Mrs Maanyata Dutt, who was once Dilnawaz Shaikh when trying to make a career in Bollywood, had done an item number for Prakash Jha’s ‘Gangajal’. After the success of Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti, Gangaajal is being technically enhanced for renewed market appeal. The rumors doing rounds are that Sanjay Dutt has urged the film’s producer and director to re-release the film without the item song. But Jha is in no mood to delete anything.
Says the director, “It’s true we are re-doing the sound and visuals of Gangaajal, along with my other films Damul, Mrityudand and Apaharan. We’re doing the colour-correction and converting the sound to high-digital quality for blue-ray videos. We aren’t deleting anything from Gangaajal or any of the films being restored.”
Recalling Maanyata’s item song Jha says, “When she got selected to do the item song she really worked hard on it and made it a memorable number.” Though at that time she was called Dilnawaz Shaikh, she insisted on being billed as ‘Maanyata’ for the item song.”
Jha added, “I remember her as possessing great dignity and a passion to excel. God bless her.”
However, Dutt, who is right now in Oman, claims all this to be a baseless rumors and clarifies, “Maanyata is the love of my life and I am proud of her choices. I am not embarrassed about the song, so there is no question of me wanting to have it removed.
Prakash Jha is a sensible and talented director you cannot expect nonsense from him.
The song in the film is an important requirement as it takes the story forward; it’s not for mere entertainment purpose.”
Well, that’s a sensible quote from a sensible husband indeed!!
Actress Koena Mitra may be missing from the silver screen but she has had the opportunity of being the only Indian celebrity invited to the Teens choice Awards 2010. It was an overwhelming experience for the actress as the event gave her an opportunity to meet stars and biggies who have always awed her.
“It was a great experience to meet people who I thought were difficult to reach. People who I loved watching were right in front of my eyes like the twilight team which ruled the evening and I have always been a big fan of David Beckham, I got to see him in person. Plus, the energy of the show was a new experience all together,” she says.
Talking about her experience at the blue carpet, the actress said, “Blue carpets are a different thing all together, its like a mela where you have so many people around along with their entourage, its difficult to stand and chit chat over there but greeting people is a normal thing over there it happen on the streets in studios and the same happens at blue carpets.”
“I am glad that I was invited, since the time my management team has taken over my work, several invitations have been coming let that be award functions or premiers,” she added.
The actress who chose to pair a bright green dress with shocking purple stockings explained, “Ivan is my stylist who is doing a fantastic job with me over here, Teens choice is about young and stylish people and I wanted to wear a structured outfit and when he got me the D&G dress I realised we think similar.”
She shot to fame with the popular daily soap ‘Shanti’. The she went on to create stirs with her noodle straps and excited spontaneous comments as a cricket presenter and after juggling different roles as an actor in TV serials and films, host, and participant in reality shows, Mandira Bedi is now all set to endorse lingerie brand Bodycare which she calls as a cute and fun brand.
“Indian women consumers are becoming more cautious these days in choosing lingerie, which is in effect helping the growth of branded lingerie in India. Bodycare is a cute, girly and fun brand. It’s an exciting opportunity for me because I get to put my own input into the brand – that’s the main reason I agreed to do it,” Mandira said in a press statement adding, “The collection ranges from comfortable, yet stylish innerwear, easy wear to sensuous lingerie.”
Bodycare managing director Sanjay Dawar said, “In recent times men’s innerwear industry has seen a plethora of celebrity endorsement from the biggest leading names in Bollywood. On the other hand, in the women’s innerwear segment, there is just one brand that has dared to venture in this league and that is Bodycare.”
Check out Mandira Bedi in her new role…..
Priyanka Chopra is bugged with the fake websites and imposters using her name in social networking sites. So, the actress has now decided to communicate with her fans directly through her official website where she plans to talk about her films, her work, interact with her fans and help them download her pictures.
The website named ‘Iampriyankachopra.com’ was launched by her at Yashraj studios and Priyanka also plans to activate a feature in her website, which will enable her fans to directly communicate with her.
At the launch, Priyanka spoke only about her website and not about her forthcoming films like ‘Anjanna Anjaani’ or her television debut on reality show ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’.
“If I will speak about my films and stuff, people will say ‘self promotion’, so ‘no self promotion’,” said Priyanka.
Arbaaz Khan’s ‘Dabanng’ is creating news for Salman Khan’s new look and the debut of Sonakshi Sinha, the lovely daughter of Shatrugan Sinha. Inside sources say that Sonakshi and Salman get along like a house on fire and have a great chemistry off the sets too. Salman is all praises for the new girl and is all out promoting her on social networking sites.
Now that Salman is a good painter and has already painted Aamir Khan and Asin Thottumkal in the past, he plans to paint Sonakshi on his canvas too. Not only that, he has discovered the painter in the wannabe Bollywood babe and inspired her to turn to paint brush and canvas who was used to only sketching.
Confirms Sonakshi, “I’ve done fashion designing so I knew how to sketch. Using the paintbrush was something I dreaded. But Salman helped me overcome this fear and taught me to paint.”
Sonakshi whose first painting was a woman with a cross has Salman’s style reflecting in her painting and says, “I’ve incorporated a lot of his (Salman’s) style into mine. The day I put my own ideas on canvas my painting will look different from his.”
Though Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor will be seen together first time on-screen in ‘Anjaana Anjaani’, their chemistry is already getting rave reviews. Releasing on September 24, the movie is about two strangers Akash (Ranbir Kapoor) and Kiara (Priyanka Chopra) who meet in very ordinary circumstances, fall in love and then realize that they have to part as strangers. The flick witnesses their hilarious, contemporary yet poignant journey of stumbling into all that is worth living for. Made under the banner of Nadiawala Grandson Entertainment, the movie is directed by Siddhartha Anand.
Check out the posters of the flick….
A sweating Mallika Sherawat, dressed in off-white salwar kameez for a change, had a trying time as she had to waive her hand constantly under scorching heat and shouted ‘hail to India’ as she made her attendance on India Day Parade in New Jersey that marked India’s 64th Independence Day. This is an annual event held by the Indian Business Association in association with scores of other Indian American Organizations to celebrate India’s Independence.
With thousands of people to the one mile parade route, more than 25 floats including ones by Air-India, Western Union, Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines and Friends of Gujarat, three marching bands, and hundreds of marchers, parade organizers and police agreed that it was biggest in its history. The crowd figures was estimated variously by the Chandrakant Patel, president of the Indian Business Association that organized the parade as somewhere near 40,000 and other veteran parade watchers, as somewhere around 20,000. But the crowd did not just consist of Indian Americans although they were indeed were the overwhelming majority.
Well, given the heat was scorching and the crowd overwhelming and Mallika used to being revealed in a dress rather than being covered, we hope it was not too uncomfortable for the ‘Hisss’ star!!
An Aamir Khan’s film naturally raises expectations and awe from the audience before it hits the screens. And his forthcoming ‘Peepli Live’ has already started its journey of fame and recognition with bagging in the Best First Feature Film award at the 31st Durban International Film Festival in South Africa.
“Peepli Live has been awarded the Best First Feature Film at the Durban International Film Festival. Everyone is ecstatic about the win. The honour means a great deal, especially considering that Anusha Rizvi is a first time director,” said an official statement from Aamir Khan Productions adding, “Peepli Live is an ambitious and well-realised film that deals with serious political issues in a witty and entertaining manner. It creates an enchanting world of colourful characters, images and music that engrosses viewers throughout.”
Directed by debutante Anusha Rizvi and distributed by UTV Motion Pictures, the movie is slated to hit the screens August 13. The film also stars Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Naseeruddin Shah, Malaika Shenoy, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffer, Vishal O. Sharma, Aamir Bashir, Sitaram Panchal and Yugal Kishore.
The movie is about two impoverished farmers – Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) and Budhia (Raghubir Yadav) – who live in a village called Peepli. They are about to lose their land due to debts when an incompetent politician suggests they commit suicide to get government help. The news spreads and the media turns Natha into a celebrity.
Kalki Koechlin grabbed attention with her performance in ‘Dev D’ and has not had many assignments since then. However, the stunner will be seen along with Naseeruddin Shah in Anurag Basu’s project ‘That Girl In Yellow Boots’. However, even before the flick hits the screens, its content and some explicit sex scenes are doing rounds on the net.
The film is a joint project from Kalki and Anurag. While Kalki has co-scripted the project, Anurag has directed the film. The storyline is a thriller tracing Kalki’s search for her father, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit, at a massage parlour. Slowly she is sucked into the city’s underbelly as her misery grows and she finds it even more difficult to attain her objective.
‘That Girl In Yellow Boots’ was screened at the Venice Film Festival for the Out-of-Competition section. The festival will take place from 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido. Post the screening, three scenes that span five minutes of the film have been leaked online and these scenes have explicit, bold dialogues and some steamy stuff too. sexual scenes as well. It’s possible that the scenes leaked out post the screening of the film at the festivals.”
The film will also have its North American Premiere at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
With Mallika Sherawat pinning all her hopes on the forthcoming ‘Hisss’, she is making the most out of it with getting photo shoots done with scaly prints on her arms. Her last one was posted on twitter where she appeared topless with scaly snake designs on her hands and now Sherawat has done a hot and sexy new lingerie photo shoot for International Bunker Hill magazine’s latest issue August 2010 month. The photo shoots again exudes the essence of ‘Hisss’. Check them out and let us know if you like them.
With the release of ‘Aisha’, Sonam Kapoor seems to be making her presence felt everywhere with her style and fashion statement. Though she debuted as a simple girl next door with ‘Saawariya’ opposite Ranbir Kapoor, she has gone for a complete makeover as the style diva in ‘Aisha’ with international brands.
She appears on the covers of the August issue of ‘Maxim’ and has been chosen Maxim’s hottest girl this year. She has been chosen as the face of L’oreal and has recently signed David Dhawan’s comedy film ‘Come On Pappu’, in which she is paired with Akshay Kumar.
Check out Sonam’s scans from the magazine and the still from the launch of the magazine……
The expectation levels for Aamir Khan have been soaring higher with every hit he delivers at box-office. His ‘3 Idiots’ was a rage at the box-office and though the actor is now busy with the release of his next venture ‘Peepli Live’, he now intends to do something which takes him a level higher than his previous hits and is yet dynamic, different and challenging at the same time.
Reports have it that Aamir Khan is considering to work with Yash Chopra with his ambitious multi-starrer ‘Dhoom 3’ where he may play a villain with a much stylized look. Recently, Aamir met Aditya Chopra, who gave the actor a brief narration of the role in the film and Aamir apparently loved what he heard. There will be a sitting for the script narration on August 13 when he returns from Melbourne and Delhi.”
‘Dhoom 3’ has always given a new frame, recognition and identity to its villains, be it John Abraham in ‘Dhoom’ and Hrithik Roshan in ‘Dhoom 2’. If this works out with Aamir Khan, the project will be beneficial to both the makers and the star himself. The third sequel to ‘Dhoom’ will be directed by Sanjay Gandhvi.
