompanied by hubby Nene and looking as gorgeous as ever, Madhuri made a special appearance at the Cinemax theatre for the premiere of Mithun’s son Mimoh’s debut movie ‘Jimmy’.

Also present were Mithun Chakraborty’s good friends Danny Denzongpa and Govinda. Bappi Lahiri’s son Bappa, who makes his musical debut with ‘Jimmy’ was there with his family and gal Karishma Tanna. Other who added glamour spark to the event were Sunil Shetty, Javed Jaffrey, Samir Dattani, Hard Kaur, Meet Brothers, Mrinilani Sharma and film critic Anupama Chopra.

Aamir Khan is painting Bollywood blogs red with the news of his hurting himself while doing dangerous stunts for his forthcoming ‘Ghajini’. But what is not known to many is that sexy and nubile Jiah Khan is also matching paces with him in doing some hard-hitting stunts for the flick.

The reasons Jiah’s action scenes aren’t being talked-about are that she hasn’t hurt herself and more so because she isn’t talking about it. “I can’t! I’m not allowed to,” she quakes with contractual terror. “But yes, I’ve done a lot of action scenes in Ghajini. They’ve been extremely unnerving.”

Jiah also lost weight for doing these stunts. To be cleared here that Jiah is doing Ken Ghosh’s film with Shahid Kapoor and all that sms business was sent off by someone else in her name.

Yash Raj films had created much mystery and speculations about the girl who would be cast opposite SRK in their next mega venture ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. The suspense now comes to an end with the announcement of Anushka Sharma’s name as the female lead for the film.

Anushka, 19 year old teenager, is a small time model from Bangalore. During the last Fashion Week, Anushka was one of the models picked for Wendell Roderick’s finale. Since then she has been doing product endorsements.

Talking about the choice, Yash Chopra said, “We were looking first and foremost for someone who could truly embody the spirit of small town Punjab and we know we have found her in Anushka Sharma. And while she has no previous acting experience, we have seen that unique spark in her that makes us confident that she will be a standout even opposite Shah Rukh.”

The film will go on floors on 16th May and will hit theatres worldwide on 12th December.

Akshay Kumar had started his career as an action hero and now he back to what he is best at. He is all set to host the reality show ‘khatron ke khiladi’ which is a desi version of the most popular show in Europe ‘Fear Factor’ which is running in 72 countries in the world. The show will be the main attraction on the channel Colours, announced today by India’s leading multi-media entertainment powerhouse, Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd.

The press conference of the show was held at Bangkok on May 5 and Akshay kick-started the event by making an entry on his sports bike by breaking a glass and later carried a snake around his neck.

Khiladi Kumar redefined fear on the show by taking out a snake from a bag and saying, “This is fear”. He carried the scary reptile around his neck for the entire programme.

Akshay said, ‘’fear is in everyone but I think women are stronger than men to tackle it. I have always believed that women are stronger than men, Men, who believe that they are stronger than women, are no better than pigs.

Through ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’, I am here to prove these men wrong and establish the fact that women are not only emotionally stronger, but also out do men in physical strength.

So, watch out for these 13 beautiful women, who take on some of their lives’ biggest challenges in ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’. The show would be the highest level of physical and mental challenge and 13 beautiful daring women will take on their lives’ biggest challenges in the show,'’ Akshay said.

The models include Yana Gupta, Aditi Govtrikar, Pooja Bedi, Sonali Kulkarni, Tapur Chatterjee, Tupur Chatterjee, Sayali Bhagat, Nethra Raghuraman, Anjana Sukjani, Dipannita Sharma, Payal Rohtagi and Meghna Naidu and the show will be shot entirely in South Africa, over a period of one month.

With thirteen beautiful ladies, Akshay Kumar will definitely not get much of the limelight. Isn’t it?

There is no denying the ‘Sen’sation of the sensational Sen sister, Riya Sen. That being true, glamourous Riya Sen has aptly been chosen as the Brand Ambassador for Indian Premier League’s (IPL) official website www.iplt20.com. As the brand ambassador for the site, Riya has to attend at least 5 IPL matches, she has to get into conversation with the players and post her reviews on the site. As for the team she supports, Riya, in her true Kolkatan spirit, openly displays her loyalty and support for SRK’s Kolkata Knight Riders.

Talking about it, Riya says, “I was present as a guest in the IPL’s inaugural match. And I know all of the organizers of IPL very well, including Lalit Modi. It was our mutual love for cricket that got us together. As a Brand Ambassador of the website, I am supposed to attend at least 5 matches, but I am planning to attend much more than 12 matches, subject to I am not working (shooting) at that time.”

This is real India, quite different from the dreamy silver screen where the hero is there everytime, the heroine is in trouble. Celina Jaitley faced this harsh reality when her brother Vikrant Jaitley, an army officer, was involved in a hit and run accident and none of the people present on the scene came forward to his rescue. Finally, a passer-by picked up Vikrant’s cell phones and dialed the last number on it, which happened to be Celina’s father’s number.

Says Celina, “Vikrant could have died right there on the road. He was lying unattended on a pool of blood for 25 minutes while the people around simply stood and stared. No one helped my brother. The women stood with their dupattas clasped to their mouths while the men stared at the scene. Everyone in Mhow knows my father and our house is known as the Jaitly kothi. Yet nobody came to rescue him.”

“No one lifted a finger, while a man in uniform was dying. Finally, one gentleman who was passing by saw the scene and called up my father from my brother’s mobile phone which was lying a little distance away,” continues the actress.

Vikrant is now recovering well and doctors have said that he will be back on duty, as an army officer, within weeks.

There is no denying the fact that forever young Dev Anand has an eye for digging the best beauties in the tinsel town. This time the lucky one is Bong beauty Riya Sen who will be playing the leading role in Dev Saab’s next directorial venture.

The film based on a socio-political theme has been titled ‘Charge Sheet’. Riya and Jackie Shroff have been finalized and the search is still on for the rest of the casting. To be mentioned here that this veteran star has already worked with two generations of the Sen family- Suchitra Sen and Moon Moon Sen.

Speaking to a Mumbai tabloid, Dev Anand told that his film requires a glamorous, good-looking female and Riya suits the role. Dev Anand will be flying to Cannes shortly where his evergreen film ‘Guide’ has been chosen for screening in the Classics section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Actress Chitrangada Singh was much in news lately for being finalized opposite Aamir Khan for ‘Delhi Belly’. She created all the more news when she walked out of ‘Delhi Belly’ starring Aamir Khan due to creative differences with the makers of the film.

‘I have left the film due to creative differences. I have nothing personal against the film’s makers. They wanted to stick to the script without making any changes and it did not suit me,’ Chitrangada said.

The actress, received critical acclaims for ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’ (2003) and was seen again in 2005 in ‘Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow’. Now she is doing Onir’s ‘Sorry Bhai‘ which is slated for a July release. Currently she is shooting for Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Aur Devdas‘ where she will be playing the character of Chandramukhi. She divulged that she is in talks with three other directors for her future projects.

This actress is the one who believes in carving her own road and sure she manages to display this attitude when she graces the cover of the latest edition of the leading lifestyle magazine ‘Andpersand’. Check out Chitraganda Singh at her best!

Madhuri Dixit, who had reigned as the queen of Bollywood for a pretty long period, has been chosen for the prestigious Padma Shri Award for her contribution to the Indian Cinema which will be given to her on May 10. Madhuri, whose birthday is just a few days ahead, could not get a better reason for a grand celebration. She will be coming down from Florida for the award ceremony along with her husband Dr. Nene.

Madhuri was last seen in her comeback ‘Aaja Nachle’ which failed to create stirs on the box-office. Nonetheless, her fan following has not gone down by an inch. So, do we see M.F.Hussain celebrating already?

Aamir Khan has always been known for his perfection and dedication to work. But too much of anything is bad and this one sure proved it. Last week, Aamir had injured his hamstring muscle while shooting an action sequence for his film ‘Ghajini’. Although. Aamir was advised rest for a couple of days, the actor, concerned about the film insisted director A.R.Murgadoss to shoot some close up sequences which would not strain his injury much.
But the idea proved to be disastrous one since Aamir injured his hamstring further and had to be hospitalized. Quotes an eye witness, “He was chasing the bad guy, he stepped in a wrong position and his hamstring muscle got torn. After the shot was ‘Okayed’ for almost 40 minutes, Aamir was unable to stand up. Initially, everyone on the sets thought that Aamir was pulling a fast one, but only when he started screaming in pain, everyone got moving.”

The physiotherapist on the sets could not handle the situation and a specialist had to be called in. He was taken to a local hospital. He has been advised three weeks of complete bed rest and will be coming to Mumbai as soon as his doctors allow him to travel. Meanwhile, the shooting has been cancelled.

A. R. Murgadoss, the director of the film says, “It happened on the day we were shooting some crucial sequences with Aamir. Although he had supported his leg, he got into an awkward position while shooting and he seriously injured himself again. Shooting can hold. We all right now are worried about his well being”.

Bollywood and cricket have always been an attraction for each other. Where our Bolly beauties can’t resist the Cricket superstars, the cricketers cannot resist the temptation of the silver screen. So, after Sandeep Patil, Ajay Jadeja and others, the next in tow is Indian Test captain Anil Kumble, who will star in the Pritish Nandy Communication’s forthcoming comedy film ‘Meerabai Not Out’.

The movie which will hit the screens this summer has Mandira Bedi in the main lead playing a maths teacher obsessed with cricket. Also starring in the film are actors like Eijaz Khan, Anupam Kher and Mahesh Manjrekar.

Directed by Marathi Director Chandrakant Kulkarni, the film will be produced by Pritish Nandy Communications in partnership with Sony Pictures and DQ Entertainment.

So, it will be a double treat for cricket loving movie goers to get the combination of ultra-sexy Mandira Bedi with talented Anil Kumble.