Friday, 23 March 2012
Celebs at Radio Mirchi Music Awards 2012 Red Carpet.
Dia Mirza
Hard Kaur
Mika and Rakhi Sawant
Dhanush
Anjana Sukhani
Kulraj Randhawa
Aditi Rao Hydari
Rakhi Sawant
Hrishitta Bhatt
Payal Rohatgi
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.
Priyanka Chopra Wins Big Cbs Love India’s Glam Diva Title
Lovely Priyanka Chopra once again acknowledge as Glam Diva of the nation , this time by BIG CBS. Priyanka attend the ceremony event attired in a beige Herve Ledger tight fitting dress with houndstooth pattern designed by Amy Patel. Checkout Priyanka Chopra Pictures.
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.
Agent Vinod Movie Review
If only Agent Vinod were a video game. It has all the hallmarks of a classic: from explosive wall-to-wall action to various levels of globetrotting mayhem, from challenging moments of hand-to-hand combat and clue-hunting to an eclectic slew of fascinating side characters, from a helluva background score to, quite vitally, the fact that it doesn't end where it should and instead keeps giving the protagonist more to do.
So yes, as a game it'd be sensational, and tremendous fun. As a film, on the other hand, Agent Vinod must be termed a disappointment, a slick and well-produced throwback to the spy thriller that feels both overlong and under-conceived. Sure, it's glossy and gun-filled and looks shiny enough to be from Hollywood, and while that might be Farhan Akhtar's [ Images ] wet dream, one expects both a sense of humour and, most critically, actual cleverness from Sriram Raghavan. Coming from the man who made the marvelous Johnny Gaddaar, Agent Vinod is too depressingly generic to be celebrated.
The essential problem lies in the characterisation of Saif Ali Khan's [ Images ] titular protagonist, an unconvincing secret agent suffering from mood swings, saucy and wink-filled in one shot, dour and stony in the next. He's both nonsense and no-nonsense, a flawless leading man morally incapable of doing wrong and sartorially incapable of a hair out of place. So cool for school is he, for example, that even when drugged and being slapped around with his head shoved in a pool, his white shirt stays firmly tucked into his trousers. So much of the film is sadly compromised by making the leads look good – but perhaps that's the price we pay for actor-producers.
Kareena Kapoor [ Images ], more assured of her own attractiveness, goes the other way and actually relinquishes the spotlight -- dancing a mujra alongside a woman (Maryam Zakaria) who is both a better dancer and undeniably more fit -- but her character Irma (La Douche?) is even more of a disappointment. A Pakistani secret agent who talks a big game but is content playing a distressed second fiddle when the man's around, her utter inability to kill people – because good girls aren't killers, the film implies -- even in self-defense, makes for a heroine who can never quite keep up.
Agent Vinod wants to be funny, and while there is the occasional burst of wit, it's exhaustingly rare. Sriram Raghavan is, first and foremost, a film fanboy, and sure this film has references sprinkMMled through it – the greatest salutes being to the 1978 Don, with a mention of that immortal character's dislike of a person's shoes, and with inconveniently dead Iftekhaars who are the only ones aware of a protagonist's true allegiance – it doesn't make the cut. The smashing retro-loving background score by Daniel B George does what it can, but Pritam's [ Images ] songs feel out of place, as do some of the gags. A particularly great one, involving a Charlie Chaplin film, is let down by some abysmally sloppy editing.
And yet, while I rally against this film's multitude of flaws, I will gladly concede that it nudged me into smiling more often than most Hindi films do. That there are moments of actual whimsy, that the supporting cast is very solid: especially Ram Kapoor, here referred to as Bud Spencer; the highly nuanced Adil Hussain who we should see in many more Hindi films; Prem Chopra [ Images ], always a pleasure, featured here alongside old photos, a la Dharmendra [ Images ] in Johnny Gaddaar, and then there's the homage-y casting of the head of Indian intelligence, here played by BP Singh, the director of television's long running CID, a man used to telling on-screen detectives what to do.
Why Agent Vinod would work as a game despite (or maybe aided by) its flaws is because in a game, we need the hero to be essentially blank, an attractive shell we, as players with joysticks in hand, willingly flesh out by making into an extension of our own personality. In a film (and especially a secret agent film, for Bond's sake!) that combination of character, personality and plot needs to dominate us, amuse us, win us over, take us on a ride and seduce us. Agent Vinod may be the best looking actioner we've seen, and Sriram Raghavan may be a unanimous choice to hold the joystick, but watching him play this particular game shows him distracted by the window dressing -- and not trying hard enough to save the princess. (Rediff movies)
Agent Vinod (2012) Trailer
Sunny Leone To Master Hindi For 'Jism 2'
If you thought Indo-Canadian adult entertainment star Sunny Leone would do nothing more than show off her deadly curves in Bhatt camp flick Jism 2, you are dead wrong! The sultry actress will also be seen spouting lines in Hindi in the movie and Sunny has reportedly started brushing up on her language skills for the role.
The former Bigg Boss 5 contestant was quoted to have said on her micro-blogging site, "Today my Hindi lessons went pretty well. Felt really good about the session. Tomorrow, I will conquer my Hindi." Not only this, the official Twitter page of the film also lauded Leone for her efforts by writing, "The direction department of Jism 2 is super impressed by the pace and diligence with which Sunny Leone is studying and memorizing her Hindi dialogues."
The Punjabi origin lass had been approached for a role in the erotic thriller after Mahesh Bhatt saw her on the reality show Bigg Boss and approached her for the role. The film also stars Dino Morea and Arunoday Singh.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Top 10 Scandalous Actors: Number 1: Mandakini
If there were a Nobel Prize for notoriety, Mandakini would have won it hands-down. Her entry with Ram Teri Ganga Maili made her a household name (she appeared in a diaphanous sari revealing her breasts). Then after a string of flops, she began to be seen in the company of a certain Mr. D (read Dawood Ibrahim), playing arm candy to him at matches in Sharjah, weird stuff like that. Then post the Mumbai bomb blasts of 1993, Mandakini literally vanished once Dawood Ibrahim was cited as the culprit behind the carnage. An entire generation is obsessed with the idea of her being Dawood Ibrahim's mistress, that the don himself had sired a son thanks to her. Today, Mandakini, leads a very different life. She is married to a descendent of the Dalai Lama called Dr Kagyur T Rinpoche Thakur. He gives yoga classes under the name of R. Thakur in a neighbourhood that also has the largest strugglers-per-capita in all of India: Yari Road, Bombay. Mandakini too is a keen fan of yoga, they say.
Nargis, Shahid living together
Nargis who visited Shahid very often has fixed her base at his Versova home. Says a neighbourhood source, "Two weeks ago, Nargis stayed over at his place for five to six days. It appears the duo have become more and more familiar and comfortable with each other."
Adds the source, "In fact when Nargis' mother flew in from abroad, she, too, made it a point to visit Shahid. So one can gauge how close Sasha is to Nargis that her folks too have been dropping in at his place."
Though there are lots of talking about the duo, both Nargis and Shahid preferred to maintain a dignified silence about their new found love. When asked about Shahid, Nargis diplomatically answered that Shahid is very caring.
Speculation about their affair grew ripe when Shahid and Nargis flew together to Goa to make arrangements for Shahid’s birthday while the other guests flew three four days later.
Adds the source, "They casually met but grew fond of each other leading to the buzz that they were an item. Now it appears that romance is blooming but they prefer to be guarded about their feelings for each other."
Well, Shahid who suffered many failed relationship in the past might find true love in Nargis.
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