Recently Katrina Kaif got an opportunity to visit the security prison at Guantanamo Bay as she shot for a movie at the place. The place horrified the delicate beauty so much that she was left drained and gloomy after her visit to the place. When she came face to face with the stories of brutality and tortures associated with the prison, she was absolutely shocked.
A depressed Katrina said, “We are not making a documentary on 9/11 and so this film is highly entertaining yet very realistic. We shot in actual locations associated with the 9/11 attacks and Guantanamo was one of them. I was there for just a day to shoot my portions. It was shocking to see the high-profile prison where people who were sentenced for their lives were also living.”
“I did not meet any person arrested and jailed in connection with the terror attacks. But I have heard stories about them when I was shooting there. Some most wanted criminals have stayed there”, she added.
Meanwhile checkout the latest photoshoot of the lady for the June 2009 issue of FHM Magazine, India, where she looks absolutely chirpy, sexy and pretty.
Raj Kumar Santoshi is planning to start a new project based on the terrorism which had shaken Punjab during seventies and eighties. The film to be produced by Apoorva Lakhia will have Sanjay Dutt and Big B playing cops who had fought against terrorists in that Khalistan movement. The film is supposed to be a realistic one based on real facts and research just in line with ‘Shoot-out at Lokhandwala’.
Now, Sanjay Dutt is again getting to enact another role of a cop. This Rahul Dholakia’s movie will be based on Kashmiri militancy and is titled ‘Lamhaa’. Talking about Sanjay Dutt, it may be mentioned here that Sanju Baba is out to remake Feroz Khan’s ‘Qurbani’ where he will have Fardeen to play late father Feroz Khan’s role in the film. Sanjay Dutt will play the role which was originally done by Amjad Khan.
When the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ girl Freida Pinto expressed her wish to work with Bollywood’s realistic moviemaker, Madhur Bhandarkar, the latter was so flattered with the lady’s desire that he said that he would “love to work with her”.
“I’m quite flattered to hear Freida wants to work with me. I think she is aware of my female-oriented cinema. She must have seen the performances that Tabu and Konkona Sen Sharma gave in Chandni Bar and Page 3. I’d love to work with Freida,” Bhandarkar said.
“Today, I’m at a stage where an actress of Freida’s international popularity singles me out. I guess I must’ve done something right in these 10 years as a director. Can you imagine the kind of potboilers I’d be making if my first film Trishakti had clicked?”
Reportedly, Miss Pinto had expressed this heartfelt desire of hers in an interview to the international press where she said that she would do a Bollywood film only if it was a Bhandarkar film.
Kareena Kapoor is known for her poise, beauty, elegance and calmness. She has always been friendly and polite with the media, but recently she lost her cool when a journalist raised an undignified question to her at the promotional event of her upcoming film ‘Kambakkth Ishq’.
Kareena was in good mood when the conference began and said to the journalists, “I am open to any kind of film whether it is ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Omkara’, ‘Dev’, ‘Gomaal Returns’ or ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ because all my films are different and if the script and the film demands anything - I am such an actress that I’d do anything for both the script and the film.” However, she also said that she is not prepared to do movies that require her to wear a bikini, as it offends her mother
At this one Punjabi news journalist candidly asked her whether she would go nude for a film. This offended Kareena and raged her so much that she stormed out of the event without uttering a word.
Our space had informed you that very recently, Soha Ali Khan shot an intimate scene with Shiney Ahuja for the upcoming movie ‘Accident’. But this does not mean that Soha, who has had a clean image so far, is out to make it big by giving sensational scenes in every movie she does.
This was proved when Soha refused to do a kissing scene with our serial kisser Emraan Hashmi with whom she is working in director Kunal Deshmukh’s ‘Tum Mile’. The movie is a love story in the backdrop of 26/7 floods in Mumbai.
Earlier Soha had given an affirmative nod to the scene when the script was detailed to her but when it came to enacting the scene, the lady developed cold feet and was just unable to do it. Kunal tries hard to convince Soha but the lady just could not bring herself to do the scene which was supposedly an important part of the script. Soha’s attitude hurt Emraan’s ego and later he too refused to do the scene with her. The director was then left with no other option than to pack up for the day.
‘Lets Dance’ marks the debut of the promising Alabama beauty, Gayatri Patel, who is extremely fond of dancing. In the movie too, she plays the role of a passionate young dancer, Suhani, who has always dreamt of making it big in the glamour world. It also tells us about fourteen year old Aftab (played by Aqib), a gifted dancer who has never dreamed anything ever. Then we have newcomer Ajay Chaudhary stars as Neil, who falls in love with Suhani and decides to help her realize her dream of becoming a star.
The movie is directed by debutant director Aarif Sheikh and the producer is Gayatri’s father himself. Aarif is a known name in film editing and has won the national award for editing of Samay – When Time Strikes. He also has the editing of movies like Makdee, Maqbool, Taxi No. 9211, Parzania and The Blue Umbrella to his credit. The choreography of the movie has been done by Longinus Fernandes and the movie is set to release today.
Gayatri is all praises for her co-stars and says, “They are lovely, Aqib is also from London and I was from America. Both of us were new in the city. We got on really well. Ajay is very different from me, he is from Meerut. He is very experienced guy and good actor also and working with him was lot of fun also.”
Rajkumar Hirani’s multistarrer project ‘3 Idiots’ is based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘Five Point Someone’ and stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Mona Singh and Boman Irani. Mona Singh is especially excited about the project because it is definitely a big silver screen debut for her to appear alongside perfectionist Aamir Khan in her first venture.
Mona was initially very inhibitive about working with Aamir but the actor eased her up soon. Describing her experience of working with Aamir Khan, Mona says, “It was really nice. Initially I had my qualms about him but then the director of the film told me to meet Aamir once before starting the shoot.”
“I was shooting for Filmfare and Aamir was there for his movie. It was a week’s time for me to start with the project with him. I was confused and didn’t know what to say but I broke the ice after meeting him. Aamir also said that he has seen my show Jassi and liked my work. He is very down to earth and nice person,” she added.
Celina Jaitley has always been known as a bold, outspoken and daring Bollywood actress who does not hesitate to stand up against anything wrong. So, when her co-star Abhimanyu Singh decided to bag in some publicity at her cost, it was quite expected that the actress flew into a rage and decided to retort back.
Abhimanyu is a newcomer who is acting opposite Celina in a thriller directed by Jagmohan Mundhra and has been giving his excuses and take on his alleged linkup with the actress. He went ahead to give an interview about how upset he was to read about his link-up with Celina.
Celina, on the other hand, feels that the question and topic of this linkup is nothing but the brainchild of Abhimanyu himself who is doing this to get some cheap publicity. An angry Celina said, “”What link-up is he talking about? Who linked him with me except himself? This is the first time I’ve heard about this so-called link-up.”
She adds, “This is a perennial problem. You are nice to a co-star and he decides to repay your kindness by planting cheap stories. Recently, it happened to me when a co-star, who’s a dear friend, whom I don’t want to name, gave out a story about how he ‘manhandled’ me on the sets. I didn’t react because all said and done, he’s a dear friend and a name in his own right. But Abhimanyu is a talented actor and I was just being nice to him as a co-star.”
Celina can barely control her anger and expresses her disappointment saying, “Next time I’ll think twice before being nice to a co-star. But it’s sad to see actors, established or not-so-established using their co-star’s name for publicity. They take advantage of my single status and friendly nature. But do they realize how such sleazy whispers could jeopardize my prospects of finding love?”
She also sent an SMS to Abhimanyu Singh which read, “Abhimanyu, u better stop talking about this so called link up. In the first place there’s no link up, so stop going to the media and crying about things which don’t exist.”
‘Shortkut’ may be termed as the re-incarnation for Amrita Rao into a glamorous and sizzling avatar from a petite, girl-next-door image. The gossip columns and journals are abuzz with the sensuality she oozes in the promos of the film. Amrita, by far had kept away from skin-show but finally she has realized that if she aspires of success in the glamour world, she has to take the ‘Shortcut’ of being bold and sexy. And her realization does show in the sizzling hot promos of the film.
The film is a light-hearted comedy dealing with the ups and downs in the life of two con artists, Shekhar (played by Akshaye Khanna) who is a struggling director and Chandu (played by Arshad Warsi) who despite lacking in talents manages to make it big in the tinsel town after she steals Shekhar’s prized script.
Amrita Rao plays the role of Mansi, Shekhar’s love interest who later becomes his wife and what follows is confusion, clash of egos and humorous sequences when Shekhar gets to direct Chandu, the superstar.
Times are definitely not good for Shiney Ahuja who is in news for raping his maid. Among the films which he has in hands currently is the one with Soha Ali Khan titled ‘Accident’ and the actors recently shot a very intimate scene for the flick which is supposed to be a psychological-cum-supernatural horror.
Soha here plays Shiney’s wife who is emotionally disturbed because of an accident and the loss of her baby. The scene takes place when they come to stay in a bungalow and that’s where they have an intimate moment.
Being professional, Soha has no inhibitions about the scene and says, “I have done intimate scenes earlier in Khoya Khoya Chand. Even Antar Mahal was a very progressive subject with lots of intimacy involved. I am open to doing certain scenes that are within my comfort level but I won’t do anything for commercially exploitative reasons to bring in the eyeballs. Whether it’s a kiss or a lovemaking scene it should make script sense.”
“There’s no physical lovemaking scene. It’s all subtle with silences and imagery. I do draw the limit in certain scenes. In such cases I won’t tell the director at the last moment to delete the scene but instead ask him to choose another actor right at the beginning,” she adds.
Soha is very happy about her role in the film and says that the film has an international quality to it. But with Shiney being involved in the rape case, the film will definitely suffer.
Director Farhan Akhtar and producer Ritesh Sidhwani have no two thoughts that their sequel ‘Don 2’ will be a grand and extraordinary flick in terms of action, locales and grandeur. The film will be shot in Dublin where no Indian film has been shot till date. Though there is no double role for SRK this time, he will be performing daring and breathtaking stunts this time. But for this, his shoulder surgery could pose a problem. So, SRK has given his dates in 2009 for Karan Johar’s ‘My Name Is Khan’ which does not require much physical stamina. He has decided to start the shoot for ‘Don 2’ in May 2010 in Ireland and Berlin. Contrary to the rumors Priyanka Chopra is very much there in the sequel.
Producer Ritesh Sidhwani confirms this saying, “We’re very much going ahead with the original cast Shah Rukh, Priyanka, Boman Irani, Arjun Rampal and Om Puri. Only those who died in the original won’t return, obviously.”
He adds, “We’re shooting Don 2 in Dublin. No Indian film has been shot there. We want to make sure that the sequel goes ahead of the first film. While the first part was a remake the sequel is an original script and would be much tougher to film for Shah Rukh and Farhan.”
‘Pyaar Impossible’ is the upcoming movie from Yash Raj films which has been scripted by Uday Chopra and also stars Uday Chopra alongwith Priyanka Chopra and Jugal Hansraj. Uday plays the role of Abhay who is an awkward, bespectacled geek where Priyanka plays the role of Alisha, a stunning beauty.
Recently, Uday and Priyanka were in Bangkok shooting for the film where Priyanka displayed her funloving and adventurous side by taking a dive into a swimming pool from a four-storey film board into a 40 feet swimming pool just to have fun. Following her was Uday, who got hurt in the attempt. This was not a part of the shoot. The actors were just in a mood to have some fun and adventure.
