Kambakkht Ishq that is expected to do big as assured by its makers, however, had a star studded press meet attended by celebrities like Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and no doubt big and tall Akshay Kumar was also at the meet to promote the movie. According to Kareena Kapoor, ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ is a “power-packed film which is going to rock today and tomorrow”. However in meantime, watch some pictures from the press conference.

How far could a producer go in taking care of the wishes of the leading lady of his film? Well, he could at least gift a new mobile phone. This is exactly what producer Ajay Devgan has done for Bipasha Basu who has just finished shooting for Ajay Devgan’s comedy ‘All The Best’ in Goa this week.

Bipasha had worked really hard with most sincere efforts for Ajay’s film. She not only worked late at night and early in the mornings, she also kept the phone switched off during the shooting thus cutting off from everyone including beau John Abraham who has hurt his legs. Bipasha also agreed to do an additional role in ‘All The Best’ without extra charges. When Ajay came to know that Bips wanted a Blackberry phone, he thought it would be just the right move to show his appreciation for her dedication.

Says the actress, “Yeah, Ajay knew I wanted it. In fact it was he who got me interested in. It is actually a gift in appreciation for working long hours and changing at lightning speed between shots when we had loads of work to finish. Ajay is a fabulous producer and co-star.”

Bipasha is all ga-ga for her new phone and says, “I love it! I’m going totally crazy with it. Though I’ve no numbers on it and am trying to figure it out, I just can’t get enough of it.”

Kamal Hassan’s daughter Shruti Hassan is making a grand debut with Soham Shah’s ‘Luck’ where she has been paired against Imran Khan. The film also stars Sanjay Dutt, Mithun Chakraborty, Ravi Kissen and Danny Denzongpa in the main villain’s role.

Imran had shown some action packed sequences in ‘Kidnap’ post his romantic role in ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’, but ‘Luck’ would be an out and out action movie for Imran where he will be seen displaying martial arts.

Imran has just finished his long shooting schedule for the film in Cape Town and the producer had already arranged for his martial arts training sessions long before the shooting schedule. However, Imran had been busy with the promotion of his films and could not go through a proper training. Nevertheless, there was already a special trainer for him on his arrival at Cape Town and Imran left no stones unturned in going through rigorous training in order to get perfection in his action steps. He also worked out a lot on his physique for his role in this particular film. Your browser may not support display of this image.

Remember Kalki Koechlin? The same girl who debuted with Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev.D’ where she played the character of Chandramukhi. This Indian actress with French descent has also done some modeling assignments for smaller screen. Though she is well versed in Tamil, English and French, she had to learn Hindi for her role in Dev.D.

Kalki got rave reviews for her performance in Dev D. Hindustan Times read, “Kalki shows sparks in the scenes. Enter Chanda, the multilingual call girl who can seduce in Hindi, Tamil, English and French. With her bee-stung lips, unusual face and refreshing lack of acting guile, Kalki Koechlin imbues the part with a touching fragility.”

Kalki has also won the Hindu metro playwright award 2009 along with Prashant Prakash for their co-authored entry ‘Skeleton Woman.’ She had also acted in the play “Hair” directed by Ajaykrishnan.

Check out Kalki oozing sensuality in the latest issue of Filmfare magazine.

On one hand where Kareena Kapoor will be seen in a super glam avatar for ‘Kambakkth Ishq’, she sports a completely de-glam or you could say a geeky look for Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘3 Idiots’ where she plays the role of Neha, the professor’s daughter, from the book ‘Five Point Someone’. Aamir Khan, on the other hand, would be playing the handsome and genius Ryan. Sharman Joshi plays the role of Alok and Madhavan will be Hari, who adores Ryan and wants to be like him.

The cast and crew were in New Delhi at Connaught Place for the shoot of the film where Kareena was spotted wearing spectacles and Aamir was seen handling a strange machine named ‘virus inverter’.

The crew has already shot in Shimla, Ladakh, Bangalore and Mumbai. When they shot at the Pangong Lake in Ladakh which is 13,900 feet above sea level, Kareena went breathless due to the lack of oxygen.

“We had little oxygen, no electricity and no hot water. On top of that, I was in a wedding ghagra-choli outfit in that freezing cold, can you imagine! The wind almost swept me off my feet,” said Kareena.

To protect herself from the freezing cold, Kareena wore thermal heating along with her outfit. “But that was of very little help. Finally the unbearable cold was all worth it for a wonderful film. The boys (Aamir and Madhavan) were great fun. And Raju Hirani is a gem.”

Vivek Oberoi is all geared up to take the Bollywood with storm. He has three quite promising projects in hand right now. One is Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Rakta Charitra’ where he is playing the role of Paritala Ravi, then there is Renzil D’Silva’s ‘Jehaad’, a romantic thriller against the backdrop of global terrorism and finally he has Kumar Taurani’s ‘Prince’ where he will be seen romancing three heroines. The name of the actresses has been kept undisclosed but what is known is that Vivek has performed some breathtaking stunts and action sequences for the film. Vivek is said to take off leaps from a plane, has jumped from high cliffs during his shots at Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh and even shot his fight sequences bare handed amidst the freezing river and rode rafts in strong currents. The action sequences have been directed by Allan Amin. Directed by Kookie Gulati and produced by Tips films, ‘Prince’ will hit the theatres on December 11.

“The experience of making ‘Prince’ has been truly amazing. We are very confident that the movie will appeal to all audiences and will perform well at the box-office,’ said Kumar Taurani, managing director of Tips Films.

With so many promising projects in hand and the dedication which Vivek is putting in, it seems that the actor is all set for a second golden inning.

With the aim of promoting her forthcoming movie, ‘Kaminey’, Priyanka Chopra is regularly using the social networking site ‘Twitter’ these days. The twitter page of the beautiful and gorgeous actress can be found on www.twitter.com/priyankachopra. It was Shahid Kapoor who introduced Priyanka to ‘Twitter’ advising her to use it in order to get in touch with her international fans and also to promote ‘Kaminey’. Now, Priyanka makes it a point to update her account at least once a day.

Though Shahid has been on ‘Twitter’ since last year but has become more active from April this year. Both Priyanka and Shahid were read discussing the release date of their movie. Where Priyanka has 10 members following her, Shahid Kapoor has around 3042.

Priyanka Chopra’s updates on ‘Twitter’ also express her feelings on the loss of Michael Jackson. It says, “I cannot believe it! MJ no more… He was the reason I started loving music. Thank you MJ the inspiration for all of us. The true king of pop.”

Neetu Chandra has lately been in news more for her controversial photoshoots than for her roles in the films. Now, she has been signed for an important role in ‘No Problem’ directed by Annez Bazmi and produced by Anil Kapoor. The movie is a comedy and stars Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Kangana Ranaut, Sushmita Sen and Paresh Rawal. Neetu will be paired opposite Sanjay Dutt for the first time.

Bazmee confirmed the news that Neetu Chandra had been signed on for an important role and added, “I cannot reveal anything about her role now because it’s too early, but yes, Neetu is going to be the surprise package in the film. She suited the role perfectly.”

Revealing more about the film, he said, “I am planning to start shooting the film next month in South Africa and it will be a 50-day long schedule. After that we will have one more schedule in Singapore and Bangkok.”

Having a most unusual pair of Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead roles Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions’ forthcoming venture ‘Wake Up Sid’ seems to awake much enthusiasm among the cinelovers. The movie is being directed by debutante Ayaan Mukherjee, who earlier was assistant director of Ashutosh Gowariker in ‘Swades’ and Karan Johar in ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’.

Scheduled to release on October 2, 2009, the movie is based on the story of a handsome young boy (Ranbir Kapoor) who falls for an older and simple writer woman (Konkona Sen Sharma).Anupam Kher will be seen as father of Ranbir Kapoor.

This will be the first film produced by Dharma Productions that will be distributed worldwide by UTV Motion Pictures and not by Yash Raj Films, thus marking the end of the collaboration between Dharma Productions and Yash Raj Films.

Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan had appeared together in ‘God Tussi Great Ho’ but the movie failed to create magic at the box-office. Now, the two stars are set to appear together again for ‘Sahib Biwi and Gulam’ which is being produced and directed by Rituparno Ghosh.

The movie tells the story of a wealthy zamindar and his beautiful wife. The zamindar is in habit of visiting brothels and kothas which leaves the wife lonely. Then there is a young man named Bhoot Nath who is hired as a servant to this zamindar. Bhootnath comes close to the lonely wife and both soon develop a platonic relationship. Then Bhootnath comes to know and feel his mistress’s loneliness and the life she is cursed to live.

The script definitely seems interesting and challenging. Meanwhile check out the exclusive poster from the movie.

After watching all the leading Bollywood actors, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and many others in the Singh avatar, it is time now for Bollywood beauties to don on the Pagdi. Starting with Rani Mukherjee, the beauty is seen in a Punjabi getup for Anurag Singh’s ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’.

The movie, which is a romantic comedy based in Punjab, stars Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Anupam Kher along with Rakhi Sawant & Sherlyn Chopra and others. Rani plays the role of a girl who has to become a man to fulfil her dreams. Her sardar look has been designed by Mike Stringer, who was the man behind the fabulous makeups in Dhoom 2. The costumes have been designed by Manish Malhotra.

Take a look at Rani’s Sardar getup for the film and share your comments with us!

This Monday, Mumbai saw the music release of Abbas Mastaan’s romantic thriller ‘Runaway’. The film which is being produced by 171 Entertainment Private Limited stars  Deepal Shaw, Tulip Joshi, Lucky Ali and debutant actor Amarjeet.

Tulip is playing the role of a bar dancer for the first time in the film and has shot a real sexy time number for the film. “In this film there is a lot of freshness and for me the character which I play which is that of a bar dancer I have never played in my life and have never been a part of a film like this. I did a lot of research and preparation for this role,” said Joshi.

Deepal Shaw revealed more about the film saying, “The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) of this film is that it looks very sleek as these days the packaging rules and it’s a well packaged film. The songs are good and I hope that 70 percent of our population which comes from B and C grade towns they will like the songs which will be an attraction of this film.”