Chetan Bhagat to write screenplay of Kick

After having worked on the screenplay of films likeHello and Kai Po Che (both based on his best selling novels), celebrated author Chetan Bhagat will now be writing the screenplay of Salman Khan starrer Kickproduced and directed by Sajid Nadiadwala.Chetan and Sajid have known each other for a while now and the writer even sold the rights of his popular novel '2 States: The Story of My Marriage' to Sajid Nadiadwala. When Nadiadwala took over the reins of directing Kick from...

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Priyanka yet to decide on SAW item song

There have been murmurs that Priyanka Chopra has agreed to do an item number in Sanjay Gupta'sShootout At Wadala. However, sources close to the actress say that whether she will do the song or not is yet undecided. One of the reasons being the concept of the song which is not yet clear. Says a source close to PC, "Yes... Priyanka is interested to do the song but the final concept is not yet ready. The makers of the film and PC would jointly take a call only after the concept is ready." The...

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Fardeen Khan to become dad

Fardeen Khan may be MIA (missing in action) when it comes to films but on the personal front, the actor has a reason to rejoice. Fardeen is all set to become a dad soon as his wife Natasha is pregnant.The actor tweeted, "I am delighted to announce that my wife is a very healthy 13 weeks pregnant and we are expecting twins. Regards, FK."Here's wishing the actor loads of good wishes on this joyous occasion...

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Alia, Sidharth, Varun have their next films lined up

Even before their film releases, the Student Of The Year trio has moved on to their next projects. It is reliably learnt that producer Karan Johar has offered all three of his protegees further Dharma films regardless of the outcome of their debut film.However, Varun Dhawan would have to take a rain-check on that second film for Dharma. He is now committed to do a film with his father David Dhawan next. It is reliably learnt that David would now whisk away his younger-born for a...

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Aamir receives award from National Commission for Scheduled Castes

Aamir Khan has always walked the path less travelled and the actor did the same with his maiden TV show 'Satyamev Jayate'. The show, which has been widely talked about, highlighted various grave issues of our country and also offered solutions to eradicate them. One of the episodes highlighted the plight of manual scavengers who even in this era of India Shining clean human excreta with hand and are looked down upon as social outcastes and untouchables. While the episode did raise a few...

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Randeep Hooda in Pooja Bhatt's Cabaret

It's going to be Cabaret first, Jism 3 later. Though Pooja Bhatt has found her hero for her next filmCabaret-it's Randeep Hooda-she is yet find the girl who plays the central part of a cabaret dancer. And it's not going to be easy. Pooja knows it. "Helenji with her ingrained dancers' dexterity would be my ideal cabaret girl. I am looking for someone who could match her grace. Can we turn back the clock so that Helenji can do my film? The leading lady in Cabaretis an...

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SC clears Prakash Jha's Chakravyuh

Prakash Jha's upcoming film Chakravyuh has been embroiled in trouble thanks to the controversial track 'Mehangai'. The song which features the names of leading Indian industrialists like the Tatas, Birlas and Ambanis created turmoil within business circles. However, post Jha's explanation, the Censor Board cleared the song on the condition that the makers would run a disclaimer stating that in no way was it intended to hurt sentiments.Unhappy with the decision of the Censor Board, the...

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Yash Chopra passes away

This is one of the most saddening news of this decade. The legendary filmmaker Yash Chopra is no more. Though the official statement of the reason for his death is not announced yet, Chopra had been diagnosed with dengue and was admitted to Lilavati hospital a few days back. Yashji recently celebrated his 80th birthday.The celebrated Producer-Director, renowned worldwide for his epic blockbuster films, was one of the most successful filmmakers in the world. He started his career with Dhool...

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Rishi Kapoor plays Dawood in D Day

After his wonderfully skilled performance as a gay dean in Karan Johar's Student Of The Year, Rishi Kapoor is all set to play Dawood. The super-versatile Rishi Kapoor stepping into Dawood's white shoes is indeed a cinematic coup. It apparently took director Nikhil Advani who has earlier worked with Rishi Kapoor inPatiala House a good six months to convince the temperamental Kapoor.Rishi initially said no. Arshad Warsi was being considered for Dawood's role. But Advani had his heart...

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Bollywood News Bittu Sahgal on board for Delhi Safari

Environmentalist activist and conservationist Bittu Saigal has hopped on board to support Nikhil Advani's environmentally-conscious animation film Delhi Safari. The long-delayed English-Hindi film with animals speaking in the voices of an assortment of big stars from Hollywood including Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander and Jane Lynch, British doyen Cary Elwes and American stand-up comedian Brad Garrett to dub for the animals in the English version and Suniel Shetty, Boman Irani, Urmila...

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Amrita Arora blessed with baby boy

The Ladak and Arora households are buzzing with excitement courtesy the delivery of actress Amrita Arora's second child: a baby boy. While an elated Arbaaz Khan tweeted, ""Yipppeeeee! Amrita and Shakeel have another baby boy!!! He's too cute! Congrats", sister Malaika confirmed the news to the media stating that Amrita has been blessed with a baby boy. Amrita, who is married to businessman Shakeel Ladak, was recently seen during Kareena's pre-wedding celebrations and nikaah-cum-post...

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Prem Soni bereaved

Yesterday was one of the darkest days of Indian Cinema. While everyone grieved over Yashji's death, director Prem Raj was shattered with the demise of his father Raj Soni.Prem, who made his directorial debut with the Salman-Kareena starrer Main Aurr Mrs Khanna, lost his father yesterday morning. Sending out her condolence to Prem, Preity Zinta tweeted, "My heart goes out 2 my director Prem Raj & Family who lost their Father this morning! God give peace 2 his soul & strength 2 the...

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Lisa Ray ties the knot with Jason Dehni

Model turned actress Lisa Ray tied the knot on Saturday with boyfriend Jason Dehni in California's scenic Napa Valley. Lisa who had been dating Jason, a bank executive, for sometime finally said yes to the question he popped in February this year.The ceremony saw Lisa in a crystal encrusted gown designed by close friend Wendell Rodricks. Though the guest list comprised of 110 guests including family and close friends, some of Lisa's closest friends Deepa Mehta, Wendell Rodricks and Rahul Khanna...

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Bollywood News SOTY's 'Radha' song gets KJo in legal trouble

It can't get ironical than this. While, on one hand, the Gods seemed to be favoring the BO collections of Karan Johar's Student Of the Year, on the other an Indore court on Friday told the cops to register a case against KJo and the singer Shreya Ghoshal for using 'objectionable' words ('sexy') against a Hindu deity in the song 'Radha' in the film. Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class Santosh Prasad Shukla went onto issue an order to register a case against Karan Johar, Shreya Ghoshal,...

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Ajab Gazabb Love release postponed

Post his previous two films Kal Kissne Dekha andF.A.L.T.U, Jackky Bhagnani is ready with his next Ajab Gazabb Love. However, the film which was scheduled for release this Dusshera, on October 24, taking advantage of the public holiday, has been postponed.Ajab Gazabb Love will now release two days later, on Friday, October 26. The reason for the apparent delay in release is that many single screens will not be able to screen the film. This inability to feature the latest...

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Shekhar Kapur to direct daughter's music video

Acclaimed film director and producer Shekhar Kapur who shot to fame with his film Bandit Queen and later with Elizabeth is all set with his next directorial venture. However, this time, Shekhar will be directing a music video featuring his 12-year-old daughter, Kaveri.Kaveri, Kapur and his estranged wife Suchitra Krishnamoorthi's daughter, is all set to record her first single and music video that will be directed by papa dearest Shekhar. Though this will be Kaveri's debut...

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Jaspal Bhatti dies in road accident

Jaspal Bhatti was undoubtedly one of the most famous and talented comedy actors in the country. And this morning, this great comedian met with a road accident in Punjab's Nakodar town (40 km from Jalandhar), and made his way to the heavens.News reports have it that his car crashed into a tree along the highway while he was on his way to Jalandhar for promoting his upcoming film Power Cut, which he had produced and directed and was due for release this Friday. The film was to launch Jasraj,...

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Kahaani wins at Fiji International Film Fest

Vidya Balan's winning streak continues with Kahaani. The film, after having won the audiences' hearts and acclaims galore, has now been named the best film at the International Film Festival in Fiji. The said festival, which was held in Labasa, was a two-week long event that was partnered with Indian High Commission and organized by Fiji National University and Film Fiji. As per an Indian High Commission statement, the festival that had opened with the screening of Kahaani had...

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Bollywood News Yash Chopra cremated in Mumbai

Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra, who passed away last evening after suffering from dengue and multiple organ failure, was cremated today afternoon at Pawan Hans crematorium in Mumbai. Needless to say the who's who of the film fraternity was present to pay their last respects to one of India's greatest filmmakers. Earlier this morning, Yashji's body covered with white flowers had been kept on stage number 3 of the YRF studio since morning for people to come and pay homage. A huge black and white...

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Bollywood News Amrita Arora names her baby boy Rayaan

Amrita Arora is now a mom twice over. In 2010, her first son Azaan was born. On Saturday, Amrita and her husband Shakeel Ladak were blessed with another baby boy.The couple has named their second son Rayaan.And to think that just a few days earlier Amrita was seen at her best friend Kareena Kapoor's mehndiceremony, looking radiant and heavily pregnant.Says a friend of Amrita, "Despite doctors' orders, Amrita insisted on attending Kareena's sangeetceremony. She insisted she wouldn't...

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Bollywood News Prem Raj diagnosed with cancer

The upcoming Preity Zinta film Ishkq In Paris has been delayed for quite a while now, though various speculation were made for this delay, we hear that its due to the director Prem Raj's ill health. In fact the 35-year-old Prem has been diagnosed with cancer of the gall bladder. This diagnosis has apparently sent the movie's post-production, and release completely off-track.Prem who suffered a loss on Sunday with the demise of his father had been putting up a nonchalantly brave front...

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Vashu to organize 5 premieres in 5 cities on Thursday

Vashu Bhagnani is an enterprising producer. No two opinions on that. The prolific film-maker is doing something that no producer has dared to do in the past. He's organizing not one or two, but five premiere shows of his new movie AJAB GAZABB LOVE on Thursday, 25 October. Yes, you read it right -- five premiere shows in a single day! What makes the five premiere shows interesting is that each of those premieres will witness the active participation of the common man. "We generally hold premiere...

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SAFF to felicitate Randhir Kapoor

The South Asia Foundation hosts the 7th annual South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) 2012 in Goa with the theme ...dissolving boundaries. SAFF is also celebrating the remarkable journey of '100 glorious years of Indian Cinema'. This is the first ever effort to celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema that is being celebrated at the South Asian Regional level in the presence of prominent film-makers of all the South Asian Countries.While the festival is all set to kick off on October 25, we hear that...

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Bollywood News Ravi Chopra admitted in ICU

Just two days back, the whole world was shocked with the sudden demise of Yash Chopra. And now, his nephew filmmaker Ravi Chopra (66) has been admitted to the ICU of a city hospital.Ravi, the son of late producer-director B. R. Chopra, has been reportedly diagnosed with an acute lung ailment.The talented filmmaker has films like Zameer, The Burning Train, Baghban, Baabul to his credit.Bollywood Hungama prays for the quick recovery of Ravi Chopra...

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Sanjay Dutt signs up to play Pran's role in Zanjeer

On August 28, 2012 this writer had reported that Sanjay Dutt would be playing the iconic Pathan Sher Khan in Apoorva Lakhia's remake of Prakash Mehra'sZanjeer.At that time Dutt and his faithful team stoutly denied the reports and even accused the remakers of cashing in on his name prematurely. Dutt, we hear, was influenced by some of his friends and well-wishers against doing the film. Uncertain about the star's intentions, the makers of the new Zanjeer went and negotiated with Sonu...

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Model of the Week : Nele Kenzler

Height: 180cm (5’11″) Place of Origin: Hamburg, Germany Ethnic Origin: German Birthsign: Gemini How discovered: I was with another agency before, after a while they called me home to tell me that I have had no response and they don’t believe that it can work out with me, so they released my contract. After some weeks, I met Yannis Nikolaou, who is my agent now at Place Models and he convinced me to try again. Favorite things: My rabbits, my piano, sweets, listening to music, my Sony tablet,...

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Bollywood News Vikram Bhatt - Bhushan Kumar revive Bhaag Johnny

It was in 2009 that Vikram Bhatt announced his filmBhaag Johnny, however post shooting for a few days the project was shelved, with Bhatt citing creative differences with director Deepak Tijori. While on the other hand, Tijori got busy with his independent projects.Three years on and we hear that post the success ofRaaz 3 and close to the release of 1920- Evil ReturnsVikram is all set to revive the film Bhaag Johnny with T-Series head honcho Bhushan Kumar.Confirming the revival,...

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Rani's brother gets bail

Rani Mukerji's brother Raja, who was arrested in Versova a couple of days back post being accused by a television actress of molestation, was granted bail on Monday on a surety of Rs 10,000. Apparently, the incident happened when she had gone to meet Raja to narrate a script. Following the complaint that was lodged, Raja was taken into custody and sent for a medical test. He was lodged in Andheri jail under section 354 of the Indian Penal Code...

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Aradhana to be screened at 14th MFF

The forthcoming edition of the city's most eagerly awaited cultural event, the 14th Mumbai Film Festival, presented by Reliance Entertainment and American Express and organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image, is poised to pay homage to Indian cinema's first "Superstar", Hindi film legend Rajesh Khanna, by dedicating a special segment to screen one of the late star's most memorable films Aradhana. Directed by Shakti Samanta in 1969, the film featured Rajesh Khanna paired against...

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Bollywood News Amit Kumar's tribute to his father Kishore

Amit Kumar and his brother Sumit are just back from the US with their tribute concerts on Kishore Kumar. "We performed in Detroit and Chicago .We called the show 'Do Kishore'. We did it on a trial basis in the two American cities. Now that it has been accepted so wholeheartedly, we'll take our two 'Do Kishore' concerts to the rest of the world. We're already booked for 6 concerts in the US in April 2013. Then we'll take the concert all over India."The 'Do Kishore' concerts are Amit Kumar's...

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Shahid to play cop in Neeraj Pandey's film

After finishing work on Prabhu Dheva's Namak and Rajkumar Santoshi's Phata Poster Nikla Hero, Shahid Kapoor will be doing Neeraj Pandey's next.What is interesting however is the fact that Shahid would be seen playing a cop for the first time in his career in this particular flick. Neeraj Pandey has earlier made the much appreciated film A Wednesday and this one too seems like another hard-hitting film. Neeraj is currently busy giving finishing touches to his multi-starrer Special...

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Ghai's hit films to be remade in Tamil, Telugu

Years after its release, the films that have marked the progress of Indian cinema are looking at getting a new lease of life. Buzz is that Subhash Ghai's blockbuster films (made under his banner Mukta Arts) like Karz, Karma, Aitraaz and Hero are soon going to be remade in a new style.It is learnt that Ghai's company Mukta Arts is currently negotiating with a number of leading South Indian producers to get the films remade in Tamil and Telugu languages. Sources close to the...

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Prithviraj to relocate to Mumbai

Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil cinema's star-actor Prithviraj Sukuraman who has just made an impressive Bollywood debut as Rani Mukerji's aromatic amour inAiyyaa will wrap up his assignments in the South by the end of the year and move home from the South to Mumbai in January 2013.His wife Supriya who used to a BBC journalist has been busy hunting for a home for the couple in Mumbai while Prithvi has been immersed in completing his films on the floor. Speaking of his plans to relocate...

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Ananth Mahadevan to make film on Satyajit Ray's unpublished story

For all those who thought that the 'legacy' of the legendary (late) Satyajit Ray started and ended withShatranj Ke Khiladi (the only Hindi film that he made), here is the time to rejoice. Ananth Mahadevan is now all set to make Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro (an unpublished short story by Ray) into a film named The Storyteller.Speaking about this, Ananth said that a Bengali writer-friend of his mentioned that there was a very interesting unpublished Satyajit Ray story that he...

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Bata wins court case against Prakash Jha

Only yesterday we told you how filmmaker Prakash Jha had won his court battle against the Birlas who objected to their name being used in the controversial song 'Mehangai' from Jha's film Chakravyuh. The lyrics of the song went 'Birla Ho Ya Tata, Ambani Ho Ya Bata, Sabne Apne Chakkar Mein Desh Ko Hai Kata'However Jha's woes don't seem to end as shoe manufacturing company Bata, which had also filed a defamation case against Jha for the offensive song, has won the case in its favour. The Delhi...

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Protest against Akshay inaugurating IFFI

The news that Akshay Kumar will be inaugurating the IFFI, that's scheduled to take place in Goa from November 20, has been welcomed by all but a right wing Hindu outfit. The reason? The outfit thinks that Akshay has allegedly hurt religious sentiments in his recent film OMG Oh My God!  Manoj Solanki of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti State Convenor, in a memorandum to Chief Minister of Goa - Manohar Parrikar, said that the film has already hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus. He added...

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Families of SOTY cast to watch film on Thursday

\ Although Karan Johar has graciously decided to have a screening of Student Of The Year on Thursday evening for the family members of the film's principal cast debutants Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan, Alia's protective Didi, elder sister Pooja Bhatt has decided to stay away from the family screening.Pooja would rather watch Alia with the audience at a public screening. "I'm going to see it first day first show on Friday. I can't wait. I do have the option of seeing it...

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Bollywood News Dabangg 2 trailer with Son Of Sardaar

Post his item number in Ajay Devgn's Son Of Sardaar (SOS) , Salman Khan is now all set to release the trailer of the much awaited Dabangg 2 with the Ajay Devgn-Sanjay Dutt starrer SOS.News reports have it that Salman, who had earlier decided, to release the trailer with YRF's Jab Tak Hai Jaan, felt that releasing the trailer with SOS was a better idea. Reports have it that the reason for him to do so was his closeness to Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devg...

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