Tag: Bollywood

Porn star-turned-actress Sunny Leone, who debuted in Hindi films with Pooja Bhatt’s ” Jism 2″, is here to stay. The Indo-Canadian performer is learning Bollywood dance. Sunny said: “I am learning Bollywood dance from Shabina Khan. I love Bollywood dance moves and I am craving to learn Bollywood moves.” Asked if she is open to item numbers, Sunny said: “As I said, I love dancing. I would love to do an item number, but I have signed a contract, so I can’t do any item number (for the time being).

But I am looking forward to doing typical Bollywood dance numbers.” Shabina (not to be confused with designer turned producer Shabina Khan) started her Bollywood journey with ” Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon” and praises Sunny for her commitment. “Sunny is a very dedicated student who listens to each and every word very carefully and pays a lot of attention and gives her 100 percent,” said Shabina. “As Sunny is now a full-fledged Bollywood heroine, I’m going to train her in complete Bollywood dancing, which is full of grace, expressions, perfect moves with sex appeal,” she added.

Looks like Poonam Jhawer, who played Raadhe Maa in OMG Oh My God, is going the Hollywood way now. According to sources, not only has the actress signed a Hollywood film that will be produced in collaboration with a Bollywood production house, but has also been offered the role of Nira Radia in a Hindi film. The actress says she’s been waiting to do some quality work and performance-oriented roles. “I believe in quality work and not quantity. I wanted to do challenging, performance-oriented roles, so I waited for it. I was not in a hurry and didn’t want to be in the rat race,” she says, adding, “I thank my producers and directors for finding me capable of playing real-life characters.”

Scarlett Johansson is single again after splitting from her boyfriend of ten months, Nate Naylor. The 27-year-old actress has dumped the advertising executive just days after she was spotted ”completely flirting” with one of Lindsay Lohan’s close friends. ”They never officially lived together, but Nate has moved all of his stuff out and back into his apartment. The relationship is over. It has not been amicable,” Contactmusic quoted a source as telling the Daily Mail. The ‘Hitchcock’ star, who was previously married to Ryan Reynolds, began dating 38-year-old Nate last January after meeting him in New York. The split follows several reports suggesting the actress was seen flirting with multiple men, including her ex-boyfriend Jared Leto recently.

Actress Jennifer Aniston has reportedly invited her ex-husband Brad Pitt’s mother Jane to her wedding. Aniston and Pitt divorced in 2005 after almost five years of marriage, but the actress remained close to her former mother-in-law and wants her to be present when she ties the knot with Justin Theroux. “Jennifer wants Jane to be there. She’s closer to her than she is to her own mother Nancy and it just feels right,” the sun.co.uk quoted a source as saying. “Jane is thrilled that Jennifer has found happiness again. She has been on the end of the phone and in person offering advice and support for the past seven years. She wouldn’t miss Jen’s wedding for anything,” the source added.

Twilight star Kristen Stewart has revealed she fears that her fame might lead to someone killing her one day. The actress – who was bombarded with hate messages from fans after cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson – fears someone will log on to a social networking site to find out her location, then travel to where she is and murder her. In an extract from new e-book ‘Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner-In Their Own Words’ by Talia Soghomonian, Stewart told interviewer Sian Edwards: “Nowadays it’s harder because everyone is on Facebook and everyone knows where you are all the time, and everyone’s twittering.” “Like I’m going to die because somebody is going to say where I am and somebody is going to kill me. Someone’s going to twitter my location and then it’s going to be like, boom,” she added.

Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Rade Serbedzija

Direction: Olivier Megaton

Genre: Action Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes

Story:

Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his ex-wife get kidnapped while holidaying in Istanbul. His daughter manages to escape. Will she be able to ‘save’ the couple? Movie Review: This sequel of 2008 hit Taken follows up a while after where the first film left off. Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is finding it tough coming to terms with the fact that his daughter Kim is seeing a boy and may be serious about him.

The fact that she had been the recent victim of a kidnapping attempt foiled by her father is not lost on her. Father and daughter are still close and he wants nothing more than to ensure his family is safe.
So, when his ex-wife Lenore complains about a cancelled trip, he consoles her and asks them to join him after ‘work’ (an assignment where he provides security to rich, high-risk clients) in Istanbul.

Meanwhile, in faraway Albania, a village mourns at a mass burial. All the men dead at the hands of Bryan, punished for daring to kidnap his daughter and trying to sell her into prostitution. It is there that the main kidnapper’s father Murad Krasniqi ( Rade Serbedzija) vows to avenge his son and his men by capturing Mills and taking him back to his village for vengeance. As luck would have it, Lenore lands up in Instanbul with Kim and the family spends some quality time together. Their happiness is short-lived as Bryan and his ex-wife are chased and then ‘taken’ soon after.

He manages to send out a call to his daughter at their hotel and warn her of the impending danger.
He asks her to get to the safety of the US embassy but she insists on rescuing them. So he guides her to where they’re being held. After that, it’s a will-she won’t-she affair? Screenwriter Luc Besson and director Olivier Megaton play to their strengths.

Both have made films that have involved either abductions or high-octane action sequences and car chases. Liam Neeson mouths the cheesy lines and still sounds believable.

If you’re a fan of the actor or films with a similar storyline, you will enjoy this one. The car chases and the hand-to-hand fight scenes are not to be missed. Despite his bad-man act, Rade as Murad plays a convincing father driven mad by grief and your heart does reach out to him, never mind the evil he so clearly embodies. Also, this is one of those revenge flicks where you know how it could end but you’ll strap on your seatbelt and go along for the ride anyway.

Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan’s wedding functions and celebrations are scheduled between October 16 and 21 in Mumbai, Delhi and Pataudi. Post her shaadi, the new Begum of Pataudi will shoot for a hot item number with Salman Khan for Dabangg 2. Sources say that Bebo is going to be a conscious bride and eat right because she is doing the Munni Badnaam Hui version in the film. The song will be shot at a Mumbai studio. Says our source, “Since she will be reportedly showing her midriff in the song, like Katrina Kaif did in Chikni Chameli, Bebo is keen to be in perfect shape.”

Model-turned-actress Malaika Arora Khan’s item number Munni in Dabangg was a chartbuster, but for the actioncomedy’s sequel, she is focusing more on behind the scenes activities. “I am not actively involved on the sets of Dabangg 2 in terms of creativity, but I am more behind the scenes. I am more office and literally back-stage, which is a new experience for me because I have always been on the camera,” said Malaika. The 39-year-old turned producer with her husband, Arbaaz Khan, when their company Arbaaz Khan Productions released its first film Dabangg in 2010.

Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to produce a musical based on the all-girl supergroup The Go-Go’s, according to reports. Working with several prospective co-producers, including Donovan Leitch and Rick Ferrari, Paltrow would base the musical on the life and music of the seminal 1980s all-girl group that includes Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Kathy Valentine, Gina Schock and Paula Jean Brown. The LA-based band, which has been touring all summer, was behind such early-’80s hits as ‘Vacation,’ ‘We Got the Beat’ and ‘Our Lips Are Sealed.’ They were the first all-female band that played their own instruments to top the Billboard charts. Given that Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia! (with music by Abba) and, most recently, American Idiot (music of Green Day) have all been hits, it makes sense to bring the all-girl supergroup back to life. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Carlisle and bandmates are considering being involved and possibly penning new songs. According to Sources, some major Broadway writers are being considered for the book, but no deals have been signed.

If reality star Kim Kardashian and her current beau ever exchange wedding vows, she would like to have the ceremony on an island. The twice-wed 31-year-old, who is still legally married to basketball player Kris Humphries, insists her next nuptials will be a simple affair on a beach, reports dailystar.co.uk. With Humphries, Kardashian had a 72-day marriage, which began with a lavish ceremony that was taped for a reality TV special. She is sure she wants subtle celebrations now. “It had always been my dream to have a big wedding, and when people said that I’d made it over the top for the show, that was just me. I am over the top. But the next time, I want to do it on an island with just my friends and family and that’s it,” she told Tatler magazine.

Actress Emily Blunt is tipped to star in ” The Avengers” sequel. The 29-year-old is vying for the role of Ms Marvel in the highly anticipated sequel. She is in competition with fellow British actress Ruth Wilson, though the studio has yet to confirm this, reports dailymail.co.uk. “The Avengers” is one of the highest grossing films in history. It has made more than 500 million pounds worldwide. The sequel is due to begin shooting next year.

Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Natasha Calis, Kyra Sedgwick, Matisyahu
Direction: Ole Bornedal
Genre: Horror
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes

Story:

A girl gets possessed by an evil spirit. Will her father be able to get rid of the curse that plagues his child? Movie Review: A young girl (Natasha Calis) buys an antique wooden box at a yard sale. Intrigued by the box with a Hebrew inscription on it, she opens it. An evil spirit is unleashed, putting her and her family’s life in danger. Will the family survive the demonic attack? The film is apparently based on a true story.

The film title pretty much says it all. Years after The Exorcist (1973) was made, filmmakers still seek inspiration from the horror classic. What distinguishes ‘The Possession’ from ‘The Exorcist’ is merely the mention of demons in Judaism. Barring the Jewish angle, The Possession, too is about a young girl who’s been possessed by a mysterious evil spirit. The girl starts displaying bouts of violent and bizarre behaviour. Her divorced parents fail to decode her dilemma and evidences of demonic possession.

The father ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan), however, senses trouble eventually and wages war against the demon, seeking help of a Jewish exorcist (played by reggae- pop star Matisyahu). Will the demon let go of the girl? The Possession is high on suspense. It even manages to keep you engaged throughout with its haunting background score and quaint big houses. The actors do a fine job.

The very young Natasha Calis is extremely convincing. The film, however, is low on originality and pace. Bornedal’s storytelling drags and gets repetitive, thus diluting moments which could have been scarier. The suspense unfolds a bit too late for it to be too creepy.

Tracks like the parents being divorced and the girl vomiting bugs seem clichéd.

Actress Anne Hathaway exchanged vows with long time boyfriend Adam Shulman at the weekend. Hathaway wore a gown designed by good friend Valentino for her D-day Saturday, reports eonline.com. The newlyweds invited more than 150 family members and friends at a private estate in Big Sur, California.

The guests began arriving for the ceremony around 4 p.m., but many were reportedly on hand for the whole wedding weekend, which started Friday with a rehearsal dinner at the Ventana Inn and Spa. Hathaway, 29, has appeared to enjoy a cuddly, dramafree courtship with Shulman.

They started dating in late 2008 after meeting through mutual friends and by November 2011 Shulman had popped the question, offering up a reportedly six-carat diamond ring he helped design with Kwiat jewelers. The couple held an engagement party February this year at a New York bookstore.

Sofia Vergara, who recently suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Emmy awards, has revealed that she looks better naked. The 40-year-old actress admitted that she was once pressured by her publicist to get her 32F breasts reduced. Her mom advised her to embrace her curves, saying, “God is going to punish you, you can’t chop your boobs out. It’s crazy. All the women are risking their life to get boobs.’ So I didn’t do it.” According to Confidenti@l, she was advised she would “look better in the dresses and look better next to the older actresses because they were a little bit, you know, they looked so great because they were a little less voluptuous. “But I always joked with her (the publicist), you know, they look better in the dresses but I look better naked!” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

Drew Barrymore and her husband, Will Kopelman, welcomed their first child – a baby girl named Olive, into the world on 26th September.

“We are proud to announce the birth of our daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, born September 26th, healthy, happy and welcomed by the whole family,” ABC News quoted the couple’s rep as saying in a statement to People magazine.

“Thank you for respecting our privacy during this most special time in our lives,” the rep said.

The couple got married at Barrymore’s Montecito, Calif., home on 2nd June.

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Bingbing Li, Sienna Guillory, Boris Kodjoe
Direction: Paul W.S.Anderson
Genre: Action
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes

Story:

The human race once again faces fear of extinction. And the only hope for survival, as always, is Alice ( Milla Jovovich).

But how?

Movie Review:

Her name is Alice and that is her wonderland — a land you’d love to be a part of, specially if 3D is the way of life. Here cities do not exist for real; they are all but a part of the imagination and holographic representations called Sequences. There’s the New York sequence of bio chemicals, Tokyo sequence of artificial climate, Moscow sequence of snow-covered areas. In short, the setting (hi-tech stuff, we mean) is perfect.

Now for the action and all that scary stuff the Resident Evil series is usually made up of. Well, the fifth installment has its share of action — bullets, bombs and the zombies in thousands — that does make you sit up as the blood and gore hits your face. However, it’s only when the emphasis is too much on all that long drawn conversation leading to longer gaps in the action cuts, do you end up feeling a bit distracted. But then when the zombies and the Red Queen with her death threat – ‘You are all going to die down there’ — are back on screen, you know why the series has a strong fan base.

Finally, over to the main ‘hero’ of this wonderland – Alice, aka Milla. As always, like the quintessential female warrior, she plays the role almost to perfection, battling ogres and monsters of all shapes and sizes, and jumping off here, there, everywhere. What’s more, she also has Ada Wong ( Bingbing Li) to help her spill guts, specially when Milla is seen falling and running from her enemies (a couple of time).

Just one wish: Hope the sixth movies in the series – as made pretty evident in the last scene – has our Alice girl kicking some more butt. After all, that’s what she’s good at…. And that’s precisely what we want to see her do….

Despite all the ambiguity on the most talked-about event of the year, preparations underway are proof enough that Kareena Kapoor’s wedding with Saif Ali Khan is happening on October 17.

The actress, whose last film released a couple of weeks ago, is believed to be taking the month off from work. That includes promotions for her forthcoming suspense thriller with Aamir Khan and Rani Mukerji. According to our source, “Kareena has conveyed to everyone concerned that she will be unavailable for any promotional campaign till October 21. So she’s asked that the same be scheduled from November 1 onwards only.”

Adds our source, “Kareena is scheduled to start Prakash Jha’s next, Satyagraha, on January 10 and Punit Malhotra’s next with Imran Khan on January 25. Besides, she and Saif will also be taking off to Europe for their annual holiday sometime in December.”

Despite a noticing debut in Mission Istanbul, actress Shweta Bhardwaj couldn’t cash in on the success of the movie and after doing few puny flicks, she returned to her roots i.e modelling. Shweta is now back in tinsel town with Ram Bhajan Zindabad, where she is playing ‘Dilli Rani’.

“My character is of a prostitute and a dancer, who dreams to be a politician one day. The movie is actually a political satire. The film is about a poor lay man and will leave you shaken and amused simultaneously,” elaborates Shweta.
The damsel is known for her care-a-damn attitude and is open to play any bold role. Ask her about this and she starts laughing. “Really, I don’t think ten times before saying. I guess that’s why I love making statements. Just kidding. Bold roles are not something I plan in life when work comes to me. Sometimes I think about it and then I leave it to my manager.”

Speaking about today’s trends of actresses doing bold scenes or posting nude pics on social networking sites, she defends, “No one is forcing people to watch them. Don’t create an opinion about others without knowing them. Nude pictures can look beautiful but depends how well they are taken or how fine you are looking in the photos. Sex is actually in your mind so don’t make nudity a big deal. It is overrated. Even today’s kids don’t make sex a big deal anymore.”

Actress Dia Mirza believes that the quality that makes a man stand out is his character.

“I think character in a man makes him what he is. Of course, we look for various things in a man but the one thing that makes a man stand distinctively apart from the rest is his character,” she told reporters.

Dia, 30, is dating filmmaker Sahil Sangha.

Talking about the women in Bollywood, Dia believes it is filled with some wonderful women.

“I think we have many wonderful women in the Hindi film industry who are a combination of good looks and intelligence. To name a few, I would say Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen, Deepika Padukone…The list is pretty endless actually,” Dia said.

Famously, it was poet-thinker Harindanath Chattopadhyay who said, “It’s very difficult to be simple”. By his reckoning , Katrina’s most difficult role is in Ek Tha Tiger. Director Kabir Khan who had earlier insisted on a no-makeup look for Katrina in New York has this time gone even further and insisted that she wear clothes from her own wardrobe which Katrina has happily done. As a friend of the actress says, “Casual wear is Katrina’s biggest joy in life. She hates to dress up and put on makeup. She is happiest when unadorned. No wonder we see her face plastered with a smile during the Ek Tha Tiger schedules.”

Interestingly it’s just the opposite for Katrina in the Yashraj film where she is throughout dressed up to look urbane cool. When it comes to the bitter vibes between Shah Rukh and Salman Khan even their co-star gets caught in the vehement crossfire in a most unexpected way. Hence it’s two different Katrina Kaifs shooting simultaneously with the Khan superstars for the same banner. Sartorially she is as far removed in Kabir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger and Yash Chopra’s untitled film as humanly possible.

Salman’s girl in Tiger is minimalist in every sense. She talks less and wears practical comfortable clothes. Says a source close to Katrina, “Katrina is dressed completely like an average city girl of today on Ek Tha Tiger. That basically means she’s for the first time dressing up for a role exactly the way she dresses up in real life. Katrina even dug into her own wardrobe for this part. For the Yashji’s film Katrina was given a far more chic appearance. Even when she is doing a casual song in the park the ‘casual’ look has been considerably worked upon.”

Before turning to the silver screen, Chitrangada Singh never walked the ramp despite being a model as she was not tall enough. “I am happy that as a package of being an actor I also get to do different things.

I never walked the ramp earlier because I was not tall enough,” Chitrangada said after setting the ramp on fire in a sizzling gold and black evening wear by designer duo Pankaj and Nidhi at the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour. After working in advertisements and music videos, the 36-year-old wife of Indian golfer Jyoti Randhawa had impressed everybody with her debut role in Sudhir Mishra’s 2005 film ‘Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi’. While at the backstage of the fashion show, Chitrangada said she felt out of place. “Now I have done enough of catwalks but yet I am nervous everytime I set my foot on the ramp,” she said. Based on the issue of gender politics, Chitrangada would soon be shooting for another Sudhir Mishra film ‘Inkaar’ where she is cast opposite Arjun Rampal. “It is a film about sexual harassment.

It shows that proving rape is easier than proving sexual harassment,” she said. The dusky actress would also be seen in a romantic film ‘I, Me, aur Main’ with John Abraham. For now she is disappointed that the Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Joker’, where she had an item number ‘Kaafirana’, bombed at the box office.