Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Soha Ali Khan’s Hot photos in Maxim May 2008 issue


Riya Sen gaining weight? Look at her thighs

She sure did gain a lot of weight. And it’s so embrassing to release these pictures. Well have a look and tell us what you think?

Akshay Kumar says no to comedy

Akshay Kumar who is back to doing action films this year has been refusing to do comedies if reports are to be believed. Apparently, when director Priyadarshan offered the action king Billoo Barber, Akshay who was busy with Chandni Chowk To China Town turned down the film.

Priyadarshan then approached Shah Rukh Khan who agreed to launch the film as his home production. Sources claim that when Priyadarshan once again approached Akshay with another comedy script, Akshay begged out of the film citing reasons that he wasn’t doing comedy this year.

Naturally, the director was disappointed to know that Akshay wasn’t doing the film. Since the duo had worked together in hits like Hera Pheri, Bhool Bhulaiya and Bhagam Bhag, Priyadarshan was keen to work with Akshay in a comedy again. But the action king is keen on doing only action films and all because of his four year old son Aarav. Aarav loves action and likes watching his dad fly around like a superhero.

His forthcoming film Chandni Chowk To China Town has Akshay performing great stunt scenes on the Great Wall Of China. Roger Yuan from Shanghai Knights will be one of Akshay’s adversaries in the sequence. Even in Vipul Shah’s Singh Is Kinng, Akshay is in full action mode.

Ranbir is my boyfriend : Deepika

Deepika Padukone may keep quite when asked personal questions here in India. But she was not so silent in Dubai. According to reports, she was quite frank and forthcoming in answering the numerous questions the local Gulf press asked her.

She also denied rumours of a break-up with actor Ranbir Kapoor. She said they were still very much an item, and were currently happy with the relationship.

“Yes I have a boyfriend and we are happy,” she supposedly said during a recent visit to Dubai as the brand ambassador of a real estate company. Then why the rumours? “There is always a lot of speculation, but that is something you have to deal with. We are together and I refer to him as my boyfriend.” Deepika is currently working on Nikhil Advani’s Chandni Chowk to China, with Akshay Kumar.

Celina is shocked over public apathy

Celina Jaitley is in a state of shock after her brother had a near-fatal accident in an army cantonment town in Madhya Pradesh.

“He could’ve died on the road, right there…my parents’ only son, my brother,” Celina, who has featured in films like “No Entry” and “Apna Sapna Money Money”, told IANS. The accident took place in Mhow.

“And would you believe, my brother Vikrant, a captain in the army, who was posted in Lebanon with the UN peacekeeping force, lay in a pool of blood for 25 minutes unattended after being in a hit-and-run accident. People just stood and stared at this army man in uniform as he lay dying,” she added.

“Until a Muslim gentleman passed by, saw the scene, found my brother’s mobile thrown off at a distance. The gentleman, god bless his soul, dialled the last number on my brother’s mobile which happened to belong to my father, a retired army colonel.

“Can you imagine a father being told his only son is lying unconscious in a pool of blood on the road? My father ran all the way from our home to the spot. Fortunately, an army doctor who happened to be passing by had taken charge of the situation by the time my father arrived.

“They both kept screaming and shouting at my brother to keep him from slipping into coma until they reached the hospital. Otherwise anything could’ve happened.”

The actress was busy shooting for Rohit Shetty’s “Golmaal Returns” in Goa. On hearing the news, she rushed home.

“I had to rush to Mhow to be with my parents. I felt really guilty that I wasn’t there for them when this happened. Then I had to rush back to Goa because it was the climax shooting of ‘Golmaal Returns’ and there was no way I could be relieved. I shot the climax, then rushed back to be with my parents.

“I’ve hardly slept in the last one week. Fortunately, he is now out of danger and has been shifted to Lucknow. But no one can imagine what I’ve gone through.”

What really bothers Celina beyond the immediate crisis is the apathy of common people.

“No one helped my brother. Women just stood there with their dupattas to their mouths, men just looked on curiously, when everyone in Mhow knows my father as retired Colonel Vikram Jaitley. Our home is known as the Jaitley kothi.

“In fact, some over-concerned types took my brother’s shattered helmet from the accident site and gave it to my mother at home who was deliberately kept clueless about my brother. She thought the worst had happened.” However, the worse is over.

Sophia in Transparent Saree : Enormous Boobs show


Movie Review: Bhootnath

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Aman Siddiqui, Juhi Chawla, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav, Satish Shah
Director: Vivek Sharma
Ratings: ** 1/2

“Bhootnath” is that rare film set in Goa where you don’t see a single bikini-clad woman. The songs are colourful, but they are done with the devilish delight of a rock concert rather than the calculated manoeuvres of choreographic manipulation.

Indeed, debutant director Vivek Sharma harks back to an artless innocence to tell the tale of a benign ghost who comes to life.

The film’s most delectable aspect is the rapport that grows between the ghost (Amitabh Bachchan) and the fearless little boy (Aman Siddiqui) who comes to live in the dead man’s mansion, takes on the ghost and even gets the better of him. Both Bachchan and the boy have a ball. So do we, in portions.

The film’s best scenes feature the Big B with the incredibly confident and polished Aman. The pair just takes over the screen and makes you forget the narrative’s all-too-apparent flaws.

There are plot-holes large enough to make “Bhootnath” an uneasy bumpy ride. But Amitabh and Aman make you smile as they frolic, sing, banter and deliver some really heartwarming homilies on the quality of existence.

Of late, the Big B has been repeatedly seen in interactive situations with little kids. After Ayesha Kapoor in “Black”, Rucha Vaidya in “Ek Ajnabee” and Sweeni Khare in “Cheeni Kum”, he brings a sense of cross-generation harmony with another acutely cute and young co-star.

While the kids in the other three films were traumatized to one degree or another, Aman plays a normal, bratty but sensitive kid, yet another addition to the growing brood of brilliant child actors in Bollywood after Darsheel Safary in “Taare Zameen Par”.

The director lets the child be. He imposes no adult perceptions on him. The narration consequently carries an air of old-world naivete to the end. There are no breaks for romantic songs, item numbers and other modern day quirks and compromises.

“Bhootnath” glides forward with the unconscious skill of a little boat in a tranquil lake, which knows where it wants to go without creating any stress within the pace of the grace.

And what would Bhootnath be without the Big B, sportingly sharing lines, visuals, songs and drama with a child who gives him tit for tat, and more?

The rapport between the wandering spirit and the spirited kid could have fallen apart were it not for the cool camaraderie between them. While one is unschooled in acting therefore totally spontaneous, the other is so skilled and schooled that he readily redefines what is cool.

The duo apart, the other characters are largely sketchy. Rajpal Yadav with shoe-polish on his face plays one of the stereotypical Goan drunkards.

Priyanshu Chatterjee as the dead man’s ungrateful son struggles to give substance to an under-written role. His character brings into play the age-old conflict between old-world values where a home was considered much more than financial asset, and the new generation which thinks property can be easily bought. Known for their movies that convey moral messages, producers B.R. and Ravi Chopra couldn’t let go of the chance to make a social statement.

Juhi Chawla as the flustered mom is sweet and angelic. But she is unable to add anything to the drama beyond a point.

Interestingly, Shah Rukh Khan in a guest appearance clearly tries to improvise on the badly written dialogues mainly in scenes where he pokes fun at his wife’s cooking.

Shah Rukh and Juhi continue to share a quaint if not crackling chemistry. But the chemistry here is clearly between the ghost of a 65-year-old and a 10-year-old child who knows he’s up against a formidable adversary.

Or maybe he doesn’t. Sometimes the motivations underlying spontaneity can be the very opposite of fear.

“Bhootnath” tells us ghosts are not scary, they can be fun. At the end of the blithe film we believe the director even if we don’t belive in ghosts at all.