Many of the Bollywood actors may be faced with parental pressure one way or the other but not Deepika Padukone, who is a free bird as it were as far as her career is concerned.
And whenever she comes down to her hometown of Bangalore, the Om Shanti Om girl gets to hear the same dialogues from her parents — don’t allow yourself to be swept off the feet by the celebrity status nor allow fame to change you as a human being.
Whether at the dinner table or during casual conversations, one subject they don’t discuss for sure is: her films, her roles, how much she charges for movies and things of that Read the full story

Rani Mukherjee looked elegant as she strutted in a purple couture dress (almost fit for a Queen) on the red carpet of the esteemed TIFF in Toronto earlier this week. Looking sexy and elegant, the actress who has lost oodles of weight looked ecstatic about her new film ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’. Rani gleefully signed autographs and posed for photographs with her fans while a band of musicians played authentic Punjabi music with dholkis in the background. She chatted nineteen to the dozens with her fans and won over them proving once again that she is indeed the ‘Queen of hearts’. Rani has been waiting for that one hit to Read the full story

Bollywood star Neil Nitin Mukesh’s plan to make a new film on crime maestro Charles Sobhraj and have the protagonist copy Sobhraj’s `mannerisms’ has been shot down by Nepal’s prison authorities, who said he would never be allowed to meet Sobhraj in prison.
“Nepal’s home ministry has laid down regulations that a prisoner can be visited only by his relatives, lawyers and human rights organisations, like the Red Cross, National Read the full story

Producer Uru Patel has now zeroed in on Aamir Khan to play Hanuman, though God forbid, not as a monkey God but as a super-hero who can fly over mountains and skyscrapers and rescue the modern-day Rama from the ravenous Ravans of today’s world.
Rama and Ravan will be played by Hollywood stars Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman, respectively. Sita was to be played by Shilpa Shetty. But she has opted out since then. The hunt is on for a Read the full story

As his bigtime film Wanted comes up for release, Salman Khan decided to give the media something he’s always wanted to — ‘a dose of their own medicine’. And ZOOM gave him that opportunity. To Face-Off with Times Group Editors and grill them (“like tandoori chicken!”). In a no-holds barred, free for all, Salman got to grill Bombay Times Editor — Mark Manuel, Mumbai Mirror Entertainment Editor — Indu Mirani and ZOOM Editor-in-Chief — Omar Qureshi. They, in turn got to air their grievances as well — but Khan proved to be Read the full story

Mumbai: Bollywood choreographer-director Farah Khan has Salman Khan with his mom as the show opener of “Tere mere beech mein”. It’s for the first time the actor is appearing on any chat show but guess what… interestingly, Shahrukh Khan will end the series “Tere mere beech mein”.
The cold war between the actors is quite Renowned. We all know that the distances between the actors can’t be covered so easily as both are firm on their respective parts and are not likely to patch-up that is why there is no link between the actors on Farah’s Read the full story

Mumbai: Bollywood’s megastar Amitabh Bachchan is set to complete his 40 years in Hindi cinema on November 7 this year. Since it would be the day of the biggest Bollywood icon, there would be celebrations like never before, and the Indian entertainment industry will mark the day with grandeur equal to be etched in the annals of history. On the big occasion, Big B’s family, including of course Abhishek and Aishwarya, will be paying homage to ‘Pa’ Amitabh for his outstanding contribution to the industry.
Reports reveal that Abhi-Ash have already started planning for the celebration, and almost all of Read the full story

Many Fridays have gone by since we last saw Preity Zinta on the big screen . But the actor has a lot to keep her busy otherwise.
The dimpled dazzler, who is in the Maori Nation on an invitation by New Zealand Cricket and New Zealand Tourism Board, attended the official reception where the Prime Minister of the country, John Key, was also present. Talking about the reception, which had Indian as well as New Zealand players, Preity says, “I interacted with the players and Prime Minister Key, and it was nice to hear the captains, Daniel Vettori and MS Dhoni, give their short speeches.” Ask her how the invitation happened, and she Read the full story

Amrita Arora and Shakeel Ladak are also tying the knot.
Today, they will exchange wedding rings and vows at a Bandra church in Mumbai, followed by a sangeet ceremony tomorrow, hosted by Salman Khan’s sister, Alvira Agnihotri. Farah Khan is choreographing a musical skit for the bride. And the nikaah is on March 6.
The guests will include family and close friends, which means heavy Bollywood presence – Gauri and Shah Rukh Khan, Chunky and Bhavna Pandey, Farah and Shirish Kunder, Fardeen and Zayed Khan along with their wives, Anil Kapoor, Arjun and Mehr Rampal, Priyanka Chopra, Wardha and Sajid Nadiadwala, Twinkle and Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, Saif Ali Khan, Urmila Matondkar, Karan Johar, Tusshar Kapoor and Manish Malhotra, among others.
Delhi designers Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra Read the full story

Actress Gul Panag, who’s done a TV commercial with Aamir Khan, says that she’d love to do some more of them with the ‘thinking Khan’.
“I’ll certainly do a commercial with Aamir – even if it’s for something like condoms! And on the subject of condoms, people ought to learn to talk about condoms openly,” she says. The idea of a condom commercial is, in part, based on her hope that it’ll send out a message to the Censor Board. “The Censor Board needs to operate in a more rational manner,” she explains. “On one hand, we have population control initiatives, and on the other, the Censor Board chops a scene in Hello for a dialogue that has the word ‘condom’ in it. Isn’t that illogical?”
That’s precisely what this girl is known for – speaking her mind. She says she wouldn’t do an item song if she’s offered Read the full story