Dips moves out of Vishal's flick

Vishal Bhardwaj is very well known for making the careers of celebrities like Priyanka Chopra in Kaminey and Vidya Balan in Ishqiya. It appears that Deepika Padukone was quite excited to work with Vishal in his upcoming movie Dream. But recently, when the filmmaker asked for the dates, he found they were clashing with Deepika Padukone's another movie Desi Boys.


While Vishal Bhardwaj wanted dates early next year, Deepika is supposed to be shooting for Desi Boys from January to March 2011. It has been mentioned that there is no ill feeling between Deepika and Vishal over her decision. They have promised each other to work together in the near future. Now the lookout for the lead actress is again activated by the filmmaker..

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SRK to work with Imtiaz Ali

Bollywood king Shahrukh Khan is in a full mood to work with the outstanding filmmaker Imtiaz Ali. Though details of the project are under wraps for now, both Shahrukh Khan and Imtiaz Ali have been meeting regularly to discuss the project. Still left in perplexity that whether SRK will be playing the lead role in the film or not.

But one thing cannot be denied that Imtiaz Ali will be a part of the project. Shahrukh Khan has always said that he is keen to work with new talent. On one hand he has already met Anurag Basu and on the other side, the actor is working on a romantic script with Imtiaz Ali. Shahrukh Khan knows it very well that Imtiaz Ali is a very talented director in Bollywood and which is why he is deeply interested to work with him. As reported, Shahrukh might play an extended cameo in the film which is likely to star newcomers and the shooting of the flick will began only when Imtiaz wrap up the shooting of his upcoming film Rockstar.

Deepika to felicitate Yash Chopra

Bollywood hottest diva Deepika Padukone will be honouring the Bollywood director Yash Chopra at an event in Delhi on October 25 at the request of the Swiss government. Even though it is said that Deepika Padukone hasn't ever met the producer-director, the actress, who has acted in his Yash Raj Films' Lafangey Parindey, is feeling happy to honour him for his contribution to Hindi cinema.


However, Deepika Padukone feels this would be a great chance to meet Yash Chopra. She plans to take a break from her upcoming promotion schedule for Break Ke Baad and travel to Delhi for it.

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Knock Out is a political thriller

Bollywood filmmaker Mani Shankar has always been known for his original movies like 16 December, Mukhbiir and Rudraksh. Showing his rude reactions to the plagiarism charges against his recent release Knock Out featuring Irrfan Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Kangana Ranaut.

Mani Shankar told that first of all just because his film shows some shots of a man in a phone booth being targeted by a man with a gun, it doesn't mean that he have made Phone Booth. Defending himself the director said that Phone Booth itself is a copy of Kari Skogland's ‘Liberty Stands Still’.

So Mani Shankar doesn’t see how charges of plagiarism can be targeted at them when the movie is itself not the epitome of originality. L. K. Advani too watched Knock Out in Delhi and found that the film is quite refreshing. Mani concluded by asserting that Knock Out is a multi-layered political thriller about a real scam that nearly ruined our nation.

Yash Chopra felicitated with National Kishore Kumar Award

The most personified filmmaker Yash Chopra has been honoured with the National Kishore Kumar award by the Madhya Pradesh government for the year 2009-10. State Cultural Minister Laxmikant Sharma gave away the award at a ceremony held at late actor-singer Kishore Kumar's birthplace Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh Octtober 13 which also happened to be his 23rd death anniversary.


Yash Chopra, who made movies like Waqt, Deewaar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Dil To Pagal Hai and Veer-Zaara to his credit, was feeling very happy at receiving this award. The Kishore Kumar award, given in fields of direction, acting, script writing and lyrics every year, was instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government in 1997. Bollywood celebrities like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, Shyam Benegal and Amitabh Bachchan had received the same award before.

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Siddharth Anand bought the rights of 2 States

The awesome filmmaker Siddharth Anand, whose latest movie Anjaana Anjaani that featured Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles is running in the theatres and earning good collections. Siddharth reportedly has bought out the right of Chetan Bhagat’s latest novel ‘2 States.’

The director is ready to make a flick based on the book with Saif Ali Khan playing the lead role. The director even mentioned that he bought the book and fell in love with it's contents at once. Siddharth soon contacted Chetan Bhagat who was then planning of selling the rights with some producers. But after a meeting, Bhagat was impressed with Siddharth Anand so much so that he decided to sell him the rights.

The movie which is said to be a contemporary comedy, will be shot all over India including places like Ahmedabad, Goa and Delhi too. The flick is most probably going to be produced by none other than Sajid Nadiawala. Siddharth Anand has earlier directed films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Salaam Namaste. This time too, we wish him all the good luck!!!

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Satish Kaushik to act this time

It's been a long time since people have seen Satish Kaushik do his clowning around tricks on screen. However, you don't have to wait for too long now as the actor-turned-director will be seen making everyone laugh with his tricks in the upcoming multi-starrer Double Dhamaal.

The movie, is being directed by Indra Kumar, and is the second part in the Dhamaal series featuring Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Ashish Chowdhry, Riteish Deshmukh and Javed Jaaferi alongwith the gorgeous Kangna Ranaut and Mallika Sherawat. The director Indra Kumar confirmed the news by saying that Satish Kaushik is very much part of the film.

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Shekhar Kapoor to shoot in China

Bollywood fimmaker Shekhar Kapoor has been visiting to China too frequently these days. And the latest news is making rounds in the town that he is making these regular tours for shooting his forthcoming epic Paani overthere.


Filmimg in Mumbai is now ruled out since the script of Shekhar Kapoor’s movie requires him and his art director to construct Mumbai with two sharply demarcated sections: The Upper City and The Lower City. Love and fight is seen when the boy from the lower city peeps into the upper city.

Shekhar Kapoor has visited China at least thrice already this year. The first and the last Bollywood movie to be shot in China was Nikhil Advani’s Chandni Chowk To China that featured Deepika Padukone and Akshay Kumar. Shekhar also asserted that definitely he'll be starting Paani next year. The team is fully into the pre-production stage.

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YRF’s comes with Band Baajaa Baaraat

Yash Raj Films (YRF) upcoming movie Band Baajaa Baaraat featuring Anushka Sharma and debutant Ranveer Singh in the lead roles will be released on December 10, 2010. The flick is produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by newcomer Maneesh Sharma, who was earlier an Associate Director of Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma starrer film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

The music of the film has been composed by Salim-Sulaiman. Debutant director Ranveer Singh, was selected after his very first audition, having impressed Aditya Chopra right away. 'Band Baajaa Baaraat' is the story of Shruti and Bittoo who are just out of Delhi University.

A chance and unfortunate meeting brings them together to unenthusiastically start a confused entrepreneurial endeavor as Wedding Planners. Their business goes through many thick and thins. So for more you have to wait until December.

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Hirani joins Madhavan

Bollywood director Rajkumar Hirani was seen with actor R.Madhavan on Imagine’s finale of Big Money along with stars from the superhit movie 3 Idiots. Rajkumar Hirani was accompanied with Boman Irani, Sharman Joshi and Mona Singh on the show.

The team of 3 Idiots came to play with an aim to win big capital and donate the money to Druks School, Leh where the major sequence of 3 Idiots was shot. The star cast was given a special insurance called Ask Chatur which allowed them to call Omi Vaidya for help.

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