This March, two of our beautiful Bollywood ladies will be tying the knot. First is Ayesha Takia and another one is Amrita Arora who is all for her big day on March 6. Amrita and her beau Shakeel Ladakh threw a grand party for their close friends on March 1. The celebrations have been planned for a stretch of over three days: There will be a church wedding on March 4, a sangeet on March 5 and the nikaah and reception on March 6. Best friend Kareena Kapoor is going to be one of the bridesmaids and sister Malaika Arora, the maid of honour.
Amrita’s wedding gowns and also the bridesmaids’ clothes have been designed by Ashley Rebello. The mehendi outfit will be by Manish Malhotra and Shantanu-Nikhil are designing the traditional wedding lehenga.
Though Kangana Ranaut is still far behind in the race for top Bollywood heroines, there is no denying the fact that Kangana has managed to make her presence felt in this competitive world of Bollywood. She will soon be seen in her sexiest best in ‘Kites’ with Hrithik Roshan.
But the envious figure that Kangana prides at does not come easy. The girl keeps fit by hitting it hard at Leena Mogre’s gym. Here are some pictures of Kangana sweating it out at celebrity fitness trainer Leena Mogre’s gym, Bandra.
Gr8, the popular television glossy, felicitated 15 women from varied fields at the Gr8 Women Achievers awards. FLO, the Women Wing of FICCI salutes the women achievers of the country at this event which covers 25 different categories and the awardees, are leaders in their fields and come from all parts of the country. Women Achievers are selected in different categories: Advertising, Banking, Corporate Excellence, Education, Entrepreneurship, Media, Finance, IT, Political Leader, Social Activist, Author, Musician, Fine Artist, Journalist, Movie Actor, Sports etc.
The event saw the attendance of many celebrities including Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone, Harman Baweja, Miss India Parvathy Omanakuttan, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Zeenat Aman, Ramesh Sippy, Yukta Mookhey, Yash Chopra, and Farah Khan. Hot babe of Bollywood Celina Jaitley gave rocking performance at the event.
No doubt, success and one big like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is obvious to be stressed out all involved in the project including innocent kids from the slums of Mumbai, who played an outstanding role in the success of the movie as being a very integral part of the storyline of the movie.
However, cost of this huge success and fame was paid by 10 year old actor from the movie, Azharuddin Mohammed who was slapped and kicked by his father, Ismail when the over stressed and tired kid refused to attended byte and news hungry reporters standing outside his home. This shocked all the persons presented at the spot.
Though Ismail repented later on he said, “I was very sorry that I did what I did,” said Ismail. “I was so confused and stressed by my son’s homecoming that I did not know myself for a minute. I love my boy and I am very happy to have him home.” Whatever may be the cause behind for the outburst reflected by Ismail, no one can deny that success and fame do contribute in making on insensitive towards basic human values.
They have earned all at such a tender age after the huge success of “SlumDog Millionaire”, homes, stipends, benefits for their families and a trip to the U.S. The little stars from the slums of the Mumbai now are coming to the real term after receiving 8 Oscars and Best Director and Best Picture award for them.
Stars from the movie Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar who played young Salim and Jamal in the film was some how happy as well as nervous after receiving the warm welcome and crowd of paparazzi at the airport. Azharuddin was anyway expecting to face bombardment of scribes in India. However, Ayush seemed well customizing to the trend and have a smile on his face, despite being crowded. Anyway, whatever was the pervious status of these kids or present frame of mind they have brought Oscars.
The tinsel town cannot stop raving about Freida Pinto as present and as the lady still basks in the glory of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ success, there could be no other time more apt for her to make her presence felt through media and print magazines.
So, this March, we will have Freida as the reigning cover girl of almost all the leading magazines. After ‘Vogue’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’, Freida will also be seen as the cover girl of Maxim India March 2009. She has already swept everyone off their feet with her witty answers at ‘The Tonight Show’ hosted by Jay Leno, her flawless sense of style, her portraits in Vanity Fair, and irresistible movie offers from Woody Allen.
The Maxim cover has Freida with a naughty playful look wearing an oversized sweater and six-inch black heels. On the covers of ‘Vogue’ Freida portrays a different style and look with elegant attire, immaculate tresses, dripping jewelery, blood red lipstick and an evocative gaze. That’s what we call versatility!
Sonam Kapoor has had two releases uptil now and the girl has appeared as the coy girl-next-door in both her flicks. Now, it is time for an image makeover for this newcomer. But since no film maker has approached the Kapoor girl with a glam role, Sonam has turned to her Papa dear Anil Kapoor to get her wish fulfilled.
So now we have Anil Kapoor to produce a movie titled ‘Ayesha’ based on the the famous novel “Emma” written by Jane Austen. Sonam, of course, will be playing the lead role of Emma (Ayesha here) who is rich, easy going and flamboyant. Abhay Deol has been reportedly roped in for the project and a new actor named Arunodoy Singh is to play another male lead role.
While Abhay will be seen as a man who clandestinely loves and cares for the heroine, Arunodoy will give life to a role of a playful young man for whom the leading lady has a soft corner. V.J Cyrus Sahukar will be come across as a man who wishes to marry Ayesha. The task of editing the novel has been trusted upon Devika Bhagat, the writer of ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’.
Though both her previous films bombed at the box office, Sonam Kapoor has stolen everyone’s heart with her beauty and freshness. Lets see how much appreciation she gets in a glamorous role.
With the advent of a new year on Jan 1, Vidya Balan has ventured on new arenas. Vidya’s birthday falls on the 1st Jan itself and this year she went to Panchgani with her family for birthday celebrations. The New Year brought two new promising roles for Vidya. One is Nikhil Advani’s ‘Chand Bhai’ and the other is Vibhu Puri’s ‘Chenab Gandhi’. The latter is produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. ‘Chand Bhai’ does not have Miss Balan in the central role and she gets to pair opposite Akshaye Khanna. The film is based on a delinquent boy’s character and has a social message attached to it.
Advani’s ‘Chand Bhai’ is a far cry from Advani’s last release ‘Chandni Chowk To China’. Says Vidya, “It’s nothing like the high-flying glam-wham stuff that one expects from Nikhil after Chandni Chowk. Chand Bhai is a stark very real kind of drama. And I get to co-star with a very talented actor Akshaye Khanna with whom I was in Nikhil’s Salaam-e-Ishq though we had just one passing shot together.”
Vidya is excited about ‘Chenab Gandhi’ too and says, “I haven’t really interacted that much with my co-star Hurman as yet. With Mr. Bachchan who plays the title role, I share a lifelong bonding. Right from Eklavya we’ve been paired in so many films right up to Chenab Gandhi and now Balki’s Pa. If I did all the films last year that I was offered with Mr. Bachchan, I wouldn’t be working with anyone else.”
The Indian air is full of A.R.Rehman’s praises these days for he truly gave an international acknowledgement to Indian music. To add on to his glory, Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue will be crooning to his tunes in the forthcoming flick ‘Blue’
Produced under the banner of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd, the movie is supposed to be India’s first ‘official’ underwater film and stars Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, and Zayed Khan, along with Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta.
Kylie will be singing two songs in the film. One is a duet with Sonu Nigam and the other is a racy solo number for the promotional video of the film. As a surprise, while Sonu recorded the song in Mumbai, Kylie recorded the same in London, after she got a copy of Sonu’s song.
Now Kylie has arrived in Mumbai to shoot for the duet song with Akshay Kumar while gyrating to ace choreographer Farah Khan’s dancing instructions.
The kids of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ were too excited to visit America for the Academy Awards. Apart from walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards these starlets of Slumdog Millionaire also got a chance of making a trip to Disney Land where they posed with Mickey Mouse.
Director Danny Boyle endeavored to cast authentic actors for the role-play thus, there couldn’t be a better cast than a kid born and brought up in the slum! Undoubtedly these kids have faced a tough time; as Azharuddin Mohammed’s (the boy who enacted youngest Salim in the film) parents stated, “He’s supposed to be the hero in the film but look at how he’s living.” While Rubina Ali who played the child side of lead character Latika never imagined this spree approaching. “Not in my dreams did I ever think I would go to America”.
Meanwhile the producer Christian Colson and director Danny Boyle paying their families a stipend and setting up trust funds for the kids. We wish these children do well in future. In the meantime your precious comments are much awaited.
Things are always as easy as they seem. This is the lesson which Shilpa Shetty has learnt recently for our sexy Bollywood lass is facing problems in delivering her dialogues for her next Indo-Chinese film ‘Desire’. Desire is her first international Indo-Chinese project where she plays a role of an Odissi dancer.
Though Shilpa informs that shooting for ‘Desire’ was a unique experience, it was not easy for her to get her classical dance steps correct and perfect. Moreover, speaking English without accent wasn’t easy for her.
Says, Shilpa “This is the first time I did dialogues in English and so did Xia Yu. Not as easy as I thought it would be, when you are so used to saying dialogues in Hindi. Both Xia Yu and I made such an effort not to speak the English language with an accent. But all’s well that ends well. I am happy I got to do this too.”
This is a pair whom the fans will eagerly await to see on-screen. Farhan Akhtar who has once directed Kareena Kapoor in ‘Don- The Chase Begins Again’ will now be seen sharing screen space with her. We saw them together for just a few moments in ‘Luck By Chance’ but now they will be seen as the lead pair in Sudhir Mishra’s untitled venture. Produced by Excel Entertainment, company of Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, the movie will explore the man-woman relationship and its dynamics.
Farhan Akhtar has confirmed the news and is quite impressed by the script. He is all praises for Kareena too and says, “she’s been a friend for many years” and the film has her in “a role to die for”.
Sudhir Mishra has done ‘Chameli’ with Kareena but these are bad times for the director. His last release ‘Khoya Khoya Chand’ bombed at the box-office and he had to shelve ‘Aur Devdas’ after Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev. D’. Since both Kareena and Farhan are currently hot in tinsel town, lots of hopes are pinned on this project.
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