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I’m coming back to make another film in Mumbai: Danny Boyle
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What we’ve come here for is to hand over …things…to the Trust (created for the Slumdog Millionaire kids). I know the newspapers want to write stuff like, ‘Danny Rides To Their Rescue’. The truth about what we’re doing is far less glamorous and far more professional.
I’m glad to say we’ve slowly made our way forward. What matters is not what is written about the issue in the press but the long-term welfare of the kids. We want to make sure that the kids (from Slumdog Millionaire) benefit from the success of the film and from their presence in the film. And I’m confident they will benefit.MUMBAI MIRROR RUMOUR: Cyrus and Sonam are dating each other!
VJ Cyrus Sahukar, who played the sleazy photographer Suresh in Delhi-6, might have lost Sonam Kapoor to Abhishek Bachchan in the film, but he certainly got lucky in real life. Sonam and Cyrus, who became good friends while shooting for Delhi-6, are now seeing each other. The two will also be seen together in Ayesha, which is the Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Emma. The film is being produced by Sonam’s father Anil Kapoor.
A source close to the actress said, “Sonam and Cyrus have been seeing each other since the past few months. Their friendship grew stronger after Delhi-6, which was their first film together. The two are extremely fond of each other and enjoy spending quality time together. They usually hang out together and were recently spotted together at a suburban restaurant.”
Not too long ago, Cyrus had said in an interview, “Sonam beats me up randomly. I think she was my doctor in my last life. Whenever I’m a little low, she electrocutes me.”
Known for his comic timing and wit, Cyrus was also seen in Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra’s Rang De Basanti before Delhi-6.
Sonam denied the news of being romantically involved with Cyrus. “There is no truth to it,” she said.
All hell broke loose when Kareena came on stage
It was her first visit to Ahmemadad. But one that she’s unlikely to forget for the rest of her life.
Thousands of star-struck Gujarati fans swarmed the Kanavati Club when when they got to know the event organized by Vashu Bhagnani for his son Jackky’s debut will feature Kareena Kapoor.
The fans were excitable enough when Sophie Chowdhary danced with Jackky Bhagnani.
But all hell and yell broke loose when Kareena came on stage for a medley of her hit songs.
To say pandemonium prevailed would be an understatement. As hundreds of Kareena’s fan ran towards her on stage the security bandobast went almost bust.
Anything could have happened to the panic-stricken actress.
Groggy and shaken Vashu Bhagnani said, “It’s true. Ahmedabad went crazy for Kareena.We expected a huge turn-out at the Karnavati Club. But not this much. 30, 000 people showed up. And when Kareena came on stage they lost control. About 400 people rushed to the stage. Fortunately we whisked her out from the back entrance. So nothing untoward happened.”
Vashu is eternally indebted to Kareena. “She took on these frenzied fans for my son’s sake. Who says this film industry is heartless? Kareena is all heart.”
In fact after the Ahmedabad incident Vashu had reservations about asking Kareena to be part of the next Vashu-Jackky show in Delhi on 27 May. But Kareena is adamant.
Says Kareena, “Yeah it did get pretty tricky at a point. Yeh sab hota hai. It was my first visit to Ahemedabad. I performed a medley of my best songs choreographed by Remo. It was for Vashuji’s son. How can I forget he gave me my first big hit Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai? No when his son is entering films it’s my duty to support him.”
The unruly fans rattled her. But to her surprise hordes of her little girl -fans descended at the venue of the performance dressed as her character Geet in Jab We Met.
Laughs Kareena pleasurably, “It simply zapped me. I completely forgot the heat of Ahmedabad when I saw those girls. It will be a long time before I’m allowed to forget Geet in Jab We Met.”
Shah Rukh is most welcome in my show: Salman Khan
Bollywood brat and India’s heart throb is back with a bang in ‘Dus ka Dum’ season 2. ‘Dus ka dum’ made news for several reasons before finalizing with Salman.
In spite of initial dispute over Salman’s fees his come back on the show bears out, Shehanshah has his replacement in Badshah but Sallu has none. He seemed to be in good mood this time while interacting with media but was equally alert to keep away from any controversy.
Following are the few wittiest excerpts of the interaction.
“Show chal gaya…that’s why I am back on the show, ” he reasons for his come back on TV. It was recently reported that Salman will not rope in his celebrity friends for the show as he is paid approximately half the amount that of last season.
But clever Sallu explains it differently, “I am left with very few friends in the industry so if I will find some new friends I will definitely get them”.
On asking how much he enjoyed being close to commoners on the show, he quips, “I am good to people outside the show as
well (he takes a pause) depending upon the mood…otherwise I am a nice person”.
He admits that his favourite episode in the last season was with Aamir Khan, “I wanted him to win but I liked the fact that he did not take any risk”.
Will SRK be the guest on the show?…Sallu tried skipping this one but adamant media made him to answer, “He is most welcomed on the show if Sony gets him…Wo aayega toh khushnaseeb hai.”
Akshay’s only question that created a buzz all over in last season that “when will he get married?’, “I will have to think for this one, ” and Sallu left it unanswered.
Salman did not turn up this election to vote. “Had I been in town I would have definitely voted. I do not cast vote to show off”. He further suggests to the government, “make some law, if one votes he will be given incentive and if not he will be punished. Then every one will vote, even me, ” this was Salman’s escapism for not voting in this election.
On asking kitney pratishat people from film fraternity are happy about his success, lajawaab Salman answers this one honestly, “on camera 100% but off the record 90%”. Salman knows all his answers but kitney pratishat bhartiya truly missed Salman on television will be out soon.
kate winslet or rachel weisz to star opposite bollywod super star aamir khan
Aamir Khan is going from strength to strength.
After almost all his movies did well in B-Town, he’s all set to make more headaway in the west.
Chances are he might be paired opposite recent Oscar winner Kate Winslet in a film to be directed by Pan Nalin.
The story is reportedly an adaptation of legendary Pakistani playwright Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’ which speaks about the comic situation inside an Indian mental asylum in 1947, when India and Pakistan were being created.
The buzz is that though nothing’s been confirmed yet, Aamir is already quite excited about the whole thing.
After all he’s turned on by intelligent stuff. Pan has already narrated the script to Aamir impressing him in the process and he’s keen on the movie. That’s how a perfectionist is supposed to behave, it seems.
But work will start only when the bigger star in the scheme of things (well, that’s how it seems) gives a nod. Pan Nalin has kept his option open too.
If Kate opts out then he will rope in ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Constant Gardener’ actress Rachel Weisz for playing the role of Dr Sophie.
He’s said “Either Kate or Rachel will be doing my film. I will be meeting both of them after my Cannes trip to finalise the casting. Either of them will be able to do justice to this marvelous story.”
If all goes well, Aamir perfection would literally cross the seven seas.
Shah Rukh to make Bollywood’s costliest movie
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) Indian screen superstar Shah Rukh Khan is spending an estimated Rs.1 billion for perhaps the costliest Bollywood movie to be made so far. The movie for children will be in the VFX medium, using computer-generated special effects.
It will be a movie featuring a lot of children who wish for bad things, but get a shocking reality check when they come true, Shah Rukh told Patrick Frater of Hollywood’s top trade magazine Variety in a recent interview in Berlin.
He is talking to Eros Multimedia and Charles Darby (of “The Matrix” and “Minority Report” fame), the visual effects guru, who recently co-ventured with Eros to launch Mumbai-based special effects Eyeqube Studios.
Shah Rukh said he was planning the movie under his home banner, Red Chillies Productions. The new venture – to be directed by Anubhav Sinha – had a budget of $25 million (almost Rs.1 billion), making it the most expensive Bollywood movie to date.
“We are dedicating the next eight or nine months to taking the best technicians from around the world and asking them to help us make the best VFX film India has ever made. It will be madcap, over the top. I want it to be as beautiful as ‘Spider-Man’ in terms of effects,” Khan told Variety.
The VFX medium uses computer-generated effects that give movies a fantasy-like feel. The best example of a VFX movie is Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park”, where computers made the dragons fly.
Asked why he has not yet been courted by Hollywood, he replied in his characteristic tongue-in-cheek manner: “”I’m waiting for someone like Steven Spielberg or James Cameroon (of “Titanic” fame) or some other great person like Ang Lee to make a film, a film about a brown, thin, scrawny Indian guy who doesn’t speak English too well. If they ever have a character like that and Google it, I’m sure they’ll find me.”
He said he’d love to do an action-comic movie like Chris Rock and Jackie Chan.
“As a producer I would like to make an Indian film that genuinely crosses borders, not a crossover film, where you forget that it has a language, like ‘Life Is Beautiful’. I didn’t realise at first that it was an Italian film. Or ‘The Lives of Others’. I think I can do it in my lifetime, maybe in the next five years.”
Shah Rukh admitted to the interviewer that his last year’s home production, “Om Shanti Om,” was full of clichés of Indian cinema. “But it is full of heart. I think we need to make more movies like this and gradually more and more people will come to like that,” he said.
BLOGS OF BOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES
o the new buzz in bollywood industry is personal blogs. Whether its a movie promotion or Reality show promotion or its a promotion of your cricket team. Bollywood celebrities are now fighting over their personal blogs and commenting about each other, apologizing for comments, statements and what not.
It all started with Amir Khan, who started his own blog. Right after launching his blog, he actually launched personalized chat application so that he can talk to his fans.
Its a different story that the experience of chating on his site was chaos. So right after that many other bollywood celebrites started their own blogs. So let me compile the list of bollywood celebrities blogs:
AamirKhan.com – Aamir Khan started this blog to promot his Lagaan DVD launch in India. He is been consistent and regular when it comes to posting on his blog. He keeps his fans upto date about his movies, shootings, incidents happened in his life etc. At times I felt that he might not be writing on his own but over his different posts, he made sure that everyone believes the its him.
Amitabh Bachchan’s Blog – Amitabh Bachchan also jumped into blogging right before the launch of Bhoothnath. He started promoting Bhoothnath and later talked about the maharashtra issues and created quite a bit of controversies. Well whatever it is, its good that his fans now can directly talk to him without having media in-between.
John Abraham Blog – Looks like John has his blog for quite sometime now. He is been posting articles on his website for almost 2 years but he is not regular. He posts only few articles. So far he has made only 5 to 6 articles.
Bipasa Basu’s Blog – Bipasa Basu also writes articles every now and then on her website. Latest entries talk about her first bengali film and thanking her fans who visited her website. I am not sure how authenticate this site is though.
Shilpa Shetty Blog – Shilpa Shetty has also launched her website which promotes her perfume line as well as her fitness and yoga DVDs. Everyone knows how fitness freak she is. The site has videos and pictures of her “biggest win ever” Big Brother and all that stuff. It also shows her biography, filmography and all but I don’t see her writing any blog entries to her fans.
Salman Khan Blog – Salman Khan has now started blogging in the event of promoting Dus Ka Dum.
Shobha De Blog – Shobha De started her own blog with Blogger.
Ram Gopal Vermas Blog – Ram Gopal Verma, one of the most famous producer director who made very popular movies like Rangeela, Sarkar etc.
Harbhajan Bhajji – Harbhajan Singh – Bhajji recently launched his own blog at BigAdda. You can access his blog by visiting http://bhajji.bigadda.com/
If you know any other celebrity blog, please leave your comments and I will include it here in the list. Enjoy and follow your celebrity.
What makes Shahid-Priyanka click!
It’s quite natural for actors Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra to fall for each other. Shahid has been on a look out for a girl since parting ways with Kareena Kapoor. He has been linked with many girls from Vidya Balan to Amrita Rao to Sania Mirza but he seemed to have fallen for the show-stopper Priyanka Chopra.
No wonder Shahid and Priyanka clicked off well on the sets of Kaminey. Priyanka was then looking lost after breaking up with Hurman Baweja. Shahid too was searching for the elusive girl of his life. The lost souls bonded naturally. The rumourmongers were of the opinion that the ‘lip-lock’ scene in the film sealed their relationship.
Shahid and Priyanka have not made their relationship public but that doesn’t mean that people are blind to their affair. They have been spotted together at various hot spots and the latest been their secret outing for coffee. It’s reported that Shahid hired a whole floor to have coffee with Priyanka.
Well, Shahid and Priyanka would choose to remain silent about the whole story but there can’t be smoke without fire!
Shahrukh abandoning his Knights!
Shahrukh Khan is called King Khan not without any reason. He makes his presence felt wherever he goes. The cricket stadiums in South Africa looked more lively a few days ago than it is now. The reason is, Shahrukh is back in India and is not cheering for his IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. Will he return to South Africa? Very unlikely.
Well, the ever-energetic Shahrukh returned home mainly for two reasons – to vote for the Lok Sabha and get relief from the pain of watching his team go down time and again. Before leaving South Africa, he promised his team that he would not return if they didn’t win a match in his absence. Unfortunately, his team continued to lose and he is busy with his own work.
Now that his team is almost out of the contest for the semi finals berth in this year’s IPL, he has got himself busy shooting for his much-hyped film My Name Is Khan by Karan Johar. He said that his team has not lost motivation in spite of the string of loses. He said that some of the matches almost broke their hearts while they failed to perform on the others. He added that he had told his boys to go out and have fun.
In spite of doing very badly in the IPL season 2, the fact remains that Kolkata Knight Riders has the biggest brand value at $42.1 million. However, Shahrukh is worried in spite of the money flow, as he knew that his team should perform well to live up to it.
At the moment, he is not in the mood to decide the future course of the team. He just wants to stay away from them to take the pressure off their shoulders!
Shahrukh’s Happy New Year to take off this year
Director Farah Khan is miffed with the reports that her next ambitious film Happy New Year starring Shahrukh Khan has been postponed to next year. The fact is that she is determined to start the film this year.
Farah said that she would start Happy New Year this year, come what may. She added that she is working on the script and is very sure that she would begin the film this year even if it’s December 31st. She is finding hard to understand how people spread such baseless rumours.
Happy New Year has been in the news since it was announced for the simple reason that Farah’s films with Shahrukh, Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om did very well at the box office. It will be her hat trick hit with Shahrukh if it does well.
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