Salman- SRK to return together…

Apparently, Sohail Khan is working on his new script which is the remake of the Tom Cruise starrer Jerry Maguire (1996) which would star his elder brother Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. They both were last seen together in Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam. Recently, at Amrita Arora’s birthday party, Salman expressed his desire to work with Shah Rukh.

Both Shah Rukh and Salman were not in talking terms with each other after Salman barged onto the sets of Chalte Chalte to meet his ex-girlfriend Aishwarya Rai. Later, Ash was replaced by Rani Mukherjee. But when Sallu and SRK met at Farah Khan’s Sangeet ceremony, Salman hugged Shah Rukh and they buried their differences.

Infact, Sohail Khan has already submitted the proposal to UTV for remaking Jerry Maguire with Salman and Shah Rukh. Salman will play the role of Cuba Gooding Junior (who won the Oscar for Best actor in supporting role) and Shah Rukh as an ambitious sports agent.

After making their fans to wait for so long, let’s see whether the Sallu-Shah Rukh magic works again or not.

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Righteous Kill Tralior

two legends coming together in this movie

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/righteous_kill/trailer.html

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My Thoughts on Award Functions

I think that the Indian award functions are flawed and corrupted because the most deserving actor or actress never wins the award for that matter get any recognition. For the past ten years Srk or Hrithik who have won the best actor awards.

here are some of my picks of who I think were deserving for an award

Best movie

Chake de India

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Farhan Akthar’s short film

incredible film great performances

http://www.indiafm.com/broadband/video/Special-Features/JytPVI75/3/Farhan-Akthar-s-Positive.html

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More on Rajkumar Hirani’s next film

After Pepsi ad, Shahrukh and John team up again

After giving us a hilarious Pepsi ad, the newly discovered combo of SRK and John will be seen on the silver screen for yet another acclaimed director – Rajkumar Hirani’s next … Read More

Salman ignores viviek

the weekend. We reproduce it here, with kind permission from Mid-Day.

Salman Khan can neither forget nor forgive people, who he believes have wronged him in the past. And that’s specially true for Vivek Oberoi.

At the 10th Rajiv Gandhi Awards function held at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA, last night, Vivek was on stage, and had just finished performing to Beedi Jalaile with Koena Mitra [Images], when on his way out, he stopped before Salman (seated on the front row) and suddenly, without warning, put his hands together and bowed before him.

Says Vijay Kalantri, chairman of the reception committee of the awards, seated next to Salman, “Vivek grabbed his (own) ears and bowed and mouthed ‘bhai’. But Salman just shook his head.”

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Karan Johar’s Four biggies

Karan Johar’s four biggies Click here to add this article to My Clips By Taran Adarsh, July 18, 2007 – 09:18 IST Here’s a news-break and, as always, it’s first on IndiaFM…

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Shah Rukh Khan’s expansion plans

ollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan desired to set up a whole new state of the art film studio for quite some time.

SRK has shifted his ‘Red Chillies’ VFX studio to a bigger place as part of his expansion plans.

SRK has just acquired a new bigger office located at Lokhandwala, Andheri where employees of the company will be shifting soon. The place is being renovated and will soon be ready.

The new studio for the ‘Red Chillies’ staff will be equipped with state of the art equipment and the company also has plans to hire more personnel in view of the expansion plans.

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Bipasha to do an item nuber for john’s film

Bipasha Basu will make a single song appearance in the John Abraham starrer No Smoking .

‘Beedi Jalaile’ and ‘Namak Isq Ka’ showed that Bipasha could gyrate to item numbers. Now, producer Kumar Mangat and composer Vishal Bharadwaj have roped in Bipasha once again to show her gyrations in Anurag Kashyap’s forthcoming movie ‘No Smoking’.

The interesting bit is that Kashyap had previously approached Bipasha to play the female lead opposite John Abraham in the film. While Bipasha couldn’t do the role then, she has now agreed to dance to an item number in the film.

Reports have it that Kashyap had previously thought of shooting the song on model Jesse Randhawa . Now, it is Bipasha who will play the oomph belle in the item.

The song will be shot in the coming weeks.

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SRK’s next is Joker

SRK’s next is ‘Joker’Add to hotlist By Our Correspondent ©2007 Bollyvista.com

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Shah Rukh Khan’s next home production after ‘Om Shanti Om’ will be directed by Shirish Kunder and the film has already generated curiosity … Read More

No cold war between Abhishek and Vivek

No cold war between Abhishek and Vivek
04th July 2007 21.39 IST
By ApunKaChoice

Contrary to the latest speculation in tinsel town, there are no bad vibes between Abhishek Bachchan and Vivek Oberoi .

Of late, rumours have been afloat that Abhishek has some reservations about working with Vivek in Sunil Shetty’s production venture Mission Istanbul which will be directed by Apoorva Lakhia .

The movie will have a huge star cast that includes Vivek, Abhishek, Bobby Deol and Tusshar Kapoor along with a number of heroines who are yet to be finalized.

However, gossip has been going around that Abhi, who is married to Aishwarya Rai , does not want to work with Vivek, her former beau.

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Abhi will not work with Viveik

Abhi will not work with Viveik!

Here is some bad news for all those who were waiting to see Abhishek Bachchan and Viveik Oberoi together in a film. Producer Apoorva Lakhia’s attempts to sign up them for his next film titled Mission to Istanbul have come a cropper because of abhi’s refusal.

Apoorva just cannot make a film without one of the Bachchan’s being in it. So Abhishek Bachchan, a dear friend, was an automatic choice for the film that features four heroes.

After two successive flops, Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost (2003) and Ek Ajnabee (2005) Apoorva hit pay dirt with Shootout at Lokhandwala. He attributes the success of the film to Viveik Oberoi, whom he now considers as his lucky mascot.

Consequently, Viveik too was an automatic choice for a lead role.

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Exclusive Review Awaarapan

Awaarapan
28 Jun, 2007 10:34 am ISTlRENUKA VYAVAHARE/INDIATIMES MOVIES

/photo.cms?msid=2155785 Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Shreya Saran, Mrinalini Sharma, Rehan Khan
Director: Mohit Suri
Producer: Mahesh Bhatt/Mukesh Bhatt
Genre: Drama/Action
Rating: ** ½

I have never been an Emraan Hashmi fan but have to say this, after watching Awaarapan, I would be a fool not to praise the actor for giving such a power-packed performance in a film which doesn’t really have the potential to appeal to the masses, all thanks to a bland story line coupled with mediocre dialogues. In spite of the multiple drawbacks in the film, Hashmi holds on to his own and delivers the finest performance of his career.

/photo.cms?msid=2156151 The Bhatt camp is known for providing us with unique cinema and that’s what they do here as well, but unfortunately director Mohit’s idea of expanding an incident in the life of a man into an entire two hour film falls flat.

Shivam (Emraan) is an atheist henchman of Mallik (Ashutosh Rana), a rich hotelier cum businessman involved in flesh trade and many such illegitimate activities in Hong Kong. Shivam follows Mallik’s orders blindly. He kills people if necessary, runs Mallik’s hotel, keeps an eye on his mistress and in no time becomes his confidante. But this strong bond between the two develops crack when Shivam is assigned the job of killing Mallik’s Pakistani mistress (Mrinalini Sharma, extremely ordinary). The entire film then shows what is it that makes it impossible for a cold blooded shooter like Shivam to accomplish his gangster boss’ ‘kill my mistress’ request…

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Harman Baweja signs Boney kapoor’s film

Harman Baweja signs Boney Kapoor’s Film Click here to add this article to My Clips
By Subhash K. Jha, June 25, 2007 – 08:20 IST
Among the most promising newcomers of 2007, Harman Baweja and Ranbir Kapoor surely lead the bright pack.

As of now Harman seems to have an edge. Those who have seen the rushes of his debut film Love Story 2050 swear the Baweja boy dances like a dream and is also a competent and confident actor.

Boney Kapoor certainly thinks so. Beating Tips and several other production houses who have rushed forward to sign Harman, Boney has got Baweja to do a South Indian remake (yet another South-conversion Boney special!).

Says Harman, “The minute I heard the script I decided this untitled South remake would be my second film. It’s an extremely interesting script. And any leading man would give his left hand to be in it.”

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Bachchan Aims higher to raise $200 Million

MUMBAI: Once again, Amitabh Bachchan is ready to test the strength of his brand in the financial market. This time, he is aiming higher. AB Corp — the new, revived company of the erstwhile ABCL, relaunched with much fanfare in 2003 — is exploring the possibility to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), which is the sub-market of the London Stock Exchange.

According to a source in the city banking circles, AB Corp is looking at raising approximately $200 million. The funds will primarily be used for the expansion of the new corporate entity.

Listing at AIM has caught on among local media players with firms like Eros International, UTV, Indian Film Company (a unit of TV18) having so far collectively raised more than $300 million.

But why is Bollywood rushing to London and AIM? Disclosure and listing norms at AIM are less stringent than the bigger bourses, and entertainment firms perceive that they will fetch a higher valuation at AIM than on the Indian bourses.

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Shah Rukh Khan may work with Abbas-Mastan

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan may again work with Abbas-Mastan – the director duo who placed him on the pedestal of superstardom.

In 1993, director brothers Abbas-Mastan made ‘Baazigar’ with SRK, who was yet to establish his stronghold in Bollywood.

The film went on to become a hit and its villain became Indian cinema’s hero, who stuttered, romanced and drank his way to 70 mm fame and even ended up as a wax figure at Madame Tussauds.

In 1999, Abbas-Mastan again directed SRK in Baadshah , but the film didn’t do well at the box-office.

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Govinda was Ganesh’s first choice for SWAMI

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View IIFA 2007 – Picture GalleryActor-MP Govinda was the first choice for ace choregrapher Ganesh Acharya’s debut film as a director, SWAMI. However Govinda turned down the offer saying that after … Read More

Ayesha Takia out of Aladin

By IndiaFM News Bureau, June 22, 2007 – 09:41 IST

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Ayesha Takia who recently walked out of Aamir Khan’s Ghajini remake has also walked out of another big film now. The actress was supposed to play … Read More

Amir’s Ghajni remake lady finally confirmed

Aamir’s Ghajini remake leading lady finally confirmed Click here to add this article to My Clips
By Subhash K. Jha, June 22, 2007 – 04:37 IST

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So it’s going to be Khan Versus Khan in the Hindi remake of A.R Murugadoss’ Ghajini. In this story of an amnesiac man’s hunt for his fiancée’s killer (inspired by Christopher Nolan’s thriller Memento). The original Tamil leading lady Asin was signed opposite Aamir Khan in the first-half.

Several names including Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut had been tossed around for the part of Aamir’s leading lady in the second-half.

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Now Khiladi 2 & Baazigar 2

Now Khiladi 2′ & ‘Baazigar 2′ Click here to add this article to My Clips By Taran Adarsh, June 12, 2007 – 09:15 IST

Sequels and remakes are in! And the latest to join the bandwagon are Abbas-Mustan. … Read More

Saif Excuses himself from karan johars film

Saif Ali KhanSaif excuses himself from Karan Johar’s film
30th May 2007 17.06 IST
By ApunKaChoice

Saif Ali Khan was supposed to act in a film to be produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. However, the actor has now excused himself from the project.

The film, not yet titled, will mark the directorial debut of Karan’s assistant Tarun Mansukhani, who has been working with Karan since Kuch Kuch Hota Hai .

Saif, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had been finalized to play main roles in the film. But now, Saif has opted out because he doesn’t have the dates to spare.

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Fool N final (india FM Review)

By Taran Adarsh, June 1, 2007 – 01:00 IST

Some rules you need to follow before you embark on a journey called FOOL & FINAL…
One, don’t wear your thinking caps. Here’s why: The film defies logic.
Two, don’t ask questions. Here’s why: It’s all about entertainment, not enlightenment. Three, don’t look for answers. Here’s why: The motive is to keep you in splits.

FOOL & FINAL is all about transporting you to a world of make-believe. The sole intention is to offer you loads of entertainment in those 17 reels / 2.20 hours.

But, wait, there’s a hitch…

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The execution of the material is done most stylishly, it’s akin to watching a comic book on screen. But the effort falls flat since there’s no script in the first place. The film packs in too many characters and too many incidents in those 17 reels. No issues with that, but director Ahmed Khan and his team of writers [Umesh Shukla, Abbas Hierapurwala] should’ve mixed, merged and unified the assorted characters and incidents skillfully so that the entire experience would be worth cherishing. Unfortunately, what happens here is that you root for a few individualistic sequences only, not the film in entirety.

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Vidya Balan may step in Pa

Vidya Balan may step in ‘Pa’Add to hotlist By Our Correspondent ©2007 Bollyvista.com

Vidya Balan Vidya Balan ‘Cheeni Kum’ might have been accepted by audiences with mixed reactions but its director R. Balki is all excited about his next movie … Read More

Fantastic four

Fantastic four Click here to add this article to My Clips By Taran Adarsh, May 29, 2007 – 03:45 IST Exactly a month ago, this writer did the news-break of director Siddharth Raj Anand [TA RA RUM PUM] planning … Read More