Do I look like I sit writing blogs -Akshay Kumar
The new King of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar describes himself as one “lucky bugger”. The 40-year-old actor never had it so good and he’s enjoying his place in the Bollywood sun despite Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan taking digs at him on who the real box office king was or who the highest paid actor was.”I am not a Khan so what gives me the right to comment on what they say or want? What I can say is what I feel about them, and that is they are both superb performers. If they increase their price then ‘well done’. I only ask for what I know I truly deserve. But the question is ‘do they?’ It looks like the trend is catching on, well done boys!” says Akshay of his contemporaries.
Ayesha Takia’s dancing spree in WANTED DEAD AND ALIVE
Though Ayesha Takia may not have had a single super-hit movie to boast of during her career, but people have loved and appreciated her characters in most of the movies. Be it her serious, heart touching portrayal of a strong, young widow in Nagesh Kukunoor’s DOR, the chirpy, lovable character in SUNDAY and merely a tomboy act in this Friday release, DE TAALI, Ayesha has done it all. And as we had told you earlier this month, she now wants to do action oriented roles but we have to wait for a while to see her in an action ‘avatar’.However her fans, as well as Ayesha have pinned a lot of hope on Boney Kapoor’s POKKIRI remake, tentatively titled, WANTED DEAD AND ALIVE, opposite none other than Salman Khan. The movie will be Ayesha’s first big, full -fledged commercial flick, where believe it or not, her fans will be treated to quite a few dance numbers by Ayesha.
Bend it like Katrina
For what seems to be the first time, Katrina Kaif was recently seen shying away from sporting a dance costume, which she found too short for her comfort.While shooting for the title track of Singh is Kinng , which is being choreographed for Remo Fernandez, she had dance steps that required her to bend forward several times. And this made Katrina too conscious.
Sensing that she was uncomfortable in that particular outfit, Remo tried to assure her that the steps would not look vulgar on-screen. Remo said, “Yes, Katrina was apprehensive while doing a particular sequence. I had to cajole her into it because it was a beautiful dance step.”
Salman, Ajay to work together in London Dreams
Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan are going to work together in London Dreams. Director Vipul Shah’s new venture is exciting enough to attract lots of attention in days to come.Salman Khan is right now in the media for all good reasons. He is having a dream run as an actor, most of his films doing exceedingly well at the box office and his game show Dus Ka Dum eclipsing bigger stars like Shah Rukh Khan on the small screen.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain has not been able to match the success of Salman Khan’s Dus Ka Dum.
Aamir Khan fida on Jiah Khan
Jiah Khan who made her debut with a controversial film Nishabdh is making the right moves. Her bold attitude and friendship with co star Amitabh Bachchan during Nishabdh was enough to get a lot of publicity for this new actress. After working with Amitabh her next film is with Aamir Khan and this time too she has managed to weave her charm on Aamir.This sensuous actress is working with Aamir in his forthcoming film Ghajini and it seems Aamir is completely bowled over her personality. It is believed that Aamir is not only impressed by her personality and acting, he has helped her find a new house in Mumbai. According to an insider Jiah was going trough the pain of finding a house for herself. Since the time she shifted to Mumbai with her mother she is staying in a rented flat. While Aamir who was concerned about his co star decided to introduce her to an estate agent and finally she has managed to get her new flat.
Apparently Aamir has always been supportive to his female costars. Recently he helped his other star Asin to find a manager. Now which actress will not wish for a costar like Aamir!
How it all literally began with ‘Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na?’
Imran Khan and Abbas Tyrewala are making their debut as actor and director respectively in Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na. Though it was not an easy ride for the duo. Like any other director, Abbas had to face the test of convincing the producer (Aamir Khan) with a script narration. As everyone knows, Aamir Khan is very choosy and thinks a million times before he associates himself with any film. Bollywood Hungama now narrates to you what happened when Aamir first heard the script of Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na.
Imran Khan and Abbas Tyrewala went to Aamir Khan to narrate the script; Abbas started reading out the script to Aamir with full energy. Halfway through the script, Abbas started looking at Imran again and again as Aamir Khan showed no reaction to any of the sequences.
Live Chat: Amita Pathak on June 24 at 1500 hrs IST
This monsoons, it’s raining newcomers in Bollywood and one prominent and pretty face among the bunch of debutants is that of actress Amita Pathak. Her debut film Haal-e-Dil released last week and Amita is looking forward to a positive reaction from the audiences. Daughter of famous producer Kumar Mangat, this young beauty has that girl-next door looks and coming from a filmy family she surely knows more than a thing or two about this industry.Bollywood Hungama brings you a chance to get up, close and personal with Amita as she shares her Haal-e-Dil only on Celebrity Chat on Tuesday, June 24, at 1500 hrs IST.
Ash’s Reply To A Veiwer’s Comment
After Sarkar Raj hasn’t done pretty well on screen, there was a viewer asking some details from RGV about how could Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan) open his heart to a lady from foreign whome he met just a day before. Though RGV replied to the viewer saying, “May be he has a weakness for worldly beauties”, wifey Ash wasn’t quite convinced with the answer. And so, here is her lecture to the readers: “When you have two people ‘confide’ in each other, it’s such a personal experience; it underlines a deep connection between the two on various levels and makes this obvious to the observer. Here the audience are given the realistic space in which the characters express themselves which is very much clear in the language of the film (Realistic in acting, dialogue, camera etc.) we chose CONFIDING IN as hugely intimate an experience to convey this deep connection, rather than ‘fans blowing hair and clothes, background aalaaps or song, round trolley movements, or rain out of nowhere and waltzing etc’ to convey this. It’s all in the Eyes of the Characters and in the intense intimacy of confiding!!! That’s SARKAR RAJ!”
Gawd….was that out of self defence or out of frustration of the movie doing well below their quite high expectations??
Rani Mukherjee’s Act Is Class Apart
Rani Mukherjee, who plays an angel in her forthcoming movie, “Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic”, is quite exited about it these days. The lady, who has been in news for her relationship with Adi Chopra, is now in news for her film. And the fact that the movie has a little different subject from the rest of the lot, makes her more excited than nervous. Rani says that she has always liked to experiment with her roles and this time it’s a wonderful experiment, from which she expects a lot. “I play an angel, which no other actress has played earlier in Indian films.” says the once upon a time, bubbly actress.”
Hope Rani’s angels help her getting a hit after a long time.
Preity Miffed Over The IPL Rumors
Preity Zinta, who is the proud co-owner of her team in IPL, was a little upset while the IPLs were going on. But the upsetness had to do nothing about the performance of the team but was because of the continuous rumours about her. Though the lady chose not to reveal what the rumours were all about, she said that it quite disturbed her role of a businesswoman and cheerer. But then, after the dimpled beauty was told about the motive of hampering her confidence and success of the people spreading the rumours, she gathered up all her bubbliness and strength to be unaffected by them and rock on till the end.
But then, we do wonder whether the rumours were about the closeness she and Yuvraj shared during IPL???