Yet another comedy from Akshay Kumar awaiting release

With Akshay Kumar giving a hattrick of hits this year, there could not be a better year ending for him than the release of his another rib-tickling comedy ‘Welcome’ directed by ace film director, Anees Bazmee, the king of comedy films and featuring Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat, Paresh Rawal and Nana Patekar, in avtaars, never seen before.

The storyline goes as such: Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar), Majnu (Anil Kapoor) and their boss, Sikander (Feroz Khan) are basically three Hong Kong-based serio-comic mobsters, who are keen to get their sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) married into a respectable family and zero in on Rajiv (Akshay Kumar). Again, Sanjana, who is totally unaware of her brothers’ plans, meets Rajiv on a cruise and they fall in love.

What follows after that, is a commotion of comically funny situations with the confusion reaching it’s climax when a stunning bombshell (Mallika Sherawat), arrives on the scene and claims to be Rajiv’s fiancée which only adds to the hullabaloo and chaos.

The music of Welcome has been composed by some of the biggest music directors of India, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid-Wajid and Anand Raj Anand. The music, releasing on ‘JUNGLEE’ is already making waves and is on its way to the charts.

Shadaab Khan ready with his directorial debut

Late Amjad Khan’s son Shadaab Khan has come a long way since his debut as an actor in ‘Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat’ opposite Rani Mukherjee. He is now ready with his directorial debut, “Highway 203″, a thriller starring K.K. Menon and Perizaad Zorabian. Produced by Prince Dendona the movie is a small budgeted project.

The film, ready for release in February, was originally meant to feature Naseeruddin Shah and Tabu. Shadaab narrates his bitter experience with them, “Tabu showed great interest and then vanished without a trace! Shah one fine day got his secretary to inform me he isn’t doing the film, but that’s okay. The goodwill that my father generated died with him.”

However, Shadaab is very happy with the work of his lead pair. “I’m glad I got K.K. and Perizaad. K.K. is an astonishing actor and Perizaad, who plays a very bad aspiring actress, was a surprise,” says the young actor-turned director.

Aki’s success story

With three consecutive hits in a single year, who can be happier at the moment than our very own Akshay Kumar?! His success story needs no introduction coz’ after “Namaste London”and “Hey Baby”, its time to celebrate yet again as his latest flick “Bhool Bhulaiyaa” has been declared a hit too.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa is a story of a couple (played by Vidya Balan and Shiney Ahuja) who settle in their ancestral haveli which is supposedly haunted. In comes Akshay, to free the house from all evil spirits. Though this Priyadarshan film has a typical style of comedy with known faces like Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav and Asrani, Akshay is surely the perkiest of the lot.

The songs of this much speculative film have a mass appeal. In fact they have not only topped the Indian charts but also found the no. 7 place in the U.K. top 10 chartbusters. In the first two days alone, this film has done a business of more than 6 crore rupees outside India?!

Though aki admits to work hard and not think about giving a hit or a flop, his success story this year has given him and all his fans a reason to rejoice!

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Kapoor kids awaiting success of “SAWARIYAA”

It’s difficult to hit the headlines if you have put just one step into this ever increasing Bollywood business but if your film belongs to one of the top five film makers of the Hindi film industry, you are sure to grab all eyeballs.

This is the story of the “cute” onscreen couple Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor, who are exceedingly busy these days attending press conferences and social dos…all for their film, “Saawariyaa”.

Due to release just before Diwali, this Sanjay Leela Bhansali film has already raised hopes with its lavishly shot film promos. Though the crew is unwilling to reveal the plot of the film, it surely seems to be a must watch.

In fact a month before it hits the theatres, the songs of “Sawariyaa” are already a hit with music lovers….and for the two star kids there is nothing to worry ‘coz by now they have thousands of fan following.

We can now just wait and watch if this film can repeat the magic of Bhansali’s “Black” or “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”.

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Kunal Kapoor’s first on-screen lip-lock

Bollywood’s promising actor, Kunal Kapoor, is happy with his first on-screen lip-lock which he shared with Konkona Sen Sharma in ‘Laaga Chunari Mein Daag’. The movie was also Kunal’s first family drama and he shares screen space with Rani Mukerji, Abhishek Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan in the film.

“My first on-screen kiss, Konkona and I did it well, considering we did it in below-zero temperature in Switzerland with 50 people gawking,” Kunal told IANS.

Next from Kunal Kapoor is much talked about ‘Aaja Nachle’ with Madhuri Dixit..

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Hamper Pamper from ‘Om Shanti Om’

That ‘Om Shanti Om’ has a song featuring 30 stars is a stale one now. What people don’t know is the fact that SRK has presented a gift hamper containing expensive watches and cellphones to all the stars of the song, since all of them refused to accept money.

Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Mithun, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Salman Khan, Saif, Rani Mukherjee, Kajol, Preity Zinta, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Karisma Kapoor and Bobby Deol, among others, have all done the song for free. Shah Rukh, to thank them, sent them a gift hamper each.

Each hamper contains a watch (from an international company for which SRK is a brand ambassador), a N-series cellphone, a gold coin, an ‘Om Shanti Om’ T-shirt and a personalized letter written by SRK and director Farah Khan.

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Bipasha Basu to play Shahjahan’s daughter

After Aishwarya Rai being finalized for the role of Mumtaz Mahal in Sir Ben Kingsley next ambitious project, it is Bipasha Basu who seems to have been decided for the role of Jahan Ara Begum ( Shah Jahan’s daughter who looked after her ailing father after he was imprisoned in his old age by son Aurangzeb in a citadel from where he continuously gazed at Taj Mahal, the monument of love he had got built for his love Mumtaz).

Sources say that Kingsley talked about this project with Bipasha when they came together to host the new Seven Wonders event in Lisbon in July this year. Though Bips has nodded her yes for the dates, her dates are yet to be sorted out.

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‘Om Shanti Om’ versus ‘Saawariya’ - Butts versus Abs

Two big ambitious projects are ready to hit box-office this festive season- Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Saawariya’ and SRK and Farah Khan’s ‘Om Shanti Om’. Taking a close look at them, one realizes that both are following the same marketing target via different routes.

For ‘Saawariya’, there is a rumour going round that RK Banner’s next big hope, Ranbir Kapoor, will be seen prancing around in a see-through white towel (how RK-ish, remember all those RK heroines wet and white?). As for ‘Om Shanti Om’, everyone is quite aware of SRK’s shirtless ‘Dard-e-disco’ and flaunting six-pack abs.

Both the movies have a new female face and where Sonam Kapoor was forbidden to show her face before SLB gave the green signal, Shah Rukh’s co-star Deepika Padukone’s celebrity face was too well-known to be kept in ‘Purdah’.

Also both the directors have kept mum about their basic storyline. Only producer SRK and director Farah Khan are so friendly and fun-loving and Bhansali is so brusque and bristly that one tends to put them both in different categories.

Well, whatever the marketing approach may be, with Ranbir Kapoor’s butt versus SRK’s shirless abs, the box-office this festive season will have fireworks for sure.

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Kajol and Ajay Devgan signed for ‘Toonpur Ka Super Hero’

Eros International, the leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector has signed Kajol opposite hubby Ajay Devgan for ‘Toonpur Ka Super Hero’ – a 3D film with animation. With this film, this off-screen couple will be seen together on-screen for the 2nd time post marriage, the first being ‘You, Me and Hum’.
Under the direction of ad filmmaker Kireet Khurana, the movie has an exciting storyline where a reel life hero accidentally lands in a world of cartoons and transforms into a real life hero. The film will have Ajay Devgan playing himself.
Sunil Lulla, President, Eros International India said, “Toonpur promises to be a family entertainer with a lot of adventure, romance, fun element and the first 3-D film with animation”.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa - Amisha Patel ko ‘Bhool’gaya

After ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd’, Amisha Patel will next be seen in the film ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’. Unfortunately Amisha, who plays the lead role opposite Akshay Kumar, is almost absent from the promos and even the posters of the film. This has made Amisha extremely upset with director Priyadarshan and even the producers T. Series.

Infact the posters show Vidya Balan by Akshay’s side while Amisha has been shown with the character actors Asrani, Manoj Joshi, Paresh Raal, etc. Since the music CDs of the film too have the same picture, Amisha has supposedly decided not to attend the music launch of ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’.

Director Priyadarshan apologetically says, “No I am not aware that she is upset. I have though seen the posters and CD’s and if Amisha is hurt and feels let down then she has every right to be.” However the director also maintained that he was unable to see and approve the posters and CDs earlier as he was not in town.

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