The music launch of Vikram Bhatt’s ‘1920’ was held in a grand way with almost everyone present at the occasion including Anjorie Alagh, Adah Sharma, Kailash Kher, Vikram Bhatt, Sameer, Pandit Jasraj, Rakhi Sawant, and Rajneesh Duggal. However, the absence of music composer for the film, Adnan Sami, was conspicuously felt.
The reason for Adnan’s absence was that he has been hospitalized due to a bad case of food poisoning which he suffered a couple of days back. Adnan really regretted missing the opportunity but is fine now and on a way to speedy recovery.
Hijack the movie that is in news for some pulsating action like as Die Hard Type, as Shiney Ahuja the hero of the movie tries to save passengers of a hijacked plane. Esha Deol in the movie is playing role of an air hostess. At the release of the music of the movie both Esha and Shiney were present at the party. Watch out the picks below from the release party.
In the series of movie to be released for Priyanka Chopra, ‘Chamku’ is the one that is most awaited and got the initial push up towards the silver screen with audio release of film’s music at a function. During the release party, she was present with her co-star Bobby Deol and family, as party was also attended by his elder brother Sunny and his father Dhamendra. Watch some snaps from the release party.
India’s biggest entertainment show in a foreign land finally started in an extravaganza at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on the night of 18th July 2008. In an inauguration ceremony of the Unforgettable Tour, “Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Ritiesh Deshmukh and Akshay Kumar gave the performances at the stage. Watch them in some of their best dancing steps.
Do you remember Sunita Rao? The lady who was one of the first to start the pop trend in India in the 90’s and who was the undisputed queen of Pop music for a considerable span of time with her numbers ‘Pari Hoon Main’ and ‘Kesariya’ is finally out of hibernation and is back with her new album ‘Waqt’.
She launched her album with a grand bash at the Hard Rock Café and Suneeta’s close friends Shankar Mahadevan, Madhoo and Suchitra Pillai were there to cheer her as she performed tracks from her latest album ‘Waqt’.
It will commence on 18th July in Toronto, The Unforgettable which will bring all of the three Bachchans- Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on a common platform was announced during a press conference in Mumbai on Friday July 11.
The Tour of 28 cities around the world that is described as the biggest show on the earth is also decorated with other stars like Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Preity Zinta and Ritesh Deshmukh .Hopefully, Shiamak Davar choreographed and music from Vishal- Shekhar would bring good fortune for the troupe of ‘Unforgettable Tours’, watch all of the Unforgettable Tour members at press conference in Mumbai.
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.
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.
All, all in all of Bollywood was presented at the music launch of ‘Singh is Kinng’ starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. During the music launch of the movie that is shot upto 80% is shot in Australia celebrities including Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Neha Dhupia and others were presented. The movie is set to be released on August 8, 2008. See them at the party.
Image source: Bollyone
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!
Vidya Balan has been creating stirs with her fabulous chemistry with Madhavan in the Airtel commercials and at the same time is keeping her fingers crossed for her forthcoming ‘Kismat Konnection’ with Shahid Kapoor. She has also signed on with Bling! Entertainment Solutions, a leading talent and celebrity management company in India, to handle her endorsement deals and other interests.
But the lady is in no mood to shun away her social responsibilities too. On the eve of World Environment Day, Vidya Balan was present at a tree plantation drive held by Lanxess India along with the ‘Save The Children India‘ organization. They planted over 100 samplings in an initiative to increase the green cover and also donated Rs. 3 lakh for Save the Children India foundation.
So, that was her bit from Vidya towards the environment on a very special day. Keep it up gal!
Guess who is the latest one to join the bandwagon of item girls? Well, it is none other than the queen of controversies- Celina Jaitley. This is after a long time that Miss Jaitley has come to our blog for reasons other than her controversies.
So, it goes that Celina is set to do her first item song for Ekta Kapoor’s production ‘C Kkompany’. The movie is directed by Sachin Yardi and the star cast includes Tusshar Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav and Anupam Kher. Celina will get to shake her legs in the song with these stars.
Celina has things heating up at the international front. She has already worked in a joint Australia-New Zealand production called ‘Love Has No Language’, and from next year she would shoot another film, ‘The Quest of Sheherzade’ that will most likely star Sean Connery. Nonetheless, she is excited about this song of hers as it breaks the monotony of her regular work.
He has come back to his motherland not without reasons. Barely has he stepped back in India, he has managed to bag in four films in a row. After WWF and acting, The Great Khali is out to extend his horixons to the world of music too. So, now this wrestler goes out for a music video shoot with the singers-composers Siddharth and Suhas for his forthcoming ‘Rama, The Saviour’.
Khali sang a song for Siddhartha-Suhas duo and danced as well for their music video for his film which directed by Hadi Ali Abrar and produced by Abdul Aziz Baroodgar and stars Tanushree Dutta and Sahil Khan.
Siddhartth Suhas who have given the music for the film made Khali sing a few pieces for their song “We Don’t Need” and also Khali grooved and rocked in the music video for the same song!!!
The music launch party of the forthcoming comedy flick ‘De Taali’ was held at Taj Lands End this Monday. Beside the stars of the film, Ayesha Takia, Rimi Sen, Aftab Shivdasani and Riteish Deshmukh, actor Sanjay Dutt was there with her sweetheart Manyata (Dutt or not, that still remains a suspense) and with buddy Bunty Walia.
The film, directed by E.Niwas and with musical scores from Vishal and Shekhar, is expected to hit the theatres this June 20.
Mallika Sherawat is in news again, this time for her work though. The girl who is doing ‘Dasavatharam’ with Kamal Hassan will be doing a sexy pole dance in the film. Mallika
plays an intelligence agency operative, who in a sequence will take the of a pole dancer to titillate Kamal Hassan in a bar.
Mallika attired in a black lingerie with silver netting and a feathery headgear with dim light in the background and a sole spotlight on her will gyrate to the moves of choreographer Brinda (who also choreographed Mallika’s Turkish item ‘Maiyya Maiyya’ in ‘Guru’ ). The song was shot within two days.
‘Dasavatharam’ has Kamal Hassan in ten different roles. The movie’s music was recently released by Jackie Chan.
Mallika was very excited to perform this new dance form which she has never tried before. She even did a thorough research about the dance, consulted many books and watched videos of expert polo dancers.
Choreographer Brinda describes the song in the following words, “The song has been framed to seduce Kamal Hassan where Mallika will be heading some other dancers in the background.”
It all went out of control at Nehru stadium Chennai in presence of super stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Jackie Chan, Himesh Reshammiya at the music launch of Kamal Hassan’s Movie ‘Dashavataram’. And this all happened when crowd at the stadium came to know about presence of Kamal Hassan in stadium and the fan’s of Kamal Hasan went berserk to the extent that police had to interfere into the states of affairs and lathi-chargedwhoever came across their way in the stadium without any distinction, whether it be media or fans!
One of the senior media correspondents expressed his experience in Chennai as complete shock, “People worship their stars like gods in the south unlike Mumbai! Kamal’s fans tore their shirts, carried his photos, and brought their young kids just to get a glimpse of their icon! It was simply maddening!” So this is the magic of Stardom in the South.
As always, Zee Cine Awards was held at London this Sunday amidst much glamour and glitter. What made news was the absence of Salman Khan’s performance. Though the reason for Salman’s backing out was officially cited as high fever and injury, the real reason was that Salman had a problem with his choreographer Ganesh Hegde. So, the Moranis replaced Ganesh with a choreographer called Rajesh. When Salman saw Rajesh’s choreographed act on Friday afternoon, he was shocked and deeply upset at this second hand treatment. He returned the cheque and agreement the same night and then finally Zee had to perform with Shah Rukh, Upen Patel, Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena, and Jay Sean. Salman’s girlfriend Katrina who was already in London on Thursday performed solo.
Meanwhile, check out the list of the winners of Zee Cine Awards 2008:
Best Film
Chak De! India - Aditya Chopra, Yash Raj Films
Best Director
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par
Best Actor (Male)
Shah Rukh Khan - Chak De! India
Best Actor (Female)
Kareena Kapoor - Jab We Met
Most Popular Track Of The Year
Mauja Hi Mauja - Jab We Met
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Govinda - Partner
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Shilpa Shetty - Life In A.. Metro
Best Actor In A Comic Role (Male/Female)
Vinay Pathak - Bheja Fry
Best Actor In A Negative Role (Male/Female)
Arjun Rampal - Om Shanti Om
Best Playback Singer (Male)
Shaan - Jab Se Tere Naina (Saawariya)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghosal - Barso Re Megha (Guru)
Best Lyrics
Prasoon Joshi - Maa (Taare Zameen Par)
Best Music
A R Rahman - Guru
Most Promising Debut Director
Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par
Most Promising Debut (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor - Saawariya
Most Promising Debut (Female)
Deepika Padukone - Om Shanti Om
Most Promising Debut (Child Artiste)
Darsheel Safary - Taare Zameen Par
Technical Awards
Best Choreographer - Farah Khan - Om Shanti Om
Best Costume – Manish Malhotra & Karan Johar - Om Shanti Om
Best Visual Effects - Red Chilli’s Entertainment - Om Shanti Om
Best Editing – Amitabh Shukla - Chak de India
Best Cinematography - Sandip Chaterjee- Chak de India
Best Action - Parvez Khan - Jhonny Gaddar
Best Film Processing - ADLABS - Namastey London
Best Art Direction - Nitin Desai - Gandhi my Father
Best Sound recording – Baylon Ponseca - Shootout at lokhandwala
Best Background Music - AR Rahman - Guru
Best Screenplay - Imtiyaz Ali - Jab We Met
Best Dialogue - Jaideep Sahani - Chak De India
Best Story - Amol Gupte - Taare Zammen Par
Zee Icon award – Shah Rukh Khan
Zee Cinema Entertainer of the year – Ritesh Deshmukh
Lifetime Achievement – Zeenat Amaan
Lifetime Achievement – Feroz Khan
British Indian Actor Award – Katrina Kaif
Bollywod Queen Award - Gauri Khan
Critics Awards
Best Film – Gandhi My Father
Best Actress – Shifali Shah – Gandhi my Father
Best Actor – Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par
Critics Special Awards - Neil Nitin Mukesh
Sonu Nigam has some female following, must say. After the incident in South Africa where four female fans intruded his privacy while he was working out in a gym, this one had a female rush to the dias and attempt to kiss him when he was performing at Andheri Sports Complex on Sunday night. When the security guards tried to pull her away from Sonu, she scratched the singer on his neck leaving a prominent scar there.
How much Sonu enjoyed is for you to guess, but incidentally because of this scar, Sonu had to postpone the photo shoot of his new album for 20 days.
