Monday, December 29, 2008

Akshay Kumar & Priyanka Chopra break the ice

It was a long icy gnawing emptiness when the pair which gave hits like Suneel Darshan’s Andaaz and climaxing in Abbas-Mustan’s Aitraaz stopped working with each other for reasons unknown. So deep was the cleft between the pair that Suneel Darshan had to scrap an Akshay-Priyanka starrer after a song featuring them.

But finally, after the long gap of three years, the fans of the duo were enthralled to see them together when Akshay and Priyanka performed together on stage on Thursday for Christmas at the Convention Centre in Hong Kong for a show called ‘From Chandi Chowk To Hong Kong.’ As an icing to the cake was the Bong beauty Bipasha Basu’s performance who was earlier scheduled to perform in Mumbai for New Year’s eve.

“Yes, I performed on stage with Akshay Kumar in Hong Kong. It was great fun”, says Priyanka.

priyanka chopra

Salman Khan’s gesture of love for Aamir Khan

This is another addition to the gestures of friendship between Aamir and Salman Khan. Salman is all praises and best wishes for Aamir’s ‘Ghajini’ so much so that he himself painted out two paintings of Aamir from ‘Ghajini’.

The paintings, in keeping with the somewhat dark theme of the film, are in black and white and a noticeable aspect of both the paintings is the fact that both of them depict Aamir’s by-now-famous Ghajini hairstyle.

Asin, the leading lady of “Ghajini” on last Wednesday unveiled the paintings at a special function at the Inox at Nariman Point in South Mumbai. Asin said she was “highly impressed” by the creative talent of the star “who can paint so well”.

Not to mention, both Aamir and Asin are keeping their fingers crossed as their film goes into Janta’s court this Christmas.
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asin

asin

asin

Rajesh Khanna does a lip lock with Saara

Former Congress MP and grandfather to Twinkle Khanna’s son, Aarav has surpassed Big B’s act in ‘Nishabd’. The ageing actor, who is ready with his new flick Wafaa, will be seen lip-locking and even biting his heroine Saara, a Pakistani actress, in an intimate scene. The act is sure to leave his fans, relatives and friends speechless with embarrassment. The film has been directed by Rakesh Sawant, brother of Bollywood bombshell Rakhi Sawant. But the director says the scenes are not just fitted in rather they are an important part for the film’s flow. In the movie Rajesh and Saara play husband and wife so the scene was put in. The movie revolves around a business tycoon marrying a young air hostess who has eyes on his enormous wealth.

rajesh khanna kissing sara

rajesh khanna kissing sara

Prachi Desai takes another leap

Her big leap from smaller screen to the silver screen proved to be quite successful with Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Rock On’. Talking about Prachi Desai, the young lady is already geared up for her second Bollywood venture.

Prachi is all excited about her next project which is a part of director Abbas Mastaan’s and Vashu Bhagnani’s co-production venture under Burmawala banner with Rumi Jaffery directing the movie. Titled ‘Life Partner’, the movie has Prachi opposite Tushar Kapoor along with Fardeen Khan and Genelia.

Says Prachi ” Yes I am doing this film and can’t talk more about it as it is not the right time to talk about it.”

prachi desai

Vikram Bhatt hires ‘Ice Maiden’ for 6000 pounds per day

Who can forget the lavish spending made by filmmaker Vikram Bhatt for the magical European castle which was the setting of his horror flick ‘1920’. Now, Vkram Bhatt is repeating his lead couple of ‘1920’, Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma, in ‘Phirr’ and he has gone ahead and done something for the film which very few producers would dare to do.

Vikram has recently shot some portions of the film in UK and during this schedule, he hired a beautiful and gorgeous ship called the ‘Ice Maiden’. Shooting aboard the ship cost Vikram a whopping 6000 pounds per day. “It was the costliest shoot that I have done,” he says.

However, Vikram is quick to defend his spending and says, “I am not a fool to spend that amount on hiring a ship, if it wasn’t required. I can’t reveal much but the ship is an essential aspect in the climax of the film. The temperature was freezing… It was below zero… in weather conditions like this it becomes difficult to shoot action sequences. But it was worth the experience.”

The investment will definitely prove to be worth only if the film sets the cash registers ringing at the box-office.
adah sharma