Mukta Arts to release Paying Guest on 24 April

February 11th, 2009

MUMBAI: Mukta Arts' next film release titled Paying Guest - Chipak Gaye is slated to release on 24 April.

The film is an adaptation of a theatre play titled Paying Guest, ' which ran for two years in the US, the UK, the UAE and India. It is written by Paritosh Painter, who also makes his directorial debut with this movie.

The film stars Shreyas Talpade, Javed Jaffery, Ashwini Choudhary, Vatsal Sheth, Johnny Lever, Celina Jaitley, Riya Sen, Neha Dhupia and Sayali Bhagat. It has music by Sajid Wajid.

Retail therapy for Riya

February 11th, 2009

Riya Sen’s latest mantra seems to be to shop till you drop! Riya is known to be a big shopaholic and in order to keep her spendthrift ways in check she had even vowed not to shop in 2009! We hear, that was her New Year resolution.

However, resolutions are meant to be broken and that’s what the woman seems to have done too. “Yes, I have even overlooked the recession and shopped like no one’s business,” she smirks.

But as long as Riya ‘foots’ the bills herself, no one is really worried. A huge bill isn’t a big deal when you are Bollywood heroine, right Riya?

Riya Sen’s transformation in ‘Shaadi of the Dead’

February 11th, 2009

Riya Sen’s next film ‘Shaadi of the Dead’ will see the glamorous beauty scorch the screen once again by slipping into the skin of a seductress!

Produced by the well known Manmohan Shetty and Siddharth Jain, Riya will be essaying the role of a seductress opposite the very charming Purab Kohli.

‘Shaadi of the dead’ is a rib tickling comedy that is sure to keep the audiences entertained!

After having just finished Ritupurno Ghosh’s movie ‘Nauka Dubi’ where Raima and she will be seen on the silver screen together for the first time, the transformation from Sarees and a middle class look to a bombshell in ‘Shaadi of the Dead’ is something everyone is eagerly looking forward to!!

New things about IPL 2009

February 6th, 2009

Shilpa Shetty will launch a talent hunt for cheerleaders for her Rajasthan IPL team.
Katrina Kaif resumes the role of mascot for the Bangalore team.

Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty have invested Rs 75 crore for a 12 per cent stake in the Rajasthan team.
Akshay Kumar will not be the mascot for Delhi’s team this year.

Riya Sen is the brand ambassador for the IPL website.
Rajasthan’s team will launch a clothing line and a documentary film on the team.

Knights and Angels is a talent show on NDTV Imagine where Sourav Ganguly hunts for cheerleaders. Chennai Super Kings Cheerleaders is also a talent hunt show, to start soon on Vijay TV.
Chennai Super Kings Juniors is a talent hunt for young cricketers, also coming on Vijay TV.

Perscussionist Sivamani will perform with the finalists of Chennai’s cheerleader hunt.

Preity Zinta’s Mohali team is also launching a talent hunt and a cricket academy in Mohali.

Pakistani players are out of the IPL Season 2.

England cricketers are in this year, including star players Kevin
Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff.
* Aussie David Warner joins the Delhi team, while Michael Clarke pulls out of the IPL.
* 112 overseas players are auctioned this season.
* Rs 600 crore (nearly half the ad budget for cricket in 2009) is the advertising money so far.
* Rs 9.6 crore is the spending cap on the teams for 2009.
* Bangalore trades Robin Uthappa for Mumbai’s Zaheer Khan. Mumbai’s Ashish Nehra is traded for Delhi’s Shikhar Dhawan.
SRK’s team has Eden Gardens, but is checking out Cuttack stadium as well.

Kabhi khushi kabhi gham

January 14th, 2009

Is it possible for two actresses to remain friends? Ask Vidya Balan and Raima Sen who are as thick as thieves

In Bollywood there are many friendships that start from the reels and extend onto real life. Vidya Balan and Raima Sen are one such. On Sunday evening, an eyewitness caught Vidya and Raima bonding like school girls. The two actresses seemed to be having a great time at Juhu's Prithvi café taking the entire place by surprise.

The witness said, "Vidya and Raima walked into the Prithvi Cafe instantly drawing our attention. Vidya was dressed in a white chikan salwar kurta while Raima was in a pair of jeans and a white shirt. They were giggling and enjoying each other's company. It appeared as if the two were catching up after a long time."

Since the café was full, they didn't find a place to sit says the witness. "Vidya and Raima were about to walk out when the manager made place for them. They had a glass of the famous Prithvi cutting chai while most present there were ogling at them.When they stepped out, they could not locate their cars. So they hopped into a rickshaw and sped away like a breeze even before gapers like us could realise anything."

Raima confirmed to us, "Vidya and I have been good friends since our Parineeta days. However, this is something very personal and I don't want to talk about it."

Meanwhile, Vidya remained unavailable for comment.

Riya Sen on a weight losing spree

January 12th, 2009

Riya Sen started young, almost 12 years back and has tried all this while to gain an honorable position in Bollywood. But alas, that hasn’t been possible.

Not that she didn’t look sexy and glamorous at times. But Bollywood fame has always eluded her. She made news only for the wrong reasons.

As a model and as a brand ambassador of many renowned brands, she didn’t do badly. But acting never seemed her cup of tea.

Currently the actress has been obsessing about her weight.

She thinks she has gained much weight these days and is depressed about it.

That’s why she has become really crazy about attending spinning sessions and only eats health food.

But strangely she has been denying that she has gained weight and has been going around saying, “I’ve been size-zero all of my life. What’s the big deal about it?”

This babe really needs to try and understand that with zero acting skills a major change like that is not possible.

Working hard on her acting skills would be a much better idea.