Pankaj Kapoor had a number of options in his mind for the female lead of his project ‘Mausam’ opposite his son Shahid Kapoor right from Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter Sonakshi, Govinda’s daughter Narmada, to Alyque Padamsee’s daughter Shazahn Padamsee and Anil Kapoor’s daughter Sonam Kapoor.

Among all the star daughters who were strong contenders for the role, the one who bags in the role is Sonam Kapoor who has the vote of not only all the unit members of the film but also of Pankaj’s wife Supriya Pathak who had developed a fondness for the girl while shooting for ‘Delhi 6’ along with her.

It may be mentioned here that Sonam was chosen for the film without an audition.

Hosted by Vivek Oberoi and very pretty Diya Mirza, the Max Stardust Awards show 2010 took place amidst much glamour and glitter witnessing the presence of who’s who of Bollywood. Adding to the attraction were dazzling performances from the likes of Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan among others. The list of the winners in various categories are:

Superstar Of Tomorrow - Male
Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid & Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Breakthrough Performance – Male
Abhimanyu Singh – Gulaal

Breakthrough Performance - Female
Shahana Goswami – Firaaq

Hottest Film Of The Year
Love Aaj Kal

Hottest New Director
Ayaan Mukherjee – Wake Up Sid

Exciting New Face
Jacqueline Fernandez – Aladin

Best Actress
Preity Zinta – Videsh

Best Film
Chintuji

Best Director
Ranjit Kapoor – Chintuji

READERS CHOICE AWARDS

Dream Director
Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal

Best Film Of The Year – Comedy
All The Best

Best Film Of The Year – Action / Thriller
Wanted

Best Film Of The Year – Drama
3 Idiots

Star Of The Year – Male
Amitabh Bachchan – Paa

Star Of The Year – Female
Kareena Kapoor – Kurbaan & 3 Idiots

Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Abhishek Bachchan – Paa

Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Kirron Kher – Kurbaan

Best Actor In A Comedy Role
Ajay Devgn – All The Best

Best Actor – Popular
Akshay Kumar – Blue

Best Actress – Popular
Katrina Kaif – New York, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Check out the exclusive pics from the event at Bollywood-stars.net.

Sometime back, Abbas-Mastaan had expressed their intentions of doing the remake of the popular Hollywood movie ‘The Italian Job’. The rumor mills churned out that the flick would star Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor together, along with Neil Mukesh and Katrina Kaif.

Now, the news is back in circulation again with some changes which include that the remake would not star Kareena and will also have Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Khanna and Kunal Kapoor. The script has been penned down by Rohit Jugraj with a lot of changes from the original one. However, the producers and Abbas-Mastaan have already bought the remake rights.

“For one, the stakes for the heist are much higher. The situations, fights and adventures are all different - and so are the characters,” said Jugraj. Revealing about the casting, the duo stated that they have not yet locked in the entire cast, but are indeed in talks to rope in the above mentioned stars. “It’s a very big project and we need to get the biggest names in place before we start,” said the filmmakers.

The press meet of SRK-Kajol starrer ‘My Name is Khan’ took place at JW Mariott in Mumbai and as the leading protagonists of the movie unveiled its first look, The fans were impressed by the efforts each took in maintaining the color code- Red and Black.

Kajol exuded elegance in a simple black striped Manish Malhotra saree with a red border. SRK looked handsome as ever in his crisp black suit. Director Karan Johar also sported the red and black theme in his black suit with a red collar. Imressed folks?

A new trend has been set by Farah Khan’s chat show ‘Tere Mere Beach Main’, where stars auction their personal items for charity.

Superstar Salman Khan donated his famous yellow towel from ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’ autographed by him. He also jived to the popular track of ‘Jeene ke hain chaar din’ with this towel on the show. The towel has been bought by a fan for a whopping 1 lakh. All the proceeds of the celebrity memorabilia auctions will benefit the NGO SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action).

Again, the Kolkata-based Riddhi Nair, a 33 year old housewife, decided to bid for Olympic gold-medalist Vijender Singh’s boxing gloves auctioned on the show because she was moved by the way his mother brought him up. She spent Rs.17,800 for the item and says she will treasure it like “heirloom” forever.
“I happened to see the repeat telecast of ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’ where Vijender’s mother spoke about how she never bought a new sari for herself for a long time so that she doesn’t have to compromise on her son’s training. It left me very emotional.

“I was touched to see his rising - from a remote village to being a world champion. It’s very thought provoking. It is the perfect example for my daughter that she must always do something big in life,” said Nair.

Nitin Jain, a 39-year-old investor, bid for Priyanka Chopra’s autographed Gavin Maguel designer dress auctioned on Farah’s show and paid Rs.50,000 it.

“Recently, there were several items that were auctioned on ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’ - the chat show on STAR Plus. We had bid for many of them and were, in fact, the second highest bidders for Bipasha Basu’s shoes. But my daughter is a Priyanka Chopra fan - so she also wanted it,” said Jain, who is based in New Delhi.

Other items sold through the show include Shahid Kapoor’s cap for Rs.28,500, Kareena Kapoor’s blue dress for Rs.22,300, Yusuf Khan’s cricket bat for Rs.60,750, at all.

Last Friday could be called a nightmare for the filmmaker Karan Johar as it had MNS leader Raj Thackeray being instigated to blow up an issue when his latest release ‘Wake Up Sid’ had several characters calling Mumbai by its former name, Bombay. Never had Karan imagined that one small mistake could create such a big political hullaboo arousing various comments from different parties.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray said no film producer had the right to change the name of the city from Mumbai to Bombay. “If any producer dares to rename this city and refer to it as Bombay, then my men will protest in typical MNS-style.”

Karan was, however, in no mood to arouse any kind of controversy or violence. So, he visited Raj Thackeray’s residence during the day and apologized saying, “I apologize if I have hurt anyone’s sentiments and so have agreed to put a one-line disclaimer, stressing this, right at the start of the film,” he said.

However, Shiv Sena does not seem to be in a mood to let go of this event especially when it has found an issue just before the lections. Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut told reporters that Johar should not merely apologize to Raj Thackeray. “If Johar really feels sorry about it, he should apologize to Maharashtra and the millions of Marathi Manoos staying here,” he said.

Johar said he apologized because he didn’t want trouble. “I didn’t want any negative impact on the film as so much of hard work had gone into it. It was also never our intention to hurt anybody’s sentiment. The film, in fact, pays homage to the city and Mumbai is an integral part of the film,” he said.

Congress chief minister Ashok Chavan called the Johar-Thackeray meeting a “publicity stunt”. “Raj Thackeray is not a constitutional authority. Karan Johar should have come to the state government if he thought that the issue was so serious,” he said.

To this, Karan clarified, “We at Dharma follow certain ethics and will never market our films like this. There are various other platforms to market films. Besides, my father always told me that if there was an issue, address it immediately and that was exactly what I did.”

As of now, Karan will insert an apology message before the start of the film.

Akshay Kumar and John Abraham had appeared together in Priyadarshan’s comedy flick ‘Garam Masala’. Now, Anthony D’Souza intends to cast this jodi yet again, but this time in an action-packed film full of stunts. Where Akshay Kumar is undoubtedly the king of stunts in our Bollywood, John Abraham is also known for his fitness and ohysique and his passion for bikes.

“Akshay was on board for the next project from the word go. After Blue, I can’t dream of making a film without him. Blue couldn’t have been made without Akshay. As for John, it’s strange that with his physique and body language he has never done a full-on action film,” said D’Souza.

“If I was a member of the audience, I’d want to see the two together in the kind of stunts never seen before,” he added.

The film will supposedly be produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. and is set to start early next year. A.R.Rahman will give the musical scores for this action-packed flick.

The producers of the film ‘Whats Your Rashee?’ have sent Priyanka Chopra’s name for the Guinness Book of World Records as with this film she will be the first actress to portray twelve different roles in a film. The film will see her paired with Harman Baweja with whom she had once been romantically involved and with whom her film ‘Love Story 2050’ had bombed at the box office.

What this film does to her career only time can tell but the girl is leaving no stones unturned for the promotion of the film. She was there at the Toronto Film Festival 2009 in Canada to promote her upcoming movie. She looked stunning and very sexy in her black strapless dress which took no efforts in hiding her curves. On her Twitter page, Priyanka Chopra said being in Toronto made her nostalgic because that’s where she shot her first film.

Check out curvy Priyanka Chopra’s Curves at the press conference of TIFF 2009.

Priyanka Chopra has worked very hard for her forthcoming flick ‘Whats Your Raashee?’ and so it does not come as surprise as she waits with baited breath for the film to hit the screens. Fir the first time in Indian cinema a female star will be playing 12 different roles. Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar, the movie is an adaptation of the US based Gujarati writer Madhu Rye’s novel Kimball Ravenswood.

The story of the film revolves round Yogesh Patel (Harman Baweja) who always wanted to have love marriage, but must find his life partner within ten days to save his family from a disaster. So, he decides to meet one girl from each raashee – sun sign, so that he will get twelve chances to fall in love. He decides to meet 2 girls in a day. Thus getting him six days to meet them, three days to make a final decision and he can get married on the tenth day.

Priyanka Chopra plays twelve different from twelve zodiac signs named Anjali, Vishakha, Kajal, Hansa, Mallika, Pooja, Rajni, Nandini, Bhavna, Jhankhana, Sanjna, Chandrika respective of zodiac sign. Check out Piggy Chops in12 new dazzling avatars.

Hirthik Roshan’s mega project ‘Kites’ is already making a lot of news even before it hits the screens. The film stars Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut and Barbara Mori. Hrithik plays a salsa teacher and Kangana plays Hrithik’s rich dance student who falls in love with him in course of her dance lessons. The story set in the background of Las Vegas deals with the love story of Hrithik and the Spanish girl Barbara Mori who can’t understand each other’s language. The story also has a thriller element attached to it.

Recently, Kangana and Hrithik were seen on the sets of Farah Khan’s ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’. This interactive chat show has a bohemian feel attached to it keeping in tow with Farah’s personality. Check out Kangana and Hrithik as they promote ‘Kites’ on the sets of ‘Tere Mere Beach Mein’.

Apparently, Bipasha Basu is upset with her producers and directors these days. First, it was the film maker Rituporno Ghosh, who dubbed her voice in her first Bengali film ‘Shob Choritro Kalponik’, without any intimation to her. However, she decided to take it easy when she saw that the dubbing did not have any adverse effects to her performance in the film.

Again, she is upset with directors Daniel Silverman and Tapan Saha who failed to start the shooting of his directorial venture ‘Chimera’(Emothep of Mummy movie) on time. As a result, Bipasha’s dates for Chimera have gone wasted. A few days back, Bipasha had some problems with the script also. The movie which has Bips opposite the Titanic star – Billy Zane, will be a paranormal thriller where Zane plays an American doctor, who takes up an offer in India to work in a hospital where he treats Bipasha.

Ajay Devgan’s ‘All The Best-Fun Begins’ started its shoot on 7th May and the crew has finished the shooting within a record time of about two months in mid July. The film, produced by Ajay Devgan Films and directed by Rohit Shetty is all set for a Diwali release on 16th October 2009.

The movie has been shot in various locales in Mumbai and Goa and their last schedule was in Hyderabad. This is set to be a comedy starring Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu & Mugdha Godse in the lead. The music is by Pritam Chakraborty, lyrics are by Kumar and the film is co-produced by Kumar Mangat.

All the best from the team of Bollywood stars to the team of ‘All The Best’!!