Bollywood
Hisssss – Here Come the Naagin!
All cultures share legends of shapeshifting werebeasts that haunt the undergrowth of the collective unconscious – in Eastern Europe it’s the werewolf; amongst the Native Americans, it’s the cujo; the Latin Americans have their chupacabras, amongst the South-East Asians, there’s the crocodile queen; the Berserkers of the Viking sagas were believed to change into bears; [...]
Diana Penty in Rockstar with Ranbir
Top supermodel Diana Penty has been chosen to play opposite Ranbir Kapoor in his next movie Rockstar. Diana is currently the face of Maybelline, having replaced Deepika Padukone in the role. She has also fronted for Virgin Mobile. “There were several rumours about the girl in Imtiaz Ali’s film,” says a source for the movie, [...]
Nadeesha Hemamali Inspired by Jacqueline Fernandes
Sri Lankan actress Nadeesha Hemamali flew into India this weekend to star in the movie Rascal and will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jacqueline Fernandes and land some big parts. “I want Nadheesha to be more than a Sri Lankan artiste,” says director Udayakumara, “Through the film Rascal, she is going to [...]
Asin in Life-or-Death Drama
Asin had to be rushed to hospital after a gas leak in her caravan in Thirumayam made her faint. She was busy shooting there for the movie Kaavalkaran. The young actress was working in the caravan with her hair stylist and make-up man when they first noticed the stench. A gas pipe had been blocked [...]
Neetu Chandra Denies Being Vulgar
Neetu Chandra denies that her bathing scene in Apartment is in any way vulgar. “There is no vulgarity or cheapness in the shower scene,” she says, “The shot gives an illusion that I am not wearing anything but it is a trick of the camera. It’s an illusion that the filmmakers have created because I [...]
Celina Jaitley Opens Gay Film Festival
Equal rights activist Celina Jaitley opened the first GLBT Kashish Festival in Mumbai on Thursday. “I want to say this that these films are also about human emotions,” she says, “You will get to see films not only from India but from abroad. I want to invite all of you to witness what human emotions [...]
It’s Showtime for Neeru Singh
One of the best reasons for going to see Prince is Neeru Singh. Already being tipped for the top in Bollywood, Neeru has now grabbed the front cover of Showtime in a neat little patterned bikini. “My only concern was that I didn’t want to look like a fat ass in the bikini,” she says. [...]
Happy Birthday Lara Dutta!
Lara Dutta hits the magic mark of 32 today and with Housefull about to be released the former Miss Universe is full of praise for her co-star Akshay Kumar. “I have seen Akshay right from the time I came into industry with Andaaz,” she says, “The film was a great debut for me and I [...]
Bong! It’s Riya for Maxim!
Bollywood bongshell Riya Sen livens up the cover of Maxim this month with a black mesh chevron and enticing micro-mini. Inside the magazine, you can find out Riya’s views on platonic love, her favourite sexy movie scene and her favourite bedtime outfit. But how does Riya feel about constantly being defined by her sultry image? [...]
Hansika Motwani Wants To Pluck the Strings of Your Heart
Soon-to-be-superstar, Hansika Motwani, currently finishing her A-levels, wants to learn to play the guitar and has recently bought herself a Fender. “The song in 3 Idiots inspired me,” she says, “I just loved the song so much and wanted to learn the guitar to sing the song, Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain. [...]
Shazahn Padamsee Goes Orange
Rocket Singh’s Shazahn Padamsee will next be seen in Tollywood’s Orange with Ram Charan Teja and Genelia D’Souza but she is keen to stress that she isn’t leaving Mumbai for good. “Bollywood is my focus,” she confirms, “I have got a lot of exciting offers in Bollywood. I will be signing something very soon.” After [...]
Aishwarya’s Year?
2010 looks like it’s lining up to be Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s biggest year to date – with four top movies in the pipeline – Raavan, Endhiran, Guzaarish and Action Replay. To get her year off to a stunning start, Aish appears looking better than ever on the front cover of this month’s 3rd anniversary Hello [...]
Ferengi Stomp!
Sometimes it seems as though the whole world is flocking to Bollywood in the hopes of making it big – in the same way as LA became the destination for a thousand young hopefuls every day in the 1920s, Mumbai has become a similar magnet for hopes and dreams nearly a century later. Three who [...]
Genelia D’Souza on the Fast Track
Genelia D’Souza looks hot in black leather in the current advertising campaign for Fast Track sunglasses and her career too is entering the fast lane as summer approaches. She’s looking forward to the July release of It’s My Life with Harman Baweja. It’s a remake of her superhit Tamil fim Bommarillu, in which she played [...]
Lekha Wahington Completes Bollywood Debut
The exotic Lekha Washington, part Indian and part Italian, is back home in Chennai after spending months in Mumbai and Goa on her Bollywood debut Peter Gaya Kaam Se, opposite Rajeev Khandelwal. It’s about a boy who decides to leave Goa and his criminal past behind him but is then asked by his gang-boss to [...]
Battle of the Bong Babes
It’s the Battle of the Bong Babes on the newsstands this month with Dia Mirza, whose mother was Bengali, glamming it up on the front cover of Harpers Bazaar in a patterned bikini and Bipasha Basu fronting Marie Claire in a sophisticated white rouched and black-belted dress. Currently picking herself up from the lacklustre Hum [...]
Kangna’s Plumped Up Punjabi Look
Kangna Ranaut has been asked to keep the extra pounds she gained whilst laid up in bed for twelve days with a fractured foot following an accident on the set of Tanu Weds Manu. “Kangna is looking very pretty with the added weight,” says director Aanand Rai, “I had been asking her to put on [...]
Launch of a New Film Industry
Ladakh lies at the northernmost tip of India, sparsely populated with just a quarter of a million people in an area twice the size of the Netherlands. The people, of largely Tibetan descent and divided fairly equally between Buddhist and Muslim, live in arguably the most beautiful place on Earth – a true shangri-la, at [...]
Sajid Nadiadwala Threatened by Gangsters
Money laundering is generally much more sophisticated these days than in the days of Bollywood twenty years ago when gangsters would allegedly hand over a suitcase full of cash to a director on the promise of getting a bigger suitcase back later – and a part for their latest girlfriend in the new movie. These [...]
Vidya Balan to Play Silk Smitha?
Vidya Balan is apparently being lured to play the role of Tamil legend Silk Smitha in a biopic of her tragic life being made by Balaji Productions producer Ekta Kapoor. Milan Luthria, currently making Once Upon A Time In Mumbai for Ekta’s company, is slated to direct the big budget movie that could be a [...]
Rakhi Sawant on her Motivation
Recently, top naatch girl Rakhi Sawant explained why her drive and motivation wasn’t so hard to understand. “Growing up, my family was very poor,” she explains, “I’ve seen days when I didn’t have money for food. So I started working when I was just 11-years-old to help my mother run the home. I worked for [...]
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