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Kareena Eats Right- Her Zero Size Figure: Bollywood super actress Kareena Kapoor- Bebo has been in news and headlines for her zero size. Every actress as well as her fan girls are also trying to copy her and eating very less and fat free diet. So Kareena Kapoor’s life rates higher on gossip charts than her relationship with her boy friend Saif Ali Khan, the junior Pataudi is her zero-size measurement. In film ‘Tashan’ Kareena Kapoor had to wear bikini for that she had to made her body slim and attractive so under the guidance of her dietician Rujuta Diwekar, she worked out and diet accordingly, which could make her the size zero figure. Similarly, in the film ‘Kambakkhat Ishq’ also Bebo once again excite the audience by showing her hot zero size figure in a black swim suit. She maintained her body shape in such a manner that every time she adds more and more fans to her already existing long list of fans who think Kareena Kapoor or Bebo has the hottest figure in the industry. Kareena says that food and films are the things for which every body develops their own tastes. It is not necessary that what is good enough for her is also good for others and vise versa. So as per her one should not starve and eat right and balanced diet in order to keep them self fit and fine.

Kareena Kapoor’s Right diet: People must be thinking that Kareena Kapoor must be sacrificing for her zero-size figure that she must be starved to have such enviable figure. But it is really surprising that it is not like that she is not having only orange as her lunch, whereas, she told that she eats pizzas, pasta, French fries and even chocolates but occasionally. She told that she eats every thing except non-vegetarian food from last five years but the only difference is that she controls the quantities and as per her dietician- Rujuta Diwekar’s guidance she eats right and do 40 surya namaskars and stay fit. Kareena Kapoor who more believes in spirituality rather than religion is purely vegetarian for the last five years but not very rigid even for the vegetarianism even as she doesn’t have any issues if Saif Ali Khan, her boy friend will eat non-vegetarian food i.e. goat for lunch and dinner while sitting next to her. Kareena told that her mom Babita Kapoor is Catholic, likes her rum and raisin pudding and her sister Karisma Kapoor, who has the best figure, loves her fish curry and rice similarly, her father Randhir Kapoor is also a totally non-vegetarian and doesn’t know the meaning of the word vegetarian.Infact her family members have been in a state of shock for the last five years as she has given up eating non-veg. Kareena Kapoor shared her experience in Restaurant also that her size-zero is a hot topic of discussions at dinner tables every where across people’s homes that when ever she goes to the restaurant along with Saif Ali Khan , people use to stare so much at them and more at their plate that what is on her plate actually. Some people even ask the waiters that what she is ordering for. But she told that she really loves that curiosity of the people, she really enjoys that level of curiosity.

Rujuta Diwekar- Kareena’s Dietician:  Actually all credits of zero-size and hot figure of Kareena Kapoor goes to her dietician Rujuta Diwekar. Rujuta Diwekar is the trained sports science and nutrition expert, who is having her famous clients like Kareena Kapoor, Anil Ambani and other famous and reputed stars and business tycoons. But for her every client is her favourite and lovable client and never makes any difference in an ordinary and celebrity client. She says every body is a special person for themselves and would not make any difference for her the only thing which could change her criteria is the nature of the client whether he or she is obedient and following her suggestions or not nothing else. Rujuta Diwekar has always had a holistic approach towards fitness and believes on a healthy lifestyle rather than any drastic changes that are not long term. She is working with every kind of people of all age groups and different walks of life and varying fitness levels she has fine-tuned her methods to fit the lifestyle of the Urban Indian. She has written her famous book also ‘Don’t loose your Mind, lose your Weight’ on her journey as nutrition expert and given the interesting invaluable tips for the entire generation. She told in one of her interview that the more she work with the celebrity clients , the more she realizes how common and normal they are. As human beings we all want the same things- love, peace and security, so while working with them she never think about their fame or specialism but just like with the other clients she shares a relationship of mutual love and respect.

Kareena Kapoor- The Inherited Talent: Kareena Kapoor was born on 21^st September 1980 in Mumbai, Maharashtra into a family where both of her parents Randhir Kapoor and Babita and her sister Karisma Kapoor, were actors. She started acting in her very young age but debut her film as a heroine in 2000 in Refugee and earned her first Filmfare Best Female debut award. Her film ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ was India’s highest grossing film in the overseas market in 2001 and was her biggest commercial film. But, year 2004 to 2006 proved to be the greater versatility displaying session by the critics. Her Film ‘Chameli’ in 2004 proved to be the turning point in her career and earned the Film fare Special Performance Award. She received two Critics Awards for Best Actress at the Filmfare Ceremony for her outstanding performances in Dev, in 2004 and Omkara in 2006. The film ‘Jab We Met’ in 2007 had established Kareena as the leading actress in the Hindi Film Industry and earned a Filmfare Best Actress Award and the film was directed by Imtiaz Ali.

Seven husband of Priyanka: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is currently working in the Vishal Bhardwaj’s movie Ek Batta Saat and in the movie Priyanka will be having seven husbands. It was revealed earlier that Priyanka Chopra is playing the protagonist in the movie that kills all her seven husbands. Director Vishal Bhardwaj wants that every actor should look completely different from each other and he has already finalized four actors which include Mohanlal, Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham and Arshad Warsi. For the fifth husband role may be Irrfan Khan will be signed and another one can be a foreigner as during the recent visit to United States Vishal Bhardwaj had talked to him there to play role in his movie. Movie “Ek Batta Saat” is written by Vishal Bhardwaj and well known author Ruskin Bond. Vishal Bhardwaj was impressed from the Ruskin Bond’s short story Susanna’s Seven Husbands which later writer developed into a film script to make a movie based on the story. For the movie director wants every actor to look different in every way like skin color, body structure, height as well as personality.

Priyanka Chopra’s recent movies: Priyanka Chopra’s two movies released last year “Kaminey” and “What’s Your Raashee?” For her movie “Kaminey” she is also nominated for the film fare best actress award. It was directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and Sahid Kapoor was in lead role with Priyanka Chopra. Priyanka played a role of sister of a underworld don in the movie. Movie was produced by Ronnie Screwvala of UTV Motion Pictures and movie was regarded as masterpiece and a landmark in Indian film industry and movie also bagged maximum votes for being best film of last year but failed to win best film till now. The music for the movie was composed by Vishal Bhardwaj while the lyrics were written by Gulzar. Music was released on July 6, 2009 while movie was released on 14 August 2009. Another movie of Priyanka Chopra released last year was “What’s Your Raashee?” in which she played twelve characters. Movie was directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar and produced by Ronnie Screwvala with Ashutosh Gowarikar. Music was composed by Sohail Sen while story was taken from the Doordarshan television based serial Mr. Yogi and US-based Gujarati writer Madhu Rye’s novel Kimball Ravenswood. Harman Baweja was in lead role with Priyanka Chopra and movie was released on 25 September 2009. With this movie Priyanka became first actress in the world to play twelve characters alone in a single movie. This year her one movie released so far “Pyaar Impossible” which was a romantic comedy and movie was directed by Jugal Hnasraj who turned from actor to director. Movie was built under the banner of Yash Raj Films with Uday Chopra and Dino Morea in lead role with Priyanka Chopra. Music was composed by duo Salim Sulaiman while lyrics written by Anvita Dutt Guptan. Script for the movie was prepared by Uday Chopra and he also produced the movie. Movie was released on 8 January 2010 while music was released earlier on 14 December 2009. Movie failed to earn much was a flop at Indian box office.

Upcoming movies of Priyanka Chopra: Priyanka Chopra is working in many movies at present like Anjaana Anjaani, Ek Bataa Saat and her voice in pre production movie “Alibaba Aur 41 Chor”. “Anjaana Anjaani” is expected to release 2 July 2010 and it is directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Music for the movie is composed by Vishal-Shekhar and movie is having Ranbir Kapoor and Zayed Khan in lead role along with Priyanka Chopra. Another movie “Alibaba Aur 41 Chor” is computer animated movie with John Abraham, Raza Murad and Ashutosh Rana giving their voice along with Priyanka Chopra. Movie is directed by Soumitra Ranade and produced by Ronnie Screwvala while movie will be distributed by UTV Motion Pictures and IBC Motion Pictures. In movie Ek Bataa Saat, Priyanka Chopra will be having seven husbands and it is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

About Priyanka Chopra: Priyanka Chopra won the Miss World pageant in year 2000 and she worked as model before entering into acting career and she gained fame. She made her acting debut in year 2002 with Tamil film “Thamizhan” and the very next year she made her debut in bollywood with movie “The Hero: Love Story of a Spy” and same year her another movie released named “Andaaz” and that brought her film fare best female debut award and she never looked behind after starting her career and became very popular actress from the very early stage of her career. In year 2004 her many movies released like “Plan”, “Kismat”, “Asambhav”, “Mujhse Shaadi Karogi” and “Aitraaz”. In movie “Aitraaz” she played a negative role and became second woman to win the film fare best villain award for her excellent performance in the movie and same year her movie “Mujhse Shaadi Karogi” was a commercial success. In year 2005, she worked in movies like “Blackmail”, “Karam”, “Waqt: The Race Against Time”, “Yakeen”, “Barsaat” and “Bluffmaster” but none of her movie failed to make her win the award. In year 2006 her movie “Kriss” and “Don” were big commercial success while her movie “Aap Ki Khatir” failed to do much on box office. She also gave many special appearances in 2006 like in “Taxi Number 9211”, “36 China Town” and “Alag”. In year 2007 her movie “Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love” and “Big Brother” released and gave special appearance in movie “Om Shanti Om”. Very next year 2008 she appeared in many movies like double role in “Love Story 2050”, “God Tussi Great Ho”, “Chamku”, “Drona”, “Dostana” and “Fashion”. She got ilmfare Best Actress Award and a National Film Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a model in “Fashion” and with this she proved herself once again that she stands in the list of top bollywood actress. She was also present as a judge in Miss World 2009 competition which held in Johannesburg, South Africa

Aamir Khan’s thinking: Bollywood star actor Aamir Khan has thinking that the success of a song depends upon the actor on whom song is portrayed instead of the lyricist. With his view he came into the controversy with the writers that he wants to take away credits of the writers. Aamir Khan was made member of the committee which was formed by Indian government to review the amendments in the copyright act but he give resignation because of various allegations which he was facing during the discussion and also the attacks made on him from printing media to affect his image. Committee was consisting of the producers and writers for the issue of royalty and Aamir Khan was in the completely in favor that song’s success completely depend upon the actor not on the lyrists. Well known lyrist Javed Akhtar made comment on his statement that song “Papa Kehte Hai” was hit because of lyrist and he was not a big star even at that moment that he can make song hit. Aamir Khan had to take care while making his statement that actor should get credit of song instead of lyrists as with this statement he completely ignored the lyrists who have originally written the song.Singers get attentions: If the singer is popular like Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangaeshkar, Asha Bhosle or Mohmmed Rafi then they gets the attention. These are singers who gave the voice of the song while actors are just moving their lips not singing the songs in real and lyrists are the one who writes the song but they never get the right credit for it which they should get. They are always considered after the actor and singer who are just using the words written by the lyrist. In western countries there are bands and singers which plays the role of performers, song writers and lyrists but it is not so in our country and writers are considered at last. There are many famous lyrists like Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar but all are treated after the actor and singer. Always actor gets the first credit of the success being the visible face while the voice is of the singer so he gets the credit after the actor. Time is changing and there are also some singers who are more popular than the actors like AR Rahman is well known singer and gets good income which may be more than a actor who is moving his lips in the song. Aamir Khan in controversies: Aamir Khan was known to stay away from media but in previous few years his statements are becoming reason of controversies. As Aamir Khan made comment on movie “Black” that Amitabh Bachchan has done nothing special in the movie which made Big B angry and replied that he need not to learn acting from him and he knows what he has to do. During the Narmada river protests he made comments which made him controversy with Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendar Modi and as a result his movie “Fanna” was shown in the state. In personal life too he has been in controversies whether it was his divorce with first wife Reena Dutta or his second marriage with Kiran Rao. He was also in controversy for the custody of his brother Faizal Khan. He did not left King Khan even and made comment on him that how he feels to number two after Aamir Khan after his success. Shah Rukh Khan reacted wisely and said that Aamir Khan is number one actor and he has no problem with it.Aamir Khan does not believe in getting rich: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has done many movies which other producers would have hesitated to do. He said that he believes in his hard work and loves to do challenging works instead of earning more money by doing more and more movies. He has made movies like “Lagaan”, “Taare Zameen Par” and currently producing “Peepli Live”. He produced the movies taking as challenge and doing something different than other producers. He said what he has gained is respect and praise of the colleagues and have no interest in making more money. He has contributed a lot to Indian film industry and still he is giving big hits every year as his movie “Ghajani” was biggest hit of year 2008 and later in year 2009 his movie “3 Idiots” broken all records of gross earnings. He has proved himself in film industry with his abilities and is counted among top actors of Indian film industry.About Aamir Khan: Aamir Khan is not only an actor and he has worked as playback singer, producer, assistant director and director. He has sung song Aati Kya Khandala in movie Ghulam, Dekho 2000 Zamana Aa Gaya in Mela, Holi Re in Mangal Pandey, Lalkaar in Rang De Basanti, Chanda Chamke in Fanaa, Bum Bum Bole in Taare Zameen Par. He has produced movies Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth), Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and currently producing Delhi Belly, Dhobi Ghaat and Peepli Live. He is also founder and owner of Aamir Khan Productions. He had started his professional career in year 1984 with movie Holi but he failed to get much success commercially in his beginning movies. He got his first success with his cousin brother Mansoor Khan’s film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which released in year 1988 and he also got film fare best male debut award for this movie. He was nominated for seven times for the various awards during 1980s and 1990s and finally he received his first film fare award in 1996 for his brilliant performance in movie Raja Hindustani. He did his production debut with movie Lagaan which was also nominated for the academy award. Aamir Khan had also played a leading role in the movie and won his second film fare best actor award for his outstanding performance in the movie. Same year he worked in movie “Dil Chahta Hai” as an actor and he was nominated for film fare best actor award. It was first film written and directed by Farhan Akhtar. After that he never looked behind and every year he is giving big hits to Indian film industry.

Depika Padukone changing looks: Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone will be looking again in a different look in her upcoming movie “Karthik Calling Karthik” which is ready to release on February 26, 2010. Deepika Padukone is playing character of Shonali Mukherjee. She said that she is happy that directors can find her fit for every kind of roles in their movies. For “Karthik Calling Karthik”, she has shorten her hairs and she said that she liked her short hairs as she can easily wash them and dry and can get ready to go out much earlier than before. She said that there are several occasions where she came to the shoot and director find her fit in her casual clothes to shoot the scene without making any changes. She liked the character of Shonali Mukherjee which she is playing in the movie and said that she liked it most about Shonali is that her clothes brightened whole office while all other people in the office are dressed in shades of black and grey while she looks different with bright colors like red dress of green top. She is playing completely different roles in other upcoming movies as she will be looking simple street smart girl in the Lafange Prainde which is under production of Yash Raj Films. She will be looking as a complete different in the “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” as she is playing a role of very simple female wearing white and red saree with very less make up and small bindi on her forehead. She is having casual looks in “Break ke Baad” while in “Housefull” she is looking a super glam girl.

Deepika Padukone’s previous styles: Deepika Padukone has seen in many looks already as in her first movie “Om Shanti Om”, she was looking a girl who was wearing clothes of oldies as movie was set in past. That movie was a big success and she had won film fare best female debut award for her performance. In movie “Love Aaj Kal”, she had different look and her style became popular among youth. College going students started following her trend very soon wearing casual clothes and Deepika said that is fashionable casual which she likes to wear in real life. She loves to be in comfort so prefer to wear flats in her feet not considering her height but it gives her comfort. She likes to be dressed in casuals like denims, knee-length dresses, anklets and sandals. Deepika’s trend of the movie “Love Aaj Kal” really worked and become popular among young generation. In movie “Chandni Chowk to China”, she played double role as characters Sakhi (Ms. TSM) and Meow Meow. She was seen in long hairs which were as straight as Chinese girls have. She has no problems in changing her looks which makes her suit for the role of the character which she has to play in the movie and she loves the changes with time to be successful in life. She is also liked by audience in her different roles and looks which made her popular actress and a youth icon.

Deepika’s upcoming movies: Deepika Padukone’s many movies will be releasing this year. Presently her movie “Karthik Calling Karthik” is all set to release on February 26, 2010. “Karthik Calling Karthik” is directed by Vijay Lalwani and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Rithesh Sidhwani under the banner of Excel Entertainment. Farhan Akhtar had previously produced Lakshya and Rock On which were liked by the audience. Farhan Akhtar and Deepika Padukone are playing lead roles while Ram Kapoor and Shefali Shah will be seen in the supporting roles. Movie has music of Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy who have also given music to “My Name Is Khan” while the background score is composed by Midival Punditz and Karsha Kale. Lyrics for the songs are written by Javed Akhtar. Deepika is playing role of a girl Shonali Mukherjee who is a chain smoker but she leave her this habit in end being in love with Farhan Akhtar. Her another movie will be releasing of April 30, 2010 is “Housefull” in which Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta and Randhir Kapoor are in lead role with Deepika Padukone while Rithesh Deshmukh and Jiah Khan will also be seen playing important role. Movie is written and directed by Sajid Khan while produced by Sajid Nadiyadwala. Music for the movie is given by trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Deepika is playing a role of a super glam doll in the movie. “Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey” will be her next movie to release this year but date has still not decided. Movie is directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and produced by Ashutosh Gowariker along with Sanjeev Bijli and Sunita A. Gowariker. Deepika will be seen in a simple female role like Bengali woman wear saree. Along with her leading stars in movie are Abhishek Bachchan and Monty Munford. Music is given by A.R. Rahman while cinematography is by Kiran Deohans. Deepika’s “Break Ke Baad” is expected to release in about month of October this year and she is playing real role with Imran Khan. Movie is directed by Danish Aslam and produced by Kunal Kohli with co producer Vicky Bahri.

About Deepika Padukone: Deepika Padukone is a model as well as actress. She started her career Kannada film “Aishwarya” in year 2006 while in bollywood she started her career in year 2007 with “Om Shanti Om” which was a big hit of the year. She also won film fare best female debut award for her role. She is not much old in bollywood but has already become very popular actress among youth. She did not look behind after her first movie and next year she was seen in “Bachna Ae Haseeno” playing character of Gayatri. In year 2009, she was in lead role in movie “Chandni Chowk to China”, “Love Aaj Kal” and gave special appearances in “Main Aurr Mrs Khanna” and “Billu”.  She also did an item number in Telugu movie “Love 4 Ever”. She is currently working in different movies of big banner and looking ahead for more success in her career. 

Big B for promotion of “Teen Patti”: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan was looking upset during the promotion of his upcoming movie “Teen Patti”. Amitabh Bachchan brought back his memories of his angry young man days on Monday during promotion. He was dressed in a white pin stripe black suit with white shirt and pink tie. He is well known for his punctuality but it was time when he came two hours late for the promotion. He was looking unhappy which was easily noticeable and he picket a wrong seat and when he was informed about the seat he said to the person to change the nameplate. He is such a big star but still he has not lost his innocence. He was trying to answer looked at the gawking male debutants from “Teen Patti” and said that what are you looking at and then he answered that people like these (pointing at the audience) keep him going. These are people who have made him reach this position. Amitabh Bachchan was at the Gpld Souk mall with the cast and crew of the film. A source said that may be he is angry because of question asked by a television journalist.

Teen Patti releasing on 26 Feb: “Teen Patti” is all set to release now on February 26, 2010. Movie is having two of the greatest living legend of the time Amitabh Bachchan and Academy Awards Winner Ben Kingsley. Teen Patti is directed by the director Leena Yadav who had also directed Shabd in year 2005. Movie is produced by Ambika Hinduja and story is written by Leena Yadav and Shiv Kumar Subramanium. It is multi star movie in which other than Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley actors like R. Madhavan, Raima Sen, Saira Mohan are in lead role with newcomers Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher and Vaibhav Kapoor. There are many big bollywood personalities which will be giving appearance in movie which includes Ajay Devgn, Jackie Shroff, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ranjeet, Shakti Kapoor and Tinnu Anand. Movie is under the venture of Hinduja Ventures and Serendipity Films. The movie is allegedly inspired by the true story of MIT Blackjack Team as told in the Brining Down the House which was the best-selling book written by Ben Mezrich and it was also a source of inspiration for the 2008 Hollywood drama 21. Film was shoot mostly in India and just a few parts are shot in England. Now movie is ready to release and will be available for people in cinema halls from February 26, 2010 while trailers of the movie were already released. Music director for the movie are Salim-Sulaiman while the singer who have sung the song for the movie are Anushka Manchanda, Sonia Saigal, Joe Alvares, Sunidhi Chauhan, Salim Merchant and Naresh Kamat.  Music contains the label of well known company T-Series.

Story of the movie: Amitabh Bachchan is playing the role of a genius Indian mathematician named Venkat Subramanian who has formed mathematical which could redefine the probability and randomness principles. Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley is playing role of world’s greatest mathematician named Perci Trachtenberg and he met Venkat in a casino in London. Venkat tells him about his theory which he has discovered which can’t only change the dialogue of mathematics forever but has already left a permanent impression of guilt for many painful reasons on his own life. The equation made by his has good sides as well as bad sides. He was aware that it is extraordinary discovery which could find application in various scientific fields and real world as well. Venkat Subramanian is encouraged to test his theory in the real world by another professor Shantanu who is an ambitious colleague of Venkat. Shantanu’s role is played by south side superstar who mostly works in Tamil and Hindi movies Madhavan Ranganathan. Vekant had no interest in earning money which could come from the practicing of his equation to crack Teen Patti which is a poker game buthe eventually succumbs to the influence of young professor Shantanu. Soon they explore the dens for the gambling in wild Mumbai and then a series of acts which are lawfully not correct make the movie move faster than even a bullet. The experiment started by the young professor Shantanu and old Vekant turns into a game which was out of control for both of them. Now their life had changed into an irritating turmoil. As the movies moves dark sides of their lives revealed and there were left bared with their secrets. An incident occurs which gives a spark to an investigation that not only threatens to destroy their careers but eats away their all moral values. Now the story moves back to the casino in London and Peric understands the theory laid by Venkat. Peric understands Venkat’s theory is essence, questions the idea of what is random and what fated.

Special about movie: Amitabh Bachchan well known as Big B and Hollywood superstar Ben Kingsely are among biggest stars who are working in this movie together which makes the movie very special. Ben Kingsely has won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Four new faces are launched in the movie which includes Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher and Vaibhav Kapoor. Movie is having a completely different story from various other movies releasing. Movie is an emotionally riveting and razor sharp thriller about greed, deception and giant feats of imagination. Slumdog Millionaire was a big success which was against the backdrop of modern India while Teen Patti is among one of the most interesting new movie to emerge from continent of Asia and its themes and narrative are extremely from India that it is eventually inspiring and therefore there is universal appeal for it. It is expected the movie will be liked by the audience being a completely different from others.

Neetu Chandra’s mystery valentine: Bollywood actress Neetu Chandra made a quick trip to Delhi soon after his Tamil movie “Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai” released on Friday for celebrating Valentine’s Day. No one was aware of the act she was making and even her close associates were not sure what she is doing in the city while a reliable source insists that she had gone for a date with someone. Identity of the person is not revealed by the source. The activity which is going on indicates that there is something going in her life than what people see on the screen. She is progressing not only with her career but also in some relations. Actress Neetu Chandra understands the fact very well that all work and no play makes Jill a dull girl so she don’t want to waste her life being a dull girl and want to keep her personal life occupied and this can be seen from her visit to undisclosed destination in Delhi. When Neetu Chandra was asked about the visit she refused to make any comments about it.

About Neetu Chandra: Neetu Chandra is actress as well as model. She was born on June 20, 1984 in Patna, Bihar. She started working in theater very early while her father who is a business man was not in her support for such career but her mother Neera always supported her to move forward in her life. She also acted in various ads and videos for some reputed firms before entering into film industry since her graduation days in IP College, Delhi University. She was a passionate sportsperson as well before entering into the film industry and she holds the black belt in Taekwondo. She has got honor to represent India in two different games which is seen very rarely. She had represented India in International Taekwondo Championship which held at Hong Kong in 1996 and also represented India in World Korfball Championship in 1995 held at New Delhi. She is also silver medal winner in Taekwondo in national games. After she finished her education she started working with small print ad campaigns in Delhi but it was her hard work which took her into film industry and she never looked behind after that.

Neetu Chandra’s film career: Neetu Chandra started her career in film industry with movie “Garam Masala” which is released in year 2005. She played the character of an airhostess, Sweety in the movie. In Garam Masala leading stars were Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Rimi Sen, Neha Dhupia, Paresh Rawal and Rajpal Yadav. Movie was a success as a comedy and Akshay Kumar received the best actor award in a comic role for his performance at the film fare awards. Neetu’s Telugu language movie “Godavari” released in year 2006 and she played character of Raji in the movie. In year 2007, she appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar’s movie, Traffic Signal. She worked hard for the role and she stayed about a whole week on the streets of Mumbai and living by a traffic light. Neetu Chandra danced gracefully in a video album, Rasiya Saajan for the music director Ismail Darbar along with Zubeen Garg. The video was directed by well known video director S Ramachandran. In year 2008, her four movies released which were directed by Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholakia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram. She worked in Tamil film “Yavarum Nalam” with Madhavan which is released in year 2009 and this movie was a major hit. She worked in movie “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” which released in year 2008 and movie had leading stars Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal, Manu Rishi, Richa Chadda, Manjot Singh and Archana Puran Singh along with Neetu Chandra. Movie was directed by Dibakar Banerjee and produced by Ronnie Screwvala. She played character of police inspector Mayawati Chautala in movie “One Two Three” which was story revolving around three men who had same names. Along with Neetu Chandra, Tushar Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Suniel Shetty, Esha Deol, Sameera Reddy, Upen Patel, and Tanisha were in lead role in the movie. Movie was directed by Ashwani Dheer and produced by Kumar Mangat and Sunil Lulla.

Neetu’s latest release: Neetu Chandra played character of Yasmin Hussain in Hindi movie “Rann” which is directed by Ram Gopal Verma and released on January 29 this year. Movie was having star actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Sudeep, Ritesh Deshmukh, and Gul Panag in the lead roles. Movie was based upon the media that how news are made entertainment stuff instead of showing the reality to the people. Neetu’s another movie “Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai” released on February 12 this year which is Tamil romantic comedy film. Film story is written and directed by newcomer Thiru Krishnamoorthy. Movie is produced by Vikram Krishna and stars his brother Vishal Krishna in the lead role along with Neetu Chandra. Other leading actors in movie are Sarah-Jane Dias, Tanushree Dutta and Santhanam. She is currently working in Jag Mundhra’s movie “Apartment”and her other Hindi movies which she is filming this year includes No Problem, Sadiyaan, Love Jaisa Kuch and Khusar Parsad Ke Bhoot.

Neetu’s other noticeable activities: Neetu Chandra is Life Member of International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television. She was in controversy for her shoot on Juhu Beach for the leading men’s style magazine “The Man”. MNS had protested against her raising slogan that the shoot was promoting lesbianism and it is against our Indian culture. She was on cover of the magazine “Maxim India” in the January 2009 issue. She had signed as the brand ambassador for the Hoop which is a Gitanjali brand and she had also done a commercial for the Mysore Sandal Soap. On March 20, 2008, a company named 7Seas Technologies had announced that they will develop a 3D mobile game in which Neetu Chandra will be a leading character. The game is also titled on her name Neetu(The Alien Killer) and is based upon a unique game story which revolves around the lead character of killing different aliens. In an interview with Delhi Times Neetu said that she is ready to go nude for a James Cameron Movie. 

Aamir Khan resigns from Copyright Act panel: Bollywood actor and producer Aamir Khan resigned from the ten member committee which was formed by the government of India for looking into the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. He wrote to Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal for resignation on Tuesday stating the valid reason for it. In his letter he requested to Kapil Sibal to accept his resignation and appoint some other person at his place in the committee. He wrote that he is not comfortable with the allegations made on him and he can’t contribute with fair decision in such circumstances. Committee consists of producers and writers like Javed Akhtar, Boney Kapoor, Mukesh Bhatt, Vishal Bharadwaj, Vishal Dadlani, Prasoon Joshi, Anjum Rajabli, Madhu Manthena and Bhushan Kumar. He wrote that he is grateful to Kapil Sibal for inviting him to be a part of this committee to discuss the various issues regarding amendments of the Copyright Act which are overdue from long time and he is happy that Kapil Sibal has taken step for spearheading this movement. He believes that the changes which Kapil Sibal have brought to the sphere of education which are progressive, dynamic and positive similarly he will make same changes in the field of copyrights. In letter he mentioned that he has a lot to contribute to the debate but he can’t make meaningful contribution in such atmosphere.

Reason for resign: Aamir Khan has mentioned that there are certain people who are attempting to attack him in public by printing lies about him and trying to turn away attention on other issue instead of genuine debate about the copyright issues. He was annoyed by the media reports as reports say that he is trying to harm the writers. According the reports of media in a recent meeting between the producers and writers for the issue of the royalties Aamir Khan tried to take the whole credit from the writers by saying that song’s popularity depends upon the star instead of lyrists. This made lyrist Javed Akhtar angry and he made the remark that the song “Papa kehte hain” was a hit even Aamir was not a big star at that moment but it was complete lyrists effort. Aamir said that he is not comfortable in facing any such allegations and take great pride in his honesty and integrity and he is attached with an enormous amount of value of sense of justice and fair play. He said that he don’t want just financial achievements and these monetary achievements never attracted him and he would have liked those then he would have acted in many more movies than one movie in a year and becoming financially richer than the present worth he is having now. He said that he believes that what he has earned is the love and respect of his colleagues and his audience and the point at which he is now he has attained that with his hard work. That’s why if now people attack me this way then it is most damaging for him emotionally and will leave him helpless like a handicapped person. He said that he has always done his work with honesty and always like to take challenges and he has produced such movies which other producers would hesitate to produce.

About Aamir Khan: Aamir Khan started his career as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain’s film Yaadon Ki Baaraat in year 1973 and began his professional career in year 1984 with movie Holi. He did not get much success commercially in his beginning movies and his first success was brought by his cousin brother Mansoor Khan’s film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which released in year 1988 and he also got film fare best male debut award for this movie. He did not look behind after that he was nominated for seven times during 1980s and 1990s and finally he received his first film fare award in 1996 for his brilliant performance in movie Raja Hindustani. He did his production debut with movie Lagaan which was also nominated for the academy award. Aamir Khan had also played a leading role in the movie and won his second film fare best actor award for his outstanding performance in the movie. Same year he worked in movie “Dil Chahta Hai” as an actor and he was nominated for film fare best actor award. It was first film written and directed by Farhan Akhtar. After that he did not work for four years and later he returned in year 2005 with Ketan Mehta’s movie Mangal Pandey: The Rising and in the very next year 2006 he won film fare critics award for best performance for his acting in movie “Rang De Basanti”. He had learned a lot being a producer and actor and made his directorial debut in year 2007 with movie “Taare Zameen Par” for which he won best film fare director award. In year 2008 he worked in movie “Ghajani” which was highest grossing movie of that year and in year 2009 his movie “3 Idiots” broken many records of gross earning and became highest grossing movie of the bollywood of all time. He has worked as an actor, producer, playback singer, assistant director and director in his career and he is also founder and owner of Aamir Khan Productions.

Aamir likes challenges: Aamir Khan likes to take challenges and he produced movies like ‘Lagaan’, ‘Taare Zameen Par‘ and currently producing ‘Peepli Live’ which were different movies from others and none of producer would like to take such risks to produce such movies but he did not hesitate and succeeded as well. He is entertaining people from last 26 years and has given his remarkable contribution to Indian film industry. In letter written to Kapil Sibal he has written that he has long association with film industry and maybe he has also made many mistakes in last 26 year career as a actor producer or director but he never did anything wrong knowingly and believes in fair deals. He is currently producing Delhi Belly, Dhobi Ghaat and Peepli Live.  

Tabu’s different role: Bollywood actress Tabu is playing a role of married woman in her next coming movie “Toh Baat Pakki” who is searching a groom for her sister in the movie. 39 year old actress is active in bollywood from long time and has done so many remarkable movies and has won many national level film fare awards for her brilliant performances. It is after long time when Tabu is playing such a role as elder sister of bride. Tabu will be seen searching in an Indian middle class family with two kids and being a responsible sister finding guy to marry her younger sister in their own caste. Tabu said with this upcoming movie people will witness her new side and she is also writing a film and that will be a comedy movie. She said that whenever she is travelling she makes the point to complete her story and would like to direct the movie as soon as she finds the producer.

About the movie “Toh Baat Pakki”: “Toh Baat Pakki” is still under production and it is first Hindi film by Marathi director Kedar Shinde and he said that it was his wildest dream to work with Tabu in Hindi movie as she is actress with whom any director would like to work. Movie is produced by Ramesh S Taurani and Rahila Mirza is co producer. Tabu, Sharman Joshi, Uvika Chaudhary, Vatsal Sheth, Ayub Khan, Sharat Saxena, Himani Shivpuri, Suhasini Mulay, Upasna Singh are in leading role in the movie. Tabu is playing is role of a married woman Rajeshwari who has two kids and her husband’s role is played by Ayub Khan. Rajeshwari is a dominating as well as responsible woman of middle class family who want to get her younger sister Nisha get married to a nice guy of their community. Nisha’s role is played by Uvika Chaudhary. Rajeshwari is against the dowry system so it was not easy for her to find a good groom for her sister. Rajeshwari by luck find a good boy Rahul, who is studying engineering and has ability to lead a better future. She doesn’t want to lose the chance and gets him move in her house as a paying guest. Rahul’s role is played by Sharman Joshi. Rajeshwari gets to know that he is not interested to marry so she plans by which he can make her sister meet him and her plan works. Nisha was so innocent and simple girl who was not so easy to find in today’s life at this age so Rahul failed to resist and they falls in love with each other. Rajeshwari was happy with this fact as Rahul was from their Saxena community and had good future prospects. So the marriage is fixed but turning point comes with entry of Yuvraj who is also from Saxena community. Yuvraj Saxena’s role is played by Vatsal Sheth. He comes to Rajeshwari’s house and has his own business as he was waiting for his own house to get built. Rajeshwari was happy with her luck as she gets the better option now so she tries to set her sister Nisha with Yuvraj instead of Rahul. Rahul gets to know the trick of Rajeshwari through Nisha and he had to now alter the conditions without getting Rajeshwari knows of his acts. He finally gets the success and gets his bride. Movie is built under the banner of Tips Music Films and it is a complete story with romance as well as with comedy. Movie has melodious songs which are sung by Mika Singh, Sonu Nigam, Javed Ali, Shilpa Rao, Pritam Chakraborty, Rana Mazumder, Soham Chakrabarthy, Antara Mitra and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan while lyrics of the songs are written by Mayur Puri, Sayeed Qadri and Shabbir Ahmed. Music of the movie is directed by Pritam Chakraborty and cinematography is done by Rahul Jadhav and Raja Satankar. Screenplay is written by Vibha Singh and choreography is done by Ahmed Khan. Story for the movie is written by Parmod Sharma

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About Tabu: Tabu is well established bollwood actress and she also works in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali language films and also worked in one American movie. She is perfect actress who is well known for her acting in artistic, low-budget films which gets critical appreciations instead of box office figure. She has the record of winning Filmfare’s Critics Award for Best Female Performer for four times which no other actress has ever got in film industry and she has won National Film Award for Best Actress two times which shows her talent as an actress. She has worked less in the commercial successful movies but has given her noticeable contribution to lower budget movies like Maachis which released in 1996 and in the very next year Virasat. Then Hu Tu Tu in year 1999, Astitva in year 2000, Chandni Bar in year 2001, Maqbool released in year 2003 and Cheeni Kum in year 2007. She had worked in Mira Nair’s American movie “The Namesake” for which she had got praise as well. She is very selective about choosing her roles and says that she will do movies which will move her and most of all, the unit of the movie and the director should appeal to her. She has also worked in some commercial successful movies too but her role was small like in Border, Saajan Chale Sasural, Biwi No.1 and Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United. She is currently working in Season’s Greetings and The Legend of Kunal. Her movie “Toh Baat Pakki” is about to release and she is happy with her performance in the movie and hopes that audience will enjoy her movie. Sharman Joshi who was part of “3 Idiots” which was a big hit is working in lead role in the movie as a groom for Tabu’s younger sister. Sharman said that he was afraid working with Tabu as she is such a big star who has won many national level awards but she liked working with her and he found her very helpful.

Big B’s latest make over:  Amitabh Bachahan, Big B is the only personality of Bollywood who keeps on experimenting his different looks and gives complete liberty to his dress designers to try any thing according to their wish and script. He is such a great personality who gives proper time to the designers and their stylists. He is so professional and never become impatient, where as, co-operates to try every costume as per the requirement of the script. So, once again Big B – Amitabh Bachchan is coming in a new make over for his latest forth coming film ‘Teen Patti’. In this film Amitabh Bachchan is playing a role of a genius mathematics professor. So the production designer of the film Ameira Punvani has to give very much attention on the looks of the character i.e. Mr. Bachchan. She paid lot of attention on detailing. She made every thing so natural by involving all those things which the college professors really wear in their day to day ordinary life. Amitabh Bachchan has to wear very ordinary polyester stuff cheap trousers with double pleated American-cut style.

Amitabh Bachchan’s great attitude towards the costume designer: Mr. Bachchan who is wearing very costly and branded outfits and accessories, but in the film ‘Teen Patti’ he has worn very ordinary checked shirts and very cheap old fashions watch purchased from chor-bazaar of Mumbai. Ameira has given a very natural look of an ordinary Mathematician, to the very higher personality Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who always gives full freedom to experiment with his look. He did not create any hurdle in making the new makeover of him, as he didn’t objected to try the new costumes and the other ordinary wearing like- watch he has wear in the film is an old style, very cheap and not even an automatic. Despite of being so busy, he did not become im-patient in trying the new outfits. So, this time also, another makeover of Amitabh Bachchan would definitely brings a big hungama in the film world. Ameira Purvani had also designed the costumes for Amitabh Bachchan for the films; ‘Guru’, ‘Shortkut - The Con Is On’ and ‘Zinda’.

Teen Patti- A forth coming project of Amitabh Bachchan: ‘Teen Patti’ is a forthcoming film of Amitabh Bachchan to be released in February, 2010. The film is directed by Leena Yadav, who had already directed the film ‘Shabd’ in 2005. The story of the film ‘Teen Patti’ is written by Leena Yadav & Shiv Kumar Subramanium and produced by Ambika Hinduja under the production banner of Hinduja Ventures Serendipity Films. The music for the film is composed by Salim-Sulaiman and cinematography is by Aseem Bajaj. Amitabh Bachchan in the film is playing a role of Mathematics professor Venkat Subramanium and trying to write a thesis on probability and relates it to the Indian card game. The other casts of the film are- the Hollywood star Ben Kingsley, R.Madhavan, Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhartha Kher, Vaibhav Talwar, Saira Mohan and Raima Sen. Special appearances are given by Jackie Shroff,  Mahesh Manjrekar, Ranjeet and Shakti Kapoor. The film is shot in India except for a few parts  in England, for which production designer Ayesha Punvani, created gambling dens (adda) in places like abandoned train yards, dockyards, abandoned factories, mills that have been shut down and an ice factory, and in all 80 sets were created . The great Indian personality Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and Academy Awards Winner Ben Kingsley are working together first time in any Bollywood film.

The great personality- Amitabh Bachchan: Big B, Amitabh Bachchan was born on 11^th October, 1942 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He belongs to the very royal family, as his father is a very famous Hindi poet Shri Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his mother was Teji Bachchan from a Punjabi Sikh family from Pakistani-Punjab. Although his actual surname is Srivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan and published his all works under the same title. Amitabh debuted his films with this surname and ultimately it has become the surname of all the members of his family. Amitabh Bachan after completion of his graduation in science, started his job as a freight broker in a shipping company at Kolkota but later he gave up the job and entered into the film industry by giving his debut in ‘Saat Hindustaani’ in 1969, which was directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. He was co-starring with Utpal Dutt, Madhu and Jalal Agha. Although the film was not very successful, but Amitabh got his first National Film Award for Best New Comer Category. But the next film ‘Anand’ was the big commercial hit in 1971, where he worked along with the super star of that period Rajesh Khanna and earned a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. His negative role in ‘Parvaana’ in 1971 and ‘Reshma Aur Shera’ didn’t go well. Similarly, he followed with several other good films like- Guddi (with Jaya Bhaduri) , Bawarchi, Bombay to Goa, which was directed by S. Ramanathan and starred along with Aruna Irani, Mehmood, Anwar Ali and Nasir Hussain. But, the period of 70’s made him real hero and made him to achieve the destination of stardom. He got Prakash mehra’s hit film ‘Zanzeer’ in 1973 starring with Jaya Bhaduri and Pran and proved to be the unforgettable record beater film. This film gave him the new title ‘Angry Young Man’. His next hit film Namak Haram made him to win the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. But his blockbuster ‘Abhimaan’ had broken all the records. In 1980s also he gave many hits like ‘Shehenshah’, Agnipath’, ‘Khuda Gawah’ and ‘Insaaniyat’.

Neetu Chandra reveals a secret: The popular film actress Neetu Chandra had hidden a very important thing about her that she is an out spoken and a very bold girl. She is having a very high attitude. She believes that she has to work harder to get the work and for the survival in the industry, otherwise no body will even notice her and hand her work on a platter. Neetu Chandra believes that she is not there to listen others, she does the things what she thinks will be the best for her, she is having ‘I Care a damm’ attitude. She is very bold and doesn’t find the posing for a magazine cover any thing wrong, as she thinks the problem lies with those who see the things that way, not with her. She believes that she is much clear what she has to do and what she should not, so she does not need any one to tell her how she should live her life. But, in industry, it is not necessary that courting controversy always brings the positive results to remain in limelight. But, Neetu believes that it hardly matters that what type of person you are, which place you are from but what film industry requires is the talent, if the person is talented he will be noticed and get the recognition. But, the secret of this bold and beautiful actress is that she is scared of a dark place, she herself is not aware of the reason of her fear even.

Neetu Chandra’s Make over: The sexy actress who has started her career in Hindi films from ‘Garam Masala’ with the all time favourite film star Akshay Kumar. She worn swim-suit in her very first film only and now she believes that film makers thought of her as a ‘Behenji’.  She did a very steamy photo shoot for the cover page of men’s magazine with a model Krishita Gupta, which became the solid controversy and even some of the activists protested against her and tried to hault the shooting of the pictures as they believed that it could promote the homosexuality. So Neetu had to face lots of criticism, protests and lot of questioning on her sexuality. She told that inspite of giving good performances and other sexy looks and costumes wearing, the many of the film makers consider her as a ‘behenji’, that’s why she has decided to change her image completely, for that she has taken months of time for making over to get her image changed and get the roles as per her choice. Hope that she will get the roles as per her choice after her make-over. Moreover, she believes that if you have a good body you should flaunt it.

Neetu Chandra’s Secret – Her Boy Friend: On the occasion Valentines Day, Neetu Chandra had arrived the Capital city- Delhi. No body was aware of the reason why she was arriving there, but from some reliable sources it has come to know that she had visited there to meet her boy friend who was not known to any one, for the Valentines day and it was totally secret and wrapped totally. She doesn’t want to disclose it to any one. She keeps her personal life very personal and keeps it separate from the professional life. As Neetu Chandra, always remains in news for her day to day change of boy friends, she always keeps it very personal from the general public and professional life. Her Telegu Film THEERADHA VILAIYATTU PILLAI has just released on Friday, after which she flew to Delhi for the un-disclosed date with totally unknown person. Neetu knows that the personal life should be totally separated from the personal engagements and relationships that is why she is doing her projects successfully like: Rann is nearly to be released and Apartment is also going to be screened very shortly, whereas, Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai has already been screened on this Friday in the theatres. But, when Neetu is being questioned for her relationships, she is always non-reactive and replies’ no comments’.

Neetu’s Life & Career:  Neetu Chandra was born in Patna, Bihar on 20^th June 1978. She completed her schooling from Notre Dame Academy, Patna. But she was dreaming for the modeling and acting in the films. Her father was very reluctant to allow her to enter the film industry or not. But at last she joined film industry with her debut film ‘Garam Masala’ along with the super king of acting Akshay Kumar. Neetu has done several numbers of ads and videos also for reputed firms from her graduation days even in IP College. University of Delhi. Before joining film industry Neetu was a an eager sports-person and won the title of black belt holder in Taekwondo. She had represented India in two different games. She had represented India in International Taekwondo Championship at Hong Kong in 1996 and in World Korfball Championship in 1995. But, her passion, dedication towards work and perevarance brought her to the Hindi Film Industry. She entered Hindi Film Industry in 2005 with Garam Masala and did Madhu Bandera’s film ‘Traffic Signal’. In 2008, she had given four releases by Directors: Dibakar Banerjee, Rahul Dholkia, Ashwini Dheer and Vikram. Similarly, on the other hand she gave a very big hit of Tamil Film Yavarum Nalam with Madhavan released this year and was declared a major hit. Currently Neetu Chandra is doing two major films, first is Rann with Ram Gopal Varma and the second is Jag Mundhra’s Apartment. Neetu Chandra is also the Life Member of International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy of Film and Television. She has also been signed as the brand ambassador for the Hoop, a Gitanjali brand. She is also doing a commercial for Mysore Sandal Soap. On the other hand a company named 7 Seas Technologies announced that they will develop a 3D mobile game with Neetu Chandra playing the lead role. Although she is Hindi film star, but side by side she also doing Telegu and Tamil Films like: Godavari- Telugu Film, Satyameva Jayathe- Telugu Film, Yavarum Nalam- Tamil Film, and Theeradha Vilaiyaattu Pillai- Tamil Film.

Actors work is not just acting: Actors work is not just acting all the time and they also have the personal life and other activities which they perform at various places. They are involved in various activities off screen as well whether it is some functions or some social work, religious activities or member of organizations. They are also human being and they also have a personal life as everyone have and they also perform their functions there as well being a father or son or daughter or brother whatever it is. Actors are not always as they are on the screen as on screen they are just puppets who work as the director and producer wants and they have to work as the story is written. Actors in real life are different as we form their image in our mind by watching their various movies.

Shilpa Shetty and her activities: Bollywood actors who became popular after the reality show “Big Brother” is involved in various activities other than working as a model or actress. She is co-owner of Rajasthan Royals which is team of IPL. She was seen with her husband Raj Kundra on the launch of the tickets of the Indian Premier League-III in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. She was also seen playing cricket in Ahmedabad to promote her team for the IPL. She is very active other than personal life and acting roles. She has interests in various activities like cricket, religious and often seen at various such occasions. Shilpa Shetty was also noticed speaking at the launch of new course ‘Jeevan Mukthi’ at World Oneness Center in Tada Chittor district on Saturday. She is taking part in various activities regularly and very active in the social life.

Amitabh Bachchan at various places: Bollywood star actor Amitabh Bachchan is very popular as a star and also involved in various other activities whether these are prize distribution functions or inauguration or private functions. Amitabh Bachchan had seen lightning the lamp at the inauguration of the Jeev Arogya project in Kochi on Sunday with Oscar winner Resul Pookutty. He was captured by the camera posing with Oscar winner Resul Pookutty, Malayali actors Mohanlal and Mammootty during a private function at Kochi. He was also seen speaking on the launch of the service ‘Bachchan Bol’ in Mumbai by which people will be able to hear his voice on their cell phones. He is already very active with his blog and gets daily a large number of comments from his fans across the world. On the launch of ‘Bachchan Bol’, he said it is time of technology and we should remain up to date with it. He said that he was confident he would find the time for vogging, blogging, acting and all his other commitments for his fans. Bachchan said he used his telephone to record whenever he felt like talking to his fans while going past a street, driving or on film sets. Service can be accessed from any Indian mobile phone and listeners will be allowed to post voice comments on Bachchan Bol service as well. He is well known star not only in India but his popularity is worldwide.

Shabana Azmi in functions: Shabana Azmi is well known social activist as well as actress. She is wife of famous lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar. She was seen with bollywood actress Tabu at the release of the English version of Shaukat Kaifi’s book ‘Kaifi Aur Mein’. The book has name ‘Kaifi & I’ in English and it was released on Tuesday night in Mumbai. There were various famous personalities available at the release of the book. Bollywood actress Nandita Das, Dia Mirza, Lyricist Javed Akhtar and Tanvi were also present in the release function along with author Shaukat Kaifi. Book was released by Shabana and Tabu. Book was already available in other languages like Urdu, Hindi, Marathi and Japanese and now the English translation is done by Nasreen Rehman. Book was written by Shabana’s mother Shaukat Azmi and book is on Shabana’s father, the legendary poet-activist-lyricist Kaifi Azmi. She chosen Tabu to launch the book as Tabu is very close to Shabana’s mother and she said she could not find any other better person than her for this special release. Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor was also available on this book release function.

Other stars at various functions: Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan was seen along with actress Kajol and director Karan Johar at the premier of his movie “My Name Is Khan” at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Movie is a love story and released globally on 12 February 2010. Movie is produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan and leading star are Shahrukh Khan and Kajol. They are working together after a long in movie and they have given many big hits together in past to the Indian film industry. Former Miss Universe 2000 and bollywood actress Lara Dutta was seen at the launch of new collection of “Puma” in Mumbai on the Tuesday night. She is well known actress and is very active in bollywood as well as in the social activities. She had also won Rajiv Gandhi award in year 2008 for her contribution to Indian Cinema. Famous film maker Subhas Ghai felicitated bollywood actress Vidya Balan during a “Master Class” which was conducted at the Whistling Woods International in Mumbai on Wednesday night. Bollywood actress and well known item girl Rakhi Sawant opened her Beauty Longue in Mumbai and various personalities like Johny Lever, Amit Tandon, Rohit, Rakhi Sawant’s mom along with few TV stars and designers attended the ceremony. Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone was in Lucknow on Monday to attend some function while she was seen posing during an interview in Mumbai on Thursday. Bollywood actor John Abraham launched the logo of the ‘Kolkata Fashion and Lifestyle Week’ In Kolkata on Monday. He said on the occasion that he is not walking on the ramp this time but he wants to associate himself with KFWL as it is a fashion week with a cause as they are trying to promote eco fashion which is something that is ardent need of the present.

Hrithik Roshan knee injury: Bollywood star actor Hrithik Roshan was badly injured with his knee and he was trying to get rid of this problem from last six months. He was not working much because of his knee problem. He told that he travelled around the world to solve his knee problem as he had severe pain. He went to Finland, Singapore, Los Angles, New York and China and also tried various alternative therapies, medicines and physiotherapy but there was no relief. He had also told the director Anurag Basu and his father Rakesh Roshan that he has much pain in his knee so it will be better if they will sign other two actors who knows him and speak English well. He said he can’t even bend his knee because of the cartilage was damaged so badly and he had not found any solution for his problem. It was condition two weeks before the shooting began for the movie “Kites”. Director Anurag and Rakesh Roshan were not ready to take any other actor at his place and said that they will use the duplicates in the scenes where ever running or such activities are required. Hrithik Roshan felt bad as he is an athlete and a super hero and thinking of using duplicate at his place broken his spirit.

Santa Fe magic for Hrithik: Hrithik was broken from his pain in the knee still he started shooting in Santa Fe and magic happened for him. His pain came down by 50 percent on the very first day of shooting. After the first week shooting he observed that it was down to just 10 percent. It was really magic for him as he had tried so many treatments and had travelled various specialists for his problem but nothing had worked for him but at Santa Fe he felt better. As his pain had gone now completely he thought that all the thing which he had done to solve his problem are working now together or it is his prayer which is answered now by God. Hrithik Roshan later got to know that Santa Fe is surrounded by the magnetic mountains and people from across the world come there to solve their problems. He felt that it was his destiny that they had chosen Santa Fe for the beginning of the shooting for the movie “Kites”. Rakesh Roshan was boosting the confidence of his son that everything will be fine and he will be doing better soon. He told that during the shooting of movie Krrish, Hrithik had injured his knee too but he had worked out his problems well. He said he was waiting for some miracle this time as well but he was mentally prepared too to just pack up the whole schedule for the movie and return back to home if this problem would not have be worked out.

Hrithik got his fitness back: Hrithik Roshan gained a lot of weight because he was having pain in his knees and having no chances of doing exercises so now his aim was to make his body fit for the movie. He had to bare his chest in the film so he had to make himself fit for it. He was aware of fact that audience would expect from him to have a good physic instead of having fat body. His pain had gone but he was still not able to run, jump or skip by which he can lose his weight so make his body look better. He started doing some other exercises which were easy for him do and would make him fit. He used to pick up five pound dumbbell and do arm curves for 45 minutes which made his cardio workout. He tried to keep his heart rate up as much he can. Sometimes he used to just spin his hands like a windmill for half hour. He also controlled his diet for losing fat. He was living on egg whites, almonds and peanuts most of time in his food. He was determined to get back to his better health and got it because of proper exercises and controlled diet

About the movie, Kites: Kites is among most awaited bollywood movie which is written and directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan. Leading star in the movie are Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, Kabir Bedi and Luce Rains. Music for the movie is given Rajesh Roshan and official theatrical trailer for Kites was released online on February 3, 2010 while movie will release on May 21, 2010. Movie has a high budget of about USD 30 million while distribution rights for the movie are sold to Reliance Big Pictures for a huge amount of Rs 150 crores which is a record till date for the Bollywood. Movie will be released in both languages English as well as Hindi. English version of the movie will be of duration 90 minutes while Hindi version will be of over 2 hour long duration. Story of movie is based upon the love affair of an Indian guy with a Latina girl who don’t know understand language of each other. Hrithik Roshan is playing role of a salsa teacher while Kangana Ranaut will be seen as a rich girl who is learning dance from Hrithik amd falls in love with him. Bárbara Mori Ochoa is another actress in the movie. She is Mexican actress and model who is working for the first time in bollywood movie. In the movie she knows only Spanish while Hrithik don’t don’t know Spanish language so he speaks in Hindi with her which she can’t understand. She is playing a role of Latina girl and without knowing language of each other they contact each and fall in deep love with each other. But conditions are formed which separate them from each other. But they were determined for their love to get each other and they get finally. It is story of love that goes beyond all barriers, boundaries and cultures. Movie is mostly shot in New Mexico, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Rakhi Sawant and her mother: Rakhi Sawant, an item girl, Hindi film and television actress, model is daughter of Jaya Sawant and S.P. Sawant. She is not having good relations with her mother and has already declared that she will never talk to her mother and will not invite her on her wedding even. She has worked in various movies and very popular as item girl but she is from a poor family and she has got all the success by her own hard work and ability. She has chosen her life partner Elesh Parunjanwala through show Rakhi Ka Swayamwar on August 2, 2009. She is isolated from her mother and don’t want to meet her nor to let her interfere in her life.

Ash and her mother: Actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is very close to her mother Vrinda Rai. Vrinda Rai is a writer and she had written story of movie “Dil Ka Rishta” which was released in year 2003. Aishwarya Rai has good relations with her parents and she loves to spend her time with her parents whenever she can. Her father Krishnaraj Rai is a marine biologist while her brother Aditya Rai is an engineer in the merchant navy and he had also co-produced one of Rai’s movies, Dil Ka Rishta (2003). Aishwarya Rai involves her mother in all her success and love to share the moments with her whenever she can.

Shilpa Shetty and Sonam Kapoor love their mother: Bollywood actress and model Shilpa Shetty is daughter of Surendra and Sunanda Shetty. Shilpa Shetty is very close to her mother and Shilpa had never travelled anywhere without her before Big Brother show. Sunanda thinks her daughter is a strong kid and has ability to handle the circumstances. Shilpa Shetty lived with her family before marriage in Mumbai and was always attached to her parents and other relatives as Indian strong traditional family. Sonam Kapoor is daughter of bollywood star Anil Kapoor and Sunita. Anil Kapoor is famous as an actor and has given many big hits to bollywood. Sonam Kapoor is very close to her mother Sunita Kapoor and travels with her at various places and helps her in making decision which can be helpful for her in future. Sunita never wanted Sonam to join bollywood but she joined and now her mother supports her in becoming success actress. Sonam Kapoor started her career with movie “Saawariya” alongside Ranbir Kapoor. Sonam has one younger sister Rhea who is studying in New York and younger brother Harsh is in California attending Chapman University.

Sushmita Sen and her mother: Bollywood actress and Miss Universe 1994, Sushmita Sen is daughter of Shubeer Sen who was a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander and her mother is Subhra Sen who was as a fashion artist and jewelry designer. She has been always very close to her mother and her mother always boosted her on every step of her life. It was mother of Sushmita Sen who shown her confidence in her daughter during the modeling time and gave her teaching to never give up in any kind of circumstances. Subhra Sen had told Sushmita to not lose her heart as Aishwarya Rai was going ahead of her with every step but support of Sush’s mother helped her and she did not give up. As a result Sushmita Sen made the history and won Miss Universe contest in 1994 and became first Indian female to do so. Sushmita’s mother supported her when she decided to adopt Renee being a single woman.

Esha Deol and her mother: Actress Esha Deol is daughter of bollywood actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini. Her parents have been very good actor of their time in bollywood and given many big hit movies. Hema Malini always assisted her daughter Esha Deol in every step in her life. Hema Malini insisted her to learn dance and Esha learned Odissi and Bharatanatyam dancing styles under Mumbai Odissi guru Rabindra Atibuddhi. Esha Deol started her film career with movie “Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche” for which she won three awards but she gave many unsuccessful movies too. Hema Malini gave her a lot of freedom as she entered into the film industry. Esha is part Punjabi and part Tamil and speaks Tamil with her mother Hema Malini and younger sister Ahana Deol. Esha is close to her mother and has learned a lot from her parents.

Amrita Rao and Amrita Arora extremely close to their mother: Indian model and bollywood actress Amrita Rao started her acting career with movie “Ab Ke Baras” in year 2002 and she won best debut actress award. Nandita Rao is mother of Amrita Rao who is actively involved in the career of her daughter and goes everywhere with her daughter. She is over- protective and interferes in every decision of her daughter regarding the roles she gets. Amrita Rao is also very close to her mother and let her mother decide the role for her. Model and Actress Amrita Arora is daughter of Christian woman, Joyce Polycarp and a Punjabi father, Anil Arora. Her sister is Malaika Arora Khan. She is extremely close to her mother and considers herself a Christian like her mother instead of treating Hindu as her father is Hindu. She started her acting debut against Fardeen Khan with movie “Kitne Door Kitne Paas” in year 2002. She had a Christian wedding with boyfriend Shakeel Ladak on 4 March 2009 and gave birth to a baby boy on February 5, 2010.

Ekta Kapoor and her mother: Ekta Kapoor is the daughter of Hindi film actors Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor. Her brother Tushar Kapoor is also a bollywood actor. Ekta Kapoor is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the creative head and Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company. She is managing the Balaji Telefilms together with her mother Sobhna Kapoor. Shobna is the Managing Director of the company. She is close to her parents and works with them as well. She has produced many famous TV serials like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, Kitani Mohabbat Hai Kya dil mein hai, Kahe na Kahe, Kasamh Se, Pavitra Rishta and Bandini. She has produced five films as well like Kyaa Kool Hai Hum, co-produced Shootout at Lokhandwala with White Feather Films, Mission Istanbul and recently produced Golmaal Returns. Her mother is with her always to support her in her productions.

Hansika Motwani’s new hero: Remember that small girl who is first shown in the TV serial Shakalaka Boom Boom, later started her career as an actress with the Himesh Reshmiya in the movie Aap ka Saroor and get noticed by audience. Thereafter, she remained in news for her personal affairs. It was a chocked for everyone when she was first seen in the movie Aap Ka Saroor. It was not acceptable that a girl who was seen as child artist suddenly came in a leading role in the movie. But later she rocks and everyone accepted that she is no more a child. Once again she is in news; don’t worry not because of her personal relation, but for her forthcoming movie and debut in Kollywood. She will be team with Jayam Ravi, the heart-throb of Kollywood. The movie will be directed by Prabhu deva. Nirav Shah will wield the camera and Harris Jayaraj will score the music. Currently Jayam Ravi is busy with his movie Thillalangadi which is the remake of the super hit Telugu movie Kick. Other stars in the movie are Tamannaah- the actress and Shaam reprises his role from the original. From this movie, Ravi has returned to his chocolate boy look after performing action movies. Also this is the first movie of Ravi after his marriage. So he is more excited about the movie. He said he is very excited about his forth coming movie. When asked Hansika about the movie, she said I am very much excited and happy to get this chance. This is one of the most important movies in my career. She also thanks audience to motivate her and support her. She said she is lucky that she is getting chance to work in Kollywood also. About Jayam Ravi, she said he is a great actor and I am hopeful that we will have good chemistry. About her career, she said, she always wants to be an actress and is happy that her dream comes true. It is very rare that you dream of something and that has fulfilled in short span. She said my family is very supportive who always support me to do what I want to do. They never force me to do anything which is not liked by me. I am lucky to have such parents.

About Hansika Motwani: Hansika Motwani who started her career as a child actor is born on 9th August, 1991, in Indore. She is an Indian actress who performed in many regional movies. Although her native tongue is Sindhi, but she is very comfortable in speaking Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, English, Hindi and Tulu, and Tamil and so it is very easy for her to perform in different language movie. She started her journey of acting with TV serial Shaka laka boom boom and Des mein nikala hoga chand. For Des mein nikala hoga chand she had received an award for the Favorite Child Award at Star Parivaar Awards. As an actress she first came in the movie Desamuduru starring opposite Allu Arjun. Then In Bollywood, she made her debut as a leading actress in Bollywood with Himesh Reshammiya in Aap Kaa Surroor - The Real Luv Story. She made her debut as a lead actress in Kannada film Bindaas. Hansika is currently enrolled in the 12th Grade doing A levels. Her father is Pradeep Motwani is a businessman and her mother Mona Motwani is a dermatologist. Not only this, she is also active in many advertisements like Hyundai Santro. The summary chart of Hansika Motwani movies:

As child artist:

Escape the Taliban

Hawa

Koi.. Mil Gaya

Aabra Ka Dabra

Jaago

Hum Kaun Hai

As leading actress:

Desamuduru- she also win filmfare best female debut award

Aap Ka Surroor- she is nominated for best female debut award

Bindaas

Kantri

Money Hai to Honey Hai

Maska

Billa

Jayeebhava

Seetharamula Kalyanam

Maapillai

On small screen:

Kyunki Saas bhi Kabhi Bahu thi

Des Mein Nikala Hoga Chand

Shaka Laka Boom Boom

Hum 2 Hai Na

Karishma Kaa Karishma

Jayam Ravi: Jayam Ravi is an Indian Tamil film actor made her debut in 2003. He is best known for his appearances in the Something Something … Unnakum Ennakum and Santhosh Subramaniam. He is martial arts expert and a trained bharatanatyam dancer. Prior to acting, Ravi had been an assistant director to Suresh Krishna in the 2001 film Aalavandhan. Ravi was born to Telugu family editor Mohan and Varalakshmi Mohan. He has one brother, M. Raja, who is a Director. He also has a sister, Roja Mohan, who is a dentist. His debut is produced and directed by his family only. The success of the movie build a new confidence in him and also other producers and directors noticed him. Now he has many outside projects and he is happy that he is getting these projects. Recently he got marry with the Aarthi Vijayakumar, daughter of film producer Sujatha Vijayakumar. He has good martial practice and is very hard working. With his debut movie, he proves himself as an actor. He is not only a chocolate star but also prove himself as an action hero.

Filmography:

2003 Jayam

2004 M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi

2005 Daas

2005 Mazhai

2005 Idhaya Thirudan

2006 Unakkum Enakkum

2007 Deepavali

2008 Velli Thirai

2008 Santhosh Subramaniam

2008 Dhaam Dhoom

2009 Peranmai

2010 Thillalangadi

2011 Ich Pre-production

2011 Kannabiran Pre-production

2011 Hijack Announced

My Name is khan Review: My name is Khan is another big hope of Shahrukh Khan as well as his fans. The performances of Badshah Khan – Shahrukh Khan and the outstanding performer Kajol are really mind-blowing and remarkable which would definitely be appreciated and liked by the people. The title of the film ‘My Name Is Khan – MNIK’ is really very suitable to the film and doing justice towards the film. The unforgettable performances of all the characters of the film would capture the attention of the audience in such a way that the viewer would never find any moment even a dull or un-interesting moment. This is a love story between a syndrome patient and single mother which includes wonderful presentation of emotions, love, culture, humor even, pain and care. The movie is ready to be released on Friday, 12^th of February with all its preparations and perfections, as a gift of Valentines. Whereas, Shiv Sena has opposed and Declared a protest against Shahrukh Khan and his film- My Name Is Khan. Shiv Sainiks has made the situation very miserable in Mumbai itself, by attacking and damaging theatres and multiplexes in different places of Mumbai and made the police forced to take strict actions against these Shiv Sena workers and protesters. Whereas, the Shiv Sena’s president Uddhav Thackeray has described the protest as ‘spontaneous’ response by the people. But, the earlier formal stand of the party was that it would not create ant hurdle in the release of the film.

The Unforgettable Story of ‘MNIK’: ‘My Name Is Khan’ is a wonderful film of a very beautiful and touching story. This is a story of Rizwan Khan the character is played by the King Khan Shahrukh Khan and Mandira by Kajol. The love affair between the Muslim guy with the Hindu girl. Kajol and Shahrukh Khan worked together after the long period of 12 years. The story revolves around a patient of Asperger Syndrome, the disease by which one can show significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests and here the character is played by Shahrukh Khan in film. His mother’s role in the film is played by the veteran actress Zarina Wahab, who has performed her role very well and suits to her character so well. Rizwan Khan, after the death of his mother, is taken to San Francisco by his younger brother- Jimmy Shergill and where he engaged himself in a job of salesman. There he met Mandira (Kajol) and fell in love and got married also. But certain personal issues and racial discriminations created disputes between their relationship and Mandira part away. Then the film revolves around the fight of Rizwan against social evils and his own personal issues to bring back his wife by traveling acrossUnited States, people and cultures. So in nut shell we would say that the story is really very touching and emotional as well as presenting the efforts of a person who is suffering from syndrome against the social evils with a great patience and courage and ultimately reached his destination.

Performance of the Film ‘MNIK’:  The director of the film ‘My Name Is Khan’, Karan Johar has presented the beautiful and remarkable story of the film in a very convincing manner and shows the different characters-relationships woven in a very different way to each other. Every type of relationship is being presented by Karan Johar in the form of Brother, sister, mom and husband & wife, their own problems and their part of complexities of relationship which can be a picture of our social living character. The film shows the emotions of a son when he feels the importance of a new man in his mom’s life and the complexities of emotions faced by the brother-Jimmy Shergill and sister – Soniya Jehan in the film. Shahrukh’s performance and his talent of realistic acting make the audience full of emotions and pains. The people would really enjoy the first half of the film when they would watch him in innocent antics but on the other hand the same people would equally get pained when they would see him in pain and behind the bars and being questioned at the airport. Similarly, Kajol’s character – Mandira would also gather the appreciation for his wonderful acting and playing his character so lively that people can imagine why they look forward to Kajol movies. The scene when Kajol and Shahrukh meet after the accident, makes the audience so emotional that they would helplessly takeout their hankies and tissues. The other actors of the film like Jimmy Shergill, Pakistani Actress- Soniya Jehan, and Asif Zakaria have played heir roles very beautifully and done justice to the characters and made the film very warm and successful. But few negative points are also found in the film are the dramatic acts by Rizwan Khan when he is rescuing an Afro-American family for flood which is a little un-real, secondly, the music by Shankar Ehsaan  Loy was not so effective.

Very Talented actress - Kajol’s Great Background: As everybody knows that Kajol is really a very talented actress. She belongs to a very respectable back ground. She belongs to a long respectable history in the Indian Cinema. Her mother Tanuja is a famous actress and her late father Shomu Mukherjee was a film producer. Her late aunt- Nutan was the very talented and renowned actress, who was the record holder of five times Film fare Awards for best Actress. Her maternal grandmother Shohna Samarth and great grandmother Rattan Bai were the most influential and most talented personalities from the early stages of Hindi Cinema. Very famous film producers and actors Joy Mukherjee and Deb Mukherjee are the parental uncles of Kajol Devgan. Kajol’s cousins Rani Mukherjee, Sharbani Mukherjee and Mohnish Behl are all famous bollywood actors. Her younger sister Tanisha Mukherjee is also an actress. Kajol herself married to a Bollywood talented star Ajay Devgan, who also belongs to the very respectable and famous films concern family.

Cast and Crew of the Movie: Actors: Shahrukh Khan, Jimmy Shergill,
Actress: Kajol Mukherjee , Soniya Jehan, Zarina Wahab
Other Star Cast:
Music By: Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, Loy Mendonca ()
Lyrics By: Niranjan Iyengar ()
Shooting Locations:Washington, DC, USA.
Ratings: 4 star rating
Release Date: 12 February 2010
Genre: Drama, Social
Directed By: Karan Johar