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Department the next biggie from Ram Gopal Varma is going through casting changes at the moment. The cast initially comprised of Ram Gopal Varma’s favorites Bachan’s both senior and junior along with Sanjay Dutt. But now it has undergone a change and Abhishek Bachan has been replaced. His replacement well is none other than our own Rana Daggubati. Both of them shared screen space in the recently released Dum Maaro Dum. We wonder if the casting change has got anything to do with the recent box office performances of Abhishek Bachan films. Well whatever may be the case Rana surely is getting the right projects.
Amitabh Bachchan will work for free in a forthcoming film starring Malayalam superstar Mohanlal.
"Mohanlal, great exponent of his art and craft, one of the finest actors of the country, from Kerala and Malayalam cinema had come over to finalise dates and schedules for the film he is making directed by Capt Ravi," Amitabh posted on his blog bigb.bigadda.com
“It’s a small guest appearance and I had agreed. They had come over to officially sign me on and make payments etc… Payments? For a guest appearance of 3 days? With Mohanlal who has always had my greatest admiration? No way !! I don’t charge money for such acts. And told them so.”
“I shall just gloat in the honour that I shall derive by working in a Malayalam film and that too with the exceptional Mohanlal.”
The yet-to-be titled film will be shot at Ooty in Tamil Nadu.
Abhishek Bachhan and Ash starrer movie under the direction of Manirathnam "Raavan" first look was officially released today. A trailor with 40 second duration has been released to give people a sense of the movie before its audio launch on April 24.
The trailer shows Abhishek Bachchan taking a dive from the top of a cliff into a river and then riding a bike. Ash is shown emerging from the river.
The Tamil and Telugu trailers of the film will be released close to the film’s music release.
The announcement of the first IPL Awards Night has brought with it the promise of more glamour and entertainment. Announced by IPL chairperson Lalit Modi, the awards will see a performance by A.R. Rahman.
Director Karan Johar will team up with SRK to host the event, slated to take place in Mumbai, on April 23. Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and Preity Zinta will also sizzle the stage with their performances. Hrithik Roshan too will perform.
Cricketers will surprise the audience with their hidden talents like singing and dancing. Modi said, “We want to give cricketers a platform to showcase their hidden talents.”
Sreesanth, Yuvraj Singh, Brett Lee and Harbhajan Singh, may shake a leg too.
"Hrithik has sung a song in ’Guzaarish’. His singing is improving day by day and he has sung so well that it’s even better than the song he sung in ’Kites’," Hrithik’s uncle and composer Rajesh Roshan told IANS.
"Hrithik is a very hardworking person and I feel that it won’t be any harm if he sings one song a film to let out his creativity as a singer," he added.
The 36-year-old has crooned an English song ’Kites in the sky’ in his forthcoming film ’Kites’.
Aishwarya Rai has three very different films coming up this year, but director Vipul Shah says his film Action Replay will bring to the audiences her first full-fledged comedy.
"Of course comedy, which is the hardest genre to do, is not taken seriously at the awards. But in my film, Aishwarya has done comedy for the first time. She may have attempted it here and there earlier. But this is her first full-fledged comedy role. But she’s welcome to get the awards for her other two releases…I don’t mind," Shah said.
Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish are the other two films she will be doing this year.
While Bhansali’s Guzaarish is set to release in November, Raavan and Action Replay, which also stars Akshay Kumar, are due to hit the theatres in quick succession within a month.
While Raavan is slated for a June 18 release, Shah is all set to release his film in July, arguing that the two films are completely different in mood, theme and treatment.
But the filmmaker had a bitter experience last year when his Salman Khan-starrer London Dreams released a month after the actor’s home production Main Aur Mrs.Khanna.
Now apparently Shah plans to sit down with Mani Ratnam and figure out a release strategy whereby neither film suffers.
He said: "Raavan and Action Replay are very different films. And I thought I’d release (mine) in July. But I think I’ll now discuss it with Aishwarya and Mani Ratnam. We need to work as one big family in this industry.
"Besides, I still have a song to shoot whereas Raavan is complete. I’ve yet to figure out when I can shoot it because both Aishwarya and Akshay are constantly travelling. We were supposed to shoot it earlier this year in the snow in Manali. Now we may go higher up at the Rohtang Pass or change the location for the song completely," the director added.
Director-producer Ram Gopal Varma confesses he always had an obsession to scare people since his childhood and would stand behind doors and say "bhooo" to someone entering a room.
After horror film Phoonk2, releasing Friday, Varma plans a 3D scary film to make the audiences "experience" fear. Varma also says he loves to catch the audience off guard through his narrative.
"I always had this obsession to scare people. When I was a kid, I used to stand behind the door and say ’bhoooo’ to someone entering the room and now I am making (horror) films," Varma said.
He is keen to make a 3D horror film as that would give the audience the illusion of being part of the film and experience the horror along with the cast.
"Technically, it would work. While watching a horror film sitting in a theatre you are seeing it happen to someone else on the screen. But a 3D film is a medium which makes you feel you are there with them, on location may be. The illusion it creates is because of the third dimension. Because of that I think the technique has terrific application in a horror film, if rightly done," Varma said.
For Phoonk 2, a sequel to Phoonk, Varma has bet upon debutant director Milind Gadagkar, who conceived the idea of the film.
"When I was busy in Rakta Charitra, Milind came up with this idea, and it excited me a lot. Milind has been with me for some time and I believe he is an able director, so I went ahead with it," said Varma.
Asked if he has given any value inputs for the film, Varma said, "No, I didn’t give any input. Creatively it is completely his (Milind’s) brainchild."
Talking about the technical aspects of making horror films, he says for this genre "the camera, background score and sound effects have a huge contribution in the film. For drama or comedy, it can pretty much work on performances, and writing, but horror films have many manipulative techniques where you are manipulating the audience’s emotion. The movement of the camera constantly plays around with the audience’s psychology. When I took interest in films, I wanted to show off. So I thought the best thing to do is a horror film."
In the first quarter of 2010, Bollywood has streamed out a number of back-to-back horror films, Click, Rokkk and Shaapit. The makers of these films claim to have "abandoned superficial scares and worked for far more insidious and intellectual level" fear.
How would Phoonk 2 stand apart from the other films?
"The more you connect with the audience… if a person seeing the film can feel that it can happen to him or he finds some similarity with something he has heard of, the connectivity factor works best in horror films," said Varma.
He explains that for a horror film to work, "a story is needed to create that moment of fear. I think predominantly it is the emotion that is created in a given time".
"You can make 1,000 films on a haunted house. If you are able to create that moment… remember in Bhoot there were not more than six scary scenes. People are not bothered what’s happening in between. They were waiting for the next scare. I think horror films work on that count," he added.
Varma has completed 70 per cent shooting of Rakta Charitra which is a biopic on a character in south India.
Conceptualised by director Rohit Shetty, the actor’s new avatar brings out his edgy side for his character Gopal thanks to a rugged style, diamond ear studs, tattoos and cropped hair. The styling for the same has been done by Navin Shetty.
"I wanted all the characters to have different looks in Golmaal 3. For Ajay, I wanted a character that looked different from everything he has done. He has been working hard on his body a lot, so we will have him flaunting his body (in the movie)," Shetty said in a statement.
"He plays a hyper character who loses his temper very quickly because of which everyone is scared of him. People never know what he will laugh at or get angry about," he added.
Shetty has also styled the other cast members of the movie like Kareena Kapoor’s tomboy look, Tusshar Kapoor’s "tapori" look and Arshad Warsi’s look which is yet to be disclosed.
The tattoos for Ajay’s new look have been designed by Hakim Aalim’s studio.
"Vishwas from my salon designed the tattoo on Ajay’s neck but the concept and choice was Ajay’s. The tattoo is of a Celtic or tribal trishul (trident). It is daring to have a tattoo on the neck, even if it’s temporary. No actor in India has done it on the neck," said Aalim.
"We have given Ajay the buzz cut, a stubble and overall, a more macho, masculine and grungy look than he normally sports," he added.
Also starring Kunal Khemu, Golmaal 3 follows Golmaal (2006) and Golmaal Returns (2008).
Produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd, the comic caper is currently being shot in Goa.(IANS)
Shilpa’s latest post on Twitter reads: “Okay guys this is the news. Our newest venture is Royalty - the newest club in town, nearly ready, have been busy with that, so happy nearly done.”
“You heard it here first as promised. Having our first party here after the Rajasthan Royals match, hope we win…more reason to celebrate,” she adds.
Buzz has it that the happily married couple has already bought ‘Poison’, a club in Bandra, and plan to re-open it by the name ‘Royalty’.
Many of our B-town beauties would hit the panic button if they didn’t have atleast one movie in hand, and even sign up for mediocre projects in desperation (no faults of theirs, blame it on the rat-race). But this Khan man has a strange way of planning his career. Well, call him an idiot if you please, we think he’d love that too. After enjoying one of the biggest successes of Indian cinema, Aamir has pulled the brakes on his career. Currently he is only focussed on his wife’s directorial debut, Dhobhi Ghat, and his next production Peepli Live. Soon after that all his attention will be on nephew, Imran’s Delhi Belly. So dearies, chances are that we won’t be seeing AK in a full-fledged role till 2012. Hmmm… suddenly ‘all izz not well’ with your fans, AK. C’mon, you can’t do this to them, yaar.
So while most filmmakers are still looking for ways to approach their actors on the issue, Nadiadwala has taken stringent steps to assure that no member of the cast or the crew will leak any kind of details about his project ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ on any networking site.
The producer took the strict decision after he saw a constant inflow of pictures and information being put up on the said site. And with his both lead actors Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor being active users of the site, Sajid had little choice but to impose his will.
Confirming the news, Sajid told a daily, “I actually took the decision to forbid my cast and crew from putting any information on websites after an incident that happened with Sajid Khan, my director of ‘Housefull’. We were doing a photo-session with the film’s stars. We weren’t even finished and Sajid Khan had already put one of the pictures on the site. I was horrified. That’s when I decided it was time to make the confidentiality clause a legal issue in all my contracts.”
Regretting the lack of privacy among stars, Sajid further added, “I remember when my father produced JP Dutta’s Ghulami, we’d stand outside Dharmendra’s van for hours waiting for him to emerge so we could see what he wore, how he styled his hair, what watch he had on, etc. Today the stars volunteer all this information on the social networks even before the director takes his first shot. I think all of us need to make confidentiality compulsory for every film."
Well, looks like Piggy Chops will have all work and no play on this one!
As soon as Big B expressed his willingness to become a brand ambassador to promote Kerala tourism last month, a letter to this effect was written to him, Balakrishnan added. "Yesterday (Wednesday) I got his letter stating that he is willing to become the brandambassador and for that he is prepared to start a dialogue. I have asked the tourism director to have a discussion to this effect," said Balakrishnan.
Big B was in the state for a few functions last month. It was then, during an interview to a TV channel, that the actor said he would gladly accept the offer to become Keralatourism’s brand ambassador.
" I tried to get in touch with him, but I was told he was out of station. The government is willing to go ahead with him and the final decision to this effect will be made after knowing all the conditions he puts forward," said (IANS)
That’s exactly what happened on the sets of Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Paathshaala’, where a shoot for a 1 minute clip involving small kids and some puppies turned into a picnic of sorts for the cast and crew!
The scene involved a child actor who is playing with some puppies in the school premises, while Shahid and the other kids look on. The crew assembled a few puppies, played with them for a while to get them familiar and even fed them well to get their attention. However, just as everything was ready and the Director all set to take the shot, the puppies would fall asleep, leaving the team in a lurch. After a while, Shahid and the kids would again feed the dogs, play with them to get them into action, and just when they’d be ready for the shot, the puppies would run away, scattering in all directions!
This repeated a couple times, and it finally took a whole long day to get the desired shot. Meanwhile, Shahid and the kids had a field day, playing all the while with the cute puppies.
Talking about the incident, Director Milind Ukey said, “It was a really funny situation we faced that day. We’d never imagined that such a small thing would require so much struggle! But in the end, everyone, especially the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was all worth it”
Presented by Eros International and Produced by Paperdoll Entertainment, Paathshaala hits theatres on 16th April.
Boney says his wife spends 4-5 hours a day painting. “It is generally in the evening. After she has finished with household duties and is done with our daughters’ homework, Sri locks herself away to paint,” adds Boney. “After me and the kids, painting is her main passion. Now her paintings have reached a level of professionalism where they can fetch a handsome price.” Where does this new passion leave Sridevi’s plans to return to acting? Boney replies, “Sri has been acting since the age of four. She is the only child artiste to have reached the number one position in Hindi films. She will return to acting only when something special comes her way.”
He was told to return to Mumbai. But the actor decided not to and within 48 hours was back shooting, because if he had left, around 500 artists including Salman would be stuck doing nothing on the set. Sonu meanwhile is surviving on painkillers and with padding inside his nose. The pain he can cope with, what is worrying him more is whether the swelling will show on screen. Actually he need not worry… the computer today is like part of the cast and crew and can perform just as well!
Investing in properties seems to be Salman Khan’s latest passion. The Veer star has recently bought a spacious office at Mumbai’s plush Linking road in Khar. The actor will conduct all professional meetings in his new office and operate from there from now on. Apparently Sallu even has plans to venture into the real estate development business soon.
“Salman wants to pursue diverse interests. And getting into the construction and real estate business is on his agenda. In fact, he has already zeroed in on a site in Borivali, a suburb in Mumbai. Along with his partners, the actor plans to construct a residential complex there. Sohail, Arbaaz and Atul Agnihotri are all a part of this venture,” said a source.
Not too long ago, Salman Khan invested in a plush duplex apartment on Carter Road in Bandra. The interiors of the apartment are being done up now.
The film is a dark comedy and will be shot entirely in Florida, USA. It will have other Hollywood actors and actresses too. The film will speak about underworld, politics, crime, stealing and has a tagline, “Betrayal is a contact sport…”
It will go on floor soon and expected to release on February 2011.
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, who had quit a government appointed panel to examine proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, Friday withdrew his resignation.
In a letter to Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal, Aamir said, "Sir, I have given a lot of thought to your request to take back my resignation. I have also read the letter forwarded by other members reposing faith on my integrity… I am withdrawing my resignation."
"The initiative taken by you (Sibal) is very important. It is a welcome step by you and your ministry," a HRD ministry official quoted Aamir as saying.
Aamir had Wednesday resigned from the 10-member committee following reported differences with committee member and lyricist Javed Akhtar.
The actor had said that his fellow members had attempted to attack him in public "by printing lies" about him "thereby turning the attention away from a genuine debate about copyright issues".(IANS)
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