‘Lets Dance’ marks the debut of the promising Alabama beauty, Gayatri Patel, who is extremely fond of dancing. In the movie too, she plays the role of a passionate young dancer, Suhani, who has always dreamt of making it big in the glamour world. It also tells us about fourteen year old Aftab (played by Aqib), a gifted dancer who has never dreamed anything ever. Then we have newcomer Ajay Chaudhary stars as Neil, who falls in love with Suhani and decides to help her realize her dream of becoming a star.

The movie is directed by debutant director Aarif Sheikh and the producer is Gayatri’s father himself. Aarif is a known name in film editing and has won the national award for editing of Samay – When Time Strikes. He also has the editing of movies like Makdee, Maqbool, Taxi No. 9211, Parzania and The Blue Umbrella to his credit. The choreography of the movie has been done by Longinus Fernandes and the movie is set to release today.

Gayatri is all praises for her co-stars and says, “They are lovely, Aqib is also from London and I was from America. Both of us were new in the city. We got on really well. Ajay is very different from me, he is from Meerut. He is very experienced guy and good actor also and working with him was lot of fun also.”

If you thought that Akshay Kumar has shrunk back after three successive Bollywood failures ‘Jumbo’, ‘Chandni Chowk To China’ and ‘8×10 Tasveer’, the stunt lover is out there to prove you wrong. Where we have his much awaited mega project ‘Kambakkth Ishq’ creating stirs even before release, the actor has gone ahead to sign a deal with a production house for a whopping 31 crores.

The entire industry had their jaws dropped when the news spread. Where some find it a brave step to fight recession and get things moving, others find it foolish to stake such a big amount on an actor who has given so many flops recently. Whether this investment mints gold or turns out to be a complete loss, only time has the answer in store!

Rajkumar Hirani’s multistarrer project ‘3 Idiots’ is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Five Point Someone’ and stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Mona Singh and Boman Irani. Mona Singh is especially excited about the project because it is definitely a big silver screen debut for her to appear alongside perfectionist Aamir Khan in her first venture.

Mona was initially very inhibitive about working with Aamir but the actor eased her up soon. Describing her experience of working with Aamir Khan, Mona says, “It was really nice. Initially I had my qualms about him but then the director of the film told me to meet Aamir once before starting the shoot.”

“I was shooting for Filmfare and Aamir was there for his movie. It was a week’s time for me to start with the project with him. I was confused and didn’t know what to say but I broke the ice after meeting him. Aamir also said that he has seen my show Jassi and liked my work. He is very down to earth and nice person,” she added.

After winning the bronze medal for India at Beijing Olympics, boxer Vijender Singh was very much in news for Bipasha Basu expressing her desire to go for a date with the hunk and later when Vijender shook a leg with the dusky Bong beauty at ‘Nach Baliye’.

Now, this time the boxer has turned to exercising his vocal chords for yet another sexy actress on a reality TV show. The lucky damsel is none other than Mallika Sherawat and Vijender crooned for her at Salman Khan’s ‘Dus Ka Dum’ show which was shot last month.

Recalls Vijender, “She is from my state Haryana, so I sang a local folk song for her when Salman asked me and she couldn’t stop laughing at that. It was fun to interact with her.”

Vijender also said that he was surprised by Salman’s knowledge of Indian boxing.

“I was amazed that Salman knew so much about boxing and our boxers. He was very nice and we cracked a lot of jokes. Contrary to his media image, he came across as a good person,” the impressed boxer said.

Meanwhile, we wonder that after Bipasha and Mallika, who would be the next lucky lady and what would the next gesture from the boxer!!

After from its glamour and glitter, the IIFA event at Macau has given the Bollywood columns some other things to write for too. There is some spicy news doing rounds that our desi hot actress Minissha Lamba stole a very passionate kiss with cricketer Sreenath during the extravaganza. There are rumors that Minissha had a cozy time with the Indian pacer Sreesanth at a casino in Macau where the two gave company to each other until the wee hours of morning.

Minissha, on the other hand, is quite upset with the rumors and calls them baseless. Though she doesn’t deny meeting Sreenath at the casino and also that she is fond of him, she claims that she was there with 25 other people.

Says Minissha, ““I met Sree for only 20 minutes… He is a very sweet and genuine person.”

Minissha also adds that she was definitely not there for so late in the morning and also that she has never in her life has she displayed any kind of affection publicly.

Celina Jaitley has always been known as a bold, outspoken and daring Bollywood actress who does not hesitate to stand up against anything wrong. So, when her co-star Abhimanyu Singh decided to bag in some publicity at her cost, it was quite expected that the actress flew into a rage and decided to retort back.

Abhimanyu is a newcomer who is acting opposite Celina in a thriller directed by Jagmohan Mundhra and has been giving his excuses and take on his alleged linkup with the actress. He went ahead to give an interview about how upset he was to read about his link-up with Celina.

Celina, on the other hand, feels that the question and topic of this linkup is nothing but the brainchild of Abhimanyu himself who is doing this to get some cheap publicity. An angry Celina said, “”What link-up is he talking about? Who linked him with me except himself? This is the first time I’ve heard about this so-called link-up.”

She adds, “This is a perennial problem. You are nice to a co-star and he decides to repay your kindness by planting cheap stories. Recently, it happened to me when a co-star, who’s a dear friend, whom I don’t want to name, gave out a story about how he ‘manhandled’ me on the sets. I didn’t react because all said and done, he’s a dear friend and a name in his own right. But Abhimanyu is a talented actor and I was just being nice to him as a co-star.”

Celina can barely control her anger and expresses her disappointment saying, “Next time I’ll think twice before being nice to a co-star. But it’s sad to see actors, established or not-so-established using their co-star’s name for publicity. They take advantage of my single status and friendly nature. But do they realize how such sleazy whispers could jeopardize my prospects of finding love?”

She also sent an SMS to Abhimanyu Singh which read, “Abhimanyu, u better stop talking about this so called link up. In the first place there’s no link up, so stop going to the media and crying about things which don’t exist.”

‘Shortkut’ may be termed as the re-incarnation for Amrita Rao into a glamorous and sizzling avatar from a petite, girl-next-door image. The gossip columns and journals are abuzz with the sensuality she oozes in the promos of the film. Amrita, by far had kept away from skin-show but finally she has realized that if she aspires of success in the glamour world, she has to take the ‘Shortcut’ of being bold and sexy. And her realization does show in the sizzling hot promos of the film.

The film is a light-hearted comedy dealing with the ups and downs in the life of two con artists, Shekhar (played by Akshaye Khanna) who is a struggling director and Chandu (played by Arshad Warsi) who despite lacking in talents manages to make it big in the tinsel town after she steals Shekhar’s prized script.

Amrita Rao plays the role of Mansi, Shekhar’s love interest who later becomes his wife and what follows is confusion, clash of egos and humorous sequences when Shekhar gets to direct Chandu, the superstar.

Shamita Shetty made a smashing and promising debut with ‘Mohabbatein’ but soon set into some forgettable roles and even more forgettable item numbers. Although at par with her sister Shilpa Shetty in beauty and talents, Shamita does not seem to be doing very well in the professional front. Gorgeous as she is, she is the cover girl of Maxim this month and one look at this smashing beauty on the glossy sheets of this magazine makes one wonder whether we would actually be able to see this talented beauty rock the screens yet again!

If you were wondering why Ramgopal Verma’s sensational search Antara Mali went into oblivion, you have now an answer to it. The actress was busy in her romance with Che Kurien, the editor of GQ magazine, which has finally culminated in a closely kept secret marriage.

The couple had kept their relationship under so many wraps that not even a single gossip column got a sniff of what was going on between the two. Even the marriage which took place on Friday evening was a hush-hush affair without any flashes or media persons.

Che who has been associated with organizations like Reuters, Time Out Mumbai and The Indian Express, prior to him joining GQ has reportedly flown off with his gorgeous lady love to an undisclosed destination for honeymoon.

Though any attention or interference is obviously unwanted by the couple, still our best wishes will always be with them.

Times are definitely not good for Shiney Ahuja who is in news for raping his maid. Among the films which he has in hands currently is the one with Soha Ali Khan titled ‘Accident’ and the actors recently shot a very intimate scene for the flick which is supposed to be a psychological-cum-supernatural horror.

Soha here plays Shiney’s wife who is emotionally disturbed because of an accident and the loss of her baby. The scene takes place when they come to stay in a bungalow and that’s where they have an intimate moment.

Being professional, Soha has no inhibitions about the scene and says, “I have done intimate scenes earlier in Khoya Khoya Chand. Even Antar Mahal was a very progressive subject with lots of intimacy involved. I am open to doing certain scenes that are within my comfort level but I won’t do anything for commercially exploitative reasons to bring in the eyeballs. Whether it’s a kiss or a lovemaking scene it should make script sense.”

“There’s no physical lovemaking scene. It’s all subtle with silences and imagery. I do draw the limit in certain scenes. In such cases I won’t tell the director at the last moment to delete the scene but instead ask him to choose another actor right at the beginning,” she adds.

Soha is very happy about her role in the film and says that the film has an international quality to it. But with Shiney being involved in the rape case, the film will definitely suffer.

Director Farhan Akhtar and producer Ritesh Sidhwani have no two thoughts that their sequel ‘Don 2’ will be a grand and extraordinary flick in terms of action, locales and grandeur. The film will be shot in Dublin where no Indian film has been shot till date. Though there is no double role for SRK this time, he will be performing daring and breathtaking stunts this time. But for this, his shoulder surgery could pose a problem. So, SRK has given his dates in 2009 for Karan Johar’s ‘My Name Is Khan’ which does not require much physical stamina. He has decided to start the shoot for ‘Don 2’ in May 2010 in Ireland and Berlin. Contrary to the rumors Priyanka Chopra is very much there in the sequel.

Producer Ritesh Sidhwani confirms this saying, “We’re very much going ahead with the original cast Shah Rukh, Priyanka, Boman Irani, Arjun Rampal and Om Puri. Only those who died in the original won’t return, obviously.”

He adds, “We’re shooting Don 2 in Dublin. No Indian film has been shot there. We want to make sure that the sequel goes ahead of the first film. While the first part was a remake the sequel is an original script and would be much tougher to film for Shah Rukh and Farhan.”

Gangster famed Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was arrested on Monday morning by Mumbai police on the rape charges of his domestic help after medical test of the house maid confirmed of the sexual assault. He has been charged with sections of IPC for rape (376), criminal intimidation (506) and wrongful confinement (342) and is to be produced before magistrate’s court as told by police officials. He was detained for questioning at Oshiwara police station.

According to additional commissioner of police Amitabh Gupta, the 18 year old maid who was working with Ahuja for one and a half months “She approached the Oshiwara police at around 7 pm and told the police that Ahuja had raped her,”

She told the police, actor’s wife was not at home. “He took me into his bedroom, gagged and raped me,” it is alleged to been said in the FIR. The incident took place between 3 pm and 5 pm on Sunday. “The complainant told the police that she was traumatised after the incident and went to her relatives’ place that along with the girl then approached the police station,” told DCP Niket Kaushik.

Immediately after the complaint was registered, the girl was sent to the Nagpada police hospital for a medical checkup on late Sunday night. And other police team was sent to the Ahuja’s flat and detained him for enquiry.

Mahesh Bhatt, who produced Gangster for Shiny Ahuja, said, “This is a body blow to me. I spoke to a top police official who told me that he was informed by his juniors at Oshiwara that Shiny claimed that he had sex with the consent of the maid. However, she has claimed that she was forced into it. The police officer added that they had to accept the woman’s version. I had spoken to Shiny only yesterday. If he is found guilty of rape, we have to condemn him.”