Blue-eyed Adah Sharma with her girl-next-door look is making her debut with Vikram Bhatt’s supernatural thriller ‘1920’ produced by ASA Film Production and Enterprises Pvt Ltd. In the movie, Adah plays an Anglo Indian girl who falls in love with a Hindu boy and there are mysterious things that happen with them.
Paired with her is Rajneesh Duggal who again will make his debut in the film. The film is set in the era of 1920 and the characters will be seen dressed in the clothes that people wore in 1920.
The film being a supernatural thriller, Adah had a spooky and chilling experience while
shooting in a castle for the film. She recalls, “Everyone at Yorkshire said the castle we shot in was haunted, that a single old man stayed there and his wife died and her spirit still lives on there. There was a painting of a woman with dark black hair and blue eyes and we all thought I resembled her. So the photographer asked me to get a still photo taken standing in front of the painting. The caretaker said that any pictures taken in front of the paining don’t get developed. But we went ahead and took a few pictures. But when we transferred the pictures to a laptop, they all came blurred or blank!! That was quite spooky!!”
Well, the debut movie will quite be a memorable one for the girl, it seems!
She made her debut as a school girl in ‘Rok Sako To Rok Lo’ some four years back. However, the lovely girl Manjari Fadnis came into limelight with blockbuster ‘Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na’. The gal now is not sitting back and after reveling in the success of the film for sometime she is back into action. The girl will next be seen in a music video for which she shot some time back. Her next film release would be a comedy ‘I Am 24’ with Rajat Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey, Neha Dhupia and Vijay Raaz.
“This is a beautiful ’sufi’ number which is sung by Krishna (of ‘Maula Mere’ - Chak De India and ‘Main Jahaan Rahoon’ - Namastey London) fame. He has cut an album and a music video has been made for one of the songs. It is a good platform for me as I am seen in Indian costumes. Also, since the video revolves around the character I enact, it does give me good visibility”, informs Manjari.
“It seems like such a long time back. However, from here on I believe the journey should get into a fast track mode“, beams Manjari.
From our side, best of wishes for this lovely girl!
The acting bug has bitten him too, and now controversial Punjabi pop singer Mika Singh (who created quite a stir for kissing Rakhi Sawant) is now all set to make his acting debut with ‘Cabaret‘. The movie will have Mika play a club owner. This film about the misuse of Internet by contract killers directed by debutante director Vinod Mukhi is complete and is scheduled for a September release. Telugu actress Mumait Khan plays the lead opposite Mika.
‘Yes, Mika is playing the lead in my film. He plays the boss of a club that gradually turns into a hotspot for contract killers. His character sings, dances and has all the fun, but doesn’t tolerate any misbehaviour in his bar. Mumait plays the role of a club dancer who performs in Mika’s club,’ says Mukhi.
Well, Mika does have a song in the film. It is a hip-hop song. Apart from this film, Mika will also feature in Suniel Shetty’s ‘Loot‘ for which he was shooting in Kenya recently.
It was an entirely different and one of its kind music launch. Talking about the music launch of ‘Rock On!’ this Monday night at Infinity Mall on Andheri Link Road in north-west Mumbai, the audience was mesmerized by the live performance of Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy and Farhan Akhtar.
The show couldn’t get better when Farhan Akhtar himself took to the mike and rocked the venue with two foot-tapping numbers from the movie. Farhan plays the role of the lead singer in the movie and sings as many as five out of nine songs in it.
Directed by Abhishek Kapoor and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, ‘Rock On!! marks the debut of Farhan Akhtar and Prachi Desai. The film also stars Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Shahana Goswami and Luke Kenny who were all present for the launch. Proud father Javed Akhtar along with Big Music representative Kulmeet Makkar unveiled the music album.
“We have worked with Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy and Javed saab earlier. So the process of creating music for ‘Rock On’ was all the more fun. It is a youth-oriented film. The music needed a distinct sound, keeping in mind contemporary appeal along with melodious tracks,” said Ritesh Sidhwani on the occasion.
Both the most awaited movies with debutant performance in male leads finally released this week with fanfare, however, with different box office reports. Imran Khan starer Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Naa as according to market reports opened with 80% collection while Harman- Priyanka starer sci-fi ‘Love Story 2050’ has only 30% opening.
Whatever, may be the collection of new released movies, they have continued the Bollywood trend of recent times of releasing debut star movies. For last few years every second week of Bollywood industry is hit by performances of a new actor, director or story-teller, who, either receives the praise of audience or continues his slow and steady progress with span of time.
However, in debut release of male actors there are hardly a few movies which resulted in big hits, yet two most memorable movies of time with debut performance are Rishi and Dimple Kapadia acted Bobby, and Kaho Naa Pyar Hai that rocked chart results as blazed with performance of Hrithik Roshan. Maine Pyar Kiya with Salman Khan in lead role is another biggest hit of its time.
The other most talked about debut stars of the latest age are Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone with comparatively different results for their respective movies. Ranbir starrer ‘Sawariya’ did average business whereas Deepika’s Om Shanti Om became a hit. A few other movies with debut performance of star in recent time are Neil Nitin Mukesh in Johnny Gaddar, Shiney Ahuja in Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi, Vidya Balan in Parineeta and Rajeev Khandelwal in Aamir.
But more than actors bollywood be known for debut performances of filmmakers, i.e.,
Mansoor Khan for Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, Sooraj Barjatya for Maine Pyar Kiya, Aditya Chopra for Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Karan Johar for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) and list is on with new names arriving each and every day.
Harman Baweja is everywhere these days! After the grand world premiere of his debut film in London and in Yash Raj Studios back at home, the latest heartthrob of Bollywood has appeared on the cover of the fashion and lifestyle magazine ‘Andpersand‘. Attired in a tuxedo by Gucci, White Shirt by Gas, Tie by Dior, Shoes by Hugo Boss, jacket by Versace and his own belt, this dangerously handsome dude scorches the covers. The issue has Harman talk about his formative years, his Destiny, his journey into Bollywood, his directors, relationships, family, God and also about his ‘good friend’ Priyanka Chopra.
To be known here that the magazine has donned a new look by changing its logo in this issue. The new logo for the magazine has done away with ‘&’ in the masthead. Instead, it has adopted the word ‘and’ as part of the new logo. However, the design and appearance of the new logo remain similar to the previous one.
In its attempt to create interest around the new logo, the publishing house roped in Harman to unveil the new identity of the magazine. Baweja was chosen because he is a fresh, new face in Bollywood. The theme for the new issue is The First Sign, covering topics such as India’s first comic called Savita Bhabhi for grown-ups, and a cover story on debutant actor.
In order to engage the readers and inform them about the expected change in the logo, andpersand carried a contest in which readers had to identify the featured personality. Baweja was the featured personality. Three print ads were run in Mid-Day Delhi on June 16, 18 and 20 and e-mailers were sent out through Mid-Day.com, where the readers/users were asked to guess the concealed face of Harman Baweja. Similarly, in partnership with Fever 104, andpersand ran a contest, where listeners were quizzed on how they would ask Baweja out on a date. The winners of the print, online and radio contest won a dinner date with Baweja.
Jennifer Kotwal, the famous Kannada actress, who, though from Mumbai also has a successful stint as model have turned towards Bollywood in a leading role opposite Himesh Reshammiya in film titled as Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekkh Mudh Mudh Ke.
It may be a coincident that she was earlier also offered a leading role opposite Himesh in Satish Kaushik’s Karzzz. But she declined the offer because of certain unacceptable clauses as mentioned in the contract of the movie; however she liked the story of Mudh Mudh Ke… very much.
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Aamir Khan is leaving no stones unturned to get a strong foothold for his nephew Imran Khan in the industry and then with just a few days left for the his debut release ‘Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na’ to hit the screens, the mama-bhanja jodi are definitely on a run.
They sure catch attention with their killer looks on the covers of this month’s issue of Cine Blitz magazine. Attired in formal suits, they definitely look at ease with each other.
The issue has Imran sharing some of the moments of his life and also the fact that how this is only the second time that he has worn a suit in his life (the first time being during the premiere of mamu Aamir’s debut film QSQT).
We do expect a lot from this promising newcomer Khan owing to the fact that he has a perfectionist Mama Khan to support him!
She can be compared with earlier fresh looking entry of Juhi, Kajol and Preity Zinta as Genelia D’Souza is new actress from the South is in female lead in an Amir Khan production opposite to his nephew Imran Khan. She had also an impressive role in ‘Mere Baap Pehle Aap’.
She has many hit movies to his credit in South in Tamil and Telgu and she at very apt time switched her gear towards Bollywood. As the Imran- Ganelia starrer movie is about to released she said about the movie “It’s a fun film and we’ve all had a smashing time working on it. For now I am keeping fingers crossed and hoping for the best.”
She is currently involved in shooting of Aneeze Bazme directed “Its My Life’ opposite the latest entry into Bollywood , Harman Baweja. The other important movie in her nitty is ‘Life Partner’ co-starring Govinda and Fardeen.
With India’s leading production house, Excel Entertainment, producer-director Farhan Akhtar marks his debut as an actor in ‘Rock On’. The film also stars Arjun Rampal, Prachi Desai, Purab Kohli, Sahana Goswami and Luke Kenny in the lead. The film is about a rock band which was the greatest in the country but they never make it and how a long drawn reunion helps them achieve their musical ambitions. Bollywood’s principal independent PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group is handling the media exercises for the film.
Writing on Facebook, Farhan says,
“I am really impressed by how many people recall the guitar riff from Lakshya in the Rock On!! track. The riff was stuck in my mind since first recorded in 2004 and we thought this would be the best outlet for it. As the lyrics say “Ye mauka nahin milega dubaara’.”
He adds,
“Rock has very rarely been served up in Indian films without the necessary “filmi sound” embellishments. With this movie, we are attempting to push the envelope and take Rock… Real Rock… and make it the basis for the soundtrack. It’s been an amazing experience putting it together and if the journey was this exciting, I’m sure the destination will be fantastic! The music will be out in mid-July.”
Luke Kenny comments,
“I am sure everyone will enjoy watching it as much as we had a blast making it…this is India’s first Rock N Roll Hindi film so wait and see.”
As ‘Rock On’ hits theatres on August 29 this year, what we are waiting for is the debut of the cute TV bahu Prachi Desai making it on the big screens.
Harman and Priyanka was once again seen at the IIFA awards in Bangkok in their best efforts to promote Love Story 2050 in an outfit that does seemed similar to an attire of future, however, there was more funnier side to the dress up. If you don’t believe, then check it out yourself, however, Love Story 2050 is scheduled to be released on 4th of July.
The Love Guru that is to be released in America this weekend is filmed around Indian stereotypes and its people. If the history of Indian characters is seen through the Indian movies then in most of the cases, the characters are portrayed as figures of funs. But soon, the things may change for Bollywood fraternity and they would be the objects of reverence as a major Indian entertainment company is on the cards to finance a new film company with Steven Spielberg.
According to media news Mr Spielberg and his partner David Geffen are in talks to make a new Hollywood film production company with Reliance Big Entertainment, a media group headed by Indian billionaire industrialist, Anil Ambani. Both Spielberg and Mr Geffen are one of the founders of Dream Works, which is a part of media group Viacom, however, it is expected that very soon they will disassociate them from the group.
In case, every thing goes well then Reliance Big Entertainment would pump $500 million in Hollywood. Reliance’s this move happened one month after Reliance signed series of bold production contract with George Clooney and Brad Pitt at the Cannes film festival. But Mr A Ambani needs to learn from the earlier experiences of other international investors who tried to make big image after investing heavily in Hollywood before making invest into the market. One media executive expressed his opinion for investing in Hollywood, “Hollywood has a long, distinguished record of eating up foreigners and then spitting them out.”
This trend of foreign investment in the Hollywood started in 1980s from the Japanese electronic that in order to increase the sales of it is betaformat equipments invested $ 3.4 bn to buy Columbia Pictures and its sister company Tri-star. The renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment under Jon Peters and Peter Guber the renowned producer from the fresh success of hit movies – Batman and Rain Man- produced many flopped films and finally after 5 years Sony wrote off the acquisition with $ 3 bn in losses.
After Sony it was Matsushita who MCA Universal – later renamed Universal Studios but failed same like as Sony, then after it Jean-Marie Messier, the flamboyant former chief of Vivendi, the French utility, invested in Hollywood buying Seagram, but his dream ended in failure as had to quit from the company’s board of directors and company. Hopefully, Ambani may be fortunate enough than his earlier predecessors.
His first film is yet to hit the screens, but Harman Baweja is already creating stirs and has become a hot favorite of the producers and directors. His latest achievement is that he has been chosen by ace filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his next period film ‘Chenab Gandhi’. The movie is a historic one and will also have Amitabh Bachchan playing Chenab Gandhi himself.
This offer comes on the heel of Ashutosh Gowarikar’s next, where he will be seen once again with Priyanka Chopra. With Harman’s ambitious ‘Love Sotry 2050’ releasing next Friday, the kid is really riding high these days!
Harman and Priyanka have set them in right tone as they are luring kids the most prospective audience for their sci-fi movie Love Story 2050. They are promoting their new movie by lunching toys form the film with collaboration with Cartoon Network; they are promoting all from fluffy teddy bears to cute Mickey Mouse and all. See them with one of the best teddy bears in promotional campaign of their movie.
At BJN banquets in Andheri Mumbai, was celebrated the success of the play ‘City of Dreams’ with a gala bash which had many known faces from the glamour world including the the winner of Yeh hai Jalwa contest, Rakhi Sawant, Kashmeera Shah, Morani brothers, Rakhi Sawant, Gaurav Chopra and others. Kashmira Shah had a gala time grooving and partying hard with her boyfriend Krishna. On the other hand, Rakhi Swant celebrated with her boyfriend Abhishek.
Meet one more import from Kollywood. This is Vishakha Singh, who is a north Indian Rajput girl hailing from U.P. She was born is Abu Dhabi & completed her schooling from there. She has acted in number of ads for products like Sunsilk, D’mas Jewelry, Medimix, Motorola Motophone etc.
Vishakha had debuted with a Telgu movie named ‘Gnapakam’. She has now stepped into Bollywood with her recently released movie ‘Humsey Hai Jahaan’. She is paired opposite to the actor & director of the movie Mashhoor Amrohi. When asked about making her career in acting, she said ” I acted and directed lots of stage plays during my school days and always wanted to make career out of something I really love doing. That passion drove me in to films.”
Looking at the pics, we can definitely say that the gal has looks, but how is the acting material inside her, that is yet to be discovered!!
Amita Pathak, the daughter of Kumar Mangat, is making a debut with his film ‘Haal-e-Dil’. The movie is directed by Ajay’s brother Anil Devgan. Mangat is a close friend and former business manager of Ajay Devgan. No wonder Ajay is taking keen interest in the film.
He was involved deeply in the script and also the auditions for the male lead of the film before Nakuul Mehta and Adhyayan Suman were finalized. Now, to add star value to ‘Haal-e-Dil’ (which features only newcomers) Ajay and Kajol along with Nakuul and Amita have now shot a song for the movie at Filmistan Studios. The song called ‘Oye Hoye’ is a typical Punjabi number and has Kajol in a colorful salwar-kameez while Ajay is dressed in coat and pants.
Hope this special song does some magic for the film at the box office!
‘Aaja Gunah Kar Le‘, the new project from director Surya, will see a new girl Reeth taking her first step in the tinsel town.
Reeth has a nick for dancing and knows varied dance forms like salsa, Belly dancing, lambada, jazz, reggae, samba and Kathak. The Director was on a lookout for a new face for his film opposite Kanish Gangwal and finalized Reeth on seeing her photographs.
Surya, who is a former assistant to Ram Gopal Verma and Sriram, says that he chose Reeth because she had the looks that he had in his mind. In ‘Aaja Gunaah Kar Le’ she plays a very exuberant character and the gal feels the character bears a close resemblance to her.
All the best to the gal from our team! Hope Reeth is not lost in the bandwagon of all the pretty newcomers who step back into darkness after one or two films.
