Gorgeous Kareena Kapoor stuns as a bride!

Actor Kareena Kapoor turned heads at her wedding party with Saif Ali Khan at a Mumbai five-star on Tuesday evening. Looking stunning in a deep burgundy garara, she was seen greeting the guests that included actors Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Anil Kapoor who came with daughter Sonam.
Bebo’s cousin, actor Ranbir Kapoor, who missed the pre-wedding functions, attended this one. Interestingly, the wedding was also attended by Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter Shweta whose husband is Kareena’s cousin, despite the relations between them being strained since the engagement between Shweta’s brother, Abhishek, and Kareena’s sister, Karisma, broke off years ago.

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Katrina goes for Hrithik!

MUMBAI, Oct. 18 -- It's out that Priyanka Chopra will be seen in Yash Raj Films's next, Gunday, alongside Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor. It's also known that Katrina Kaif was in the running for the same role.
Now we have been informed that it was Katrina who opted out of the film due to date issues. Apparently, the actor was offered Gunday and the Hindi remake of the Tom Cruise's hit Knight And Day (starring Hrithik Roshan). However, both are starting around the same time - February-March 2013. So, she had no option but to opt out of one film.
"It's not like she chose Hrithik over Arjun and Ranveer. Since people loved her with Hrithik in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), she thought it's time to rekindle their on-screen chemistry again," says an insider.
Not many know that Katrina is also close to Arjun (she considers him her brother). "But Hrithik does fewer films. So, if she misses out on the Knight And Day remake, no one knows when she will get an opportunity to work with him again. But Katrina wants to work with Arjun or Ranveer whenever she gets an opportunity," adds the insider.
Despite repeated attempts, Katrina remained unavailable for a comment, as she is shooting for Dhoom:3 in Chicago. However, her spokesperson confirmed the news: "Katrina loved the script of Gunday, but due to date issues she couldn't be part of the movie."

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Raveena Tandon wins best actress at Houston

This week Raveena Tandon has much reason to rejoice. She has won the Best Actress award for her performance in Sudipto Chattopadhyay's Shobhna's 7 Nights at the Houston Bollywood Film Festival which concluded on October 7 with the announcement of Raveena's triumph.

Interestingly, there is only one acting award at the Houston Bollywood Film Festival which covers both the male and female category of nominations. Raveena therefore beat competition from Abhay Deol and Emraan Hashmi in Dibakar Bannerjee's Shanghai to get the award. 

Squealing in delight from Houston after the announcement, Raveena said, "I've hardly received awards in my career so far. I did get the National award for Daman. But that was a one-off thing. I thought I deserved recognition for Shool and Aks. But I was seen as glamorous commercial actress. Hence, not eligible for awards. Now when I've played the most glamorous role of my life, I get the Best Actress award. Ironical, isn't it?" 

She was specially kicked about beating male competition with her performance. "In India and in most awards the world over, they have separate categories for male and female performance. But here in Houston we were all judged in the same category. That was quite flattering."

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Ranbir - PC to skip Big B's birthday bash

Amitabh Bachchan's 70th birthday bash to be held tonight is the most talked about event as almost everyone from the industry is said to be attending his party.

Incidentally however, Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor will not be able to attend Big B's bash. The duo's latest film Barfi! has been selected for the Busan International Film Festival in the Open Cinema Section and they would be attending the screening.

Barfi! has been a very important film for both Ranbir and Priyanka as it has done very well and earned both critical and commercial acclaim even crossing the coveted Rs.100 crore nett mark.

The screening date had been decided way earlier and so Ranbir and Priyanka had no choice but to go for the film festival giving Amitabh Bachchan's birthday bash a miss.

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Vivek signs Salman Yusuf Khan for Freedom

The saying 'One man's loss is another man's gain' has come true in the case of choreographer Salman Yusuf Khan, who has been the winner of a dance show plus choreographer to Yana Gupta and Isha Sharwani.

A few days back, Chandan Roy Sanyal had walked out of Vivek Agnihotri's Freedom due to date clashes. And as luck would have it, Vivek's eyes fell on Salman as a replacement to Sanyal. Talking about this, Vivek said that he spotted Salman while he was doing some scenes with his team in a film that is being directed by Remo D'souza. Wasting no time, he immediately auditioned him and signed him.

Details about Salman's role in the film are awaited.

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