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Archive for January 26th, 2009

Amitabh to be honoured by World Leaders

Amitabh Bachchan will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos attended by 2500 of the world’s leading figures from politics, economics and business – including forty-one Heads of State. Amitabh will be presented with the Crystal Award at the Forum for his contribution to improving the state of the world. Amitabh has been prominent [...]

Aamir Khan Film Is a Bad Copy?

Long ago, a top Bollywood producer  dvised a fledgling young filmmaker to take a plane to London, watch a Hollywood movie and make a copy of it in Hindi peppering it with local masala and mirch! Those were the days when films were not easily available on disks, far less so on pirated ones. However, [...]

Akshay, Aishwarya awarded the Padma Shree

It is a proud day for Bollywood. The 60th year of the Indian republic saw top civilian honours awarded to two immensely popular actors. Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were awarded the Padma Shree by the Government of India. Since Aishwarya has become the face of India for the world, and has bagged numerous [...]

Will Shahrukh recreate Mogambo?

After his tremendous performance as a villain in “Baazigar” and “Darr”, Shah Rukh Khan may again be seen as a villain in a film. SRK has reportedly been offered the role of Mogambo in the sequel to “Mr. India”. Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is presently working on the sequel, which is titled “Mr. India 2”. Shekhar, [...]

Sushmita awaiting clearance to play Benazir Bhutto

Former beauty queen and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen will be enacting the role of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a biopic to be made by Pakistani filmmakers. Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. “Yes, I am keen to play the role. The producers are waiting for a clearance from [...]

Shahrukh does it, only for Priyanka

Shahrukh Khan recently played a perfect friend to Priyanka Chopra. Priyanka features in a special song-and-dance sequence in Shahrukh’s new film Billu Barber. The song — Khudaya Khair — was originally composed keeping just Shahrukh in mind and that meant Priyanka would have had only some shots in it. When SRK got to know about [...]

Script holds top priority for Asin

“Ghajini” star Asin Thottumkal, who got the Screen award for the most promising female debut in a Hindi film, says the script matters most to her and she signs a film only if she likes the narrative. “I have no particular choice of role in a film, but in the order of preference, I first [...]

A R Rahman, Sukhwinder to perform at Oscars

While we are all glad with AR Rahman receiving the Oscar nominations for Slumdog Millionaire, here’s the icing on the cake. Rahman and singer Sukhwinder Singh have been invited to open the eighty first Annual Academy Awards night, scheduled for Feb 21 at Los Angeles. The duo will perform their super-hit number ‘Jai ho’. Giving [...]

Shahid Kapoor: Money matters

While most Bollywood bigwigs including Sanjay Dutt have decided to lower their market price for dealing with recession, the young and talented Shahid Kapur refuses to do the same. Money seems to matter a lot to the actor for he is not even willing to slash his price for ad commercials. Reports reveal that Shahid [...]

Hansika Motwani’s electrifying item song

Hansika Motwani who started her acting career in Bollywood Film Industry is now heading towards south film industry. Hansika Motwani who looked beautiful in ‘Maska’ is now ready to dance for an item song in Meher Ramesh’s remake of Billa (Tamil) starring Prabhas. Namitha and Anushka are playing the pivotal roles in the film. It [...]