Red hot Kareena Kapoor as ‘Chammak Challo’ in Ra.One

SRK is waiting with a baited breath for his ambitious project ‘Ra.One’ to hit the screens and going by the pics which are released online both SRK and Kareena Kapoor look breathtakingly perfect in their looks for the flick.
Some latest stills from Kareena’s song ‘Wanna Be My Chammak Challo’ have been released online and Kareena looks sizzling hot in a transparent red saree. The song, which also features Shah Rukh, has been sung by international star Akon and has been choreographed by Ganesh Acharya.

SRK had tweeted earlier saying, “Ra.One music to release in September, can’t wait to put Chamak Challo on TV in the next few days. Finally it’s that time when u start letting the ownership of your film to pass onto the audience.”

Bollywood News - Bollywood Star SRK and Bollywood Actress Kajol: The magical jodi in ‘Vogue’

The magical jodi of Shahrukh Khan and Kajol have given the industry many mage hits like ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge’, ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ and so on. After a long hitch of seven years the two are coming together for Karan Johar’s ‘My Name Is Khan’ which has Kajol playing SRK’s wife.

Kajol and SRK appear on the cover page of Vogue Magazine’s Indian Edition for the month of October 2009. As they look magical on the cover together, SRK expresses the fact that he is quite happy to be a part of ‘Vogue’ as his wife Gauri has already achieved this glory and he was yet to have this glory.

Shahrukh Khan to act with Obama

Karan Johar's forthcoming film 'My Name is Khan', Shah Rukh Khan will be sharing the screen with President Obama lookalike. The film is currently being shot in San Fransisco and other parts of United States.

Shehenshah Big B visits Baadshah SRK

Shehenshah-e-Bollywood- Amitabh Bachchan has wished Baadshah-e-Bollywood a speedy recovery and is planning to visit SRK at him home Mannat, after SRK’s successful arthroscopic surgery.

Amitabh wrote on his blog, “I had sent him (Shah Rukh) a message for his speedy recovery. He called back to thank and inform me that he is home. ‘I was getting depressed in hospital, so came away’.”

Big B also messaged him, “I was planning to visit you in the hospital” to which SRK replied, “Come home sir, we shall play some games.”

Amitabh further said, “Don’t take after surgery too lightly, I warned him and take rest and do not get into any kind of activity. He sounds a little groggy. I shall visit him tomorrow.”

Well that’s quite nice of Big B, guess the cold war between them is over.

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.

SRK talks about his latest item Marjaani

Shahrukh Khan has something in him that always makes his item songs click, weather the film clicks or not. SRK’s latest item song for his home production Billu Barber is already on air and his sizzling song ‘Marjaani’ with hot Kareena Kapoor is the latest talk of the twon.

SRK says, “All the songs have been made in the same way as one would expect in a Hindi movie, so the song ‘Marjanni’ is done with lots of dancers and then shouts of ‘Marjaani’ which is a bit Punjabi and Sufi-ish, if I might say so but has more of a Punjabi beat to it.”The album has a fun mix of songs that help take the movie out of the small town to a different world and brings it back. So there are these spikes in the film and I think they happen mainly because of the songs.”

So are you liking SRK’s new item songs - Marjaani and Deepika Padukone starred Love mera Hit Hai?

Watch Shahrukh Khan in Supporting Role in Billo Barber

It would be wondering to see Shahrukh Khan in supporting role in for the first time in a movie with Irfan Khan and Lara Dutta in Lead role. This is SRK’s first movie with director Priyadarshan. He is acting opposite to three Indian actresses Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone. The movie is set in a small village where a Barber Billo feels it difficult to match up with the changing times.

The thing starts moving in Billo’s life when one film unit with superstar Sahir Khan Role played by Shahrukh Khan Visits his village and Sahir Khan happens to be Billo’s School friend. Very soon Billo becomes a famed person in village and everyone persuades him let them to meet star. However for many reasons and his inhibitions he fails in meeting the star and thus become the cause of anger and ridicule of villagers. Watch some stills from the hilarious movie.

Shahrukh & Anushka Enjoyed Success of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi at Press Meet

The stars of hit, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma attended the press meet as PR exercise to commemorate success of the movie and answered the questions of media with full confidence.

Anushka who hails from the Bangalore was spotted by Wendell Rodricks, the famous fashion designer during a fashion show. Wendell Rodricks also spotted ‘Om Shanti Om’ fame Deepika Padukone. However, before, finally scheduling Anushka for ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ SRK did have an interview of Anushka. At the press meet Shahrukh as well as Anushka were looking gorgeous.

Hitting at Terror Top 10 Bollywood Movies that say it All

They say, “Movies are the mirrors of society” and with Indian society so torn with the issue of terrorism, it is but natural that the subject of terrorism find its’ way into the themes and plots of Bollywood movies. Terrorism emerged as a subject with prominence in the Hindi films with Subhash Ghai’s ‘Karma’ which was able to contextualize the issue of terrorism in and around Kashmir with a candor.

Then came the movies which delved into the psychology of terrorists with the likes of Santosh Sivan’s ‘The Terrorist’ and yet again, the silver screen showed the joint operations of army and police to combat terrorism in films like ‘Zameen’ and ‘Tango Charlie’.

Now, our new bunch of directors view terrorism with a different scale focusing on how the individual and the civil society adjusts and walks on with the life after being stopped at by bomb blast or attacks with films like ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’, Wednesday’ and the likes.

Films reach wider rather than other forms of arts and this is one reason behind the appeal of such movies. With the absence of political or diplomatic angles in these films but having human angle to counter such incidents in a more civilized way certainly help across the societies who face and suffer frequently.

To pick up certain movies which best deal with the sensitive issue of terrorism is a Herculean task, yet there are some movies which can be regarded as the masterpieces in Bollywood movies dealing with terrorism. Some of them are:

Sarfarosh

The movie revolves around Assistant Chief of Police, Ajay Singh Rathod (Aamir Khan) and his struggle against organized terrorism from across border. Ajay comes from an upright, middle-class family whose lives have been traumatized by a terrorist attack. Ajay battles against a band of hidden criminals smuggling arms into the country from Pakistan, via the Rajasthani border assisted by his devoted Muslim including Inspector Salim (Mukesh Rishi) and lover Seema (Sonali Bendre).

The movie has great characterizations and performances. Aamir Khan is far beyond competent. The film is a 100 percent as an absolute entertainer, crime drama and attack on terrorism.

Roja

Roja explores the Kashmir problem and portrays it from the common man’s point of view. Directed by Mani Ratnam, it went on to win the National Award for best film on national integration. Roja stars Arvind Swamy and Madhubala in the lead roles. It also marked the successful debut of A.R.Rehman in Bollywood.

The film shows how a cryptologist Rishi (Arvind Swamy) gets abducted by militants in Kashmir who ask for the release of Kashmir militant, Wasim Khan, in return. What follows is a heart renting struggle of a wife, the helplessness of the system and finally, the transformation of the terrorist packed with some excellent performances.

Bombay

Yet another brilliant one from director Mani Ratnam, ‘Bombay’ is set amidst the savage communal strife that ravaged parts of India in the early 1990s following the demolition of the disputed Muslim shrine Babri Masjid by Hindu extremists.

The movie revolves around the love story of a Hindu youth Shekhar (Arvind Swamy) and a Muslim girl Sheila Banu (Manisha Koirala) from Malampur village who are caught in a senseless communal bloodshed but emerge united and safe.

The movie is an expert handling of an extremely sensitive subject giving it a wide commercial appeal loaded with superb on-screen performances and an evergreen music from maestro A.R. Rehman.

Dil Se

Amar (Shahrukh Khan) is on a terrorist interview assignment for All-India Radio somewhere in a northern territory, where he keeps bumping into Meghna (Manisha Koirala), and is charmed by the mystery around her. Then comes his engagement to the frank and outspoken Preity (Preity Zinta) and the fact that Meghna is a terrorist.

What makes the film a gem is superb performances from Shahrukh Khan and more so, the brilliant performance from Manisha as a brainwashed terrorist who seems torn between love and her so-called mission, her humane side and her terrorist cause. Added to this, is the direction from Mani Ratnam and excellent scores from A.R.Rehman.

Maachis

The film deals with the tale of wronged Punjabi youth who takes to arms to avenge the injustices heaped onto him by the corrupt political set up.

The movie is different in the sense that it looks inside the emotions, the joys and the insecurity and grievances of the terrorists. They are shown as a mixture of opposites - compassionate and caring at one time, insensitive and brutal at the other. The film is set against the backdrop of the Bluestar Operation and the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Newcomers like Chandrachur Singh, Raj Zutshi, Jasjit Shergill, Ravi Gosain star along with veterans like Om Puri, Kanwaljeet, Kulbushan Karbanda besides Tabu who provides the female interest.

Fiza

FIZA is the story of a young girl (Karisma Kapoor) in search of her brother (Hrithik Roshan) who disappeared during the communal riots of 1992-93 in Mumbai.

After making every effort to trace him, Fiza sets out in the first half of the film to determine whether Amaan is dead or alive. Using various methods — be it through the media, politicians or the law enforcement agencies — Fiza embarks on her mission that brings her into contact with various characters and situations. The second half of the film takes a turn and focuses on Amaan’s difficulty in coping with re-integration back into his old world.

Mission Kashmir

The story of the film is about Altaaf (Hrithik Roshan), an orphan of war who has been adopted by a policeman, Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt), and his wife, Neelima (Sonali Kulkarni). The day Altaaf discovers that Inayat Khan was the one who killed his parents, a terrorist is born within him. Ten years later, he re-appears for a highly secret mission code, named ‘Mission Kashmir’, a closely guarded plan that will change the map of the subcontinent forever. He fights for Hilal Kohistani, but he is also obsessed with his own private mission: he wants to, he must kill Inayat Khan. In Srinagar, Altaaf meets his childhood sweetheart, Sufi (Preity Zinta), in whom he rediscovers love and hope.

The Hero

Director Anil Sharma’s film is based on the Indo-Pak tensions and terrorism, and has Sunny Deol playing an army intelligence officer Arun Khanna, who is deputed by the Indian Secret Service Agency RAW at the Kashmir. His aim is to get information regarding terrorist activities across the border. He sends Reshma (Preity Zinta) across the border to Pakistan as a maidservant in Colonel Hidayatulla’s (Deep Dhillon) house. How her identity is exposed, how she escapes, how the major finds out the ISI head in Canada are all roped in with gritty action sequences and chilling pyrotechnics.

A Wednesday

One of those rare variety films, ‘A Wednesday’ deals with terrorism is an all new and different perspective from the eyes of a common man. The film stars as a basic edge-of-the-seat action-thriller, where an anonymous individual (Naseeruddin Shah) makes a call to the Commissioner of Police Rathod (Anupam Kher) and warns him of six bombs being planted in the city of Mumbai. In return, he asks for the emancipation of four hardcore anti-national terrorists. The film takes turn when he kills these four terrorists. Blessed with performances from Naseeruddin Shan & Anupam Kher, the film reminds of the prohibited path that the common man has to opt for to revolt against the system.

Black Friday

Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday is a hard-hitting movie that revisits the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which more than three hundred people died and many were injured. Probing into the reasons behind this attack, it goes into the lives of key players like Tiger Memon (played by Pawan Malhotra ), his henchman Badshah Khan (Aditya Srivastava) and ACP Rakesh Maria ( Kay Kay Menon ), who investigated the case. Alongside the bomb blasts, the film also documents the journey of an angry, revenge seeking Muslim youth, Badshah Khan, from Delhi to Rajasthan and still further.

SRK plays an autistic in My Name is Khan

SRK is not resting on the laurels that his current flick Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has brought for him, instead he is back to work as he is all set to start filming for Karan Johar’s My Name is Khan from tomorrow and SRK will be seen suffering from autism in the movie.

SRK plays Rizvan Khan who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome which makes interaction and behavior strange and difficult.

SRK has to say bye bye to lean look as he needs to put on weight for his role, SRK says, “The role requires me to have a fuller look. I am reading, watching documentaries, meeting people who are affected by autism and doctors who deal with it. It’s very unnerving and I salute parents who bring up children with any disorders.”

Rizwan Khan is suspected to be terrorist because of two reasons in the movie - one he is a Muslim and the other his strange behavior due to autism.

Well looks like we would get to see another splendid performance from SRK after Chak De.

Mixed responses for ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’

This post of Bollywood latest Movie Rab ne bana di jodi. its a really very different love story in all bollywood love story movie. Post the lull in the market and the tragedy of 26/11, theatre and multiplex owners had a reason to smile on Friday with the release of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s much-awaited film ‘Rab Ne Bana di Jodi’. However, the opening was not as great as it is normally for a yash Raj and SRK combinations. The viewers which comprised mainly of youngsters and college students had a mixed response to offer.

‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ starring Shah Rukh and newcomer Anoushka Sharma, is an all-in-all trademark Yash Raj love story offering SRK in two different shades- one an average-ooking middle-class man Surinder Sahni who loves his wife Taani and as the typically ‘filmi’ Raj whom his wife loves.

“The all-India opening is expected to be 60-70 per cent. Considering that this is a Yash Raj film, a hundred percent opening is expected but that has not happened,” said Kumar Mohan, Editor of trade magazine ‘Complete Cinema’.

“Audiences who saw the film today have liked it and reports are good. We are confident that the movie will pick up during the week,” a Cinemax spokesperson said adding the film got an opening of 55-60 per cent.

SRK on marriage, Suhana and Aryan

Shahrukh Khan is always seen speaking about his films and projects, however he churns out some intimate details about his family and his kids in a recent interview.

SRK reveals that his life with Gauri became extraordinary when their kids came into their life, he says, “Can you believe that Gauri and I have been together for 24 years now? Just imagine we have spent almost a quarter of a century together. We got married in 1991, so it’s been 17 years of marriage now. There seemed nothing extraordinary about our life or marriage, till the children came along.”

SRK adds, “We still look at Aryan and Suhana and we wonder how we managed to produce them. As you must have noticed Aryan looks just like Gauri and Suhana looks like me. So it is as if we have managed to produce clones of ourselves. Gauri and I are not very smart people though. I perhaps can’t even make a paper plane properly. Yet we have come together to make these extraordinary, special children. Here they are growing up so fast and yet we feel that we are still the same people when we had met. We believe that we will stay young forever.”

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Movie Review

With Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi director Aditya Chopra returned to the silver screen as director after 8 long years since his last movie Mohabbatein released. It hadn’t been a great year for Yash Raj Films and there were one too many reasons why YRF desperately wanted Rab Ne to be a hit.

Shahrukh Khan’s movies very obviously arouse a lot of interest and this movie did the same job but with a difference - that being Shahrukh’s ordinary looks in the film. Shahrukh plays an ordinary guy named Surinder Sahni working for Punjab Powers. He is quite nerdish - bole toh a simple lovable guy many people can relate to.

He attends the wedding of his Professor’s daughter where he falls in love with the bride Taani (Anushka Sharma), she is beautiful, bright and bubbly (ala Preity Zinta) but things take a favorable turn when the news of the groom’s death in an accident reach the wedding party. In such a time apna hero comes forward to help the girl in distress and her family. And being his professor’s favorite student he wins his daughters hand and rab makes this jodi for the film to proceed.

Throughout the film he is shown asserting and compromising his true self balancing the act between ordinary and extraordinary to win his lady love. However, there are flaws in the script, Surinder and Taani’s relationship is not established well enough to justify her having an extra marital affair. Taani’s character needed more detail than just establishing her as a bubbly girl.

In some cases you need to just switch your mind off instead of trying to find a reason as to why Taani doesn’t recognize her husband in his funky avatar. Now coming to SRK’s makeover story - the makeover is not convincing at all. SRK is at his ham best, he tends to go a bit over board with his dressing sense to dialogue delivery - extremely irritating at times. Only hardcore SRK fans can like him in this avatar.

Overall, this movie has enough drama to draw you to the screens and keep you hooked. Although it is quite lengthy. 2 hours 40 minutes are a bit too much for this particular film. Adi could have easily done with only 2 hours but some unnecessary masala scenes added to the length.

Anushka Sharma makes a good debut. The girl has to hone her acting skills but she did a fair job as a new comer. She is a very good dancer too. Shahrukh Khan as the nerd makes a mark. Vinay Pathak is another rememberable character in the film.

I would say this is an average film, not a very intelligent fare not bad either. Music is average too, nothing like DDLJ or Mohabbatein or other YRF films. SRK is the only reason people would watch this movie for.

SRK goes chop, chop, chop

SRK has chopped of his long flowing silky hair for his upcoming K.Jo flick My Name Is Khan.

SRK’s new look has been given to him by hairstylist Dilshad and SRK will be trimming his hair further for the next part of the movie.

A source says, “His hair cut was done in three stages. He is sporting the second stage look and will further chop his hair shorter in a few days.”

SRK plays the role of Rizwan Khan, who is diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a mild form of autism.

What do you think about SRK’s new look? Do you like it?

Gathering of stars at Cosmopolitan Awards

In was a great gathering of stars at Cosmopolitan Fun, Fearless, and Female Awards held in Mumbai and organized by Cosmopolitan Magazine. At the show Ranbir Kapoor received Most Fun Actor and Bipasha Basu got the Fun and Fearless Female Actor. On the occasion and event ever daring Sushmita Sen received the Most Fearless Actresses Award. Get some glimpses from the show below:

Children’s Day Celebrated In Celebrity Style

The children day celebration definitely would be a great show at Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai where the big names from the entertainment industry were present including Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Sachin Tendulkar and Farhan Akhtar to cheer up their kids. Watch the presented celebrities from the pictures below.