Archive for June, 2007

Zayed Khan dashes to Dubai for Aqeel

Shah Rukh Khan would say for his fellow Khan’s ‘Insha Allah’1 One thing is for sure,these KHANS stick together when they got news out that Dj Aqeel was arrested on aarival in Dubai, may alleged with some amount of ‘drug substance’, the whole family came together the well knit group that it is.

Zayed KhanObviously. Farah Khan was online giving Aqeel’s side of the story and talking to all the media. Pa-in-law Sanjay uses his good offices with the Sheik’s of Dubai to get Aqeel to safety and brother-in-law Zayed all his film function which was in Dubai and trip to Yorkshire.

Hopefully Dj Aqeel’s is proved innocent and was safe.

Sonu Nigam in Act II

At precent Sonu Nigam had pledged to keep away from films. The upshot is that he has signed a film, Aankhon Aankhon Mein, which tells the story of a bilnd singer. The singer however insist that he is not attempting to re-establish his carrer as an actor and wants to do the film purely for its taut script.

Sonu says,” My friend Akashdeep has been planning to do this film for the longest time. When he had offered it to me earlier, I was’nt quite interested . I had turned it down. But when I read the script, I founf it extremely interesting. We are yet to fgure out the dates as I’m presently touring the US and I will be back this month end.”Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam has acted in Jaani Dushman:Ek Anokhi Kahani, Kaash…..Aap Kamare Hote and Love in Nepal.

Sonu is also compsing the music of the film. He say that his main interest continues to be music.He completely aware of strength but he is open to ecperiment at the same time. Akashdeep says,” We are very good friends. One fine day he walked in my house and I knew that only he colud portray the singer in my film.”

The film is inspired by a popular play, Titlee, producer by Alyque padamsee. The play’s case included director Akashdeep and he played the part of a physically challenged singer. His co-star was Sharon Prabhakar. Akashdeep says,” We had enacted over 100 shows back then . I’ve been planning to turn it into a film for a long time.”

Katrina says No plans for marriage now

Katrina Kaif has endorsed many product, but ther’s a lot more to Katrina than her gorgeous face. She’s all set to proves that her carrer is on the upswing post some big projects,from which some did well at the box-office and some that are in the pipeline.

Media ask’s her about her marriage, she said that if she was going to be married according to the whims of some people in the media,she would have probably been married five times now and had a few kids. She says,”The truth is far from it. I am seriously concentrating on my career and ther’s no scope for marriage in the near future.”

Katrina KaifKatrina really admire people who are open about their lives, can talk about their relationship and stuff. So, its everything clear about Katrina and Salman. She feel pressurised as it is, to always be at her best, because she is an actress and there are people alwayjudging around us. Katrina won’t be able to take judgement on her personal life as well or answer question like, ‘When are you getting married?’,'is he even serious about marrying you?’ and so on.”

Katrina feels we all have to deal with our own complexe and fight our own battles. She came in Bollywood as a rank outsides, and have has her own share of battles.

Despite Salma’s presence in her life. there’s also something talk’s from Akshay kumar who’s promoting her in his films. Media asks, How do you manage to do that? Katrina said, “It’s ridiculous when I am doing films with Salman they say ,’ Why films with Salman? ” and when i do with Akshay , I gotta be seeing him. I am really fond of Twinkle and their son Aarav. I think Twinkle is an amazing person and extremely sharp and witty. They are some of the very few people in the industry and I hang out with.”

Alvira salman’s sister is one of the Katrina’s closest friends and she is not going to let people dictate who she should hang out with an who she shouldn’t. She is not know to get along well with fellow actress, Bipasha Basu bring the recent case in point.Does she thinks two actresses can be friend ? “You know,if two actresses are competing with each other and vying for the same role,its futile to even pursue that relationship. I think its a dead investement and I wont even want to put my engeries towards that.”says Katrina.

Himesh Ka Suroor

LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT HIMESH :Himesh Reshammiya was only 11 years old when his elder brother expired and was completly shattered. That was the only time the little boy promised his father thet he would make up for his lost son.He used to walk all thw way from Haj Ali to Dadar in order to save eight rupees and but choclates from the remaining two rupees of then ten rupees he got from his father.

Himesh ReshammiyaIt shows how determined and calculative he has been since childhood and this attitude is clearly evident today.

WHY THE INDUSTRY HATES HIMESH :Mouli Dave, one of the contestant’s on the SA RE GA MA PA gave an unbelivably disastrous performance in the Rajesh Roshan and Khayyane special episode.She was on the verge of being eliminated, but Himesh intervened just to prove a point to he other judges on weather a contestant should be eliminated on the basis of just one bad performance?Then he asked Mouli to sing Maiyya Maiyya again.

The industry hates him, but he’s a survivor. His mantra, don’t give a damn about critics. And it’s worked. Adlabs had supposedly bought his Aap Ka Suroor for a whooping Rs 22 crores!

Himesh says tha he dont have an attitude problem;people have spread this wrong news. He know where he is;
He know what he is. He have taken a huge risk but what’s life without risks?

Aap Ka Suroor is a film based on the real life love story of Himesh Reshammiya, whre he shares with the audience, the inspiration behind his singing. The film is being directed by Prasnt Chada.

Bipasha prefers John in short hair

Bipasha BasuActress Bipasha Basu is living out for her suitcase, so its not very often that we get to catch up with her. But we did, recently and our conversation gradually let to boyfriend John Abraham’s new look-short hair and all !

She prefer him in short hair,John looks good. About her own tresses, they seem to have grown longer than her last bob cut look. John keeps doing something or the other to his hair, “Thats why everytime you see me you will think i look different !” explains John. Well, that quite ‘the long and short’ of it.

Ash-Abhi relax in wedding bliss

After there lavish in-your-face wedding that Abhi-Ash have decided to keep a low profile on their return from their honeymoon. They both were seen in Delhi visiting Abhishek’s sister Shweta. The couple stayed cooped up in the Nanda’s bungalow but still there was a line of visitors,Sweta’s friends and relatives who all dropped thier plans by to visit them.

Aishwarya Rai - Abhishek BachchanAishwariya make her self a part of the household and is keen on getting to know the entire extended family. She’s already said to be a favourite of Sweta’s tint tots, and had apparently packed a bog of goodies from her shopping so journs in Europe.

When she was back in Mumbai,she was back to work,finish her scene for Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodha Akbar. Lools like Abhishek couldn’t even handle a few hours and some degree of seperatoin and she was ready to head home.

Akshay’s special performance at Flim Awards

Akshay Kumar is aal set to surprise his fans with a special performance at the upcoming International Indian Flim awards in Yorkshire.

Akshay KumarAkshay will be rapping with Uk’s rhythm Dhol bass, which is betterly know as the RDB group and he surprise the audience with his signing.

But incidentally,Himesh Reshammiya has roped in RDB to sing the hit ‘Rafta Rafta’ for Namastey Londan for the first time .

Akshay will perform a nine and a half minute medley Punjab folk song and two songs from Namastey Londan-’Rafta Rafta’and Chakna which where his latest hits.This will be the first time an Indian actor perfromlive on stage with the RDB group.

Akshay say,”Diversification is the name of the game . My audience expect me to give then something new evry time I perform and thats the reason I always try and do some thing different in evry stage show.”

Sameera back in bollywood with Fool ‘N’ Final

Sameera is Back after a long brake in the film Fool ‘N’ Final, The film is directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta, about her role she say, My charactor in this film is quite different though my role is not exactly like the “SATI SAVITRI” type, yet she is soft person, autually she has emotional angle in the film. this kind of role she has ever played before. There are 14 charactor in this film, each one has different story, just like “Darna mana Hai” there is lot of entertainment in this film. Finally she say’s the film is totaly paisa vasool”

She is doing two mainstream films with buddhadev Dasgupta and the other film is “The Voyeurs” ,this film showcasaes the problems created by cell phones having cameras by which people use to shoot any thing they like it would be something vulger which hurts other people emotions. she says the movie puts forward the question of what is good and what is bad. The film has been completed just on the way to the Toronto Film Festival. Finally it will be screend at Berlin and will be released in August

She is also working on a short film on AIDS Awareness. She tells about her film on AIDS titled “Migration”, it is a very hot hitting film, the manner in which we worked for the film was very soft and hot, besides this there are four directors working in this film namely Mira Nair,vishal Bharbwaj, farhan Akhtar and Shankar Shivan,and Actors like Irfan Khan and Shiney Ahuja for the first time. To get maximum exposure the film will be screened with every new release.