Amitabh Bachchan to work for free

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has a great regard for south superstar Mohanlal. So much so that he’s agreed to make a guest appearance in a film for free.

“Mohanlal, great exponent of his art and craft, one of the finest actors of the country, from Kerala and Malayalam cinema had come over to finalise dates and schedules for the film he is making directed by Capt Ravi,” Big B wrote on his blog.

The movie, titled Kandahar, is based on the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999. Mr. Bachchan was wanted for a guest appearance requiring just 3 days of shoot. And the superstar turned down the money offered by the film’s makers.

“It's a small guest appearance and I had agreed. They had come over to officially sign me on and make payments etc...Payments? For a guest appearance of 3 days? With Mohanlal who has always had my greatest admiration? No way !! I don't charge money for such acts. And told them so.

“I shall just gloat in the honour that I shall derive by working in a Malayalam film and that too with the exceptional Mohanlal,” Big B posted.

Russell Crowe to star in Indian film

With Indian filmmakers going places, there are several stars from Hollywood keen to be part of our films. And the latest to do an Indian film is the Gladiator star Russell Crowe.

Don’t be shocked, guys! As per reports, the Aussie actor showed interest to act in director Sudipto Sen’s film on Kumbh Mela. The bilingual project, to be made in Hindi and English, will have the Academy winning actor play his age as a German writer who comes to India searching for nirvana (spiritual liberation). However, the character falls in love with a young girl.

The project will have a lot of talent in its crew. A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty have been signed for the music of the film, and Academy award winning costume designer Bhanu Athaiya is in charge of dressing up the characters. Chris Dickens of Slumdog Millionaire fame will edit the film.

Lara Dutta turns 32

Lara Dutta, the beautiful, ravishing, eloquent, feisty, funny and outspoken actress of Bollywood turns 32 today, April 16.

Even as she’s been written about lately more for her personal life than her work, the fact remains that Lara has made her own niche in Hindi film industry though she may not be among the top earners in tinsel town. On top of it, she’s one of the best lookers in the industry today, with that lovely face and shapely bod that she so stylishly flaunted in Blue.

Presently she’s looking forward to the release of Housefull in which she plays a Gujarati girl who lives in London. She gets Akshay Kumar’s character married in the film, but later she also breaks off the marriage. Lara’s paired with both Akshay and Ritesh Deshmukh.

After a string of comedy roles, Lara today is seen as the only actress who’s at ease tickling the funny bone of movie buffs.

“Comedy has an amazing amount of energy. I would say that is more my forte over anything else,” Lara is quoted as saying in an interview.

Katrina Kaif plays with Farah Khan’s kids

Katrina Kaif got to indulge in her love for babies on the sets of director Farah Khan’s film Tees Maar Khan. Since the movie was being shot at Malshej Ghat well beyond the outskirts of Mumbai, Farah had taken her triplets, Czar, Anya and Diva along for the long schedule.

And we learnt that the presence of three tots elated Katrina no end.

A small nursery was set up there for the kids to play and after the day’s work Katrina could often be spotted having frolicsome time with the triplets.

In fact, not just Kat, everyone on the sets just fell in love with Farah’s three bundles of joy.

The girl who has bowled over Salman Khan

A launch in Bollywood in a film with Salman Khan is any debutante’s dream come true. But two films on a trot with the swashbuckling Khan is a rarity for any newbie. Not for Sonakshi Sinha, the beautiful daughter of actor Shatrughan Sinha.

Ever since Sonakshi first caught Salman’s eye at a fashion show two years ago, she’s been constantly prodded by him to lose extra weight, get in shape and get her foot in the door to fame.

Moreover, Salman offered Sonakshi his brother Arbaaz Khan’s production Dabangg opposite himself. And now that the film’s shooting is close to completion, Sonakshi has managed to live up to Salman’s expectations; so much so that when he and Arbaaz recently saw the rushes of the film with Sonakshi and her parents, Salman was so impressed by her work that he offered her another movie.

Arbaaz Khan will be the producer of the film. And while ‘Dabangg’ has a rural setting, the second film will be set in the city.

Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar to host First IPL Awards

The first Indian Premiere League (IPL) Awards night to honour best players and performances of the T20 tournament will be held at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai on the 2rd of April. Your hosts for the evening will be close friends Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar.

"This star-studded award ceremony will see the superstars of Bollywood and cricket get together to make it the Oscars of the cricketing world. Celebrating sportsmanship, the viewers will be in for colourful treat as IPL champions get felicitated for their performance through the series," Ashvini Yardi, programming head, Colors, said. "It will be one of its kind and fitting celebration with lots of exciting performances and brilliant surprises to conclude this year's IPL action," Yardi said in a press release.

Touted as the perfect mix of cricket and entertainment, a host of Bollywood stars will be performing at the event. The list includes Oscar winner A.R. Rahman, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan.

The awards will be given in 22 categories including batting, bowling, fielding, most stylish player, best stadium and commentator etc. There are also categories like IPL Jury Awards, Viewers' Choice Awards, Statistical Awards, IPL Captain's Awards and IPL Winners Award.

"IPL has evolved into a uniting force in world cricket and signalled a new era in sports entertainment over the past three seasons. The IPL Awards is the crowning jewel and a fitting event to recognise the best of this season's breathtaking tournament," said IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi.

The critics' choice awards will be adjudged by the IPL Awards Jury, comprising Lalit Modi, cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara and Javagal Srinath, well-known umpire Simon Taufel, and cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle.

Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif still the hottest couple

The rumour mills may have been churning out spiciest gossip linking Katrina Kaif with Ranbir Kapoor, but the netizens still feel it is Salman Khan with whom Katrina looks the best.

In a poll conducted by ApunKaChoice, 51 percent people voted in favour of Salman as opposed to 13 percent for Ranbir and 36 percent for Hrithik Roshan when asked whom would they like to see Katrina star with on screen.

Not just our site, even in a poll conducted by MSN, Salman and Katrina were voted the 'Hottest Bollywood couple of the decade' (with 36 percent of total votes), outshining out celeb couples like Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai (27 percent), John Abraham-Bipasha Basu (13 percent) and Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor (6 percent).

Guess the fans aren’t yet done watching Kat-Sallu together.

Mallika Sherawat to go naked?

Mallika Sherawat is set to be the first Bollywood actress to go completely naked for a photoshoot, if the latest buzz in tinsel town is to go by.

The actress who has made Los Angeles her second home for the post production work and pre-release publicity of her film Hissss is reportedly going to bare it all for a special photoshoot by noted shutterbug Ash Gupta.

Building upon the theme of Hissss, which has Mallika playing a snakewoman, the photoshoot will have Mallika’s modesty covered by a snake. We hear it’s a concept on the lines of the hot photoshoot done by German-born American actress Nastassja Kinski in the 1980s when she posed totally naked with a boa constrictor. However, her private parts were covered with the snake, so nothing objectionable was revealed to the camera.

Will Mallika go the same way?

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Sushmita Sen-Wasim Akram: another Indo-Pak love story?

What’s brewing between Indian actress Sushmita Sen and former Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram? is the question that’s been puzzling many lately.

The amazing vibes between the two was for all to see when they together judged the reality show Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena two years back. Since then the duo has been linked together but the rumours of their thick friendship and a possible romance caught wind again only after Akram emerged out of his bereavement for his deceased wife Huma who passed away in October last year.

Of late, the duo has been spotted together at many parties and now the latest we hear is that Sush and Wasim were seen spending quality time at a nightspot in Mumbai earlier this week. They walked in together a little before midnight, holding hands, and took a sea-facing table. They chatted amicably and animatedly and were later joined by Sush’s friends.

Sush again seemed in a breezy mood, not caring a hoot for the onlookers. She and Wasim stayed together till quarter to 2am and walked out only when the nightspot was about to close.

Whether the bonding between the two is just restricted to friendship or spiralling into love is hard to say, but one thing is for sure - there’s no enmity in this Indo-Pak story.

Shahrukh Khan dealing with disappointments

It was a do-or-die game for Shahrukh Khan’s team Kolkata Knight Riders but they were soundly and emphatically beaten by the dominant opposition from Chennai Super Kings by 9 wickets on Tuesday.

And the man who’s most disappointed is Shahrukh Khan who apologised to the team’s loyal fans for yet another embarrassingly poor season of IPL. Last year, their team was last in the points table; this year it’s second last.

“Outbatted, outbowled, outclassed...out of semis. Never lost so much, so often, so consistently. Apologies to all who supported us,” SRK tweeted after the team’s defeat on Tuesday.

Instead of blaming anyone, SRK took all blame upon himself.

“I completely take the blame for not putting up a good enough show...so much love for KKR & I couldn’t reciprocate,” he wrote.

SRK added that he can’t promise good performances from his team in the future.

“Bye all. I am off now to deal with disappointments in the way I know best. You find your poison. Love u all. Unconditional apologies to all,” he posted.

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Tabu in Gowtham Menon’s film

Tabu will be acting in a film directed by Gowtham Menon. Gowtham Menon after the film Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya is directing a film which is yet to be titled. New face Veera and Samira Reddy are in the lead roles.

This film which is a thriller has no songs or back ground music. Tabu is acting in an important role in this film. The shooting of this film is on progress. The scenes pertaining to Tabu is yet to be shot.
Tabu was supposed to act in the film Pacchaikili Muthucharam but due to non availability of her call sheet, she could not act in that film.

Suriya - The Hero… Karthi - The Villan

Karthi has said that he is looking for an opportunity to share the screen space with his brother Suriya. However, Karthi is not game to play the reel-life brother. He has said that Suriya will be the hero in the film and he would be the baddie. Karthi also revealed that if a suitable storyline comes up from either Bala or Lingusamy, he and Suriya would be seen together onscreen. Busy with Naan Magaan Alla, Karthi has plans to wrap this film up as soon as possible and move to the remake of the Telugu hit film Vikramarkudu. He says that the delay in Paruthiveeran and Aayirathil Oruvan has taken up valuable years of his career and henceforth he would sign up films that will be completed within a short span of time.

Dayanidhi Alagiri acquires Ajith’s 50th film!

Dayanidhi Alagiri’s and his US based brother-in-law Vivek Rathinavel’s, Cloud Nine Movies banner had acquired the distribution rights of Ajith’s 50th film which is to be directed by Gautham Menon. The banner is on a hit trick with successive films such as Vaaranam Aayiram, Tamil Padam and now Paiyaa.
While speaking in a press meet Cloud Nine’s PR Nikil, says “They both have a mutual understanding with good marketing strategies supported by a good strategic and an analytical team. Their success is their capacity to identify a good project and aggressively market it.”
Its future projects include Karthi’s new movie to be directed by Vetrimaran and also‘Thoonga Nagaram’ with all newcomers.

Vijay’s new film

Vijay is going to act in the remake Malayalam film “Bodyguard”. Sources close to the actor said that the shooting will begin in April. Vijay’s lucky heroine Asin will do the heroine role in the film. In the Malayalam film “Nayanthara” did the heroine role. Raj Kiran will do the role of Thyagarajan.

The music director for the film is Vidyasagar and Ekambaram will do the camera man work. Vadivelu and Baskar will do the comedy part in the film. There is no official confirmation about this. After “Sura”, Vijay’s next film is 3 idiots or Bodyguard ? Let us wait and see.