October, 2009

Mumbai, Deeepika Padukone and Lara Dutta are shooting for Sajid Khan’s “Housefull” at the moment and both believe they’ve the best role. “The film has Deepika, Jiah (Khan) and me — three girls. But mine is a great role. It’s the strongest role among the females,” Lara told IANS. So where does that leave Deepika [...]

New Delhi, Rumour mills have been working overtime that after playing 12 different roles in “What’s Your Rashee?”, Priyanka Chopra has been signed on to essay seven roles in Vishal Bharadwaj’s “Seven Husbands”. But the actress denies any such development. “No. I am not doing ‘Seven Husbands’ yet. Vishal sir and I have been talking [...]

Her fans have often referred to her as Kat, but now actress Katrina Kaif has a new nickname – Sambo – courtesy her “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani” co-star Ranbir Kapoor. “Ranbir coined the name on the sets of the movie when both were required to shoot for an action sequence,” said a unit source. [...]

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta will be seen as husband-wife in an ad for Emami’s health product Chyawanprash. Shah Rukh will play a commoner in the ad and for the first time will be seen with Rituparna. If a source is to be believed, the actress was “super excited and [...]

Bhubaneswar, Actress Nandita Das, the newly appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI), promises to bring maximum number of kids to the children film festival, starting Nov 14, despite the fact that kids are hooked to reality shows. “My top priority at this moment is to attract large number of children from [...]

Mumbai, R.D. Burman’s music continues to inspire today’s filmmakers. While “Kaminey” had two tracks of the late composing legend, now one of his songs will be heard in the forthcoming movie “Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna”. The legend’s composition “Bade achche lagte hain yeh dharti, yeh nadiya, yeh raina aur tum” makes a vital appearance in [...]

New Delhi, Ninety-year-old playback legend Manna Dey – who belted out evergreen songs like “Ae mere pyaare watan” and “Zindagi kaisi hai paheli” – is being honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, his family said Wednesday. “We got a call from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry Tuesday to inform [...]