Kajol Devgan is not an actress who can stand the discrimination and different treatment. The latest event was when the IIFI Goa 2013 organizers decided to treat the Hollywood actress and Kajol in different classes, which miffed the actor.
As per the reports, Hollywood actress Susan Saradon will be inaugurating the ceremony. The special treatment which made Kajol express her resentment included business class tickets for Sarandon and also a high-end luxury car to pick her from the airport.
A source says, "Kajol was invited by the International Film Festival of India to be a part of the opening ceremony, but she put down some conditions and did not attend."
Nonetheless, Bollywood bigwigs including Rekha, Rani Mukherji, Kamal Haasan, Asha Bhosle and other prominent guests were a part of the opening ceremony of the IFFI Goa 2013.
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Mega star Amitabh Bachchan has been bestowed upon with many awards in his career spanning over 4 decades. Now the actor has one more feather in his cap. Amitabh Bachchan is honoured with a Global Diversity Award today at the British Parliament.
The actor will also take a tour around the prestigious House of Parliament.
'Last night at 10, Downing Street was a rewarding experience. Today at Parliament and the Speaker and a Global Diversity Award !!', posted the elated actor on his micro-blogging site.
In the past, Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured with Padma Shri in 1984 and Padma Bhushan in 2001. We hope the actor has many such awards coming his way!
Mumbai: She doesn’t know Hindi, but her powerful and melodious rendition of Hindi songs helped 10-year-old Anjana Padmanabhan win the audiences’ hearts, and thus, the first “Indian Idol Junior” title at the star-studded grand finale of the singing reality show here Sunday.
For the finale, the Bangalore-based Anjana competed with three other finalists - Nirvesh Sudhanshubhai Dave, Debanjana Karmakar and Anmol Jaswal. The talented young girl was ecstatic upon receiving the trophy from megastar Amitabh Bachchan, and much to everyone’s delight, she made a short acceptance speech in Hindi.
“Maine yeh expect nahin kiya thha. Main bahut khush hun (I didn’t expect this. I am very happy),” she said after being adjudged the winner based on audience voting.
As the ‘Indian Idol Junior’, she went back home with a trophy, a cash prize of Rs.25 lakh and a Nissan Micra car. She was also gifted cheques of Rs.500,000 and Rs.200,000 from Kotak Mahindra and Horlicks, respectively.
Judged by singer Shreya Ghoshal, and music composer duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani, the Sony Entertainment Television show was hosted by Karan Wahi and Mandira Bedi. It went on air June 1.
The finale lived upto its buzz as Amitabh even sang "Mere sath aao mere doston" with Shekhar and the four finalists.
Shahid Kapoor too made an appearance on the show to promote his upcoming film "Phata Poster Nikla Hero". The actor also took to the stage with Vishal to perform their hit track "Dhan te nan" from "Kaminey". He later danced to the beats of "Dhating naach" from his upcoming movie with “Indian Idol Junior” contenders.
"Zanjeer" stars Priyanka Chopra and Ram Charan Teja also made a roaring presence on the show. They entered while grooving to the beats of "Akhi Mumbai humko salam thokti dekho" from their forthcoming film.
Priyanka even performed a Bihu dance on "Daiya re daiya" on the behest of two participants of the show - Priyam Borpatra and Eman Chaudhary. The actress even requested the final four to sing for her - and they chose to croon her tracks "Gun gun guna re" and "Desi girl".
Apart from performances by the top four contestants and celebrity guests, the judges also put up an energetic show. All remaining contestants, who were in the top 11, also got a chance to showcase their talent once again.
Shreya lured the audience with her song "Sun raha hai na tu" from "Aashiqui 2" and "Itni si hansi" from Barfi, Vishal-Shekhar accompanied her for "Radha" and "Ooh la la". The music composer duo also belted out some of their hit numbers including "Disco deewane" and "One two three four".
The final performance was of the top four contestants who paid a tribute to Amitabh by singing some of his hit numbers, including "Yeh mera dil", " Ab toh hai tumse", "Dekha na haye re".
The King of Romance left us with some incredibly awesome romantic movies of the century. Lets for the last time recollect those evergreen memories which will remain carved in our hearts forever!
Silsila :
TheYash Chopra classiclove story of 1981 'Silsila' starring the most famous Jodi of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha is still loved by everyone… The songs of the movie..Yeh kaha agaye hum…, Rang Barse…and Dekha ek khwaab toh.. still bring goose bumps!
Deewar:
"MERE PAAS BANGLA HAI, GADI HAI , PAISA HAI.........TUMHARE PAAS KYAHAI???????? MERE PAAS MAA HAI" who can forget the iconic dialogue ofAmitabh Bachchan & Shashi Kapoor starrer Deewar. Although not a romantic film, this 1975 film was a superduper blockbuster of its era.
Kabhie Kabhie:
Kabhi Kabhi mere dil main yeh khayaal aata hai… The eternal love story of two estranged lovers who’s destinies are intertwined with each other even after getting apart is one of the most loved movies of Bollywood.
Lamhe: A story of a young girl who falls in love with a much older guy who had once loved her mother. The film didn't do well but the performances by the actors were superb and the songs were just excellent!
Darr: When Bollywood was all about being lovey dovey…Yash ji showed a new face of love. Passion, madness, hatred and fear in the form of movie Darr that made SRK over night superstar! His infamous dialogue KKKKKKKK Kiran is still being enacted in TV shows by many!
Dil Toh Pagal Hai: Yash ji loved to experiment with emotions of love. And the musical Dil Toh Pagal Hai can be one of his experimental examples. Love is Friendship is what he taught us! Also he brought the craze of Dance which was not seen as a prestigious art form back then!
Veer Zara: Love is Sacrifice. A story of two lovers belonging to different countries was very subtly described by Yash ji with some melodiously soul touching songs sung by the nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar.
His latest and unfortunately his last film Jab Tak Hai Jaanwill be releasing soon…We all will be waiting to once again go in the world of YashRaj where dreams come true…where we get to travel to some of the most heavenly and exotic places of the world…feel the warmth of Indian culture and desi families, where our heart beats again telling us to fall in love again and again and again…
Looks like the yummy mummy of Bollywood is all set to start her new innings after her motherhood, But only on one condition!
That is, her co-actor should be her own husband.
The former Miss World gave birth to a baby little girl last year on 16th of November. Her daughter became quite popular by the name of "Beti B" with Ash’s fans and the media, since the couple took over four months to name their daughter. The baby girl was finally named as Aaradhya Bachchan in March 2012. Much was talked about Aishwarya’s weight gain after pregnancy. But she did not pay heed to any of the criticisms.
This is the first time Aishwarya has expressed her interest to comeback to movies after her pregnancy.
She infamously left film maker, Madhur Bhandarkar’s film ‘Heroine’ because of the same reason. It was said that the shooting had already begun and the production team even including Aish had been to Cannes for its promotion. Madhur Bhandharkar even publicly accused Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for her unprofessional behaviour. Aishwarya however maintained stoic silence. Even Father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan intervened and asked Madhur to stop venting his anger towards media and supported his daughter-in-law. Later Kareena Kapoor stepped into her place as the lead role.
Days went by, everything was forgotten. Kareena is happy for finally grabbing the role and is excited since her movie is all set to release on September 21. While Aish is busy with pampering her baby and enjoying every moment with her little one.
Now that Aaradhya is almost going to be one-year old, Mom Aishawarya is planning to return to movies. She is even ready to read the scripts for the same. But buzz is that even though she likes the scripts she is still refusing them! Why?? Because she has a condition that she will only work with hubby Abhishek Bachchan. According to rumours, she has turned down many good offers from well known filmmakers because of her clause!
Compared to Aish’s successful film career Abhishek’s career never exactly took off... He was hardly visible in any films after ‘Paa’. Most of his films either bombed at the box-office or went unnoticed. Recently his performance in his movie ‘Bol Bachchan’ was well acclaimed. So Aish our advice for you is to better stop giving conditions to your producers or even you will be left with minimal offers like your husband!
The latest buzz is thst Bollywood’s Superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be playing the role of a Pakistani citizen in his next movie. The movie will be the directorial debut of Oscar winning sound designer Resul Pookutty.
Resul, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire. He has worked in Hollywood, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam films. He provided sound to 2008’s blockbuster Ghajini.
Resul always wanted to get into direction and wished to cast Big B in his first movie. It was his old classmate Amitabh Singh who approached him with a script for a movie. It is said that the script’s subject touched Resul so much that he immediately decided to direct it with Mr. Bachchan in it.
Resul said, “I have approached Mr Bachchan for the film that I want to direct. The character is from another country. But it is not a political film. It’s an extremely humane subject that touches the lives of people on both sides of the border.”
According to the sources the film doesn’t talk about the two countries’ issues with each other but is about the sensitive topic of father –son relationship.
Meanwhile Big B is busy with Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 7.
Amitabh Bachchan is one of the most celebrated actors on social media too, each of his updates and tweets are greeted with warm responses from his followers. He is an active blogger and tweets quite so often. The fans get to know each pulse of the actor through both the mediums and now Amitabh Bachchan has decided to go facebook too, and he has been receiving a warm welcome over here, the count of likes has been 955K (957,068) as per facebook and its still climbing high. As his fans comment, the true hero is on facebook and this miracle was quite eminent!
In the welcome video, that we have shared on our facebook page, he thanks the fans for their continued love towards him and the work he does. Within just an hour of the activation, the page received 784,417 likes. "Yipee! I am on FaceBook! My ID: FaceBook.com/AmitabhBachchan," the 69-year-old tweeted. "And!! Its close to 8 lakhs in half an hour!! Keep it coming, Baby," Amitabh tweeted.
Amitabh's fan-page became visible when the megastar also published a video taken from his home Jalsa here. "Hello everybody! This is Amitabh Bachchan and I just want all of you to know that now I am on Facebook and this is a welcome device. The way the digital world is going is just unbelievable. And I thought that I would use facebook to connect with all my well-wishers yet again. You have been with me at Blog and Twitter and here is another medium that is now going to connect us even further. Year after year, month after month, day after day we are coming closer to each other. Lovely to have you here and we shall be seeing each other and you will get to know more about me and my daily activities where I go, what I do though this wonderful medium. Thanks for being with me on Facebook and we will be with you very shortly. Thank you," says the video.
Amitabh Bachchan's Facebook page became live on August 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM and will be a one stop destination for his fans to connect, interact, engage with the ace actor. It will also provide up-to-date information about Amitabh's upcoming movies, exclusive pictures, videos, as well as exclusive pictures from Amitabh Bachchan's private collection and a welcome video by Amitabh on the new official Facebook page.
Speaking on the launch of his official page, Amitabh Bachchan said "I feel that my official Facebook fan page was long overdue. Facebook is a powerful tool that helps bring people together and allows us to embrace being a part of a larger community. I have been encouraged by the overwhelming reception to my tumblr blog, and this is another avenue to reach out to my fans, not only in India, but globally."
We are sure it would cross 1crore or more in a matter of days! (iV still is tumbling with 89 :-( )
So many long years of break from Bollywood, but if you still see the actress who ruled the screens in 90's you wont notice much of a difference. She is still as sweet as we had seen her in her older movies and yet bubbly too. We are talking about the ever charming and beautiful Sridevi. Her movie trailers are out already and is trending the charts (view trailer)
The film, produced by R. Balki of 'Paa' and 'Cheeni Kum' is about a simple, traditional homemaker played by Sridevi whose life revolves around her husband and children.
The movie tells about the struggles of Sridevi's character who is being criticized by her husband and children for speaking spoken English. The criticism goes to the extreme when her husband says that 'My Wife Was Born To Make Ladoos' - the teaser reveals how she struggles her way out and also shows some scenes which makes you eager to see what happens of her in the later part. The movie is directed by Gauri Shinde - wife of Mr. Balki.
Another exciting comedy yet a pun is when the visa officer asks her how she would manage in the US without knowing English, just then an Indian co-worker stands up for her saying, "Just how you survive in India without knowing Hindi". (so true!)
The movie will also see Amitabh Bachchan doing a cameo. As Amit ji says, its anything for Balki - even when he is producing the movie. Amitabh Bachchan had done 'Paa' and 'Cheeni Kum' which was both directed by Balki.
Gauri Shinde said, "This film is inspired by my mom. Like most people in India struggle with this language, it's just the insensitivity and insecurity that made me do this film."
Asked how she managed to cast Sridevi in her debut film, Ms Shinde said: "While writing the script, I did not think of anyone. When Balki met Boney and Sridevi, they asked him what was he doing at that time. Balki mentioned about me writing a script. Sridevi liked the subject and I narrated the script to her and it just happened."
As for Balki, he says that he missed the opportunity to cast Sridevi, "I envy Gauri.. like I wanted to work with Sridevi first but she did. And then I wished I could have thought of this idea, but she did. I am actually jealous of her.. the film made me feel jealous. Both of the things I did not do, so I just had to sit and watch," Balki said.
The film will also be premiered at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and the actress has decided to wear a sari specially designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee. Sabyasachi has styled the actress in the film as well. She looks simple yet stunning in Sabya's printed saris.
"I am so happy to be here for him. I am honoured that he has designed clothes for my movie. He is a fabulous designer and I love his clothes. I feel confident wearing them and it has been an experience working with him," Sridevi said. Sridevi did a ramp walk after a long time for the designer.This was on the occasion of third edition of PCJ Delhi Couture Week.
And Sridevi stunned her fans when she walked down the ramp.
Remember the rhythmic dance number Jumma Chumma De De from the blockbuster movie ‘Hum’? Who can ever forget Big B doing the pelvic thrusts with white mugs to persuade the then item girl Kimi Katkar for a kiss! The popular song had a great impact on the audiences in 90’s and can make everyone dance to it even today.
Well according to the news, our very own Bollywood’s blue eyed boy, Ranbir Kapoor is going to revive the super hit track once again in his new film Yeh Jawaani Hain Deewani. An upcoming crazy youth film Yeh Jawaani Hain Deewani is directed by Ayan Mukerji under Dharma Productions with Ranbir Kapoor & Deepika Padukone in leading roles.
The original song was composed by the famous duet Laxmikant Pyarelal and was sung by Sudesh Bhonsle and Kavita Krishnamurthy. Ranbir is also going to sing few lines in the song to make it sound more naughty & peppy. Reports say the production has already purchased the rights of the Jumma Chumma and have started working for the same. Both Ranbir & Deepika are very excited to shake a leg in the chartbusting bollwood number.
Off late many producers have tried making the remake of famous songs like “Dum Maaro Dum...” from the movie Dum Maaro Dum, “Aapka kya hoga” from Housefull and many more. Although some have succeeded many others have failed to recreate the same old magic. So will Ranbir be able to match up with the dashing persona of Big B? What do you think? Let’s wait and watch.
Buzz is that Amitabh Bachchan has recently shot a one-minute advertisement for Maggi instant noodles.
He recently tweeted about the shoot on the social networking site and also tweeted some pictures that were captured during the shoot. Big B tweeted on Twitter that, "Did a shoot for ad campaign.. Maggie Noodles. Fun."
He wrote on his blog that, "One would imagine for a 1 minute film it would be a cake walk for those that make films that last 3 hours. No .. baby! Its a tougher job! In one minute one has to convey and convince the viewer what most of us need 3 hours to do!."
He added, "There is meticulous work and drawing boards done after great deliberation and approval from the clients, management of the production crew, technical departments in place, shot divisions done in advance and then the artist briefing and the takes begin."
"Campaigns for products are a specialized venture. Huge number of professionals get behind research and development, design and execution, writing the catch lines that would attract and eventually finding the appropriate talent to deliver the goods."
69 year old Amitabh Bachchan has endorsed brands like Parker Pens, Pepsi, Dabur, BPL, ICICI, Maruti Versa, Reid & Taylor and Nerolac Paints.
Bollywood actress Sridevi returns to the big screen after 15 long years with the movie English Vinglish. English Vinglish(trailer here) is directed by Gauri Shinde (R Balki’s wife). Sridevi was last seen in the movie Judaai.
Producer R Balki said that, "It is a very special film for me because it marks the comeback of Sridevi, possibly one of the greatest performers. It was written and discussed keeping her in mind."
Director Gauri Shinde (Balki's wife) said that, "Balki had gone to meet Boney Kapoor (Sridevi's husband) over something, and mentioned that I had a script for a film about a mother of two, who wants to learn English.
Sridevi, who was there too, was interested to know more. That night, when Balki came home and told me this, I was stumped. I had considered a host of names for this role, but Sridevi, wasn't even on my mind, because she had been out of the scene for years. When I went over to narrate the script, she hung on every word. Through the narration, I saw her reactions and knew that this film was tailor-made for her."
In the trailer she was seen donned in a carrot coloured sari reading from the film certificate spread out like a wallpaper with her back facing the viewer.
A source said that, "The idea behind Sridevi reading a Censor certificate is unique for sure and makes you watch her keenly. However it doesn't seem to be enjoying a repeat value. First and foremost for a teaser it is way too long drawn at near 100 seconds. Moreover, though it catches your attention for a first few seconds, it starts seeming a little too indulgent after a while. Balki is known for his unique ideas and on paper this must have sounded interesting. However to sustain today's viewer's interest in a single shot teaser like this which has Sridevi struggling to read a Censor certificate in English is asking too much."
A new filmmaker said that, "Come on, it is Sridevi so you can't miss her. After all, she is returning to movies 15 years after JUDAAI (1997). It's a comeback that is worth waiting for and a glimpse of hers in the teaser is good enough for me to know that she is coming back."
The film also features French actor Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain and Priya Anand. Amitabh Bachchan will also be making a guest appearance and will share screen space with Sridevi after 18 years. Two of them last starred together in the movie Khuda Gawah.
The film will release after three months.
Many celebs tweeted about the trailer of English Vinglish on twitter:
CSRamachandran (@csramachandran): English Vinglish trending on the day when Ferrari ki Sawaari releases... Ferrari cant match up to Sridevi speeds?
Bhawana Somaaya (@BhawanaSomaaya): Super trailer of English Vinglish in the theatres. Unique and original. Sridevi turns to look at the camera and lights up the screen.
Shirish Kunder (@ShirishKunder): Trailer of "English Vinglish". Brilliant stuff! Super creative!
Shailesh Kapoor (@shaileshkapoor): Quite a unique teaser for English Vinglish. Sridevi is evergreen awesomeness
Rajeev Masand (@RajeevMasand): The teaser trailer of 'English Vinglish' - very cleverly done. Welcome back Sridevi.
Suniel Wadhwa (@sunielwadhwa): # Sridevi's English Vinglish Teaser Trailer directed by Gauri Shinde is very unique & true to the character & story. Hats Off to Balki
Sujoy Gosh would be one of the script writers who have been constantly questioned by the media on his upcoming project. The script writer who did surprise almost everyone in the film industry with his amazing script 'Kahaani' was being trailed to find what he was planning next. Many had in minds that it will be a sequel to Kahaani, namely 'Kahaani 2'. It was also said that viacom 18 who had produced the movie was careful when selling rights to Tamil and Telugu film makers to avoid any issues to their sequel.
But it turns out that Sujoy has other thoughts in mind and this time he is focusing on casting Amitabh Bachchan as the lead. The movie is now titled as 'Badla' and its still in early stages. He had earlier tweeted about this with a pinch of humor :
"The script that i'm writing for sir is called BADLA, which, if i write well, will have sir and naseer ji & the balan. all depends on script."
Also he did take up the opportunity to clarify that this is not a sequel to 'Kahaani', "BADLA is not the sequel to Kahaani. thats another story altogether. I hope this helps in bringing down the telephone bill :)".
The movie 'Kahaani' was backed up with a fine star cast and some extra ordinary performances by Vidya Balan and this time too, Sujoy doesn't wish to put the stakes down as he still wants the best of performers into the movie and we know he what he is capable of doing.
This is how the change of few things makes an actor fail. There has been always SRK the charming, hearthrobe and dream lover of many but for now, the changes are drastic as it is always brawls and arguments that is making a news out of him. What has changed so quickly on SRK? When it comes to elite names of Bollywood, its always Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan and SRK is too close to the list but still he is not being counted in the list and always is an outlaw for the behavior he shows. There are no doubts on Aamir or Salman being included in the list, but the name of Shah Rukh Khan stands out because of the fact that he was no way related to the industry few decades earlier but has become the critical part of it.
Bollywood, where it is always tough to make a name because of the thick talents that are resident in the industry and also due to the fact that few actors who were well established did want their children to go nowhere for living. There has been incidents when actors have asked directors without a proper thought to cast their siblings into the movies. At these times Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan made their names and became the greatest stars at their times. Shah Rukh Khan had done a similar deed as he came into the cinemas and conquered hearts of many, but for some reason he fails to receive the warmth like his predecessors in the industry. He has been acclaimed as King but he fails to hold his Kingdom!
It is as if the star is alienated now from camps and has his own team to work with. Earlier when he started out he had big banners like Yash Raj, whom he considers family to work with him and happily tolerate few of his misses at the boxoffice. But now the YRF seems to switch steps as they are more open to the likes of Aamir and Salman for their movies. For some reason they are preferring other stars more than SRK himself! Not to complain but this is a big change that we do notice on the career graph of SRK. As it is said in an ad, whenever your time runs you are the King and when its off... the fact may be that few of his movies did not do a business that was expected of them or may be they aren't ready to tolerate his attitude of a common man as they used to be.
The news that comes out now is of a lone king who is cornered and a star that is broken out. Is it too tough for SRK to handle this? Is that the reason why the brawls happen? But if sources are to be believed, be it in the case of Shirish Kunder or Salman Khan or the recent MCA event, SRK is said to have remained calm and reacted only when he had all his options cleared off. But we never know, as a keen movie enthusiast we just feel that something is not right with the star which is making all this happen.
It is not that Shahrukh was not aware of the nature of this industry, but he might still be happy to be at a position where he can do or react the way he wants and stand for himself and justice. May be this is what is reflecting now, as he has the freedom to be himself rather than be under someone else's mask.
Just an observation here, but as there is the saying - its always lonely at the top! may be its true!
Courtesy : Gautham Chintamani for triggering the thought
