January 22nd, 2009
Most Popular Simran is on her second innings and unlike her past glory, she has not been able to make her mark.
Sources says that Simran is miffed with her roles as a senior person like the mother’s bit in ‘Vaaranam Aaarayam’ and then as an elder sister in a upcoming film.
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) judge Y.D. Shinde gave his ruling on an application filed by Salman to clear his dues for acting in the movie 'Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke' that shortly before its release had became controversial with several government departments investigating the sources of its finances from questionable quarters and the suspected mafia links of the people associated with it.
While Shah and filmmaker Nazim Rizvi were among those arrested, the court appointed a receiver to handle all the financial aspects of the movie post-release, Special Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian told reporters this evening.
Later, the court receiver deposited the income generated by the movie and the payment due to be made to Salman in the state government treasury, she added.
Shinde has ordered that Salman's dues must be cleared by the state government, but the judge did not indicate any time-frame.
Meanwhile, Shah was convicted under sections of the Indian Penal Code but not under MCOCA, while Rizvi is out on bail.
The film, a musical family drama that did above-average business, featured Salman, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherjee.
Good girl Amrita of course denied the rumors. She and Priyanka were even spotted bonding.
The latest is that she used to be good friends with Harman but now is pretty upset with him.
The petite dame thinks he’s hogging all the limelight during the pre-release promotional campaign of their movie. She also apparently got the shocking news that it was Harman who sneaked out details about their growing friendship to get more attention.
Well, we understand that Harman is desperate to make his next movie work after his ambitious futuristic film flopped. But why make Amrita suffer for the same?
But the girl also is not taking things lying down anymore.
She thinks he’s been doing a lot of manipulation and has conveyed her displeasure to the producers.
They have got the message and must have realized that Harman is doing a lot of self promotion and has asked him to slow it down.
January 21st, 2009
Once upon a time in tinselville, Gopichand was an established villain in Tollywood. He was the baddies for heroines and one of the heroines was Trisha in the movie 'Varsham' starring Prabhas in the lead. He was in the negative role of 'Bhadranna' at that time and now it's time for Gopichand to romance Trisha as a hero.
After plenty of time, say about 5 years, the pair is coming together on screen in the lead cast.
Director of the action packed flick 'Shouryam', Siva is going to direct this huge budget film to be produced jointly by J.Pulla Rao & Bhagavanlu.
Sathyaraj is also coming back to Telugu screens who is set to play as father of Gopichand in this film. The movie will begin shooting in February, as reported.
January 21st, 2009
There's something spicy always revolving around the heroines of 'OSO' and 'Saawariya'. Yeah! These missies had their debut flicks hitting screens on the same time and indeed got professionally pitched at each other. Perhaps, the youngest 'Kapoor' had himself involved with stories cooked between them. And now, it's Akshay Kumar having his turn.
Akki wasn't so elated pairing up with Deepika, as the results for CC2C weren't commendable. Much before that his forthcoming flick 'Come On… Pappu' had no female lead finalized. Buzz has it that Akshay Kumar would be roping in Deepika if things work out well with Chandni Chowk. But as things didn't go as expected, exit Deepika and Enter Sonam into the scene.
Directed by Rohit Dhawan (Son of David Dhawan), the 90-Crore project is produced as a joint venture of Percept Pictures Company and Akshay Kumar. A comedy on its genre, the film is about relationships between the protagonist (Akshay) and a chimpanzee.
'Come On… Pappu' will start rolling from mid-August.
Let's hope that Akshay's decision to change heroines brings him luck in this flick!
January 21st, 2009
Saif Ali Khan and Imtiaz Ali are smiling these days. After tearing their hair out to come up with a title for Saif’s home production co-starring Deepika Padukone, they have finally come up with a title that suits the film. It’s Love Aaj Kal.
Our source close to Saif said, “Imtiaz and Saif couldn’t arrive at a decision as far as naming the film was concerned. So they decided to go ahead with their shooting and brainstorm about the film’s name later.
Eventually they both were so hassled that Saif thought of holding a contest inviting the audience to suggest a suitable name for their film.”
After the film’s shooting, Imtiaz and Saif had to eventually sit down for a brainstorming session. The source added, “The duo came up with different names.
After a lot of deliberation and thought, Imtiaz decided to call the film, Aaj Aur Kal, but was still apprehensive about it. Imtiaz wanted to change the title from Aaj Aur Kal to Aaj Kal.
But Saif disagreed with him saying that he wanted a title that would instantly connect with the audience, like Jab We Met. They then decided on Love Aaj Kal.”
Though Imtiaz remained unavailable for comment, a source close to the director confirmed the news and said, “Yes Imtiaz has decided to call the film Love Aaj Kal.”
The actress has always been a costly affair in Telugu films, with her price being more for a Telugu film more than a Tamil one.
Many say Trisha is a bigger actress in Telugu than in Tamil films, the Tamil word is primarily ruled by Nayantara.
