Well, Hollywood may be all praises for Aishwarya Rai’s beauty but the Bollywood queen is facing some harsh criticism from Italian historian and author of about 17 historical novels, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, for her acting in ‘The Last Legion’. The movie is an adaptation of Manfredi’s work and stars Aishwarya alongside Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley.

Manfredi said, “My character of the leading lady was totally different. She was from a village but Aishwarya was totally different. She was the lover of the protagonist…but she acted as if the film was for kids,” Manfredi is quoted to have told IANS.

Aishwarya’s emerald eyes did make a way into Manfredi’s heart but the author missed the expression of love in them.

“She has such strong expressive and beautiful eyes. Some little expression of love would have made the film more different,” Manfredi said adding, “I have noticed that everybody who has not read the book liked the film and those who read the book did not like the movie. This is very usual because they are two different kinds of expression. While the book uses words, cinema uses images

In an industry when actors get offended for the minutest of reasons, actress Vidya Balan shows that she can take things in their stride and even if it comes with her fellow actresses. When Priyanka Chopra chose to imitate Vidya Balan, as ‘Silk’ in the movie ‘The Dirty Picture’ during the recently concluded Zee Cine Awards, Vidya Balan took the spoof in a sport manner. Taking a step further, she personally went to Priyanka to congratulate her and tell her that the act was funny and had been pulled off well.

Not to mention here that Priyanka was all praises for Vidya’s spirit. “Vidya takes it in a good spirit. I wore a fat suit to imitate her. After the act she herself told me how funny it looked. She wasn’t offended at all. She is extremely sporting,” she said.

“Vidya was great in ‘The Dirty Picture’. Very few actresses have the courage to gain about 15 kgs for a role!” she added.

The first and the most awaited Bollywood wedding has kick started with a gala Sangeet ceremony of made-for-each-other couple Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza which was held at Taj Land End and witnessed the whos who from our industry.

The guest list was a pretty impressive one including the likes of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, Boney Kapoor and still so gorgeous Sridevi, SRK and Gauri, Malaika Arora Khan, Asin, Sameera Reddy, Shamita Shetty, Dia Mirza, Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kapoor and so on and so forth. While the male guests like Arbaaz Khan, Karan Johar and even Abhishek Bachchan opted for traditional kurta payjamas, the ladies were seen in heavy kurtis and lehengas.

However gorgeous our Bollywood babes looked, the lady who stole all the glances was undoubtedly bride-to-be Genelia D’Souza who looked pretty and elegant in an exquisite lehenga choli with delicate embroidery designed by the ace Bollywood’s fashion designer Manish Malhotra.

Things have been gearing up just right for Karisma Kapoor who was last seen with Suneel Darshan’s 2006 dud, ‘Mere Jeevan Saathi’ opposite Akshay Kumar. However, she is making her comeback with Vikram Bhatt’s slick and stylish ‘Dangerous Ishq’. If things go right and Vikram Bhatt is able to complete the shoot before deadline, Karisma may be walking the red carpet of the Cannes film festival, held in the French Riviera town of Cannes each year, to showcase her film.

Besides ‘Dangerous Ishq’, Karisma will also be seen grooving for a special number in director Sajid Khan’s upcoming Housefull 2. Besides, Karisma is all set to take up the lead in Soham Shah’s Satte Pe Satta remake opposite Sanjay Dutt. Sanjay plays Big B’s character from the original while Lolo will play the role enacted by Hema Malini in the original one. Playing Dutt’s six brothers in the remake would be Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu, Deepak Dobriyal, Rajat Barmecha and Shakti Kapoor’s son Siddhant.

There is no denying the fact that currently, Katrina Kaif is one of the most bankable actresses in our tinsel town. As the beauty mints out successful item numbers in a row, she has also geared up for some hardcore action sequences for ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ which stars Salman Khan in the main lead.

These high voltage action sequences will be shot in Cuba under the direction of renowned Hollywood action director Conrad Palmisano of Transformers fame. Though the makers had suggested that Katrina went for mild and easy stunts, but the actress insisted she wants to perform the same stunts that Salman Khan is performing, to which Conrad Palmisano agreed. As such, the fans will now get to see Katrina doing the free falling and midair fighting sequences with Salman Khan!

Katrina Kaif confirmed the reports saying that she has played a lot of feminine roles in the past, and though the stunts are scary, they are a lot fun too! She takes these stunts as a challenge and even says that at this stage of her career, she wants to take these sorts of challenges!

Anushka Sharma has had a dream debut in Bollywood with superhit ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ opposite Shahrukh Khan. Post this, the actress has given quite a few hits to the box office with the likes of ‘Badmaash Company’, ‘Band Baaja Baraat’ and some more.

At a recent award function, Anushka Sharma said that winning awards makes her feel good. She added that her parents become really excited when she wins one! Anushka Sharma even revealed that her parents like to boast about their daughter winning an award and upload statuses about the same on their Blackberry mobiles!

The cute actress has chosen to show her wild side to her fans in the February issue of Vogue India with the tagline as the wild side of a good girl. Check out the unrevealed side of Anushka in Vogue…..

On Sunday night-Monday Morning, Sanjay Dutt held a bash at the Aurus restaurant in the suburbs of Mumbai to celebrate the success of his Agneepath role and film and must say here that the bash was an eventful one. Everything was rolling on smoothly till around 4.30 am when Shah Rukh Khan entered the venue in a drunken condition straight after the Filmfare awards with three bodyguards.

SRK headed straight towards director Sirish Kunder to give vent to his grudge he had been nursing against him since quite sometime. The argument apparently started when SRK confronted Shirish about his nasty remarks on RA.One. During RA.One’s release, Kunder had tweeted: “I just heard a 150 Cr firework fizzle.”

SRK assaulted Sirish and things heated up so much that Baba Dewan had to intervene. It was finally Sanjay Dutt who pulled the actor away.

Farah Khan confirmed the incident. “Shirish, my husband, was beaten up by Shah Rukh and his three bodyguards in Sanjay Dutt’s party. Shah Rukh asked Shirish why he had tweeted against him… There was no provocation from our side. He had screamed at Shirish telling him that he would destroy me as well,” she said.

Shocked and hurt Farah says, “Shah Rukh has always told me that physical abuse is the worst way to sort out a problem, and that it means the person who’s hitting has either a personal or professional crisis going on. It saddens me to see him doing the same.”

Nevertheless, you enjoy some clicks of beautiful Bollywood ladies at the bash…….

The Bhatts are getting a bit too sentimental on the return of Vikram Bhatt to their camp. So much so that they decided to start ‘Raaz 3’ on Vikram’s birthday. Vikram celebrated his birthday on Friday and the crew of the flick began the shoot on Sunday.

“‘Raaz 3’ is what can be termed as the ‘Horror of the hearts’. It is a completely new story, a romantic one at that, which would surprise and shock you. Yet again the legacy of Vishesh Films would continue with newcomers giving some great music to the film. I am sure it would break all records that films coming from our production house have created so far,” says Mukesh Bhatt.

Mahesh Bhatt posted some pictures from the first day of the shoot on his social networking site with related tweets. Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter has joined Vikram’s team as an assistant director. Bhatt tweeted, “My daughter Shaheen begins her journey as an assistant with Vikram Bhatt who was once my assistant!”

The film has been written by Shagufta Rafique. “It is a brave script which explores the horrors of the human heart,” Bhatt tweeted.

The annual 57th Filmfare awards held in Mumbai on Sunday was all fun, glamour and glitter with Shahrukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor at their wittiest best hosting the event. Bollywood A-listers including Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza performed at the award function. Vidya Balan bagged away the Best Actress award for ‘The Dirty Picture’ and Ranbir Kapoor received the Best Actor award for ‘Rockstar’. The list of winners for 57 Filmfare Awards 2012 is:

• Best Actor Popular – Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)
• Best Actress Popular – Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
• Best Film Popular – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
• Best Director Popular – Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
• Best Film Critics – Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara
• Best Actor Critics – Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)
• Best Actress Critics – Priyanka Chopra (7 Khoon Maaf)
• Partho Gupte – Special Filmfare Jury Certificate for his performance in Stanley Ka Dabba
• Best Supporting Actor (Male) – Farhan Akthar (Zindagi Na Milege Dobara)
• Best Supporting Actor (Female) – Rani Mukerjee (No one killed jessica)
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Aruna Irani
• Best Lyrics – Irshad Kamil (Nadaan Parindey)
• Best Playback Singer (Male) – Mohit Chauhan (Jo Bhi Mein)
• Best Playback Singer (Female) – Usha Uthap and Rekha Bharadwaj (Darling)
• Best Music – A.R Rahman (Rockstar)
• Best Director Debut – Abhinay Deo (Delhi Belly)
• Best Actor Debut – Vidyut Jhamwal (Force)
• Best Actress Debut – Parineeti Chopra (Ladies vs Ricky Bahl)
• Best Choreography – Bosco – Caesar (Senorita – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
• Best Dialogue – Farhan Akthar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
• Best Story – Sanjay Chauhan (I Am Kalam)
• Best Screenplay – Akshat Verrma (Delhi Belly)
• Best VFX – Red Chillies VFX (Ra.One)
• Best Background Score – Ranjit Barot (Shaitan)
• Best Action – Action Concepts (Don 2)
• Best Cinematography – Carlos Catalan (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
• Best Costume – Niharika Khan (The Dirty Picture)
• Best Sound Design – Nakul Kamte (Don 2)
• Best Production Design – Shashank Tere (Delhi Belly)
• Best Editing – Huzefa Lokhandwala (Delhi Belly)
• Idea Sony Scene of the Year Award – The Dirty Picture
• R.D Burman Award for Upcoming Music Talent – Krsna (Tanu Weds Manu)

Kareena Kapoor has given the last hit with ‘Bodyguard’ and with her forthcoming ‘Ek Main Aur Ek Tu’ set for February 10 release, the lady is busy these days with various promotional events. She was in Dubai with co-star Imran Khan to promote the film. Imran looked dashing in a beard and Kareena Kapoor looked stunning as ever in a black Burberry dress.

Kapoor was at her usual easy going and bubbly self. “Wow, I’m watching the promos of our film again after maybe a month and it all just looks so refreshing,” she said adding, “The character I play in “EMAET” is one that I haven’t played in a while. In my recent films, such as “Bodyguard”, I play your typical desi girl. And here I am playing this modern, fun-loving girl, which probably comes closest to my character in “Jab We Met” (2009).”

EMAET is the story of two strangers who get drunk one night in Vegas and wake up the next morning to find themselves married to one another. The film is said to be inspired from a Hollywood flick but Imran denied any similarity to it.

“We’ve been asked that before, but the only similarity here is that both films are based in Vegas,” assured Khan adding, “Come on, who doesn’t go to Vegas and get drunk. Even “The Hangover” had a similar premise.”

Gold Gym calendar 2012 was launched at a grand party in Bandra which was attended by some of the fittest and hottest Bollywood celebrities. Speaking at the event to the media persons, actor Sohail Khan revealed that though he’d a gym at his home, he still comes to the gold gym for a exercise because he feels its always better to exercise along with friends and socialise while exercising. Prateik Babbar said that he’s taken inspiration from industry seniors like Salman Khan and Sohail Khan when it comes to maintaining physical fitness.

Check out some of the Bollywood babes on the calendar…..

Deepika Padukone seems to be heading for another add on to her long list of breakups. She last had her breakup with Ranbir Kapoor and since past two years she seemed to be on close terms with Siddhartha Mallya and two made quite a few public appearances together. Be it the warm kiss at a stadium, their ‘couple entry’ at Arpita Khan’s party or a private dinner at a mid-town restaurant- the two seemed to be in perfect harmony with each other.

However, the two strangely seem to be quite cold and aloof since a couple of months. Sidhartha was conspicuous by his absence at Deepika’s apartment on his birthday earlier this month. Again, Deepika was not by Sid’s side when he threw a New Year bash.

Splitsville or not, you check out Deepika Padukone On The Cover Of Femina Magazine for the month of February 2012. In the issue, femina has listed India’s 50 most beautiful women.