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.
When Pooja Bhatt revealed the first look poster of her ‘Jism 2’ with a nude girl under the wet white sheet, she chose to keep the name of the girl under wraps. However, now the Bhatts have decided to reveal the name of the mystery girl and as anticipated, it has now finally come out that the girl is none other than Sunny Leone herself, the leading lady of the film.
“Sunny Leone is the heroine of Pooja Bhatt’s ‘JISM 2′. Now watch this brave girl unfold her soul and rise higher and higher,” Bhatt wrote on his Twitter page.
Sunny, on the other hand too, is excited about her debut in Bollywood. “Hey everyone! So excited to be working on ‘JISM 2′. Remember to follow @jism2 to get all the movie news first, ” Sunny, whose real name is Karen Malhotra, tweeted.
The makers of the film have also revealed through this social networking site that they need two male protagonists for the film and are looking for them.
“While my dream that is #JISM2 comes closer to realization with @sunnyleone my nightmare with regards to casting my two leading men begins,” Pooja posted.
“Finding one ‘man’ in this business is tough enough and we need to cast two in #JISM2! I suspect strongly that it is masochism that drives me,” she added.
Rajkumar Santoshi is set to start a film with the novel pairing of Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor. The film will be a romantic comedy and Santoshi maintains that it has in no way any links with his superhit ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’ which starred Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. The film goes on floors from Feb 1.
Giving in more details about the film, Santoshi says, “It’s in the same creative space as my Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Abhay and Sonam would be captured in a comedy of errors like Ranbir and Katrina, though this is a completely different script and has no bearing on Ajab Prem…”
Santoshi goes a long way in bonding with the lead actors’ parents. While he shares a great rapport with Anil Kapoor since ‘Lajja’, his association with the Deola also goes a long way back. The film will be produced by Santoshi and the cinematography will be done by the ace-cameraman Ravi K Chandran.
Actress Ameesha Patel is surely playing her cards well in the second innings of her career. Her image transformation into a sexy bombshell in her last release ‘Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic’ failed to impress the audience but the actress has lots of promising projects in store for the year 2012.
She’s working on Shortcut Romeo opposite Neil Nitin Mukesh, second schedule of Race 2, and Bhaiyyaji Superhit with Sunny Deol, both of which are to start soon. Now, the actress has landed up with yet another plum role.
She has reportedly been signed up by David Dhawan for his next where Ameesha is requires to play a role of a high-profile prostitute in Prague. This will be first of its kind for Ameesha. The film will go on the floors by April this year and David wants Ameesha to spend at least 15 days to imbibe the energy of Parisians and understand their way of life. Ameesha also confirmed the news saying, “It’s a first for me. And yes, I am really excited to test the waters by playing the role of a high-profile Indian prostitute in Paris.’
The film is being produced by Ameesha Patel Productions. Her business partner Kuunal Goomer adds, “Davidji is in Goa currently shooting for Chashmebaddoor and also preparing for his son’s wedding there. Once done, we are geared to roll by April. The film is a romantic thriller with good comedy and suspense as well. We will shoot Ameesha with real Parisian hookers on the streets there. The effect will be magical.”
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao have been blessed with a baby boy on December1st this year. The baby was born through IVF technology to a surrogate mother whose identity remains guarded. Apparently, Kiran had suffered miscarriage in her first pregnancy.
The couple released the news through a press statement which read, “It gives us the greatest joy to share with you the good news of the birth of our baby boy. This baby is especially dear to us because he was born to us after a long wait and some difficulty. Due to medical complications, we were advised to have a baby through IVF – surrogacy, and we feel very grateful to the Almighty that all has gone well,” Aamir and Kiran said in the statement.
The couple added: “We are humbled by the greatness of God, the miracles of science, and the kindness and love of our families and friends in being there for us while respecting our privacy. We seek your good wishes and blessings for our child.”
Aamir Khan already has a son and a daughter from his previous marriage with Reena Dutta.
Mahesh Bhatt had already revealed his intentions for reviving his shelved project ‘Blue Film’ with porn star Sunny Leone and finally he gets to meet Leone in the Big Boss house to finalize the casting procedure. When Mahesh met Leone, the two clicked instantly and later when he offered her the role, she accepted it.
Sunny did not recognize Bhatt initially. Revealing about their meeting, Mahesh Bhatt said, “I have gotten a glimpse of her uninhibited self and I am very impressed by what I have seen.”
“When I first met Sunny, I did not see any flicker of recognition in her eyes and I was glad about that because it allowed me to see different shades of her character and personality…” he added.
Because of the cameras Mahesh did not discuss the project at length in the Big Boos house and Pooja Bhatt’s production house, Fish Eye Network, will now discuss the offer and its legalities with Sunny Leone’s agent to finalize the clauses.
Madhur Bhandarkar’s ambitious project ‘Heroine’ has started its shoot finally on November 26 overcoming all hurdles and problems with cast and so. The movie now stars Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda and Shabana Goswami in the main roles.
After Aishwarya Rai walked out of the project due to her pregnancy, Madhur took Kareena in the lead and after his first day of shoot, he tweeted, “Today I start shooting for my next project, Heroine. Am I excited, nervous or ecstatic? Actually, I am very calm because movie making is one thing that comes very naturally to me. I am happy for sure, as always, to be on the next project and work after months of brainstorming. But my day has begun with a silent prayer for the victims of 26/11.”
“Heroine is a very contemporary subject of today’s time. It has different premises and different strata that I am going to deal with here. This movie, like all my other movies, is a mix of facts and fiction,” added Bhandarkar.
With Kareena Kapoor’s images in the ‘Heroine’ look doing rounds on the net, we may as well compare Kareena with Aishwarya Rai’s look in the same. Let us know what you think about who suits the role better?
Porn star Sunny Leone has just stepped into our country as a Big Boss 5 house entrant and Bollywood filmmakers are all too eager to cast her in their projects. The first one to take Leone as the lead in his film is none other than Mahesh Bhatt who has decided to revive his shelved project ‘Blue Film’ with his son Rahul Bhatt.
Years ago Mahesh Bhatt had planned to launched his son Rahul Bhatt with this movie and had even offered the film to Sunny Leone back then, but things just did not work out. Now, the Bhatts are reviving the project with a few changes in the script.
The film will be in line with their ‘Murder’ series and Sunny will definitely be playing a porn star in the film. So, we suppose this leaves no doubts regarding the hotness quotient of the film.
Whenever some mega project gets geared up to hit the screens, some legal problem seems to crop up from nowhere. This time the makers of ‘Don 2’ have run into a legal trouble over a copyright issue.
The production house Nariman Films (known for producing the original Don movie starring Amitabh Bachchan in 1978) has charged Excel Entertainment (owned by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Deshmukh) that their agreement and copyright to remake the original Don movie expired in 2009 and has not been renewed. Another charge by Nariman films is that the title had been registered as ‘Don 2 – Return of the King’ and since the posters of Don 2 claim ‘The King is Back’, it is yet another infringement.
Nariman Films has sent a legal notice to Excel Entertainment and they intend to approach the courts to halt the release of Don 2 on December 23.
Excel Entertainment, on the other hand, claim that Don 2 is a entirely new story and concept and has hence nothing to do with the original movie.
Bollywood will usher New Year with Abbas- Mustan’s thriller ‘Players’ which will hit the theatres on January 6. This multi-starrer project is the remake of the 2003 Hollywood thriller ‘The Italian Job’. The movie stars Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Sikander Kher and Omi Vaidya. The film is based on a gang of players which make a plan to make a f ortune worth billions. Crafty schemes, fast paced cars, action sequences and betrayal acts promise to keep the ardeline flowing!!
The film has been shot at a variety of locations, including Russia, New Zealand, UK and India. The trailer of the film has been released which opens with a dialogue from Abhishek Bachchan. Then the characters played by Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Bipasha Basu and Neil Nitin Mukesh are introduced.
Take a look at the first look poster of the flick………….
Well, ‘Dabangg’ may have been a grand success on the box office, but Salman and Arbaaz Khan are in no mood to repeat the crew of the original for the sequel. After director Abhinav Kashyap walked out of ‘Dabangg 2’, they had decided that barring Abhinav, they would repeat the entire cast and crew. However, the technicians were the next to leave the team. Now, the film which goes on floors in March 2012 will have a entirely new set of crew with the original lead actors.
Arbaaz Khan confirmed this fact and was quoted saying, “Why are people presuming that I’d have to depend on creative resources from the first Dabangg to make Dabangg 2? I’ve been born into a film family. I grew up hearing scripts and people talking cinema. I know enough about cinema to turn director confidently. It’s true we don’t have the original crew on board. We’ve hired a first-rate group of fresh technicians for Dabangg 2.”
“We know what we’re doing. It’s Dileep Shukla who has written the sequel. But it is my vision and ideas that have been put into the screenplay. I know exactly how I want to shoot the film. The novelty of seeing Salman playing Chulbul Pandey with a moustache has worn off. We’ll be going beyond,” said Arbaaz.
There is no denying the fact that Bachchan family is perhaps the best known and the most respected family in Bollywood. So it did not come as a surprise that bahu Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s baby shower turned out to be a grand affair witnessing the presence of almost every known face of the tinsel town.
Where the veteran actors of the golden era with the likes of Saira Banu, Asha Parekh, and Dimple Kapadia showered their blessings on the mom-to-be, the guest list also included the likes of Bipasha Basu, Karan Johar, Sonali Bendre, Twinkle Khanna, Manyata Dutt, Raveena Tandon, Urmila Matondkar, Poonam Sinha, Neeta Lulla, Neelam Kothari, Mana Shetty and many more.
Abhishek Bachchan was seem beaming ear-to-ear dressed in a traditional kurta. Mother-in-law, Jaya Bachchan, received each guest personally. Aishwarya Rai did not pose for the cameras but she is reported to be wearing an orange colored traditional dress.
Saira Banu, who gifted the mom-to-be a gold coin, later said, “Aishwarya was looking like a ‘chand ka tukda’. She was looking beautiful. We wish Abhishek and Aishwarya all the best.”
