Saturday, 24 March 2012
Aishwarya speaks about her mother Vrinda Rai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been honored with ‘The Iconic Woman of Worth’ award at an event and at the very event the former Miss World acknowledged her mother with a special award of `She`s Worth It` at the L`Oreal Paris Femina Awards 2012 recently.
Aishwarya who is busy bringing up her four months old daughter who is recently named Aaradhya Bachchan derived from a Sanskrit word which means worship looked gorgeous in an Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla outfit.
While receiving the award, she spoke in honor of her mother Brinda Rai, "She is the nucleus of my existence; who has gently moulded me, shaped me, picked me up when I`ve been down, has faith in me and taught me to be the very best version of me that I can be," Aishwarya said in a statement.
Ash said that her mom Vrinda is responsible for whatever she is today.
Salman Khan, Jackie Chan to share screen space
If everything goes well then very soon we will get to see power-packed performer Salman Khan and international star Jackie Chan sharing screen space. Salman has been approached by South Indian master craftsman Aascar Ravichandran.
Ravi who is known to make big budget films keen to make sequel to Chan’s blockbuster ‘Armour of God’. The making of the film will be cost Rs 400 crore.
When contacted Ravi confirmed the news saying, “I have been discussing it with Jackie Chan for the last few years. The script has a global theme with an Indian connection. Yes, talks are on with Salman Khan.”
“Hopefully, we will seal the deal in a week’s time. But we are yet to fix a Tamil star for the project”, he said.
It is a supposed to be multi-starrer, multi-lingual film starring Kamal Hassan. The filmmaker has been in talks with Jackie Chan since 2004.
Friday, 23 March 2012
Madhur Bhandarkar to face trial in Preeti Jain's rape case
On one hand Madhur Bhandarkar’s highly anticipated film, ‘Heroine’ is shaping up very well while on the other hand, he again embroiled in a rape case trial. The Bombay High court on Thursday rejected the application of the filmmaker to stay the process against him in a Mumbai metropolitan court in the Preeti Jain rape case.
"Justice R.C. Chavan today (Thursday) refused to stay the trial against Bhandarkar, stating that he will now have to face criminal trial," Jain`s lawyer S. Kunjuraman told IANS.
"Bhandarkar has tried his level best to buy time by approaching various courts and filing several pleas. But now he has exhausted all his tricks and will have to face trial," he added.
In 2004 July, upcoming model Preeti Jain lodged a complaint against Madhur Bhandarkar accusing him of raping her several times between 1999 and 2004 under the pretext of marrying her and promising her to cast her in his movies.
In September 2011, a Mumbai metropolitan court had found evidence in Jain`s complaint, issued process against Bhandarkar and directing him to face the trial.
In November last year, the filmmaker was granted anticipatory bail.
King of romance Shahrukh Khan as Jawaharlal Nehru
If everything goes well then very soon we might get to see the king of romance Shahrukh Khan in the role of powerful politician Jawaharlal Nehru. After doing lots of permutation combination Hollywood director Bruce Beresford found Shahrukh Khan’s face quite resemblance to Jawaharlal Nehru.
Bruce Beresford who made Oscar winning movie ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and critically acclaimed films like ‘Silent Fall’ and ‘Black Robe’ is making a film on India Gandhi and he is keen to rope in Shahrukh Khan to play Indira Gandhi’s father Jawaharlal Nehru.
Presently, he is in Mumbai and met with different actors of Bollywood. Most of them showed their interest to be a part of the movie. At the dinner party, he presented before the guests morphed faces of actors from both Bollywood and Hollywood taking part in the film.
It took the audience by surprise when a clipping shows Shahrukh Khan’s face morphed into the face of Jawaharlal Nehru.
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