‘Pretty’ actress Preity Zinta won the Silver Hugo award for the Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival recently. The award was given for her performance in Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth.
“It was my director Deepa Mehta who informed me that I had won. I couldn’t go to Chicago, and neither could Deepa. Without any lobbying I’ve done it. I am so happy and excited.” Reportedly, the judges chose her ‘for her strong yet subtle performance as a woman struggling to keep her dreams despite brutal realities.’
It is very rare when a Bollywood star has worked in a Canadian movie. Preity played the role of Chand, an Indian bride who’s brought to sub-urban Toronto after an arranged marriage. In the initial phase, she’s treated good but it gets worse afterwards. The story is similar to that of Bollywood hit Pardes.Heaven On Earth has been chosen to open the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York on November 5. It was also featured in the Toronto Film Festival this year.
Zinta also says that she’s thankful to Anupam Kher for getting her Punjabi right in his acting school.“I attended his acting school to get my Punjabi right for both the roles. He taught me how to pronounce the words properly. He has been a blessing.”
Preity Zinta won the Silver Hugo award for the Best Actress
Actress Preity Zinta reflects Rekha’s ‘The Last Lear’
Have you checked out the stills of ‘The last Lear’ featuring Preity Zinta? If not, check them out and you surely will not miss how strikingly similar is her look to that of Rekha in ‘Silsila’.
Her long beautiful tresses, ‘bindi’ on her forehead and cotton saris surely reinvent Preity in the ‘Rekha’ avatar. Director Rituparno Ghosh, who is known for making classic cinema, has designed the Preity’s look keeping in mind Rekha’s look from ‘Silsila’.
Producer Arindam Chaudhuri of ‘Planman’ confessed in one of his interviews that Rituparno is in love with the way Rekha looked in ‘Silsila’ and she wanted a similar get-up for Preity in ‘The Last Lear’.
Whether Rituporno is pleased with Rekha’s reflection in Preity’s look or not, Big B for sure had some sweet memories rekindled of those ‘Silsila’ days!
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Trisha focusing more on the storyline compared to glamorous roles
Trisha who rose to fame with her roles in Tamil movies, Saamy and Ghilli is now focusing more on the storyline compared to glamorous roles.
Her next film, Radhamohan’s Abhiyum Naanum is getting completed. Other projected include Chennayil Oru Mazhaikalam, directed by Gautham Menon, and a movie with Suriya directed by Selvaraghavan. She has also signed a Telugu film: Bujjigadu starring Prabhas, directed by Puri Jagannadh.
Trisha recently replaced Rani Mukherjee as the Brand Ambassador of Fanta India. She is the brand ambassador of TVS Scooty Pep+, for which she has replaced Preity Zinta. She endorses Perk chocolate, for which also she has replaced Preity Zinta.
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India’s biggest Entertainment Show finally Started in Toronto
India’s biggest entertainment show in a foreign land finally started in an extravaganza at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on the night of 18th July 2008. In an inauguration ceremony of the Unforgettable Tour, “Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Ritiesh Deshmukh and Akshay Kumar gave the performances at the stage. Watch them in some of their best dancing steps.
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Genelia Changed Gear towards Bollywood
She can be compared with earlier fresh looking entry of Juhi, Kajol and Preity Zinta as Genelia D’Souza is new actress from the South is in female lead in an Amir Khan production opposite to his nephew Imran Khan. She had also an impressive role in ‘Mere Baap Pehle Aap’.
She has many hit movies to his credit in South in Tamil and Telgu and she at very apt time switched her gear towards Bollywood. As the Imran- Ganelia starrer movie is about to released she said about the movie “It’s a fun film and we’ve all had a smashing time working on it. For now I am keeping fingers crossed and hoping for the best.”
She is currently involved in shooting of Aneeze Bazme directed “Its My Life’ opposite the latest entry into Bollywood , Harman Baweja. The other important movie in her nitty is ‘Life Partner’ co-starring Govinda and Fardeen.
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Preity Zinta and Kareena Kapoor, two of Bollywood’s leading heroines on dance floor
Preity Zinta and Kareena Kapoor, two of Bollywood’s leading heroines, will be seen matching steps for the first time in Kareena-Salman’s latest flick, ‘Main Aur Mrs. Khanna.’ However, Preity will be seen only in a guest appearance in just one song which will have Salman Khan joining her and Bebo on the dance floor. Produced under the banner of Sohail Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures, the film is being directed by debutante Prem R. Soni. Apart from Salman and Kareena, the film also stars Govinda and Sohail Khan. Sajid-Wajid have given the musical scores for the film.
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Actress Preity Zinta to play 'bad' actors in their latest films
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Arshad Warsi and Preity Zinta share an identical predicament. They've to play 'bad' actors in their latest films. While in Anil Kapoor's production, Shortcut, Arshad plays bad actor, in Rituparno Ghosh's Last Lear Preity is cast as a bad actress.
That isn't the only problem the actress had to face. Preity had a very real problem on the sets of Jahnu Barua's Harr Pal. Pritam Chakraborty has done the music score. Every time someone mentioned his name she thought they were calling out to her, because Pritam is the name given to her by Bobby Deol.
Harr Pal has been one of Preity’s toughest roles ever. But the role of the Punjabi NRI wife in Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth has been her toughest yet. She's still carrying the invisible wounds of the battered wives' character. The shooting was wrapped up on Sunday.
Doing Rituparno Ghosh's Last Lear posed its own problems for Preity. She had never worn a sari or a bindi in her life. "Suddenly Ritu-da asked me to stick on bindis that were almost as large as my face. Initially, I was most reluctant. But then I surrendered completely to his vision. I'm actually looking pretty in Last Lear." Even the international critics have noticed. The reviews make a special mention of Preity.
In its review, Variety mentions, "It's an interesting paradox to watch a star like Zinta deliver a good performance as a woman who's widely known as a bad thespian."
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Actress Preity Zinta I did not ill-treat my players
Preity Zinta who's currently stationed in Mohali is aghast to hear stories filtering in from Mumbai that some of the players for her Kings X1 Punjab team were shabbily treated and asked to move out of the Taj to a less opulent hotel.
Says a source close to Preity, "Preity and Ness are aghast at these stories. The last thing they have on mind is discriminate one player against another.
But you see there's only one super-luxury hotel in Mohali and the main cricketers the Squad Of 16, so to speak, were all housed there.
In addition Ness and Preity have decided to take on 10-12 cricketers as trainees in a special development programme meant specially to create new cricketing talent.
These boys were put up in a separate hotel and only because there was no room at the Taj. The team spirit didn't suffer for a second just because the team of trainees stayed elsewhere."
As for one of trainee-cricketers speaking on the matter of alleged discrimination the source says, "We're pretty sure the cricketer didn't mean to sound as though he was discriminated against, simply because that was not the intention at all."
Hassled and in the middle of numerous meeting in Mohali Preity when contacted said, "There's no discrimination. We are in fact trying to keep the game as free of glitches as possible. Such negative stories aren't helping our efforts at all."
Preity intends to be totally immersed in Mohali's activities for the next couple of months. In July she leaves for the Unforgettable world tour with the Bachchans.
In fact she flew back from Mohali to Mumbai for one day last week to shoot a promotional video for the concerts.
"The Bachchans are my buddies.They asked me. I agreed," Preity explains simply.
Unlike the other non-Bachchan star on-board for the concert Preity will accompany the Bachchans to all the concert-venues.
This would be Preity's second concert tour with the Bachchans.
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Bollywood Gossip (IPL), owned by actress Priety Zinta
Bollywood Gossip, Mohali: In the end, not even a last minute change of venue for the launch could hold them back. The Mohali team of Indian Premier League (IPL), owned by Bollywood actress Priety Zinta and her industrialist boyfriend Ness Wadia, was launched at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here Monday evening.
Icon player Yuvraj Singh walked on stage with compatriots, fast bowlers S. Sreesanth and Irfan Pathan, as the Kings XI was unveiled here.
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Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta meets Finance Minister
2008-09 Budget is on its way and Bollywood actress Preity Zinta along with senior politician Renuka Chowdhary and some NGO met Finance Minister P Chidambaram to urge him to keep the budget women-friendly. She wanted him to provide incentives for women in the industries.
It was a 20-minute long meeting where they discussed with him about the needs of women. Today, Preity is actively participating in the development of women. She wants single women and widows to get home loans. She also wants to work for better hygiene and personal sanitation and desires to have free and compulsory education for girls.
Preity discussed with Mr. Chidambaram the helplessness of the poorer section. She urged him to give some special provision for the less privileged people who think that their girl child is a burden for them. Preity was the only spokesperson from the film industry among other women who met the Finance Minister. She is highly impressed to meet Mr. Chidambaram. “He is highly qualified and wonderfully articulate. We had a very positive meeting”, said Preity.
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Preity Zinta plays a 'bad' actress in 'Last Lear'
Mumbai: Preity Zinta shares an identical predicament with Arshad Warsi - and both have to play 'bad' actors in their latest films.
While in Anil Kapoor's production "Shortcut" Arshad plays a bad actor, in Rituparno Ghosh's "Last Lear", Preity is cast as a bad actress.
Doing "Last Lear" posed other problems for Preity.
"Suddenly Rituda asked me to stick on bindis that were almost as large as my face. Initially, I was most reluctant. But then I surrendered completely to his vision. I'm actually looking pretty in 'Last Lear'," Preity told IANS.
Even the international critics have noticed. The reviews make a special mention of Preity.
In its review, Variety wrote, "It's an interesting paradox to watch a star like Preity deliver a good performance as a woman who's widely known as a bad thespian."
That isn't the only problem Preity had to face; she had a real problem on the sets of Jahnu Baruah's "Har Pal".
Pritam Chakraborty has done the music score. Every time someone mentioned his name, she thought they were calling out to her because Pritam is the name given to her by Bobby Deol.
"Har Pal" has been one of Preity's toughest roles ever. But the role of the Punjabi NRI wife in Deepa Mehta's "Heaven On Earth" has been her toughest yet. She's still carrying the invisible wounds of the battered wife's character.
The shooting was wrapped up Sunday.
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Preity Zinta happy together
Media had been abuzz lately with stories of Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia heading for a splitville. There were rumours that Preity was shooting for Deepa Mehta’s film in Toronto and boyfriend Ness too had accompanied her to spend time with her. However since Deepa is a tough taskmaster, Preity hardly had time to spend with Ness and this apparently led to an argument between the couple. Sources claimed that after the showdown between Ness and Preity, an upset Ness returned to Mumbai and Preity was once again immersed with her shoot.
However, Preity terms the entire story as rubbish and says, “I don’t know where these stories originate from. A few months ago it was being said that Ness and I were getting married and now it’s being said that he and I have split.” Preity has always tried to keep her personal life in covers and was obviously upset with media intrusion into her relationships. So, was her curt reply when questioned about her relationship with Ness, “Ness and I are happy together, thank you very much.”
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