2009 Miss. Triumph Show in Mumbai

Triumph International added to the global warming by presenting hot-hot models wearing their latest 2009 spring and summer collections at a show, that took place recently in Mumbai. It was the best time for the models to walk with poise, showcasing company’s latest collection, with its third stand alone store inaugurated in New Delhi a week ago!

The Managing Director of Triumph International, Mr. Thorsten Allenstein, was beaming with pleasure at the fashion show! The showman knew that the show was a smash hit and the designs were applauded for their appeal, comfort and vibrant colors. The models were, although not very pretty but surely elegant with fine hair and hot stats! Accordingly, the creation displayed in their designs overshadowed their choice of models!!

We have brought you the pictures of this successful show of Triumph International; and eager await your precious comments.

Hrithik injured yet again while shooting for ‘Kites’

It was only last October when Hrithik Roshan injured his knees while shooting for a dangerous car stunt in Las Vegas for his home production ‘Kites’. Now, again this Tuesday, the actor hurt his arm at the Filmistan Studio in Mumbai while doing a stunt shot. He was breaking a glass with a rod and one piece of glass flew and hurt him.

Though it is a minor injury, getting injured while doing stunts for his movies is not new for the Roshan lad. While shooting for ‘Krrish’ and ‘Dhoom 2’, he had torn the ligament in his right knee and continued working despite the pain. Towards the latter half of 2008, Hrithik underwent surgery in the US and spent nearly two months recovering but his tryst with injuries continues.

Kites is about an Indian boy’s romantic affair with a Latina girl and their predicament as they do not understand each other’s language. Directed by Anurag Basu, the movie has US-based Spanish model Barbara Mori opposite Hrithik.

The premiere of ‘Raaz - The Mystery Continues’

The premiere of the much awaited horror flick ‘Raaz- The mystery continues’ was held at Fame Adlabs in Mumbai on 24th January. The event was attended by the cast and the makers of the film including Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt, Adhyayan Suman, Kangana Ranaut, Mohit Suri and also Soha Ali Khan. Kangana looked gorgeous as ever in her unconventional backless attire with the glow on her face heightened by the fact that she had her current love Adhyayan next to her. Check out the pics from the event.

Aishwarya and Akshay Kumar awarded Padma Shree

The 60th year of the Indian republic made Bollywood proud when two leading stars of Bollywood were awarded top civilian honours. Today, the Government of India awarded Padma Shree to Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has popularized Indian cinema across the globe and has given much to Indian entertainment industry and though Akshay Kumar has done mainly commercial cinema yet his success and hits cannot be ignored. To be known that a few days ago, Akshay had been given the popular choice best actor award, which he refused.

The other Bollywood recipient of the prestigious Padma Shree is none other than the legendary Helen.

Kareena, Katrina and Yana roped in for Miss India Worldwide pageant

The grand finale of PC Jewellers Miss India Worldwide pageant to be held at Pragati Maidan Jan 31 and Deepak’s Tijori Entertainment is hosting the show with Kaleidovision.

To add glamour and glitter to the event Bollywood beauties like Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif and Yana Gupta have been roped in.

“There will be a mix of beauty, talent and glamour at the finale of the pageant, with Bollywood beauties shaking a leg with the participants; it will be an evening to remember,” host Deepak Tijori said at the press conference here Wednesday.

The 20 finalists will go through a 10 day grilling regime.

“Training is not going to be a cakewalk for them. They will have to go through a tough and hectic regime of around 14 hours a day, which means they cannot take it easy,” said Mehar Bhasin, who will look after the grooming of the contestants.

“The finalists will undergo an exclusively designed training and grooming regime that includes fitness, diction, psyche, aptitude, hair and make-up sessions. The training will enhance their confidence not only for the finale, but for further rounds to be held on the international stage as well,” she added.

Beauty expert Blossom and Samantha Kochhar will take care of their beauty and hair, while fitness tips will be given by model-turned-actors Milind Soman and Rahul Dev.

Geeta Basra to woo her fans in a music video

Geeta Basra has given just two films to Bollywood, (‘Dil Diya Hai’ and ‘The Train), yet she has managed to get hold of a considerable fan following and now she has something new for her admirers. This time Geeta will be shaking her stuff not for some flick but for a music video.

Here is what Geeta had to say about it. “I may have been termed choosy all this while but I don’t have any regrets about it. That’s the way I want to shape my career. I am young with age on my side and any wrong step would have been disastrous. I would rather wait and watch than burn my fingers.”

Geeta explains why she decided to do the video saying, “The sheer vision of the director and an emotional story that runs with it. Apart from lead roles, there were offers for item songs and music videos but I didn’t want to do anything where my heart was not set in. This one does sound exciting though. The setup is quite big, the scale is large and the grandeur amazing. This is not going to be one of those regular music video that you get to see all the time.”

It took a lot of persuasion and clearing of doubts before the producers could get a nod from Geeta. Directed by Colossus, the outfit run by video directors Ajay and Lovel Arora, the video is pasteurized on Geeta and a new male model named Rahul. “Lovel is a good friend of mine and I am happy to be finally working with him. When he came to meet me, he knew and hence further convinced me that I was perfect for it”, says Geeta.

The song in the music video is from Sukhshinder Shinda, who is a well-known UK based Bhangra producer and artist. He has worked on over 200 albums while producing numerous hit songs in last couple of decades.

Kareena Or Priyanka?

Shyam Benegal is coming back with another exciting film called Chamki. He had zeroed in Kareena first for the role.

Says a source, “Kareena was excited to begin with. She was supremely charged by the role and what Shyam Babu had done with her sister Karisma in Zubeida.

But then she opted out, as she often does from offbeat challenges like Deepa Mehta’s Water and Rituparno Ghosh’s Raincoat pleading it was too early for her to attempt something so unconventional.

Then came Priyanka Chopra who was quite kicked about the part. But she and the film’s then-producer Sanjay Gupta had a fall-out earlier when she had said no to his Musafir. The role then went to Urmila Matondkar who had monetary issues with the producer.”

Says the source, “Kareena continues to have reservations about non-mainstream cinema. She was recently offered another heroine-oriented film by Rituparno Ghosh. She declined.

Barring Pritish Nandy Communications Chameli she has never returned to non-mainstream cinema. But now Chamki, set in Rajasthan, is being re-designed as a big broad epic musical with super choreography and lavish songs by Javed Akhtar and A R Rahman. No expense will be spared to make Chamki a big blockbuster.”

Now the producers are thinking afresh for someone else for the role. It requires a dancer trained in the Rajasthani folk dance style.

Who would you suggest?

Kangana Doesnt Favor Live in Relationships!

Kangana Ranaut’s latest film Raaz The Mystery Continues has hit the screen and we still have to wait to see how the film fares at the box office. Kangana after the success of Fashion, got another glamourous role.

She plays a model again. “I am playing the role of a successful model, who is disturbed by some spirits. This is a character-oriented movie and I am eagerly waiting for its release,” she says.
Kangana’s character in the film lives in with her boyfriend played by her real-life beau Adhyayan. However in real life she doesn’t favor the idea of living in.

“With time everything has changed, men are living with men and women are marrying women. I do not want to offend anybody here but we should not get carried away by the western culture. We have to preserve our values and I am not in favour of any live-in relation,” stated Ranaut.

When asked about her marriage plans, Kangana said: “I am too young for a marriage. I am just 21 and first want to secure my career before taking any such decision.”

“I faced many problems when I came to Mumbai three years back. Here nobody helps you till you have a godfather. I have learnt so many things here and think that I have gained the wisdom of a 40-year-old human in the last two-three years through my struggle,” she said.

She has earned a fairly good reputation as an actor for her tender age.

Dusky Mugdha Paired With Fair Neil

Mugdha Godse who is flying high after getting appreciated for her debut film Fashion, will now be seen with Neil Nitin Mukesh in their forthcoming film Jail. Mugdha thinks Neil is extremely fair and their contrasting skin complexions will be interesting to watch.

“I saw ‘Johnny Gaddar’. He is very talented. Very….fair! I think we’ll light up the screen with our contrasting skin complexion,” Mugdha told IANS.

Neil returned the compliment and said: “Mugdha is extremely talented, drop-dead gorgeous and dusky.”

And though the plot’s focus is on Neil, Mugdha too has been given a meaty role.

“I’m looking forward to doing naach-gana after doing the unconventional stuff in ‘Fashion’. In fact, all the offers coming to me now are of the same variety, which is surprising considering I did none of that in my first film,” Mugdha said.

Manisha Koirala Ready For a Solid Comeback!

Manisha Koirala has been coming back time to time… the last comeback I remember is some crap called Mehbooba co-starring Ajay Devgan and Sanjay Dutt… There were some similar films before that… I forget their names.But, Manisha Koirala is apparently getting ready for a big comeback with a Mani Ratnam film. Her earlier Mani Ratnam films Bombay and Dil Se got her a lot of appreciation and she hopes to repeat the same with her comeback film.

Manisha is said to have lost oodles of weight for this slightly gray role she has in the Mani flick. Hope that works for her.

After Deepika & Kareena, now Priyanka does it for SRK

Recently it has become a routine with SRK to have a song with all the leading Bollywood celebs in the guest appearance. It started with the superhit song of ‘Om Shanti Om’ and continued in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. Now, SRK does it again in his much awaited ‘Billoo Barber’. After Deepika Padukone and Kareena Kapoor, it is Priyanka Chopra who gets to shake a leg with King Khan. Priyanka was last seen with Shahrukh in ‘Don’ and the duo set the screen afire with their song ‘Khaike Pan Banaras Wala’.

Billu Barber stars SRK, Lara Dutta and Irrfan Khan where Irrfan plays a barber, Shahrukh a superstar and Lara Dutta gets the role of Irrfan’s wife. The movie is slated for a February release.

Govinda to launch his daughter Narmada

Govinda’s career graph is on a downhill now and since her daughter Narmada is now ready to face the camera and the anxious father has decided to produce her debut film himself.

‘Narmada will launch her film career anytime in 2009. I feel today she is emotionally ready to face the camera,’ said Govinda adding, “After weighing all the pros and cons, I decided I’m the best person to produce my daughter’s debut film. I don’t want anyone else, no matter how well-meaning, to take the credit for launching my daughter.”

Govinda is considering Nikhil Advani and Shaad Ali for directing the film. “Ideally, I’d have liked Narmada to be launched by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He is among our best. But since that is not possible, we’re looking at some other names. My daughter has to be directed by someone who has a vision and an aesthetic sense and also respects the work that I do,” said the actor.

As for himself, Govinda wants to slow down his pace and has stopped signing new films or taking up rputine roles. He has decided to work only with directors who are as organised and disciplined as Mani Ratnam.

Vidya Balan under the influence of Naseeruddin Shah

Vidya Balan was overawed and intimidated when she found herself paired next to the well known actor Naseeruddin Shah Vishal Bharadwaj’s ‘Ishqiya’.

Though Vidya herself is a very fine actress, she could not find herself sitting around normally and sharing a normal conversation with him when the shot was not on. Then Naseer finally took an initiative and deliberately struck up a casual conversation with her, which broke the ice. In fact, she was so influenced by Naseer that she has worked very hard for her role and says that she has not worked so hard on a role in the longest time.

Ishqiya is being produced by Bharadwaj. The film also stars Arshad Warsi besides Balan and Naseer. Her other films include like R Balki’s ‘Pa’ and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Chenab Gandhi’.

Kingfisher airlines gone global with release of Calendar 2009

As Vijay Malaya name is synonymous to the life style and fashion in India, thus it would be routine exercise for Malaya to host glamour event like 2009 Kingfisher Calendar release party as attended by celebrity from the glamour world like Arjun Rampal, Ritu Kumar and Rahul Dev.

Like other year’s calendars this year models were also dressed in designer wears from Jean Paul Gaultier, Dean von Furstenberg, and Moschino. Atul Kasbekar shot the calendar at exquisite locations of, Thailand. This year’s calendar featured models e Moni Kangana Dutta from India, Tamara Moss (Holland and India), Nargis Fakhri (Czech Republic and Pakistan), Suisa Jongsawat (Thailand), Katya Melnikova (Russia), and Mimi Blix (Norway and Uganda).

In the own words of Mallya, “As one of the most well known and respected consumer brands in the country, Kingfisher has become synonymous with a lifestyle that encompasses some of the finest things in life. With our airline going global, this was the right time to present some of the finest models from around the globe. I am sure this year to the calendar will be a much coveted possession for one and all.”!

Just have a glimpse of some of the models from the fashion calendar.

Payal Rohatgi at the launch of her website

Payal Rohatgi shot into limelight from the oblivion with ‘Big Boss 2’, though we need not mention here the cat-fight she had with Sambhavna Seth and the way Sambhavna gave her the hell of a time on the exit interview with Pooja Bedi on Bigg Boss 2 . Sambhavna had written down the names of her notorious movies and was defending her “down market” remarks made by Payal during the show.

None the less Payal swore that its all in the past and now has buried the past by launching her official website. This was just the right time to launch her website when ‘Big Boss 2’ made her noticed and her role as a ‘full of life’ yoga instructor in the movie ‘Dil Kabaddi’ got her critical acclaim.

Check out the pics of an all green Payal Rohatgi at the launch of her website..

Juhi Chawla in a new blonde look

Juhi Chawla is one actress who is known for her versatility and bubbly nature and this time again, she is there to shock everyone with a completely different blonde look for her role in Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Luck By Chance’. In fact, it was the look of the character which impressed Juhi more than the length of the role in the film. Her blonde look has been designed by B Blunt’s Avan Contractor.

Juhi plays the character of Minty Rolly, the producer’s (Rishi Kapoor) wife.
“When Zoya offered me the role I was extremely thrilled, even though I was told it was not a big role, I dint mind, it was different from all the other characters I have played before, and that was the most exciting part. Playing Minty was so much fun! And moreover I got to color my hair blonde, which also was something I had never done before.” says Juhi.

Luck By Chance is produced by Excel Entertainment in association with Big Pictures and marks the directorial debut of Zoya Akhtar and stars Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sharvani, Sanjay Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia and Hrithik Roshan. It is slated to release on the 30th of January 2009.

Celina Jaitley as the cover girl of ‘Stuff’

There is no denying the fact that our Bollywood hotbod has been truly gifted by God as a perfect beauty. And when a gorgeous beauty comes alongside latest gadgets, the combination goes deadly. So, get ready for this deadly combo in the latest issue of ‘Stuff’ where Celina shows her stuff on the cover and inside pages and the way she displays her love for the latest gadgets gizmos like iPhone and ipod. Check out looking dazzling in a green dress with dangling red earrings on the covers of ‘Stuff’.

A golden ‘Ghajini’ statue for Aamir Khan

‘Ghajini’ had everything new about it- be it a very unique storyline, be it Aamir’s new hairstyle, be it the innovative way of promoting it, be it the launch of Van Huesen ‘Ghajini’ line and the latest being the never before heard gesture of appreciation from producer Madhu Mantena to Aamir Khan.

Madhu Mantena presented a solid-gold statue to Aamir designed specially to resemble Aamir’s Ghajini look at the party held to celebrate the film’s success earlier this week.

“8 abs included. We can see all 8 of them on the statue,” Mantena states proudly.

The statuette is pure gold and probably cost the producer close to Rs. 70-80 lakhs though he isn’t telling.

“It has certain amount of other metal to make it malleable. Solid gold wouldn’t allow the identical Ghajini shape to be done in gold. But the idea was to create an Oscar-sized statue exclusively for Ghajini. Aamir knew he was getting a trophy. But he didn’t know it would be golden and with his Ghajini’s look. He was overwhelmed,” says Mantena.

Director Murugadoss was also given a statue, though far less hefty and golden than Aamir’s, but of course including the 8-abs.

Desiclub Swimsuit Calendar, a cheering welcome to 2009

New air arrival comes on fashion scene with glamorous calendar release showcasing models in either swimsuit or Bikini at least each model for a month to be hanged around on the wall of your drawing room. After the so talked about release of Kingfisher fashion calendar’s release. Next is the number of Desiclub Swimsuit Calendar designed by desiclub.com, a leading networking portal for Indians in the United States.

This year’s calendar has models of ethnic Indian origin. According to the words of Tania Mehra one of the models in this calendar, “Ask me about the Krebs cycle or various Biological processes and I’ll be sure to fill you in but ask me to figure out how to put those intricate swimsuits on and you’ll have me stumped”. She seems quite frank about her appearance on the calendar.

Anyway enjoy the hot pics form the calendar.