The May 2012 issue of Filmfare magazine has Deepika Padukone on covers and some very colourful pics of Bollywood beauties like Soha Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Anushka Sharma in the inside pages. These vibrant pics are a teat and a soothing refuge from the scorching summer heat. The issue also has some cool tips on diet and lifestyle to beat the heat this season. Grab a copy for yourself to delve deeper into secrets behind Biapsha’s sexy body, Anushka’s glowing skin and Katrina’s summer style!!
The event for the announcement of the 13th IIFA Awards in Singapore was all glamour and glitter as Bollywood stars graced the event. The 13th IIFA Awards will be held for three days in Singapore from June 7 to 9 this year. Being the host for the IIFA the second time, Singapore will celebrate the event with the world premiere of a film, a musical show IIFA Rocks and celebs walking down the IIFA green carpet before the awards night.
Apart from Anil Kapoor, the Bollywood star who made her presence felt was bong beauty Bipasha Basu who looked ravishing as ever in an Anamika Khanna saree teamed with a bustier having intricate work. She accessorized her attire with Amrapali jewellery and a bejeweled handcuff.
Bipasha will perform at the IIFA Awards and said, “I missed out on 2004 Singapore IIFA, so I’m here to make up for it… I’m definitely not going to disappoint audiences and I’m going to give a fabulous performance for Singapore.”
It was like a thrilling action sequence at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) when Bollywood stars Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgan raced in Lamborghinis on Formula 1 track to promote their upcoming flick ‘Tezz’.
Attired smartly in a blue checked shirt and wayfarer shaded, Ajay outdid Anil Kapoor and said, “This is the first time that someone from Bollywood has come up with the idea of promoting a movie on a racing track. It’s very exciting yet innovative.”
Anil Kapoor said, “The highest speed at which we drove today was 260 kmph. I’ve never done such an act before in my life.”
“It’s like an addiction! We drove four laps and still wanted to do more. This track is simply amazing and very smooth,” he added.
Tezz, releasing on April 27, also features Zayed Khan, Boman Irani, Sameera Reddy and Kangna Ranaut. Ajay Devgan, Sameera Reddy and Zayed Khan play illegal immigrants in Britain while Anil Kapoor plays a cop. The movie is directed by Priyadarshan.
“It’s a social drama, thriller and is about a chase between cops and criminals. This is the 84th film of my career. I’ve put all my experience in this movie. The movie also has a thin line of emotions, something similar to Deewaar and Sholay,” said Priyadarshan, who was also present at the track.
Ever since Saif Ali Khan’s sixteen year old daughter Sara Khan appeared on the covers of ‘Hello!’ a few days back, offers have been flooding in to cast her in movies.
And we cannot blame the filmmakers too as Sara looked utterly pretty and gracious in Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla creation. The very proud Mother Amrita Singh confirms the reports and says, “Five eminent filmmakers called and said they wanted her to be a heroine in their next project.”
However, Amrita further added to say that Sara is quite young now and she has an academic bend. She could either go for a career in medical science or law. Sara’s current plan is to go to Yale and do further studies.
Check out the magazine cover which made Sara a sought after one in Bollywood…..
When Dhanush’s ‘Kolaveri D’ became a huge rage across the country, little did people know that the film ‘3’ would bomb at the box office. Owing to the success of the song, Andhra based distributor Natty Kumar invested about Rs 6 crore on the dubbed Telugu version and apparently was aghast when the film failed.
A devastated Natty was quoted saying, “I secured the distribution rights of the Telugu version of 3 for a whopping sum of Rs 4.3 crores, though I was aware that Dhanush’s market in Andhra Pradesh wasn’t more than Rs 10 lakhs. Even my friends criticised me for risking such a huge sum on the film.
I did so as I had huge faith in the family members of superstar Rajnikanth. I felt Aishwaryaa’s debut directorial venture would do well in Andhra Pradesh.”
Natty’s blame game did not end here. He went on to blame Dhanush, Aishwarya and Shruti Hassan saying, “Dhanush and Aishwaryaa didn’t keep their promise to visit Hyderabad on April 1 for promotions.
Besides, they didn’t attend the film’s premiere show, which disappointed me even more. I have incurred huge losses because of the film’s poor showing.”
Not to mention here that Rajnikanth is upset with these remarks and has offered to make good the loss of Natty. He has even promised to get his daughter and son-in-law out of this major financial mess. Prior to this, Rajni Sir had compensated distributors who faced losses on his film Kuselan.
Till now Kareena Kapoor had maintained her stand that she would not do item numbers for any flick. However, when her friend and ‘Bodyguard’ co-star Salman Khan requested her to shake it for an item number in his forthcoming ‘Dabangg 2’, Bebo could not manage to give out a NO.
So, now we have Kareena Kapoor to do a sizzling item number in ‘Dabangg 2’ and Salman, known for his gestures of appreciation has decided to gift a BMW to her to repay her favours.
This is a tweet from the UTV Motion Pictures’ senior manager Prithwish Ganguly: “@BeingSalmanKhan to gift Kareena Kapoor a BMW for being a part of Dabangg 2”
Well, this is not the first time that a Bollywood star has shown his gratitude to a colleague for a favour. Prior to this, SRK had gifted Sanjay Dutt a bike worth Rs. 15 lakh for his cameo in Ra.One. Again, Akshay Kumar made a huge donation to Salman Khan’s Being Human charity when Sallu Bhai made a song appearance in Tees Maar Khan
Given the fact that it is a Mahesh Bhatt film and stars our serial kisser Emraan Hashmi along with kingfisher’s sexy Esha Gupta, it is but obvious that ‘Jannat 2’ would be raising the standards of hotness and boldness in Bollywood.
The leaked video of ‘Tujhe Sochta Hoon’ from the flick is doing rounds on the net and shows a passionate lovemaking scene between Emraan and Esha who play husband and wife in the movie. There is also a passionate lip lock between the two. Confirming her bold scenes in the film Esha says, “Yes, there are a few kissing scenes in “Jannat 2″, but we have shown love between husband and wife, it’s not like some wild animals making out.”
Well, Esha has shown that she has no qualms about shedding clothes and doing bold scenes. No wonder Bhatts seem to be so impressed by her. Gupta has bagged a three-film contract with the Bhatts. After Jannat 2 she will be seen in Raaz 3.
It created stirs and ripples of outrage when Bollywood superstar SRK was once again detained at the US airport, this time at a New York airport for two hours on Thursday as he arrived there to visit Yale University. He was honoured at the Yale as a Chubb Fellow, joining a distinguished list which includes former presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, and Toni Morrison.
Later US sent its apologies and gave an excuse that Khan was not “detained”, but “simply delayed”.
State Department spokesperson Mark Toner suggested that to avoid such incidents “travellers can alert – identify their status before they depart via the embassy. And that’s one approach or avenue to take.”
Well, the journey which started with a sour note ended happily as SRK charmed the students of Yale University with his wit and performances and fans travelled from as far as Alabama and California to join with members of the New Haven and Yale community to hear SRK speak to a capacity audience of about 1,700.
Shahrukh Khan not only gave valuable advices to the students but also danced his signature ‘Chammak Challo’ moves with Yale student Natalia Khosla. “This is the most fun I have had in months!” SRK said.
Yale University summarized the entire episode in a light note. “As SRK himself would tell you, what is most important in his movies is how they end rather than how they begin,” Assistant Secretary George Joseph stated adding, “And yesterday, things began in an unfortunate manner, but ended in a way that left everyone happy.”
For reasons still unknown, Salman Khan is out of the sequel to his 1997 superhit comedy ‘Judwaa’ and replacing him, Saif Ali Khan has stepped in as a part of ‘Judwaa 2’. The original one was directed by the king of comedies, David Dhawan and the sequel will be made under the direction of equally talented Sajid Khan.
Time and again, Saif Ali Khan has expressed his desire to work in a comedy and had also once approached director Sajid Khan to direct films for his production house. The offer, however, could not materialize.
Nevertheless, now Saif is a part of ‘Judwaa 2’ which will soon go on floors and is expected for an early 2013 release. Currently, Saif Ali Khan is shooting with Deepika Padukone and newbie Diana Penty, for Cocktail.
There is no denying the fact that Emraan Hashmi has given many successful films at the box office. His last release ‘Murder 2’ was a big Bollywood hit and the first look and trailer of his forthcoming ‘Shanghai’ looks quite promising. Emraan plays a foul-mouthed reporter in this Dibakar Banerjee’s flick and for this, he had to chew tobacco.
On the first day of the shoot, Emraan Hashmi was asked to chew tobacco for a scene and Emraan found the taste so disgusting that he almost threw up and felt giddy.
The director insisted that since his role required him to do it, there was no other way out. After a lot of discussions, Banerjee and Emraan Hashmi came to the conclusion that the actor should chew tobacco.
However, Emraan failed to appear for a promotional event with his co-star since he was busy with his shoot for ‘Jannat 2’.
A disappointed Banerjee said, “I was heartbroken that we were not able to kick off the promotions with a trailer launch. We went through a lot trying to coordinate Emraan and Abhay’s dates and then change it all over again.” Shanghai is Banerjee’s release after two years, since his last film LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha. The movie stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechlin.
The first trailer of the flick shows Emraan as a rustic, paan-chewing village thug and he made his way into cine lovers hearts when he gave a scornful smile, his paan-stained teeth flashing on the screen.
Many a times in the past, Bollywood Baadshah Shahrukh Khan has landed into trouble for smoking in the public which is banned in quite a few cities across India. Once again, SRK has landed in a legal soup by smoking at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur during an IPL match between his team Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. To add to the damages, the footage was broadcasted live on the TV.
Anand Singh Rathore, the director of Jaipur Cricket Academy, has lodged a legal suit against Shahrukh Khan. Rathore also wants an enquiry over why Shahrukh was allowed to carry cigarettes inside the stadium when the security doesn’t allow cigarettes, match-boxes, lighters and even water bottles inside the stadium.
The additional chief judicial magistrate’s court has fixed April 12 as the date for next hearing.
It may be mentioned here that in 2008, the then health minister Ambumani Ramadoss had a public tiff related to Shahrukh smoking on-screen in the remake of Don.
SRK himself is aware of his addiction and had once said, “I know this (smoking) is a bad thing but the habit doesn’t leave me. I am trying hard. Even if someone says it to me or not, I know about the ill-effects of smoking. I will try it and give it up on my own. I know it is not a good thing.”
Amitabh Bachchan will next be seen in Ram Gopal Verma’s next flick ‘Department’ which will portray him as a Machiavellian vigilante, a manipulative authoritarian who believes in doting out justice as his own wish when legal system fails to do it. The first trailer of this thriller is out and raises the expectations of the cine lovers as the gangster turned politician Big B impressively delivers the lines:
“Main illegally legal kaam karta hoon, legally illegal kaam nahin”
The movie has Sanjay Dutt in the role of a cop with a dual personality and Rana Daggubati playing the idealistic newcomer in police department.
Giving in details about the flick, director Ram Gopal Varma said: “The character Sarjerao played by Mr. Bachchan represents a Machiavellian character whose power lies in his manipulation and deception. The character Mahadev played by Sanjay Dutt represents an ultra dynamic character whose power lies in his dual personality which he very successfully hides.”
”The character Shivnarayan played by Rana Daggubati represents a shoot first and talk later kind of a character, whose power lies in obedience to people whom he respects!” he added.
Slated for a May 18 release, the movie stars hottie Nathalia Kaur as well……
