That Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai lost the deal of jewelry brand Nakshatra to Katrina Kaif a few months back had already been informed to you at our space. And undoubtedly, the decision of the company seemed to be apt as we saw Katrina sizzling and dazzling at the promotional event for Nakshatra.
Katrina Kaif has been tagged as the Goddess of Luck for promotions and brand endorsements in the industry. A firm believer in destiny, Katrina feels anyone can be what he wants to be and destiny plays a major part in it. God has of course been very kind to her, adds the actress. In a recent interview Katrina had also confessed that she is most comfortable in front of 300 people on a set. Otherwise, she is lost, says Katrina.
However, even after replacing Ash, Katrina feels that she is no comparison for the Bachchan Bahu as she has an iconic status. Katrina has a series of projects lined up for the coming year – there’s Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani , De Dhana Dhan and the soon-to-be-released New York with co-stars Ranbir Kapoor, Akshay Kumar and John Abraham respectively.
John Abraham and Rahul Bose being the part of creative and sensitive bollywood world was present at 26th November’s terrorist attacked hotel TRIDENT as part of press meet to promote Procam’s Mumbai Marathon 2009. They not only attended the press meet only as part of Marathon Promotion but also expressed their opinion about the future course and activities as to be operable in Mumbai.
John said to the presented press persons, “This place is very relevant. This place where you are standing is very relevant to the attacks…this is one of the places where the hostages were held…I hope this marathon gets a lot more meaning to a lot more people.”
Rahul Bose also applauded cause of Marathon and agreed with the views of John, he said, “civilian society to stay together, to challenge the government-this was a failure, what will you do? If you’re about to do something, when, where and how?”
Bachna Ae Haseeno
Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Siddhartha Raj Anand, this had all the magic like other Yashraj films. Ranbir Kapoor played the lead role against three co-stars Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone and Minissha Lamba in this film.
Jodhaa Akbar
Produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar and excellent scores from A.R.Rehman, this film did not fare very well at the box-office but does receive a mention here because of the superb chemistry between Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan. Jodhaa Akbar is a love story, it portrays beautifully, the defiance of Jodhaa, the Rajput girl who is asked to marry Akbar, a Muslim Emperor.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Yet another one from Yash Raj Filsm, this one marks the debut of Anushka Sharma with the superstar SRK who plays two different shades in the film as Surinder Sahni, a simple, clean hearted, honest man working for Punjab Power, and Raj, who is what one calls a flimi ‘macho’ man
Singh Is King
Produced by Vipul Shah and directed by Anees Bazmee, this is by far the biggest hit of 2008. This is a by and by masala entertainment film with Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles.
Fashion
Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, the film shows the darker aspect of World of Fashion, glamour and ramp shows. The film revolves around the life of three models played by Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse and Kangana Ranaut.
Golmaal Returns
A sequel to ‘Golmaal’, this Rohit Shetty directed film is no match to its original but has some hilarious situations and commendable performances from Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade and Celina Jailtey enough to set the cash registers ringing at the box office.
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Directed by Abbas Tyrewala, this film has been produced by Aamir Khan to launch his nephew Imraan Khan who delivers promising performance alongwith newcomer Genelia D’souza. The film has a simple story about a group of friends and focuses on the couple that is in love.
Race
Abbas Mastaan are masters when it comes to thrillers. This thrillers of theirs was a superhit at the box office with Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif in the main roles.
Rock On
Once again the team of Dil Chahta Hai, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar is back with director Abhishek Kpoor for a suberb delivery. The film marks the debut of director Farhan Akhtar as an actor and rock star. This film is about friends and friendship and deals with the love for music in the band called ‘Magik’. As a band, Adi (Farhan), Rob (Luke Kenny), KD (Purab Kohli) and Joe (Arjun) were a treat.
Ghajini
The movie is yet to be released but the list would be incomplete without inclusion of Aamir Khan’s much awaited ‘Ghajini’ which marks the Bollywood debut of Asin and also stars Jiah Khan and Mohit Ahlawat
Director Dharmesh Darshan who has experience of directing the movies acted by stars like Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Abhishek Bachchan is set to produce his first movie under his banner titled as ‘Bhanvraa- Love In Aggression’. However, in this movie he has enrolled popular television artist Eijaz Khan, Manav Gohil, Sangeeta Ghosh, Shweta Salve instead of Bollywood Stars.
Yana Gupta, who is the model and actress of Czech nationality, was recently seen performing at Bootleggers a hip pub in Colaba. Yana during the performance was playing flute, whereas, other members of the bands were Mikey Mclarey on guitar, Tanu on the bass, and Abhishek Arora on percussion.
Though Czech, however, Yana got her Indian sir name after being married to an Indian artist Satyakam Gupta. After three years, the marriage disengaged between and currently it is in news that she is in affair with Abhay Deol. She had worked in a number of stints in Bollywood movie as well as in leading advertising campaigns.
There is no questioning about the talent of the ace filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi. Now, it is so that Lajmi had written a script based on political drama. The film titled “Singhasan” was written by Lajmi with Aishwarya Rai in mind. But now, it seems that the maker has changed her mind and wants to make it with Deepika Padukone instead, who happens to be a distant relative of hers.
Explaining her relationship with Deepika, she said: “We’re both descendents of the great Guru Dutt. Deepika and I are Saraswat Brahmins. Her family and mine can be traced back to Kashmir. We’re basically evicted Kashmiri pundits who migrated to Bangalore.
If you remember my uncle Guru Dutt (her artist mother Lalita Lajmi’s brother) was settled in Bangalore and so is Deepika’s father Prakash Padukone. Deepika is definitely related to me, though she doesn’t know it. But I hope she knows about me,” Lajmi said.
Reasoning out Deepika as her choice, she said, “I saw her in ‘Om Shanti Om’ and ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’ and found her to possess that old world grace that comes naturally to Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai. I don’t think any other girl today has that quality. I was once planning to cast Aishwarya as a politician in ‘Singhasan’. I’d love to cast Deepika in that role.”
“Maybe she can get R.K. Films to produce it,” she joked.
However, Kalpana has doubts whether Deepika would agree to her offer. “Why should she? I’m a down-and-out filmmaker. I haven’t put a project together in the last three years because of various reasons, the main being finances. A filmmaker like me suffers a double disadvantage by being a woman,” said Lajmi, who has made films like “Chingaari” and “Daman”.
Mugdha Godse is homeless at present and is staying at each of her friends’ place for a day. No, she has not been thrown out for some bizarre reason. It is just that the gal who has just tasted success with ‘Fashion’ has decided to fashion up her house a bit and has workers spread in her entire house doing it for her.
Though Mugdha decided to spend some days in a 5 star hotel, her friends did not allow her to do so arguing even if her family was in Pune, she was to treat their homes as her home.
So, for at least next 15 days, Mugdha with her luggage in her car is living life hippie style stopping for a day at each friend’s house. That’s a foreign lifestyle in India!
Last Sunday was a day whose memories bring shudder to sultry Bong beauty Bipasha Basu. The gal was shooting an action scene last Sunday and then a mishap took place and she had to be taken to the hospital.
No, it wasn’t a fall or a leg or back injury. It was just a small flying pebble which landed right in her ear. Though the actress tried to shake the pebble out, but it did not help. To save her eardrum Bips decided to take the medical help but unfortunately, it was Sunday and all clinics in the vicinity were closed.
Now, it was John Abraham, who as a true boyfriend, came to her rescue. Receiving Bipasha’s SOS, he immediately called an ENT doc friend of his. Bipasha rushed to Leelavati hospital where the ENT specialist took out the pebble with a suction machine.
A relieved Bipasha went home with her parents, but another trouble awaited her. She, her parents, and her claustrophobic sister got stuck in the lift of their building. It took some time before the Basus were rescued.
Phewww! What a day it was!!
The stars of hit, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma attended the press meet as PR exercise to commemorate success of the movie and answered the questions of media with full confidence.
Anushka who hails from the Bangalore was spotted by Wendell Rodricks, the famous fashion designer during a fashion show. Wendell Rodricks also spotted ‘Om Shanti Om’ fame Deepika Padukone. However, before, finally scheduling Anushka for ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ SRK did have an interview of Anushka. At the press meet Shahrukh as well as Anushka were looking gorgeous.
Jaane Tu…’ made her the hot favourite of the younger teen generation and sure enough, Genelia D’souza graces the cover of the magazine ‘Seventeen’ which is meant purely for the teens.
The issue has Genelia get candid about herself giving out all the tips for her fans to reach the same heights as her. She tells her readers all about her past including, “They called me Mowgli in college for the longest time ever!!!”, “The one thing that I have learnt from a race or a match is that you have only one take to make it” etc… She also speaks about the wildest thing that she has done and the meaning of her name (which many still do not know, we bet). Besides all these, you can also get a glimpse of the ‘real-life Genelia’ in this issue.
For now, Genelia is busy with her Bollywood assignments and will arrive with ‘Sasirekha Parinayam’ in Telugu. Good going Genny!!!
Asin had been delivering hits down South and was just waiting for the right time and right role to debut in Bollywood. Seems the time is just too right for her coz even before her debut flick ‘Ghajini’ could hit the screens, Asin has bagged in meaty projects with some of the topmost heroes of Bollywood.
The actress is close on the heels of completing her ‘London Dreams’ with Salman Khan and Ajay Devagan. Meanwhile, talks are going on to sign for the biggest projects with Disney and Warner Bros.
Well-known in South, GV Films are all set to produce an untitled film which will be simultaneously made in Tamil and Hindi with Asin as female lead in both the versions. Producers Usha Venkataramani and Mahadevan Ganesh of GV Films have finalized Ranbir Kapoor as the male lead in Hindi version.
Though not much has been disclosed about the film, GV films claim that it would be based on science-fiction like Rajnikanth starrer ‘Endhiran’.
Everyone unanimously admitted that Nandana Sen was quite bold owing to her bold nude scenes in ‘Rang Rasiya’. Now, there is another proof to this. The bold and the beautiful lady has performed the most dangerous stunt ever performed by a female actor in any part of the world.
Miss Sen shot this action sequence for a Tips film being directed by debutant Kuki Gulati opposite Viveik Oberoi. She revved – up a mobike and speeded from the rooftop of a 30-storey building right onto the top of an adjacent skyscraper.
Narrating the experience, Nandana says, “They said I don’t have to do it. They were willing to use a body double. But I’m glad I took the leap. It helped me to overcome my vertigo.
I knew how to ride a bicycle. So learning to ride a mo’bike was not that hard. But it wasn’t an easy thing to speed across from one 30-storey building to another. Our action director Alan Amin was fantastic. I flew across one building to another. It was liberating.”
Talking about her role and the transformation it required, she says, “It’s a very Matrix like look and role. I enjoyed the stunts immensely. And this role was a complete antithesis to what I play in Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya. It was wonderful to take up such a challenge.
I play an all-action chick who is an undercover cop. I learn kick-boxing, tai-kwundo and I learnt to shoot guns for real. The five kgs I had gained for Rang Rasiya was quickly lost.”
Nandana Sen feels that the role has helped her evolve as a stronger woman. She says, “I’m quite clumsy in real life so I’m used to calamities. And my threshold for pain is quite high. Yes, the heavy mo’bike did fall on me and my shoulder got hurt. But I continued shooting.
I’m very much a girlie girl. But all this physical action really changed my body language and psychological approach to crowded places..
Even a pointing a gun at an adversary is such an aggressive job. The combat training really came out of my shell. Now I feel less vulnerable in crowds.”
