Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Akshay Kumar & Naomi Campbell - The hot combo?

Akshay Kumar is not a new name for Hollywood. The actor has already paired with Hollywood stars like Denise Richards, Sylvester Stallone, Brandon Routh etc. Going a step further, Akki is supposedly all set to sing along with supermodel, actress and singer Naomi Campbell in a duet for the animated movie ‘Jumbo’.

Naomi has acted in the movie ‘Miami Rhapsody’ earlier and is set to appear in another Hollywood movie with an Indian touch- ‘Karma, Confessions and Holi’ which also features Randeep Hooda and Sushmita Sen.

Khiladi Kingg Kumar is not behind with many projects in toe. His ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ is coming up in January. Also in progress are ‘Kambakht Ishq’, ‘Blue’, ‘Eight by Ten’ and Deepa Mehta’s ‘Komagata Maru’, which tells the story of the historic voyage and challenge to Canadian immigration laws early in the 20th century.

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Farhan Akhtar ventures into modelling for Maruti Suzuki

He is a complete package of talents. Farhan Akhtar, who had already carved his niche as an ace director in Bollywood, has proved his versatility as a producer, actor and singer with ‘Rock On’. The movie has been a superhit and this has changed things for Farhan.

With just one territory left to venture forth and that is modeling, Farhan has already taken a step towards it. So, now he will be seen endorsing the automobile major Maruti Suzuki’s latest offering, a small segment car named ‘A-Star’, which has a well-suited tagline ‘Stop @ (At) Nothing‘.

Farhan confirmed the news saying, “Yes. I am endorsing Maruti’s ‘A-Star’. Besides the press ads there’s also a TV commercial that has been shot which will get aired by early next month.”

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Vidya Balan - The mimickery artist in the making


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Konkona Sen Sharma plays the lesbian act

Seems homosexuality is the code of the season! After ‘Dostana’, it is Rohan Sippy’s ‘The Preisdent is Coming’ which brings forth this subject with Konkona Sen Sharma playing the lesbian in the film.

The film is directed by Kunaal Roy Kapur. In fact, Kunaal has directed a play with the same name. The movie is written by Anubhav Pal and stars actors like Shernaz Paul and Ira Dubey. The film brings forth a new genre called mockumentary as it is made in a documentary style with satirical humour.

The movie moves around six wacky people, participating in a contest in which the winner will get a chance to shake hands with President George Bush. Konkona is one of them.

The production house RSE, Ramesh Sippy Entertainments, has decided to release the film on the 2K digital platform. It means that the movie will be distributed without any prints and will be shown on prime time with the help of wide Digital platform of 2K Digital Screens all over India. The transportation cost of prints in that way will be saved.

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Kareena Kapoor’s Commitments Denied Her British Honor

Like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Mallika Sherawat, Kareena Kapoor also seems like getting honor and prestige at international level. She, after receiving an appreciation from Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone recently caught attention of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

She was invited by the House of Commons as the special guest of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at his residence at Downing Street on November 18th. She was expected to meet the PM himself and to be honored as the international ambassador. And to be the part of Silver Star charity that is known for spreading awareness about diabetes. The proceedings at the function were entertained by members from the different areas like politics, business, arts and culture, sports etc. However Bebo, couldn’t made it at the function due to her dates with Sajid Nadiadwala for the shooting of film ‘Kambakt Ishq‘ along Akshay Kumar in Mumbai. Though, she is still eager to work with Silver Star charity.

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Chitrangada is Sudhir Mishra’s Chandramukhi

It was Sudhir Mishra who introduced Chitrangada Singh in the tinsel town with ‘Hazaaro Khwaishein Aisi’ and the director openly expressed his displeasure when Chitrangada chose to make her comeback with ‘Sorry Bhai’. However, the director liked the film quite a lot and finally came to good terms with the lady.

Now, Sudhir has cast Chitrangada in the role of a courtesan in his period film that is strangely titled ‘The Nawab, The Nautch Girl and The John Company’. Chitrangada will play the nautch girl in the film which is set in era of the pre-Independence, British-ruled India. To be mentioned here that Sudhir has also replaced his regular Soha Ali Khan from his next ‘Aur Devdas’ and has roped in Chitrangada for the role of Chandramukhi. Mishra made certain changes to the film’s script and roped in Chitrangada for the part that was initially meant to be played by Soha Ali Khan.

So, apart from making a comeback to Bollywood, Chitrangada has also managed to make her comeback into someone’s heart too!

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A leaner looking Emraan Hashmi for ‘Raaz’

Bhatt camp and Emraan Hashmi go hand in hand and after the success of ‘Jannat’ not that the Bhatts complain of this chemistry. The next much-hyped project from this camp with Emraan is ‘Raaz- The Mystery Continues’ produced under the banner of Vishesh Films and directed by young Mohit Suri.

Here, Emraan plays the role of an artist and the actor has gone to the extent of losing 10 kgs for the role. His lean look along with his spiked hair, an arty beard, kohled eyebrows, and junk jewellery have given a positive effect with a brand new promising look for the actor.

It was director Mohit Suri’s idea that Emraan should shed off some of that extra flab for the character and professional enough, Emraan crash dieted and completely cut off bread, pastries, cheese and any kind of junk food from his diet. He switched to sugar free desserts, from aata to nachni rotis and even minimized his salt intake. The results are there for all to see- he was 76 kgs and is now much leaner at 66 kgs.

Speaking about this effort Emraan says “It’s not so difficult, if you’re serious about it. And the results are the biggest motivator encouraging me to stick to the schedule. Along with the change in diet, I walk every day for an hour and drink lots of water. Also, I’ve begun having dinner 3 hours before I sleep, and whenever I have a day off, I go for a run before breakfast, because you supposedly burn more of fat that way. I saw the biggest difference in a week after cutting off bread from my diet.”

Emraan is happy with the results and plans to continue with this leaner look. He says, “I’ve got used to this discipline and am enjoying this new leaner feel.”

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