Will Housefull go Housefull?

Akshay Kumar is quite positive about his next movie Housefull, to be released this Friday. According to the “Khiladi”, the promos invoked positive response among the people. Sajid Khan, the director of the flick, too is optimistic about the venture. He feels that this movie will be one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. With a star cast that includes; Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan and Ritiesh Deshmukh; one can expect a laughter riot.

The story that involves a man with three wives might amuse the public. The promos have surely created a lot of curiosity among the audience. We need to wait and watch whether Housefull will run to a housefull theatre or not!!!

American Romance Is In The Air For Hrithik

Our desi loverboy Hrithik Roshan is all set to pair opposite American actressKristen Stewart in Shekhar Kapur’s next “Paani”. Kristen Stewart, 20, was seen palying the role of Bella Swan in the movie Twilight. In this typical “Romeo-Juliet” story, Hrithik dons the role of a lower-class Mumbai guy who falls in love with a rich beauty. Shekhar was on a look out for someone delicate and vulnerable to fit the character of Juliet. Kristen suited the role to the “T”. It seems she is a huge fan of Shekhar Kapur’s works. Whether Hrithik- Kristen pair will be a hit with the audience only time will tell.

Amitabh Bachachan Moved By Indian Idol 5

Season 5 of Indian Idol started with a bang on Monday. Amitabh Bachchan wrote on his blog that the hopes, aspirations, victory and defeat of the young “would move any human”. Big B accepted that he was indeed touched by the contestants while watching Indian Idol. And also the fact that he watches the show with “great interest and expectations”.

Two episodes over and the excitement has already started on the show. With judges Anu Malik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Salim Merchant pulling each other’s legs, the entertainment has just begun. Already shorlisted some talented singers, Indian Idol 5 seems to be quite promising. Our fingers are crossed!!!

Post IPL, What Is SRK Doing?

After losing over IPL matches, the co-owner of the Team Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan is busy with his home production movie Ra.one. After Bobby Chawla (the CEO, Red Chillies) chose a brief period of illness and hospitalization, the kind-hearted superstar has taken over the additional burden of production onto his his already overloaded shoulders. The actor was busy shooting prior to this but this extra work is keeping him really busy, away from the whole world.

To this the great SRK tweets, “Whole day gone in meetings for production etc… So many things happening.. Sometimes don’t even realize how the day comes to the end. Wish, Bobby my friend gets well sooner than soon. He is still in the hospital and the film is so difficult in terms of production”.

As per the 44-years old actor, the title ‘Ra.One’ means “Random Access Version One”. I think we will understand the meaning and relevance better after the movie hits the floor. Let us see in spite of all these hurdles, when will the movie be on air for us to view and guess the real meaning.

3D Sequel Of Mr. India

During the eighties, when one of the biggest blockbuster Mr. India was released, the advent of SFX was much away to even make a thought of. Mr. India had tickled almost everyone. Starting from Sridevi’s romance to the thriller magic of the invisible man, Anil Kapoor as Mr. India was all a huge success. Since then a new generation of movie watchers has been created.

Now Boney Kapoor is toying the sequel. He is readying to produce the movie in 3D simultaneously incorporating SFX technology. Boney reveals, “I want to take this film to the highest level. 3D will be a terrific experience with this kind of subject”.

The lead roles will be played again by the never forgotten couple Sridevi and Anil Kapoor, whose magic of romance is still alive in all Indian hearts. And the biggest twist is over deciding the Villain, which would cast the never expected love Guru Salman Khan. Imagine Salman as Bogambo (saying “Bogambo Khus Hua … “) and running his fingers across the white globe ! But Boney is confident of his choice ! The budget of the movie has been estimated nearly about Rs.100 crore.

Music Launch of the much awaited Ravana

The drum beats followed by Abhishek jumping off a cliff into a river ! And Aishwarya emerging out of the same river water ! Yeah Readers ! You guessed it right. I am talking of the upcoming movie Ravana.

A huge buzz has been felt since the trailers of Ravana have hit the television sets. The movie starring Aishwarya Rai Bachhan, Abhishek Bachhan and the Tamil Superstar Vikram, is the forthcoming movie of the multi-talented Mani Ratnam. Ravana will be showcased in multiple languages.

The Audio release was set on the 24th of April at the Yashraj Studios. The musical magic is created by the living Legend Gulzar and the Oscar and Grammy Awards Winner, A.R. Rahman. The combination of the two greatest musical maestros is ready to trap your heart and bind your soul. The list of crew is a top-notch. The younger Bachhan has laid a few steps onto the beat of the song Thok De Killi at the occassion. And the Bachhan daughter-in-law added an extra sparkle with her stunning saree designed exclusively by Sabyasachi, the costume designer for the movie. The wait is still a little long because the movie is decided to be on air tentatively during the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) 2010 to be held in the month of June.

Aamir Khan – Brand Ambassador Of The School Sanitation Programme

Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan is all set to make all schools around India Perfect too. He has been appointed as the Brand Ambassador Of The School Sanitation Programme. This programme will support the campaign which will promote cleanliness in the schools all around the country. A function was organised in the capital where Aamir was declared The Ambassador.

This program is joint venture of ministries of urban development and HRD. The motive of the program is to bring about a behavioral change in students which can be a key to success of any sanitation related initiative.

Addressing the students on the occasion Aamir said, “I am proud and happy to be associated with the National School Sanitation Initiative. I will lead by example.” The actor also answered the queries of the students who had gathered to catch a glimpse of their favourite star.

Ranbir And Deepika Are Back In Action Together!

Ya this is true! Very soon Ranbir and Deepika can be seen working together in Anurag Basu’s next upcoming venture Khamoshi. Sources claim that Deepika has not yet rejected the offer to work against her ex – boyfriend. The other cast of the movie includes Priyanka Chopra who is supposed to play a role of mentally challenged girl in the film.

Earlier the film was offered to Katrina Kaif who refused the film due to the presence of Priyanka Chopra in it. The news of Ranbir and Deepika working together in a movie has created a lot of interest. If Deepika accepts the offer to work in the movie with Ranbir then it will be intresting to watch both of them working together after a long. This will be the first film to cast the pair together ever since their break up.

Ranbir As Kishore & Kat As Madhubala In Anurag Basu’s Upcoming Movie

Anurag Basu is planning a biopic on the late singer Kishore Kumar and for this venture he has signed Ranbir Kapoor to play the character of Kishore Kumar. His lady love in the movie will be none other than Katrina Kaif. Katrina will be playing the role of Madubala in the movie.

It seems that Katrina has already started watching Classics of Madubala like Chalti Ka Naam Gadi, Mugal e Azam , Mahal etc to bring in the perfection in her character. The makers are planning to recreate the magic of the song ‘ Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhaagi Si’ which was picturised on Kishore Kumar and Madhubala in the film Chalti Ka Naam Gadi.

Earlier Anurag Basu had signed Katrina for his movie Silence, which Katrina refused when she came to know that Priyanka Chopra is playing a pivotal role in the movie. Inspite of this incident there is no grudge between the director and the actress and both are looking forward to make a great movie ahead.

Mismanagement and uninvited guests at Sania-Shoib’s welima

Sania-Shoaib’s marriage has been overloaded with controversies and confusion since the time the two got engaged to each other. Even the couple’s reception at Sialkot was not without disturbances as some uninvited guests coupled with security mismanagement forced the two to leave the function before it was over. The reception was hosted by the Maliks and Sania’s family had arrived from India for the celebrations but they had to leave for Lahore early owing to the mismanagement at the function.

Hundreds of people showed up for the reception, many of whom were not invited and some entered without invitation cards. This led to a huge rush at the main entrance and it made life difficult for the security personnel to control the situation. Reports also have it that invitation cards for the wedding reception had been sold by some people for between Rs 5000 to Rs 10,000.

To top it all, the power corporation officials insisted that no extra lighting would be allowed at the reception.

Hrithik Roshan to romance an American beauty this time

If Hrithik RoshanÆs hot scenes and sizzling chemsitry with Barbara Mori in ‘Kites’ was not enough, the hot hunk is all set to romance another foreign beauty, this time the 20-year-old American actress Kristen Stewart(’Twilight’ and ‘Blue Moon’ fame) in Shekhar KapoorÆs ‘Paani’.

It will be a sort of Romeo-Juliet romantic saga where Hrithik will be a lower-class Mumbai rebel and Kristen will be the fair, delicate, tall and pretty wealthy beauty and then they fall in love…

Kristen was quite positive when the offer was made to her as she is apparently fond of Shekhar’s work. However, Shekhar does not want to divulge much at this point and says, ôI canÆt speak of the cast on record until everything is in place. Too many times IÆve been accused of talking about projects that never happen. But did I announce Buddha or Mandela? No. If people jumped the gun, I canÆt help it. But Paani is a film that IÆm definitely making, and this year.

Diana Penty is Imtiaz Ali’s choice

Imtiaz Ali is one director with whom every Bollywood star wants to work with as he is known to churn out some of the biggest hits in the recent years, but the director has sidelined many ace actresses like Katrina, Sonam, Anushka and Kareena for Diana Penty, a 25-year-old model, who will now appear in the lead opposite Ranbir Kapoor for Ali’s next venture ‘Rockstar’.

Diana is a Mumbai based model and has also done an ad film for a mobile service provider with Ranbir. She also replaced Deepika Padukone in the Maybelline ad. ‘Rockstar’is being produced by Ashtavinayaka, who also made ‘Jab We Met’ with Imtiaz. Initially, Imtiaz had finalized Anoushka Sharma for the lead but since he wanted a new face for the role, he finally chose Diana.

Volcanic ash ruins Katrina Kaif’s plans to fly to London

Katrina Kaif was supposed to be in London to join her family for an important family function but unfortunately, the actress could not make it due to the volcanic ash erupting from Ireland enveloped major parts of Europe and paralyzing air traffic. As a result, the actress was left stranded at the airport and had to later return back home.

“It was a very important family function. And I had to attend. I never realized it’d be impossible to make it. When I reached the Mumbai airport I came to know about what had happened. I was still not disheartened because I thought at the most, I’d be delayed… as I often am. When it comes to travel, one learns to be patient at airports,” Katrina said.

“Such things are bound to happen increasingly if we continue to abuse our environment. Personally, I wouldn’t have minded missing the flight. But it was a very important family gathering. Not being part of it really hurt,” she added.

Katrina was desperate to get hold of any means to reach London and said, “I don’t care if it is by train or boat. I’ve to get to London.”

‘Housefull’ prints facing a crisis due to volcanic ash eruptions

The volcanic ash has not only crashed the private plans of some of our Bollywood stars but have also given sleepless nights to our prodcers. One such producer is Said Nadiawala whose summer comedy ‘Housefull’ which is set to release this 30th is facing a filemma as the commerical flights have been cancelled and  as per release rules the delivery overseas has to be made a week in advance of the release day.

So, Sajid Nadiawala is left with no other option but to hire private jets to take the prints of his movie to England and other European countries.

“This is most unforeseen. In all my years as a producer I’ve never encountered such a a crisis. There’re about a 100 prints to be taken into the Europe. Air traffic has come to a standstill.

I’m hiring private jets to carry the prints to the nearest city with an open air base. From there the prints will be taken to various Euopean cities by train or road. I’m so desperate I’m ready to employ any means of transporation…planes, trains, automobiles, whatever is available,” said Sajid.

Apart from the extra expenditure, Sajid also has other things to worry about. He says, “It doesn’t really matter how much money it would cost. The important thing is to get the prints to the European centres on time. Or else the entire overseas release would be affected.”

Sajid is in no mood to celebrate the completion of his movie ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ and says, “Ranbir Kapoor had a wrap-up party for Anjaana Anjaani. But I wasn’t able to attend because of the these two back-to-back crisis at my workplace. Now I’ll celebrate only when Housefull is released properly everywhere.”

Income Tax search at SRK’s office, Preity Zinta summoned by court

The financial deals of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is under investigation and as such income tax officials conducted search operations at the offices of the Bengal Cricket Association and Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders this Wednesday and Thursday and the officials have claimed that they have found substantial evidence of illegitimate transactions. The search began at 3 pm on Wednesday at both the board’s office at the Eden Gardens stadium and the premises of Kolkata Knight Riders and its parent Red Chillies Entertainment of actor Shah Rukh Khan at ITC Sonar Bangla and continued till early hours of Thursday.

“We have found incriminating evidence. We will investigate further. We needed to have a look at certain transactions and we’ve found whatever we were looking for,” said Indian Revenue Service Deputy Director Akhilendu Jadhav.

The 10 franchisees under scrutiny are Kochi’s Rendezvous Sports, Pune’s Sahara group, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab.

Meanwhile, the promoters of Kings XI Punjab have been summoned by the Chandigarh District magistrate on the 27th of this month. The team is part-owned by actor Preity Zinta. The Registrar of Companies (RoC) in Chandigarh has complained that the team`s promoters are not sharing their balance sheets or details of their accounts.

Priyanka loses Gerard Butler after Mohanlal

Priyanka made it clear through twitter that Gerard Butler is not playing one of Priyanka’s seven husbands in Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’.

She wrote, “Guys just to clarify things… Gerard Butler is not in ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’. I don’t know where these fictional stories come out as news,”.

“Saat Khoon Maaf” is based on Ruskin Bond’s story “Susanna’s Seven Husbands”, about a femme fatale who bumps off her seven spouses.

Right now Priyanka is angry woman with a Mumbai Tabloid, who published that the actress had used her personal rapport to get her into the project. So, Mohanlal has already refused to be a part of this project, now international attraction Gerard Buttler is also not there.

Vishal really need to gear up

Deepika had to ask Ranbir to Shut Up!!

Recollecting the past, Deepika when speaks of Ranbir said,

“He’s very naughty and charming. But he’s also very protective. We belong to the same generation so we got along very well during Bachna Ae Haseeno. We would sit and talk for hours together, go out for dinners and generally hang out. He’s extremely passionate about cinema. He’s very knowledgeable about films, a trait I have yet to see in anyone else. He’s my movie encyclopedia. I don’t know whether he makes an effort or not but his performance on screen looks effortless. I think he’s extremely talented.”

She also reveals, “We started dating after Bachna so obviously he did a lot to impress me. But I think he’s just so self-assured. I didn’t expect a newcomer to be so confident and comfortable in front of the camera. But he can be a big distraction. There were times I had to tell him to shut up.”

High time Deep’s you have to move on…

Passionate Salman enjoys the rain with Sonakshi…

While everyone of us are dealing with the scorching heat these days, our Sallu mia is instead having a good time in rain. He is shooting for Arbaaz Khan’s ‘ Dabangg’ and is currently in Wai.

As reported, Salman and Sonakshi are having a good time filming the song ‘Tere Mast Mast Do Nain’. They even start doing impromptu dance in the rain. They continue dancing even when the director calls a cut.

Salman knows to enjoy himself in the toughest situation too.

Dabangg is a must watch!

Sonam fall’s on cow dung coz of Imran..

The onscreen romance between the lead pair of the under production movie “I Hate Luv Stories”, Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor, went for a real toss.

It so happened that the duo was filming a romantic song in New Zealand’s countryside and were supposed to run to each other, and fall into a long embrace. Sonam was then asked to lean on Imran’s arms, reminding the audience of the signature Raj Kapoor-Nargis Dutt pose from the RK movies.

Director Punit Malhotra wasn’t impressed with the first few takes, so he asked Imran and Sonam to lend more grace to the move, which tired out Imran.

However, it ended up being a total disaster as Sonam rushed into his arms and Imran leaned back with a little gush of enthusiasm, thus losing his grip. Both the actors lost their balance and came down with a thud. To make matters worse, Sonam fell on some cow dung left back by a cattle grazing nearby. Poor Sonam had to immediately rush for a shower. The only saving grace was that the actress’ costume, which got spoilt in the bargain, was not needed in any other shots.

The magic like Raj Kapoor’s can’t be created, it just happens on it’s own!

Marriage, not yet on Celina’s cards…

Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley says people often ask her about marriage, but she has no plans to enter wedlock any time soon.

“FOR ALL WHO ARE ASKING ME Y (why) AM I NOT MARRIED YET… WELL… Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. LOL,” Celina wrote on Twitter.

Meanwhile, on her professional front, Celina will be seen in Anees Bazmee’s “Run Bhola Run” and Neeraj Vora’s “Thank You”.

Happy Birthday Sachin!!!

Sachin Tendulkar turns 37 today.

We have few of our Bollywood stars wishing the cricketing genius a long innings at the crease and expressing their love and gratitude for him.

Shilpa Shetty, owner of Rajasthan Royals IPL team says

“We Wish you a very happy birthday and we wish to see many more hundreds, many more 200s actually.”

Actor Arjun Rampal said,

“I wish him that he never gets older and keeps playing for the country.”

Actress Amrita Rao said that she fell in love with the game because of Sachin.

“It’s because of Sachin I started taking interest in the game and finally fell in love with cricket. I am really, really so proud of his consistent career and I wish him all the best.” said Amrita.

Bollywoodcelebden wishes our cricket star Sachin Tandulkar a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 

Salman supports kids scoring less marks!

Salman Khan is one person specially known for his generous heart. Interestingly, the actor also supports the person who tries hard but fails to score good marks.

Such people might not have anyone to still encourage them everytime but Salman asks them to keep a cool attitude and work for future.

Salman says, “The guys who didn’t get good marks this year, for them there is next year and life, no stress boss, enjoy the grind. I have gone through it too.”

Aishwarya to sponge bathe Hrithik…

The latest buzz doing the rounds is that Aishwarya Rai, now Mrs Aishwarya RaiBachchan and Hrithik Roshan who once got intimate in a steamy kissing scene in the blockbuster film Dhoom 2 are once again all set to fire up the silver screen with their sizzling chemistry.

In their upcoming film, we got to know about a scene where she gives him a sponge bath. The simple thought of Ash and Hrithik in a bathing sequence reminds me of their awesome chemistry in the film “Jodha Akbar” and off course “Dhoom2.”

This is all fine. The main question here is will it all be acceptable to the Bachchan’s who were once upset over Ash-Hrithik’s kissing scene in Dhoom2???

Raj’s gesture was so romantic, blushes Shilpa

Back in time when Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra were dating each other, one night they had a serious conversation over dinner and decided not to meet henceforth as he stayed in London and Ms Shetty in Mumbai.

In fact Shilpa went on to tell him,

“It’s not gonna work so let’s be practical and not waste time. Let’s be friends and forget about getting into a relationship. Before he had even expressed that he liked me, I wanted to end everything and put it clean on the table.”

Raj was upset and the she was also feeling low because she too was awaiting someone in her life, still they went their separate ways.

“Exactly two days later Raj called me up to say, “I have just bought the seventh floor of a high-rise in Juhu. Would you like to come and see it? It was his way of telling me that he was willing to make that shift for me. It was so romantic,” blushes Shilpa.

Incidentally, the couple has also bought another plush apartment, which is being done up by Sussanne Roshan and where they will soon shift.

Ajay-Kajol-Nysa to seek divine blessings…

Ajay Devgan has taken some time off from his hectic schedule to seek some divine blessings. The actor has taken a break from his shooting assignments to be with his family and visit a few religious destinations.

Ajay Devgan who is in town to celebrate the birthday of his daughter visited Shirdi recently. Ajay was accompanied by his loving wife Kajol and his small little angel, Nysa.