Bollywood's notorious "serial kisser" (he even wore this slogan on his tee in one his films) hasn't yet quit his trademark scenes. But he has also moved on to something equally exciting and topical.
Veteran of a thousand liplocks with a bevy of beauties onscreen, in his latest film, Jannat, Emraan Hashmi goes into another tangle: that of cricket and betting and bookies.
He, however, remains as unfazed by any image people may have of him as by whichever heroine braces up before him for the liplock. "I don't know why it gathers so much news when I kiss," he said. "It's not even at the back of my mind."
The last 12 months or more may have been uneventful for Hashmi, never mind the buzz he creates with his kisses. We are one quarter gone in 2008, too, but the tiny packet of dynamite promises a good year yet. He not only has Jannat coming up at the theatres soon, Raaz 2 also features in his near-future plans.
The upcoming film, Jannat, plunges into the cricketing world of match fixing and betting, which makes it topical in the long seasons of cricket in India which nows includes Twenty20s and ICL andf IPL.
The seasons have also seen India come into its own in all versions and aspects of the game, including fighting sledging with sledging!
And then there is the enfant terrible of cricket, Shoaib Akhtar, suddenly flinging charges of match fixing to counter his ban of five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board. Jannat seems to have its game all sorted out.
My kissing makes news?
Zareen Watson, owner and trainer invited all
Zareen Watson, owner and trainer invited all her celebrity clients at a party in the gym to introduce her new fitness regime. Most of the celebs were present. To name a few were John, Bipasha, Hrithik with Suzanne, Lara Dutta, Perizaad Zorabian and Malaika Arora.
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Jodha Akbar`s release in Tamil
The release of the voice dubbed Tamil version of the Hindi movie Jodha Akbar starring Hritik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been postponed.
Hindi version will have a limited release in Sathyam and Ega. Buzz is that Tamil distributors are not willing to pay high amount.If the film turns out to be a hit, then the Tamil version prints will be released.
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‘Mr. and Mrs. Khanna’ to the big stars to do cameos
Sohail Khan’s next production ‘Mr. & Mrs. Khanna’ has finally settled with Kareena Kapoor as the female lead opposite Salman Khan. The film to be directed by debutant Prem Soni plans to follow the current trend of Bollywood where a host of big stars do cameos out of their mutual friendship.
The little birdie informs that SRK has agreed to do a cameo for the film owing to his friendship with Sallu Bhai. Sohail is also hoping that Salman will be able to help him get Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra and even newcomer Deepika for cameo roles in the film. The shooting for the film is supposed to begin some time in March this year.
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Sushmita’s Sen don’t-take-me-for-granted attitude!
Sushmita Sen may not have been commercially as successful as her contemporaries, but the lady sure is known for her determination and no-nonsense attitude. Recently, Sush returned the signing amount of Rs.2.1 million to producer Vijay Galani who had signed her up for a movie on the ground that she did not get a detailed script of the movie on time as she had been promised.
The actress had initially agreed to do the movie to be directed by Dharmesh Darshan after hearing its narration from the director in August last year. When she was paid advance money out of her total fee of Rs.10.25 million, it was agreed that a bound script would be sent to her in November.
But instead of a script, what she received was a piece of paper in which the director had briefly outlined her role in the movie. Moreover, the role therein was totally different from the one briefed out to her earlier.
Moreover, with Sush backing out from the project, Govinda, the movie’s leading man, also walked out of it saying without the actress playing the female lead, the whole concept of the movie would change. And he would not like that.
Hope, this make everyone clear about about Sushmita’s don’t-take-me-for-granted attitude!
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Yana Gupta in ‘Groundshaker 2’ music album
‘Grounshaker 2’ is there again with an impressive line-up of artists like Jazzy B, Hard Kaur, Sukhwinder Shinda, Apache Indian and Aman Hayer. The album also has a hot music video from the Babuji girl, Yana Gupta, who has been out of limelight for quite sometime now. The Czech beauty will rock for a song titled ‘Chad Gayi Daaru’ by Bhangra rapper Jazzy B. Shot by Ajay Jain, the video features Jazzy B, Yana, Aman Hayer and DJ Kendall.
The ‘Groundshaker 2’ album will be launched on February 1 at the Second City Suite, Sherlock Street in Birmingham. The event will reportedly have live performances from some of the artists featured in the album.
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Salman Khan - Guess who is the real one?
This Tuesday, Salman Khan at Madame Tussaud’s museum, unveiled his wax statue before hundreds of adoring fans. Salman’s muscular statue, dressed in a black sleevless T-shirt and black denims, donated by the star, stands in a special Bollywood section alongside those of three other Mumbai greats - Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan.
“I am really very touched that my fans have chosen me to appear in Madame Tussauds, and hope that the figure brings a lot of enjoyment to Bollywood followers the world over,” Salman said.
Salman Khan won the public poll for the staute beating nine other Indian mega stars - including Madhuri Dixit, Hrithik Roshan, Lata Mangeshkar and Abhishek Bachchan.
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Bollywood 14th Star Screen Awards
The Nokia 14th star Screen Awards were announced on Thursday at Mumbai amidst much glamour and glittering. ‘Chak De India’ was awarded the best film. SRK won the best actor award for ‘Chak De’ and Kareena Kapoor bagged the best actress award for ‘Jab We Met’. Her award though was collected by sis Karisma as she could not attend the function. AR Rahman won the Best Music Director Award for Mani Ratnam’s Guru.
‘Taare Zameen Par’ proved to be a dream debut for Aamir Khan as the film bagged six main awards including the Best Director (Aamir Khan) which he shared with Shimit Amin for ‘Chak De’ ,Best Child Actor (Darsheel), Best Story (Amol Gupte), Best Lyricist (Prasoon Joshi), Best Supporting Actor (Aamir Khan) and Best Dialogue.
The best female playback singer award went to Shreya Ghosal for “Guru” while Soham won the Best Male Playback Singer Award for the film Life in a Metro.
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Music Launch of ‘Jodhaa Akbar’
The music launch of Ashutosh Gowarikar’s mega project ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ was held on a grand scale amidst a grand assembly of Bollywood stars belonging to various genres. The gala function was held at Grand Hyatt, Kalina, Mumbai, late Wednesday evening, on January 9.
The musical notes of the film have been given by A.R.Rahman who has successfully given the essence of Mughal era in the scores. The music has been released under the newly launched UTV music label.
Although there were celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, A.R. Rahman, Sonu Nigam, Javed Akhtar, Akbar Khan, Zayed Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Hrithik’s wife Suzanne Khan, Shatrughan Sinha, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Raza Murad, among others to graced the function, the couple who stole the limelight was none other than the leading cast of the film, Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The highlight of the function was the speeches of the stars of the movie on the film and their respective characters in the film.
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‘Hello’ song for 1.75 crores
Producer-director Atul Agnihotri is leaving no stones unturned in making his project ‘Hello’ a grand one. Recently, he shot a song which cost a whopping Rs. 1.75 crores. The song was picturized on the leading cast comprising of Sohail Khan, Sharman Joshi, Ishaa Koppikar, Amrita Arora and Gul Panag. The song which is composed by Sajid-Wajid and choreographed by Bosco-Caesar was shot over a period of five days with over 70 dancers and an additional 250 extras as part of a crowd.
‘Hello’ is based on Chetan Bhagat’s book ‘One Night @ a call center’. The film has been shot in India, Mauritius and USA. The film is expected to release by March this year.
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Bollywood Shabana Azmi - I would love to play Benazir
Media has been abuzz lately with the news of Mahesh Bhatt directing a Pakistani film based on Benazir Bhutto. However, Mahesh Bhatt denies his plans to direct the film saying that he is through with direction now and has hung his boots after his last project ‘Zakhm’.
“I was approached by a lady from Pakistan who wants us (Vishesh Films) to collaborate with them. In principal we’re on.” However, Mahesh thinks it’s too early to get into the project. “The news of the project came from Pakistan. We didn’t announce it. We’ve to get a go-ahead from Benazir’s family and her party. The blood is still fresh on the streets. It isn’t right to talk about a movie on the slain leader’s life at this stage.”
The offer has apparently come from Pakistani producer Anila Khan after the assassination of Bhutto in Rawalpindi a few days back. Shabana Aazmi has also expressed her desire to play Benazir in the project.
Very few people know that Shabana was actually approached by noted British-Pakistani author-playwright and filmmaker, Tariq Ali, who had readied the screenplay for his proposed Benazir bio-pic with Shabana in the lead.
But then politics intervened. Because of differences between India and Pakistan, the project was quietly abandoned. A disappointed Shabana had said at that time, “I know I can physically resemble Benazir. Once that’s in place the rest would just follow.” Now, almost 25 years later, Shabana is still keen on doing the role. “My God! I still remember the project. I’d love to play Benazir in a film.” she said.
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Coco Lee Wears Beyonce's Old Dress
In a recent music video of Coco Lee shot on the Great Wall for Beijing Olympic Song “Forever Friends”, the dress she wore in the MV is the same dress as U.S. superstar Beyonce wore at the BET Award ceremony in June 2007.
It is always the embarrassing moment when the artist was found wearing the same dress with others. In fact, Coco Lee knew that the dress was wore by Beyonce before.
The handmade crystal-studded dress from Milan, Italy, costs about US$200,000, is the only one in the world.
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