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Overwhelmed by the success of Raajneeti, which was a contemporary adaptation of The Mahabharata, Prakesh Jha is taking a step ahead by making a full-fledged film that will be centred on the character of Draupadi, the wife of the five pandavas.

He intends to make this film for the international audiences. And guess what??? He plans to rope in Hollywood star Angelina Jolie for this flick.

Jha says that he wanted to make a film on Draupadi for quite some time. He even tried roping in Madhuri Dixit for the role a few years back, but the project just fell through. Now, he’s reviving the film which he calls “the ultimate tribute to womanhood”.

“I’m going to make it as an international film with an international cast…” Jha was quoted as saying.

Now, the question is, will Jolie, or any other Hollywood star for that matter, be able to do justice to the complex character of Draupadi???

Well, Rohit Shetty’s, Golmaal 3, will see the stunning Kareena Kapoor; make a smashing entry on the bonnet of a moving automobile. When he can make Ajay Devgan propose his love to Bipasha Basu in a mid-air upended car in All the Best, he can very well do this too.

Kareena’s entry in Golmaal 3 will be the most eye catching scene in the entire flick. She will be seen standing atop the bonnet of a snazzy race car. Necessary security measures were taken. Kareena was harnessed to a safety cable in case the stunt went wrong.But our bravo Bebo pulled off the stunt very well.

Other actors including Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Arshad Warsi and Mithun Chakraborty will also be seen in this flick.

Just imagine Deepika Padukone and John Abraham as a couple…. HAWT!!! Super HAWT!!!

Well, the sultry beauty Deepika padukone and the super sexy John Abraham will soon be seen playing a romantic couple on screen

South director, Ravi Maria, we hear, is planning to remake his Tamil hit film ‘Milaga’ in Hindi and Telugu. For the Hindi flick titled Mirchi, he has Deepika and John in mind.

According to Maria, John has even expressed his interest in being a part of the project.

“John Abraham has recently watched ‘Milaga’ and expressed interest to act in its Hindi remake. The Bollywood version titled ‘Mirchi’ would have Deepika Padukone as heroine,” Maria was quoted to have told a website recently.

The Hindi film will be set in Goa.

John Abraham was extremely delighted when critics raved about his extra ordinary performance as a villain in films like Dhoom and New York that went on to become a super-duper hit. It definitely boosted the confidence of the model-turned actor.

Now, as his career graph is rising, producer Ramesh Taurani of Race 2 has signed John to play the villain. John has been finalized to share screen space with Saif Ali Khan and Anil Kapoor.

According to director Abbas-Mustan, this ensemble cast, is ‘perfectly balanced’ now.

About the heroines in the flick, Bipasha Basu will not be a part of the sequel. Actresses like Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif are among the top names which are being considered.

Race 2 will go on floors in 2011.

Did Raavan live up to your expectations????

Who do you think is papa’s little baby???

Grapevine has it that, the South Indian actress Meera Chopra is a cousin of Bollywood’s superstar, Priyanka Chopra. The news does not end here. Meera, is now ready to debut in Bollywood and has hired Priyanka’s ex-secretary Prakash Jaju as her secretary.

It may be known that Praksh Jaju was earlier arrested in 2004 on basis of a complaint filed by Priyanka Chopra. Piggy Chops registered a case against Prakash alleging that he was threatening her through SMSes and using foul language.

Meera has denied the above news. She says, “Ajay Chabbria has been working as my manager and is looking after my assignments.”

While, Jaju has accepted working with Meera. He said, “Ajay brought Meera to me. We have a contract as we are business partners. I don’t think that Meera is Priyanka’s cousin. She has never told me that. However, I am handling her work.”

Well, only time can tell us the truth.

Bebo is all set to play the role of a sex-worker in Sanjay Leela Bhansali next flick, Heera Mandi. The film will star Abhishek in the lead opp Kareena. Sanjay and Bebo were looking forward to work together from a very long time but due to personal and professional reasons their plans fell apart every time.

Bhansali will start working on the film as soon as he wraps up Guzaarish which has Hrithik Roshan and Aishwaya Rai in lead. In fact, the buzz also suggested that Bhansali, who is quite impressed with Hrithik’s work in Guzaarish, might sign him for the project. But sources claim that Abhi is a strong contender to play the film’s lead actor.

Kareena made her debut with Abhishek in the year 2000 with the movie Refugee and later they were seen together in Sooraj Barjatya’s film Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon in the year 2003.

Do you want to see this decade-old jodi once again?

Aamir Khan and Salman Khan have always been good friends. Sallu has always been fond of Aamir and has always supported him and his films. He had even painted special canvases that helped the promotion of Aamir’s Ghajini.

Recently, Salman sought the advice of Aamir Khan on on which piece of land to buy in Panchgani. Aamir owns a beautiful house there and so was able to give him his advice.

Well, the hearthrob Khan wants to build a house in the hill station. Will it be close to Aamir’s pad? Only time can tell us.

Ever after ‘Slumdog millionaire’s’ success, there is not turning back for Frieda Pinto. Though she isn’t doing that well in Bollywood, she’s flying high in Hollywood.

News is that, Freida will join James Franco in 20th Century Fox’s “Rise of the Apes” the prequel to “Planet of the Apes.” In the movie Freida will play the role of Caroline, a primatologist.

She recently wrapped Julian Schnabel’s “Miral,” is currently filming Immortals the Greek gods fantasy directed by Tarsem Singh, and will next be seen in Woody Allen’s “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.”

Directed, by Rupert Wyatt, ‘Rise of the Apes’ will commence shooting this summer in British Columbia.

The film is expected on open on June 24, 2011

We are all aware that, the world celebrated Father’s Day last Sunday. Some of the Bollywood kids celebrated it in an extra ordinary way.
In a playful mood, Shahrukh Khan approved of a spitting contest with his son, Aryan.

The son got inspired by the spitting talent shown by the beautiful Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. SRK tweets, “With my son. Had seen spitting contest in Titanic. Trying to recreate this awful dirty and childish prank with him. It’s Father’s Day!”

Shahrukh is now in Turkey, holidaying with his kids as their summer vacations are on, and for the competition, he is all game – “Have to muster up some pressure in the mouth for the spitting championships.”

Wow!! What a sweet dad

Katrina Kaif has been shooting for Zoya Akhtar’s film Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara in Spain, from quite sometime. The poor girl, sprained her neck recently while working out zealously in the gym. Gymming is the only leisurely activity Kat has found while shooting in Spain.

The actress admits that she’s been working out more in gym than she’s used to, and on Monday, during her gym session, she ended up spraining her neck, which is now stiff. So Kat can’t turn her neck left or right. She can only look straight.

Though this could cause problem during the shooting of action sequences, Kat is not ready to let the shooting suffer because of her sprained neck.

She’s the one who normally gets the others’ necks craned and heads turned with her spotless beauty. But this time, it is she herself who is feeling the pain.
Hope you get well soon Kats.

Do you think Salman Khan and Zarine Khan make a good pair, or do you think no one can replace Katrina with Salman???

Who according to you has the best body in Bollywood???

Guess who???

First it was Salman Khan and now it is director Subhash Ghai who seems extremely excited about the film I Hate Luv Storys. He compares Imran-Sonam’s pair to the hit-hit jodi of Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit – the pair that ruled the box office in the 90s with several hits.

Ghai decided to buy the distribution rights of the film IHLS for the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh area. He bought Karan Johar’s produced IHLS, for Rs 3.5 crore from UTV. Ghai’s cousin Sanjay who looks after his business in the north confirmed this news to a daily.

Sanjay says, “We were thinking of buying the rights of this film for a month-and-half now.” He believes, that they have struck a good deal as the movie looks promising and Imran-Sonam are looking smashing together.

IHLS is set to release on July 2.

Amitabh Bachchan’s cribbing about the poor editing of Mani Ratnam’s movie Raavan, on his blog, made actor Vikram and Cinematographer Santosh Sivan jump to Ratnam’s rescue by saying, it’s a director’s prerogative to decide how the characters should be depicted. Mani Ratnam who was calm till now, couldn’t stay the same any longer has spoken his mind to a Tamil weekly.

“That is his (Amitabh’s) opinion. I am not bothered about it. And I am not here in the industry to get marks from Amitabh Bachchan. We have made a film after two years of hard work. Anyone can comment on it,” Ratnam is quoted as saying by the weekly.

Big B had written “Lot of merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative,”.

The superstar had later clarified that he has immense respect for Ratnam.

Bollywood’s Barbie doll, Katrina Kaif is in total awe of the Om Shanti Om director, Farah Khan, with whom she is currently working with in the film Tees Maar Khan.

It was a matter of just one ad but Katrina Kaif wanted none other than director Farah Khan to direct it. Kat is the brand ambassador of the Etihad Airlines.

Sources said, Farah’s name was recommended by Kat, to the ad-team. She is very excited with the way Farah has shown her in the movie Tees Maar Khan – chic and sexy in cholis. When asked who she wanted to direct this ad, the actress said it’s going to be ‘only’ Farah.

While for Farah, she is happy to see Kat again.

The ad will be shot in Abu Dhabi.

Bollywood’s sexiest couple John and Bipasha declined an offer to promote an erotic product despite being offered with crores. The product is an Indian herbal aphrodisiac which reportedly contains potent philtre and exotic concoctions to boost up a person’s sexual desire. Moreover, sources are quoted as saying that the said herbal aphrodisiac contains Viagra.

The offer, however, failed to grab the attention of John and Bips. The couple is learnt to have turned it down saying they do not usually approve products that contain Viagra.

Bipasha made it clear saying she likes to get associated with credible products that promote health and fitness and such stuff doesn’t suit her personality.

In the past too the couple was approached to endorse sex related products, but they were least interested.

Catch the first look of Lafangey Parindey, directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra, is Yash Raj Films’ latest offering, casting Deepika Padukone as a ‘blind’ girl who is born to fly and Neil Nitin Mukesh a ‘wild man’ who is born to fight.

The film is set against the backdrop of the gritty streets of Mumbai and is learned to be about bike gangs. Neil and Deepika have done daring stunts in the film which is quite evident with its first look.

“LAFANGEY PARINDEY”, will release worldwide on 20th August 2010.

All you SRK fans, watch out for the speedster Shahrukh Khan as he gears up to drive one of the world’s fastest available supercars, the Volkswagen Bugatti, in his film Ra.one. A team of techinicians from the Pirates of Caribbean will teach him to drive the car.

The title of the film Ra.Onewhich is SRK’s most ambitious project till date is short for “Random Access Version One”. SRK plays a superhero named G.One, who drives a super fast car. He will have to perform different stunts while driving this vehical.

A source from the crew confirmed that the decision to drive the Volkswagen Bugatti was Shahruk’s. Says the source, “Shahrukh is taking most of the decisions on Ra.one, by himself and the decision to drive the Volkswagen Bugatti was also his.”

Currently, the star is enjoying holidays with his kids and will take them to South Africa for the FIFA World Cup finals. After that he will be in London to resume the shooting of Ra.one, where he will learn to drive the Bugatti and will also shoot for the scenes with the car.

Bipasha Basu is behaving like the concerned girlfriend as far as boyfriend John Abraham goes.

Bips who has a very high media profile and is good with her media manners, has realized that John could be positioned better and higher in life , if only he showed his best profile to the media.

John has undoubtedly a low media profile as he believes in the fact that action speaks louder than words. He has never been into unwanted controversies or unnecessary publicity stunts.

While girl friend Bipasha feels that, he should know how to deal with the media in the best possible manner and gives him some cool tips.

Well, the saying is so very true. ‘Behind the success of every man there is a surprised woman!’

So, guys, If John is seen going gaga over his personal or professional life, you now know who the architect is..

Do you want to see Priyanka and Shahid together as a couple off-screen????

Paichan Kaun???

Trisha, who has just completed her debut Hindi movie Khattha Meetha opposite Akshay Kumar, has signed a new Hindi film .If news are to be believed, Trisha has been signed for a second movie opposite Pratik Babbar. Pratik Babbar who played the role of Genelia’s brother in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na is the son of Raj Babbar and Smita Patil.

The new movie would be based on Trisha’s Tamil superhit Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya, which was directed by Gautam Menon. Gautam Menon would be directing the Hindi version too and Trisha would be playing the role of Jessie. The movie’s shooting is set to start from August this year.

Salman Khan, Asin, Paresh Rawal and other unit members were shooting for Anees Bazmee’s ‘Ready’ in Sri Lanka. This was when Paresh Rawal got the news that his mother had expired in India. Paresh broke down on the sets. When the crew members asked the vetern actor to return home to perfom his mother’s last rites, Paresh was adamant that he would complete the shooting per schedule and then return for the last rites.

When Salman Khan came to know about this, he quickly met Paresh and asked him to return to India. He explained they would be able to complete the scenes between himself and Asin in the meantime. Paresh finally heeded Salman’s advice and headed back to India.

Saif has lost 9 kgs and is looking leaner, muscular and smarter. He has also cut his hair short. Saif has done all this for his second home production – Agent Vinod, where he plays the role of a spy. It is said that his look is inspired from the hollywood star Matt Damon in Bourne Identity.

Sources say that Saif has been guarding his new look carefully. Unfortunately, when he was invited for Amir Khan’s party, his new look was revealed. Also, Kareena spilled beans about Saif’s new look saying, “Saif has never looked cooler. He has lost nine kilos in three months. He’s all toned and rippling muscles,”

“He was with long hair for so long that I had forgotten how dashing he looks in cropped hair. Saif has got his hair cropped really short, that’s all I can tell you about his Agent Vinod look. He got it done a couple of days back. Since then he was reluctant to step out of his house,” Kareena said.