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Archive for February 3rd, 2009

Vishal Bhardwaj And Aishwarya Rai Team Up

It was Vishal Bhardwaj who took out the best from Tabu in ‘Maqbool’ and Kareena Kapoor in ‘Omkara’. Vishal took up direction in 2002 with the children’s film ‘Makdee’ and since then he had always wanted to work with Aishwarya Rai. He was the music composer on a project with her that got shelved. Finally, [...]

Shilpa and boyfriend invest in Rajasthan Royals

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty and her boyfriend, London-based NRI businessman Raj Kundra, on Tuesday (Feb 3) bought a 12 percent stake in the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Rajasthan Royals. The couple has invested $15.4 million in the team, which was bought by London-based Emerging Media Group for $67 million. Shilpa called it a strategic [...]

American critics now rave about Luck By Chance

The success of Mumbai-set “Slumdog Millionaire” seems to be opening the eyes of American movie critics to films set in India going by the rave reviews for Zoya Akhtar’s “Luck By Chance”.To the Los Angeles Times, the simultaneous release of ‘Luck by Chance’ in India, the US, Canada, Britain and elsewhere “seemed charged with an [...]

Adnan Sami ready to fight wife in court

Singer Adnan Sami is all set to take on the lawyer’s role for his rights and fight it out with his wife Sabah in the court, but can’t understand what she has against his ailing father and son.”I’ve taken a lot of pain during the 10 years that we’ve been married. In 2003, she left [...]

Vivek’s mystery woman unveiled!

Vivek Oberoi was accompanied by a mystery woman at two recent events -director Arif Sheikh’s wedding and Dilip Chabria’s art show – leading to speculations about her identity and link to the much-single actor. While he happily and comfortably hovered around her and posed for photos with her on both occasions, Vivek had refrained from [...]

Katrina Kaif has no time for Ajay

Recently a famous Mumbai tabloid had broke out the news that Katrina Kaif had agreed to be part of director Rohit Shetty’s next film to be produced by Shetty’s good friend and actor Ajay Devgan. Given the fact that Shetty has directed comedies like Golmaal, Sunday and Golmaal Returns, it was a forgone conclusion that [...]

SRK-Akki war intensifies

Yesterday we told you what happened outside Preity Zinta’s home on Saturday evening when she threw a birthday bash for a few close friends. Today we have an eyewitness account of what went on inside. According to the eyewitness, the ‘king’ Akshay Kumar and ‘badshah’ Shah Rukh Khan shared some serious cold vibes. The eyewitness [...]

When SRK had to dance without Farah

Shah Rukh Khan  The ‘Mar jaani’ song picturised on Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor in Billu Barber has become a chartbuster but not before director Priyadarshan had to politely turn down one of SRK’s requests . Despite SRK wanting good friend Farah to choreograph the song, Priyadarshan insisted on his favourite choreographer Prasanna Sujit. [...]

Hrithik does not need a choreographer

Hrithik Roshan, who plays Kangana Ranaut’s dance teacher in Kites, was so upset with his US-based choreographer Flexi’s assistants that he took it upon himself to choreograph his dance steps. According to our source, the assistants were unable to get the right moves for the heavy-duty dance number. “Hrithik wanted nothing but the best and [...]

Sonam: Don’t call me names please!

It would be nice if you did not refer to the lovely Sonam Kapoor as ‘Kabootari’ or ‘Massakali’ the next time you see her. The actress is not amused. But the names seem to have stuck on after promos of Rakeysh OmPrakash Mehra’s Delhi 6 went on air and showed her with a pigeon (named [...]