The first look of the remake ‘Karzzzz’ produced by Bhushan and Krishan Kumar and directed by Satish Kaushik is out and dramatic enough to cause stirs, for the still reveals singer-turned-actor Himesh Reshammiya without his trademark cap.

The movie has Himesh playing the role which Rishi Kapoor played in the original movie and the actor also scores a hat trick by acting, singing and composing the music for the film. The film also stars Urmila Matondkar, Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa and Rohini Hatangadi alongwith Reshammiya.

The shooting is scheduled to commence from Mid-January and the film will be shot in South Africa, Kenya & Mumbai. The ‘zzzz’ing has been added to the name to get the numerology right.

Himesh’s second film to be produced by T-Series is ‘Kajraare’ which will be directed by Pooja Bhatt and the third production is ‘A Love Issshtory’ by John Matthew Matthan of ‘Sarfarosh’ fame. Since Himesh considers 29th to be his lucky number, he saw to it that the mahurat of all his 3 films was held on 29 th November ’07 in a span of 45 min, which once again is numerologically auspicious for him!

Kareena Kapoor, owing to her sour relations with Bipasha Basu having roots in the shootings of ‘Ajanabee’, was candid enough in calling Bollywood’s macho and Bipasha’s boyfriend, John Abraham, ‘expressionless’. Her then boyfriend, Shahid Kapoor backed her statement and both on the sets of ‘Koffee with Karan’ declared that Kareena would never like to work with John.

But, now the things have taken a turn and it seems that the dashing hunk no longer seems ‘expressionless’ to Kareena Kapoor coz now, Bebo is facing a prospect of doing a film with John and in a dramatic turnaround, she has told a Mumbai tabloid that she has no problem working with John.

To be known that Kareena has signed a three-film deal with a truly lucrative amount with the production house Shri Ashtavinayak and they are inclined on taking John as the hero of their film. Meanwhile, John had already made it clear that he has never had any problem with Kareena.

This is Bollywood. Here the equation of friendship and enemity keep changing every hour!

Subhash Ghai is quite excited about his new project under the banner of Mukta Arts called ‘Hello Darling’. Based on the lines of Charlie’s Angels, the film is a comedy about a villain and three heroines. Celina Jaitley, Gul Panag and Isha Koopikar play the three heroines and Javed Jaffrey is in the villainous role. The film will go on floors on 16th December and will be directed by Ghai’s chief assistant Manoj Tiwari. The musical scores will be from Pritam.

Ghai has a lot in store for his admirers. While he has already completed his experimental film ‘Black N White , he is currently shooting for his ambitious project ‘Yuvraaj’ starring Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan and Zayed Khan in lead roles. Others include ‘Bombay to Bangkok’, ‘Cycle Kick’ and ‘Right Ya Wrong’.

After sharing the screen space opposite sultry Mallika Sherawat in ‘Pyar Ke Side Effects’, gorgeous Kareena Kapoor in ‘Chameli’ and dusky beauty Sameera Reddy in ‘Kaalpurush’, Rahul Bose has decided to add a little spice this time by teaming up with three beautiful ladies in one go for Oriya director Manmohan Mahapatra’s hindi film. The three actresses will be Dia Mirza, Nandita Das and Raima Sen.

“The challenge in working with these lovely ladies from the mainstream cinema is to have them accept someone like me after they’ve acted with huge male stars. And they come out of the crossover so well. Look at Sameera in ‘Kaal Purush’, Kareena in ‘Chameli’ and Mallika is outstanding in ‘PKSE’,” says Rahul.

Rahul has also signed Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s next film and is doing a Hindi film with Bengali director Anjan Dutta. Apart from acting, he is all set to direct his first film since his directorial debut “Everybody Says I’m Fine”.

Neeraj Pathak has signed in Deepal Shaw for his film, ‘Right Ya Wrong’. The film also stars Sunny Deol, Konkana Sen Sharma, Irfaan Khan, Isha Koppikar, Kirron Kher, Aryan Vaid and Anjan Srivastava.

Though Neeraj does not divulge in many details about Deepal’s role, he is very happy signing Deepal and says, “Deepal Shaw’s role is a surprise package in the film. The audience will be astonished with her.”

Finally Hrithik Roshan gives in to his doctors’ advice and has headed off to Singapore for 6 weeks to heal his injured knee.

To be known that junior Roshan had torn the ligament of his right knee but inspite of his doctor and physiotherapist’s instructions, he continued to work without taking rest. First Hrithik had his schedules for ‘Jodha Akbar’ and then he completed his ads commitments.

As a result, the knee did not get enough rest to recuperate and hence now the situation is such that it has become essential for him to put all the work on back burner and go abroad for complete treatment. In fact his new movie shoot has also been delayed because of the treatment.

Says Hrithik, “While working towards fulfilling my commitments to all my work – ads and film, I did not much care about my knee pain and have neglected my doctors advise to not put any stress on it and take complete rest if I wanted it to heal. I am giving my health a prior importance now, so that none of my further commitments suffer in the near future,” says the truly committed star.

Our Best Wishes to you, Hrithik. Get well soon!!

Jhanu Barua’s ‘Har Pal’ turned out to be a wonderful experience for Preity Zinta and Isha Koppikar, as both of them found a new friend in each other.  The film too portrays both of them as close friends on-screen.

During the shooting, Isha had problem in staying awake for her night schedules and it was Preity who offered to help Isha by keeping her awake while chatting with her. Both the actresses even shared their lunch boxes.

Isha says, “Preity is a very nice girl and she has a lot of masala for entertainment. We have decided that we will stay in touch even after the shooting is over.” As for Preity, she says that she would have married Isha if she was a boy.

On the last day of the shooting both the actresses hugged each other and exchanged gifts to say goodbye. Preity gifted her favorite Coco channel perfume to Isha. She believes Isha would always remember her because of this gift.

There was a time when Aishwarya (Rai) Bachchan had made SRK wash his mouth ‘n’ number of times before she allowed him to spit water on her face for a shot in ‘Josh’. Now, Neha Dhupia did a ditto. The lady made her co-star wash his hands four to five times because the scene required her to lick his hand.

“I am very particular about personal hygiene. So when the directed wanted me to lick my co-star’s hand, I told him to wash it thoroughly,” laughs the gorgeous gal. When asked about the name of the guy, she said with her catty smile, “Kill the suspense. You will get to see the scene as soon as the film is released.”

Every other day, the newspaper splashes pictures of the Bollywood’s most happening couple in some temple or the other. However, even the visits to temples have not really given a ride of good luck to Bachchans. The first release to feature the three Abs- Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya (Rai) Bachchan- post AbAsh marriage, Ramgopal Varma’s ‘Sarkar Raaj’ has run into trouble.

The film, which is currently in post-production and was expected to release in the first quarter of 2008 is facing a stay order, thanks to K Sera Sera. The company, which produced Varma’s ‘Sarkar’, has the sequel rights to the film and had supposedly warned Varma through a letter not to go to any other production house. But RGV went ahead with Adlabs.

Now, K Sera Sera is seeking a stay order, smashing all hopes of Big B to make ‘Sarkar Raj’ the first release post Abhi-Ash marriage coz, ‘Jodha Akbar’ will surely win the race due to this legal tangle.

Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra are the brand ambassadors for watchmakers Tag Heuer and the duo arrived for a polo match in New Delhi to launch a range of sporty watches.

Shah Rukh Khan was wearing a classic business suit and Priyanka Chopra, as charming as ever, was attired in an elegant, white dress. Both the actors not only flashed their wrists with this range but also added praises in favour of the model.

‘It is a watch that any discerning buyer would be happy to own,’ said Priyanka. SRK ckeekily added, ‘I love this watch too, though I love the white dial Priyanka is wearing, a lot more’.

When quizzed about the price, King Khan, with characteristic candour said, ‘It’s not the watch but the state of mind that keeps you in track with time.’

Soha Ali Khan developed a good rapport with Sudhir Mishra while shooting for ‘Khoya Khoya Chand’ and the director was keen on casting Soha as ‘Chandramukhi’ in his modern interpretation of ‘Devdas’.

However, Mishra’s film will be entirely different from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdaas and is set in the political world. Paro plays a simple girl who evolves into a shrewd politician. Chandramukhi is not a courtesan but an investment banker.

Actor Shiney Ahuja and Lara Dutta have been finalized for the role of Devdas and Paro, but incidentally Soha has been dropped from the project because the makers want an international face to play Chandramukhi in the film.

Mishra regrets missing out the chance to work with his favourite actress Soha once again, but he looks forward to make another film with her soon.

Country Club India Ltd (CCIL) has signed an array of Bollywood Divas – the sultry Neha Dhupia, the sensuous sisters Mallaika Arora and Amrita Arora the effervescent ‘Golmaal’ girl Rimi Sen, stunning Mahima Choudhury and Udita Goswami, the melodious Usha Uthup and actress Saada from down south its New Year Bash 2008. Their fabulous performances will be taking place across eight cities, namely Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Cochin. Country Club Kool- a premium league of niche clubs- was also launched in a star studded conference recently.