Deepika Padukone, Angela Jonsson on the Cover/Scans of Vogue India – June 2012

New Poster of ‘Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Pad’ with Boman Irani and Farah Khan

Geeta Basra: I am not getting married in September

She was last seen on the big screen in THE TRAIN (2007). Although waiting for some ''quality'' offers to come her way, an alleged affair with cricketer Harbajan Singh has constantly kept her in the limelight.
Rumour has it that the two stars have decided to tie the knot in September this year. But the actress is clearly not amused. 'It's ridiculous to have to clarify such reports endlessly. Just because the journalists have the pen doesn't mean they can write anything. Let me clarify, I am not getting married in September,' says Geeta.
Supposedly, the marriage was to flag off in Yorkshire, England which happens to be Geeta's home town and wind up somewhere in Punjab which is Harbhajan's hometown. 'People should realize that such reports could be hurtful. Once such stories come out, I have to answer and clarify things with my family and producers. It's not easy to make your way into the industry, and marriage talk can affect it. Forget getting married, I apparently have already had a 'roka' and a breakup with Harbhajan according to the media,' says the fuming actress.
When asked about the equation she shares with Bhajji, she says, 'Harbhajan is a very special friend. Whenever my marriage is on the cards, everyone will know. Right now I am only concentrating on my work.'
On the professional front, Geeta will be seen shaking her leg in the item number, 'Mein Ghaziabad Ki Rani Hoon' from ZILLA GHAZIABAD. She has also been signed on for two movies with filmmaker Nitin Manmohan.
'The deal is on, I am doing three films with him and currently we are only working on two,' says Geeta on a parting note.

Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 5: Paoli Dam

Bengali actress Paoli Dam was nobody before she appeared in the poster of "Hate Story" where she shows a tattooed bare back with a strategically placed gun. It was followed by an uncensored clip of "Hate Story", showing Paoli delivering sexually explicit and abusive dialogues, going viral on the net. Ever since, she has been hogging the limelight for her uninhibited views on nudity and boldness in front of the camera. Last year she got negative publicity for her bold scene in Bengali film "Chatrak".

Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 6: Pooja Mishra

This VJ grabbed eyeballs for being aggressive and loudmouthed in the fifth season of the reality show "Bigg Boss". After being evicted from it, she accused host Salman Khan of being biased. She was even embroiled in a war of words with her "Bigg Boss" house inmate Pooja Bedi.

Cannes 2012 : Aerial Views of Aishwarya Rai walking the red carpet at ‘Cosmopolis’ Premiere

Ranvir, Konkona heading towards spiltville

Another ideal couple of Bollywood is going through rough patch. According to an insider, all is not well in Ranvir Shorey and Konkana Sharma’s paradise. Their two years old married life hit the rough patch. The speculation of their differences came into forefront when Ranvir and Konkana arrived separately during the premiere of Arjun Kapoor starrer ‘Ishaqzaade’ and sat seven rows away from one another.
 Ranvir Shorey and Konkona Sen Sharma not only arrived separately but also sat at a distance from one another. The show ended at 11 pm, but Ranvir and Konkana left separately in their individual vehicles. During the intermission, the duo did not even speak to one another. They behaved as if they were strangers. Their indifference raised several eyebrows. An eyewitness said, “The most shocking part was that both of them did not even look at each other during the entire screening and the time they were at the same venue”. When asked Konkana just avoided the question but Ranvir said, “We are a couple, not conjoined twins. We cannot possible come and go anywhere together. Besides it is none of your business”.
 The duo got married in 2010 in a private ceremony after dating for many years. Ranvir and Konkana were blessed with a baby boy in 2011.

Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 7: Nupur Mehta

She had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it role in Sunny Deol- starrer "Jo Bole So Nihal". But the aspiring actress got her 15 seconds of fame after her name cropped up in match-fixing allegations stemming from the India-Pakistan World Cup match last year. The actress added fuel to fire after admitting she was dating Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne,

‘Yeh Khula Aasmaan’: Movie Review (2012)

Movie Review (2012)
 Film: “Yeh Khula Aasmaan”
Cast: Raghuvir Yadav, Raj Tandon, Anya Anand, Yashpal Sharma and Manjusha Godse
Director: Gitanjali Sinha
Rating:  3/5

It was that great poet-thinker Harindranath Chattopadhyay who said: “It’s very simple to be difficult, but very difficult to be simple.” By that logic, debutant director Gitanjali Sinha has pulled off a reasonably admirable feat in this simple staright-from-the-heart film about the relationship between a neglected boy Avinash (Raj Tandon) and his lonely grandfather.
The film vaguely echoes L.V. Prasad’s 1974 tearjerker “Bidaai”, though not in any overt way.
That the grandfather who embraces the boy’s loneliness and insecurities is played by Raghuvir Yadav is a happy coincidence, and one that fills up the rather austere spaces in the film’s narrative.
The small-town ambience in Bihar, the old sprawling houses with acres of greenery stretching out from here to eternity, furnish the film with a burnished exterior.
As for the interiors, don’t look too deep. Sinha seems content skimming the surface of the emotions gliding along gently as the boy finds a new beginning in his grandfather’s company.
Dramatic conflicts are created through some villainous elements creeping in with embarrassing inopportunity into the placid ambience. The build-up towards a kite-flying contest is negotiated with disarming naivette.
“Yeh Khula Aasmaan” is an old-fashioned simple and transparent tale told with a straightforwardness that challenges current filmmaking trends of irrelevant complexities.
The narration is kept simple and largely formulistic. A romance between the gawky hero and the-girl-next-door (Anya Anand) is teased into the tale. The real hero of the film, besides the small-town ambience, is Raghuvir. He is in his elements, even pitching in with a folk song somewhere down the line while the youngsters at the helm serve their purpose.
Yashpal Sharma as Avinash’s sophisticated tycoon-father is completely miscast.
“Yeh Khula Aasmaan” is a well-intended heartwarming film. More mellow than melodrama, it revels in postures of pristine idyllism associated with non-metropolitan life.
There are no heart-stopping moments of high and low. The drama, when it ensues, is brought on with disarming simplicity. That the heart is in the right place is undeniable.

Shilpa Shetty & Raj Kunda with their new born baby boy

Geeta Basra to marry Harbhajan Singh?

According to the latest buzz, Geeta Basra is all set to settle down with cricketer Harbhajan Singh this September.

‘Khel Khel Mein’ movie remake to start next year: Sanjay Kapoor

Actor Sanjay Kapoor, who has been maintaining a low profile all this while, returns to produce the remake of 1975 super hit film “Khel Khel Mein”. He says he will cast young faces for the movie that goes on the floor next year.
“I will start shooting the film early next year once I decide the perfect star cast and a director to helm the project. Anil Kapoor will not be part of this remake,” Sanjay told IANS.
“We have finished the first draft of the film. I have bought the rights of ‘Khel Khel Mein’ and Shibani Bathija is scripting the film. Since it’s a very youthful film, I will be casting some young face for the remake,” the 46-year-old said.
Directed by Ravi Tandon, the original featured Rishi Kapoor and Nitu Singh.

Cannes 2012: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Abu Jani – Sandeep Khosla

Mallika Sherawat at the Amfar gala at Cannes

'Bol Bachchan' theatrical trailer

Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 8: Sambhavna Seth

The Bhojpuri item girl set the TRPs soaring with her high-voltage drama on the reality shows - "Bigg Boss" and "Desi Girl". In "Bigg Boss", she got involved in an argument with television actress Shweta Tiwari's ex-husband Raja Chaudhary, while in "Desi Girl" she locked horns with Kashmira Shah.

Jism 2 Movie Stills

Ram Gopal Varma drags Kangana in controversy now

Just when Kangana Ranaut would have thought that the world had forgotten about her professional as well as personal split with good friend and mentor Sanjay Dutt, the chapter has opened all over again, courtesy Ram Gopal Varma. The filmmaker has now revealed without mincing any words that it was on Dutt's insistence that he had moved Kangana out of DEPARTMENT and that he had a 'horrible time working with Dutt'. This was in reaction to claims from Dutt that he could see DEPARTMENT failing due to the new technique (using 5D cameras) being adopted to shoot the film. ''Kangana is busy working on SHOOTOUT AT WADALA and just wants to move on now. That's the reason why she is not even commenting on the issue,'' says an insider who has been closely following Kangana's progress.
However Ramu doesn't seem to be in a similar forgiving mood and has come with full guns blazing. Reacting to claims of Dutt and his Business Manager Dharam Oberoi that 'Ramu doesn't listen' and 'they don't intend to work with him ever again', the maverick filmmaker has hit back strongly and also challenged them to make a better film with ZILLA GHAZIABAD and Soham Shah's next.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali announces DEVDAS in 3D

Surpassing the Oscar winning French film THE ARTIST and Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's adaptation of the 1917 Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel DEVDAS stood on the number 8 slot on the coveted Times Magazines' 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium list. Says an excited Sanjay Leela Bhansali, ''The news couldn't have come at a better time, DEVDAS completes 10 momentous years...It's a very proud and happy moment for me. When DEVDAS released, it was slammed by Indian critics for being over-the-top and melodramatic. But Corliss had loved the film and supported it for the same qualities. Today, when he selects DEVDAS alongside THE ARTISTE and AVATAR as one of his 10 favorite films of the millennium, I feel that my struggle was worth it.''
If that wasn't all, the film is now going to release in a 3D version to commemorate its 10 glorious years of cinema.
Confirming the news says the director, ''This is the tenth year of DEVDAS and, somehow, the film hasn't lost its sheen. We're now going to do a 3D version of the film to commemorate these ten years.''
Sunil Lulla, who is part of the film corporation that is working on the 3-D version, says, ''The film completes a decade this year. And to commemorate its 10th year, we will release a 3-D version of this Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay classic.''
With the release of his forthcoming production ROWDY RATHORE around the corner, the director-producer soon readies for his ambitious next tentatively titled RAM LEELA starring Kareena Kapoor- Ranveer Singh.