Gossip columns were abuzz with the rumors that Priyanka Chopra has been finalized for the lead in director Apoorva Lakhia’s remake of the 1973 film ‘Zanjeer’. However, the director puts a rest to these rumors saying, “Priyanka Chopra is not yet confirmed. We have not yet decided on that. However, we are starting the film’s shoot from May 13. The scenes of the lead actor will be shot.”
The movie will see Amit Mehra stepping into the field of production. The lead role played by Amitabh Bachchan will be essayed by southern superstar Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan Teja. Lakhia wants Big B to make an appearance in his film and is planning to approach him with the offer.
“I have not approached Mr. Bachchan yet. But I will soon approach him. It would be great if he could show his presence in the film. I would approach him for all obvious reasons. Who does not want to cast Mr. Bachchan in their film,” said Lakhia.
Item numbers have taken our industry by a rage and these days all top notch actresses are willing to groove on raunchy item numbers. The promos of the flicks too give in a lot of weight to the item numbers. So, it did not come as a surprise when Ekta Kapoor too decided to rope in an item number to her forthcoming ‘Shootout at Wadala’. To add spice to this is the fact that the item girl here would be Bipasha Basu who happens to be the ex-girlfriend of one of the main leads in the film, John Abraham. However, John will not be a part of this song.
Shootout at Wadala is based on the real life incident and has a host of stars including John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Manoj Bajpai and Tusshar Kapoor.
John Abraham is paired with Kangana in the film.
When Pooja Missra was chosen for the new PETA campaign to save the birds from being caged, the promoters could not think of a better slogan than ‘Spare Me!’ which used to be her most common liner while fighting with her housemates in the latest season of ‘Big Boss’.
The ad shows Pooja dressed as a colourful bird in a yellow pink dress with the eye catching pink lashes. She poses beside a huge cage holds a placard which reads, “Think Birds Belong in Cages? Spare Me!”
So, if you thought that Pooja Missra was all fire and fights, catch her with the softer side in the PETA photoshoot……
Amitabh Bachchan will next be seen in Ram Gopal Verma’s next flick ‘Department’ which will portray him as a Machiavellian vigilante, a manipulative authoritarian who believes in doting out justice as his own wish when legal system fails to do it. The first trailer of this thriller is out and raises the expectations of the cine lovers as the gangster turned politician Big B impressively delivers the lines:
“Main illegally legal kaam karta hoon, legally illegal kaam nahin”
The movie has Sanjay Dutt in the role of a cop with a dual personality and Rana Daggubati playing the idealistic newcomer in police department.
Giving in details about the flick, director Ram Gopal Varma said: “The character Sarjerao played by Mr. Bachchan represents a Machiavellian character whose power lies in his manipulation and deception. The character Mahadev played by Sanjay Dutt represents an ultra dynamic character whose power lies in his dual personality which he very successfully hides.”
”The character Shivnarayan played by Rana Daggubati represents a shoot first and talk later kind of a character, whose power lies in obedience to people whom he respects!” he added.
Slated for a May 18 release, the movie stars hottie Nathalia Kaur as well……
Karisma Kapoor is back and how!! With the release of the first look and trailer of her comeback vehicle ‘Dangerous Ishq’, Karisma Kapoor makes you swear by the fact that she has not lost her charisma by an ounce.
The trailer of the flick starts with the theme of the quest of true love:
“Koi tha jo unhe alag karna chahta tha.. Kyun woh yeh janna chahti thi.. Jawaab chupa tha uske kayii jannmon mein.”
Slated for a May 11 release, this Vikram Bhatt thriller in 3D and 2D presents Karisma as Sanjana in search of her love through many lives. Excited about the promo launch, Karisma said, “I don’t know the fate of the movie. We have worked really hard. Making a 3D film is not exactly easy. The promos have come out really exciting.”
The movie also stars Rajneesh Duggal, who plays Karisma’s husband; Jimmy Shergill as a cop and Arya Babbar.
Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra had sparked rumors about their romantic linkup when they were working together in ‘Kaminey’, but with time the rumors faded. Some guessed that they just broke up. Ex-lovers or not, the two have come together once again for director Kunal Kohli’s ‘Teri Meri Kahaani’ and must say they make a wonderful pari together.
Kunal posted a few images from the film on his micro blogging site and tweeted, “Here’s an exclusive still from our film “Teri Meri Kahaani” … 2 more days for the trailer to be launched …”
The film portrays three different time periods between 1910 and 2012 and Shahid Kapoor plays two characters, Javed and Krish. Likewise Priyanka Chopra plays Chandni and Kareena. In a segment set in 1960s, Shahid reportedly plays a struggling music director while Priyanka plays an actress.
Star wives are more than often carried away with the fallouts between their husbands. So, it was but natural that Gauri Khan and Mehr Rampal shared negative vibes when they came face to face with each other at a fashion event held on Friday at Juhu.
The event was hosted by Sussanne Roshan and her mother and it was pretty obvious that Sussanne shares a comfortable friendship with Gauri. Sussanne even escorted her from the entrance into the venue. Later on, Gauri was spotted chatting with all the members of Sussanne’s family. While she was waiting for her car, Sussanne was still by her side.
The two friends have posed together for the cover of the latest Vogue issue and we need not mention it here that both look great together. You check out for yourself as gorgeous star wives come together in ‘Vogue’.
Well, the news of Katrina Kaif baggin in Prakash Jha’s next project ‘Satyagrah’ in the role of a politician does not come without controversies. The gossip columns are abuzz with the story that Kaif pipped Kareena Kapoor to grab the role.
Both Katrina and Kareena were in the race for the lead role in the film Satyagrah which is based on the issue of corruption, said to be loosely inspired from the Anna Hazare movement. The movie stars Akshay Kumar in the male lead and he is also co-producing the film.
Kareena Kapoor or Katrina Kaif may have been rivals for this role but they have come together for the cover of Cineblitz magazine April 2012 cover. The picture, however, is not from an exclusive cover shoot – it’s rather from their recent ad shoots.
Check out the leading Bollywood babes together on the covers of Cineblitz……
Rawdy Rathore marks the return of Akshay Kumar as the true Khiladi in an action avatar. The trailer of the flick was launched in Mumbai with a huge fan gathering to watch their favorite stars in action. The event saw Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha at their best sharing fabulous chemistry together. Director Prabhudeva and producer Sanjay Leela Bhasali were also present at the event.
An excited Akshay Kumar said: “We are extremely happy to launch our first look among you all. The film has action, comedy, dance…everything.”
Sonakshi Sinha wrote on Twitter, before the event: “Time to get ROWDY!! Officially launching the trailer of rowdy rathore tonight with @akshaykumar. 6pm, jamboree maidan bdd chawl at worli. Come… Dooonnnt angry me.”
This year the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2012 title was bagged in by the Jalandhar beauty Vanya Mishra who will represent India at the global pageant later this year. The Miss India International title went to Rochelle Maria Rao from Chennai and Prachi Mishra from Pune won the Miss India Earth. The winners were offered their crowns by Miss India 2011 title holders Kanistha Dhankhar, Hasleen Kaur and Ankita Shorey.
The jury panel comprised of Sonam Kapoor, Sonali Bendre, Ekta Kapoor, Rohit Shetty, Harbhajan Singh, Raghavendra Rathore, Sonu Niigaam and Sakshi Tanwar.
The event, which took place at the Bhavans Ground, witnessed dazzling performance by Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri. The event was hosted by Ayushman Khurana and Manish Paul.
The occasion was the screening of Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 1989 blockbuster superhit ‘Parinda’ and Bollywood biggies had gathered there to celebrate 30 years of filming with the great movie maker. Apart from guests like Jackie Shroff, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Anil Kapoor, Danny Dengzopa and Anupam Kher on the red carpet before the screening of the 1989 flick ‘Parinda’, the actress who really caught our attention was 44 year Manisha Koirala.
On this occasion, Manisha announced her comeback and was all praises for Vidhu. She said, “I really wish him well, he is one of the finest directors we have and I was fortunate to have worked with him, we had one of the best teams in 1942 A Love Story. I have the greatest of memories, fun memories …”
Manisha held back details about any of her plans and said, “I will talk about my films later, as and when the producers and the directors are ready for the publicity of the films, we will announce them. I have okayed three scripts and meeting two more directors and I’m okaying their scripts as well. This year I’ll be working and next …”
Talking about leading ladies doing the item numbers Koirala said, “Everybody is doing different work. If lead actresses are doing item songs, that’s fine. If I get a great song, great film I may do an item number.”
Shahrukh Khan is known to be very protective of his female co-stars and he displayed this attitude of his when he came to Katrina Kaif’s rescue at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport. Both the stars were in London for the shooting of Yash Chopra’s untitled film. After the 35-day schedule, arrived at the airport in the middle of the night but their mere few minutes’ presence created a mini frenzy at the airport.
Katrina upon her arrival decided to walk straight to her car whereas Shahrukh chose to speak to media about shooting and his blockbuster film RaOne’s animator Charu Khandal.
When the crowd pressed too close to Katrina Kaif, SRK quickly came forward and shielded her from the crowd, physically keeping people away from her. He kept his arms around the actress and escorted her till her car.
It may be mentioned here that SRK and Salman Khan are not on very good terms and as Salman’s girlfriend, Katrina had always avoided working with SRK. Now, they are working together under Yash Raj banner and initially, there were rumours in the media that the SRK-Kat starrer film will be named London Ishq but Shahrukh has denied any such claims.
