Mallika in Contract with Ramu

Bollywood’s sexy siren Mallika Sherawat has come a long way after her first film. Despite of highs and lows in her career, this sensuous beauty has managed to stay on the hit list of renowned directors for quite some time now. From a reliable source we got to know that Mallika will play a vital role in Ram Gopal Varma’s next, Contract, which is a film based on his favourite topic- underworld. However, Ramu wishes to keep shut about the film as he wants it to be a surprise element in the industry. The only thing we managed to leak out is that the movie is going to be promising with a lot of newcomers in interesting roles. After Ramu’s previous movies all we can say is, let the audiences decide about the promising part.

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Priyanka on Harman, Akki and Drona

The Priyanka Chopra-Harman Baweja pairing is already hot property in Bollywood. Even prior to the release of their first film together, Love Story 2050, Ashutosh Gowarikar signed the duo to star in his romantic comedy, What’s My Rashi?. Obviously, feeling high about the acknowledgement of their chemistry via an ace film maker, Priyanka is on cloud nine. She said, “I am very glad that Ashutosh liked our chemistry and offered us this film. My role in the film is very exciting. As for our pairing, all I can say is I am glad that people liked us as a couple.”

While, Piggy Chops shares a sizzling rapport with her on and off screen partner- Harman, she was earlier teamed with other actors to form a hit pair. Akshay Kumar was one such actor with whom Priyanka delivered a series of hits. However, as was bound to happen, good on-screen chemistry led to gossip mongers talking about their alleged off-screen relationship. As such, the two mutually decided to not work together; at least that was the hearsay. Nevertheless, Priyanka says, “It’s never about a co-star or a director you want to work with. It’s always the project that’s the deciding factor in signing a film.”

Though Love Story 2050 got a lukewarm response, 2008 still seems promising for Priyanka. She has an interesting project in hand with Abhishek Bachchan titled Drona. The much-awaited film has been in the pipe-line for quite some time now. In between, there were rumours that Abhi got its release delayed so that he could concentrate on his family venture, Sarkar Raj. However, Priyanka rubbishes them as rumours. Watch what she has to say.

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Of Bollywood’s Bitching Babes

Rivalries between actresses are common in B-Town. Actresses and starlets fight over everything from boyfriends to films, and of course designer outfits. However, it is believed that, Kangana Ranaut and Jiah Khan are at war over Aamir!

According to the sources, it was Kangana who was signed on for Aamir Khan's Ghajini but an interview to the media ruined everything and Aamir replaced her immediately with Jiah.Kangana became very bitter about losing the film and started badmouthing Jiah. Kangana was heard telling her Raaz 2 co-stars how unhappy she was that Ghajini went to Jiah. However, she didn’t stop at this but made fun of her saying that Jiah would never be able to pull off that role. To add to the mayhem, the headstrong Jiah called Kangana and asked her point-blank why she was talking ill about her. A bewildered Kangana denied it outright till Jiah named the people who Kangana had been talking to.

Finally the tu-tu main-main ended with Jiah warning Kangana to stop bitching about it or she would start doing the same. Then the Nishabd girl banged the phone down! The two actresses haven't spoken since!

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Aamir, Salman back again

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Party time for Jaane Tu...

Aamir Khan along with his nephew Imran Khan and Genelia D'Souza addressed the media on Friay evening.

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Rakhi turn's into anchor

Ki kudi hai: Bollywood's item girl and TV personality Rakhi Sawant isready for her first talk show The Rakhi Sawant Show.

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Vidya turns bad girl

Change for good: Looks like after portraying congenial characters in her popular flicks Vidya Balan is in a mood for an image changeover.

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Karan Johar Says " My Name Is Karan "

Blogging seems to be the latest trend in Bollywood and the latest to join the bandwagon is none other than Karan Johar. The director's blog would come online tomorrow (June 19). Lets see if this venture gets as popular as his movies..

YES, THE latest to join the bandwagon is Karan Johar. My name is Karan is the name of blog by Karan Johar, which comes online tomorrow. Karan would keep his blog updates with two or three posts every week.

Karan Johar (K Jo) surely knows how to make people laugh or cry. He has the knack to keep the audience glued to their seats when they are watching a movie directed by him, perhaps why only movies, his show ’Coffee with Karan’ topped the popularity charts as well. Where ever there is K Jo, there is fun, that’s for sure. It is being presumed that his blog would be a hit just like his movies.

In an interview given to a leading Mumbai newspaper, he said that he’s all set to start blogging. He sarcastically said that everyone knows what sort of a person he is and as originality has never been one of his virtues, he has decided to follow the footsteps of others who have recently started blogging.

He further added that he is never the one to set a trend, but follows whatever is ’in’. On a serious note he said that he wanted to create a buzz around Dharma Productions website, as it was his dad’s dream to make Dharma a well known brand. The blog would be another step in this direction of extending their production base. He said that the blog would not fence around films but would have anything that Karan feels like mentioning – that could range from what dream he had to things related to our country. He would share with people what he has to say.

Karan, who likes to keep away from controversies said that the blog will neither be offending nor defending. Criticism about anyone will not have any place in his blog.

He further added that he was totally computer illiterate and hoped to change that status, as the only thing he did on the Internet was Google his name and read the things people wrote or said about him.

If it’s an interview of Karan, how can he not mention our King Khan (Shahrukh)? He said that he would love to read blogs by Shahrukh Khan and further added that he had read parts of the book that Shahrukh is writing since the last few years, and every chapter has heart, soul, emotions, drama. The book has all the ingredients to keep a reader completely engrossed.

After ’Coffee with Karan’, this seems to be another interactive session from the Johar kid.
So let’s wait for tomorrow and see what Karan has in store for us.

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Shweta Tiwari's Final good bye to Star Parivaar

“I lived life as Prerna,” says Shweta

Kasautii Zindagi Kii may have ended, but Prerna’s character played by Shweta Tiwari will never fade away from people’s minds. But as has been the trend, the younger generation replaces the older one. This year’s Star Parivaar Awards will have Prerna performing for the last time on stage.
“Yes, it will be my last performance at the awards night. I am grateful to Ekta, Shobaji and Star Plus who gave me an opportunity to play such a good character. While the serial was on air, I lived like Prerna in real life too. Somehow, I knew more about Prerna than Shweta Tiwari! It was a wonderful journey from start to the end. What mattered to me most is that I lived and died as Prerna in the serial,” says Shweta.

Shweta has always been interested in art and she was sure of pursuing it on or off the screen. Now that the serial has ended, Shweta is concentrating on her acting career, but will always be ready to do a role television if she is offered anything different.

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Before being typecast, I jump out: Vivek Oberoi

By Arpana, Bangkok, June 7 : His last film was an action thriller and the next titled "Mission Istanbul", with focus on terrorism, is in the same genre. But Vivek Oberoi says that he won't allow himself to be typecast.

"Whenever I feel that I am becoming stereotyped or typecast, I jump out and do something new," Vivek, who was last seen in "Shootout At Lokhandwala" in the role of gangster Maya Dolas, told IANS here.

Vivek is in Bangkok to participate in the 9th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards. The music of his film "Mission Istanbul" was launched here, and he is scheduled to perform at the gala night Sunday.

Commenting upon his back-to-back action releases, Vivek said: "It's not a conscious decision to do action films. Apoorva offered me the role and the script was fantastic, so I accepted it. The USP (unique selling proposition) of the film is that it is technically brilliant. It has a new idea and concept. It has a global perspective on terrorism and how India is involved in that global framework."

The actor says that he has fallen in love with his character in the film.

"I am really excited about this movie. I love my character. It was fun playing him. Everything you imagine as a young kid while watching action movies, all those fantasies came true.

"Music of the film has been used very intelligently. It's not that suddenly the narrative stops, and a song is inserted. It is used in the backdrops. The story has international flavour so we didn't want to create any breaks. It is a non-traditional script."

Vivek says unless he gets a substantial role in Hollywood, he won't take a chance there.

"Every actor wants to have a global platform. If I find the role challenging and exciting I will do it. I wouldn't want to be Indian taxi driver in a Hollywood film."

Reportedly, there was a competition between Vivek and is co-star Zayed Khan to outdo each other in the action scenes of "Mission Istanbul".

But the actor says: "It was camaraderie. We had to jump from 44th storey of a building and we were like, 'Okay we have to jump from there and we said it's cool and we jumped'. We ended up doing it six or seven times till the graphic expert came and asked us to stop, saying you guys are going to burn the ropes."

"My next (film) is for Tips which is really a big extravaganza. I am shooting the film in South Africa. Then I am doing a film for Karan Johar, which is being directed by Renzel D'silva with Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. The role is very interesting and a complete departure from what I have been doing till now."

--- IANS

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