Rumours spread like wildfire when top South actress Rambha — dominant in all four centres for many years — was rushed to a private clinic a few days ago. Many believed it was a suicide attempt, but this has been strongly denied by the classy actress. “I was uneasy after food poisoning and was kept [...]
Former belle of the ball, Rani Mukerji has had a poor run of flops recently which she blames on poor promotion from the Yashraj stable to which she is wedded. In particular, it’s said she lays the blame at the door of Aditya Chopra. Rumour has it that she is now sidelining her personal life [...]
Namitha, the top glamour-puss of Tollywood and Kollywood, has just won a record payment to appear in the Mollywood production The Black Stallion. Kalabhavan Mani will play the hero in the movie. Namitha first grabbed people’s attention with Engal Anna opposite Vijayakanth and did well earlier this year with Billa. She is currently filming four [...]
Warner Bros, who are hoping to develop their bridgehead in Bollywood, appear to have really shot themselves in the foot by taking legal action against the producers of Hari Puttar – A Comedy of Terrors, starring Jackie Shroff. It is reminiscent of the case in 1947 when Warner Bros tried to sue the Marx Bros [...]
Bollywood star (oh, how she loves that phrase!) Bipasha Basu recently tore her knee doing dance steps in Bangkok. “I didn’t even know it was a tear,” she explains, “There was a lot of pain in Bangkok and I didn’t know what it was. It’s a very common occurrence in the legs of active people [...]
Her husband, Vipul Shah, may currently be one of the hottest directors in Bollywood, but Shefali Shah would prefer to make it on her own. “I will never ask Vipul to make a film for me,” she says. “For then it would be like using the resources of his production house to indulge oneself. Whenever [...]
After the debacle of Love Story 2050, Priyanka Chopra will be teaming up with Harman Baweja again for What’s Your Rashee?, a comedy based on Madhu Rye’s novel Kimball Ravenswood. Priyanka will be playing TWELVE different roles in the movie, appearing as a different woman for each of the signs of the zodiac! Take your [...]
Jism, the Amit Saxena film that starred Bipasha Bapu as an eye-popping femme fatale and won her the Filmfare Best Villain Award, is to be remade in Tollywood as Trishna and will star the breathtaking Rituparna Sengupta. The original movie launched the career of John Abraham when he won the Best Debut Award and also [...]
Despite being labelled Bollywood’s hottest sex symbol, Mallika Sherawat has time and time again proven that she’s much more than that. She can act, she can dance and she can certainly grab headlines–no one can deny that Miss Sherawat knows how to make Bollywood sway to her tune. The first reason I love Mallika Sherawat [...]
She may be better known for her serious roles in movies such as Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi and Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow but Chitrangada Singh would much prefer to be in happy-go-lucky traditional Bollywood fare. “I have got recognition for serious dramas. But I would love to do a pure entertainment film that does not require [...]
Now that Prachi Desai has made the leap from TV to Bollywood, it looks like she may never go back. “I don’t know when I will go back to TV,” she says, “If my films don’t do well, I will have to go back. But right now I’m doing films and I hope it takes [...]
The caravan that is the Unforgettable Tour hits London this holiday weekend and will take place at the magnificent O2 Arena in Docklands on Sunday, August 24th. Special guest Shilpa Shetty will be joining Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya, the triple-A Bachchans, in their record-breaking show. But how can the almost impossibly nice Shilpa be here [...]
Tanushree Dutta has put her recent troubles with producers behind her and has a hat trick of new movies lining up for release. The first of these is a raucous comedy but with a hard-edged look at modern India – Saas Bahu Aur Sensex – which is about how a group of housewives decide to [...]
Sandalwood actress Haripriya has set herself tough targets in her career — she claims she wants to be as big as Aishwarya one day. In order to build her career in the right way, she is being very careful about which scripts she accepts. “I’m not just accepting any offer that comes my way,” she [...]
Sizzling Eesha Koppikar — note the name change from Isha for numerological reasons — has six, yes count them, six new movies lined up. Perhaps like Bipasha, the 32-year-old ‘Khallas’ girl is aware that sadly there aren’t so many good roles for Bollywood women once you hit thirty and beyond — it’s best to get [...]
The girl who made all the hounds in the audience of Mission Istanbul sit up and beg with her sultry Angelina Jolie good looks, Shweta Bharadwaj, is working hard and looking forward to the future. Unfortunately, all the hard work meant she missed the opening of her first movie. “I couldn’t enjoy the release of [...]
Vipul Shah is riding high on the success of Singh is Kinng. In a deal that has stunned Bollywood, the worldwide distribution rights in all forms of media for his next movie, London Dreams, have been sold to the India Film Company for 120 crore. This is the same company that bought the rights to [...]
Looking stunning in a strapless, plunging lime-green party piece, fast-rising actress Sonam Kapoor graces the cover of Elle magazine this month. Her father, ‘Mr India’ Anil Kapoor, must be very proud of his daughter who is an Economics graduate from the University of Mumbai. She made her debut in the best-forgotten Saarawiya last year which [...]
In his most ambitious film to date, Mollywood actor Mohanlal will be starring as Indian freedom fighter Nair San in an Indo-Japanese production financed in the Middle East with a budget rumoured to be as high as $50 million. Jackie Chan will also make a cameo appearance in the movie, reputedly being paid six times [...]
Bollywood actress, social activist and former MP in the Rajya Sabha, Shabana Azmi has caused a storm in political circles by attributing her problems in buying a house in Mumbai to discrimination against Muslims. “If Shabana and Javed Akhtar cannot find a house in the most cosmopolitan city you can imagine what must be happening [...]
Whilst much of the attention in the British press has focussed on Jade Goody’s entry into the House of the Big Boss in Lonavla, we shouldn’t forget that this also represents the second chance for Bollywood actress Monica Bedi. Released from the Chanchalguda Central women’s prison a year ago, she took a time-out before deciding [...]