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Let’s Not Ask Her Screen Age – Rajeev Masand’s Gossip Column


Deepika Padukone told me she got quite an earful from Ayan on the first day of shoot when she “jokingly” made a comment that he didn’t appreciate.

Aditya Chopra has given Katrina Kaif three of her biggest films —Ek Tha Tiger (opposite Salman Khan, a bonafide blockbuster), Jab Tak Hai Jaan (opposite Shah Rukh Khan, another blockbuster), and the forthcoming Aamir Khan-vehicle Dhoom 3 (a surefire firecracker)—yet the actress turned down Gunday (which Aditya was reportedly keen that she star in) so she could work with Hrithik Roshan in Siddharth Anand’s Knight & Day remake, Bang Bang, instead.

Priyanka Chopra slipped into Gunday instead, earning brownie points with the producer. And Bang Bang, whose shooting dates originally clashed with Gunday, has been endlessly delayed, with filming only likely to start in June now.

Industry pundits are saying Katrina is no longer in Aditya’s ‘good books’, and she might have shot herself in the foot by turning down Gunday, where she would have been cast opposite younger heroes Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor. “Working so frequently with the Khans and with Hrithik, her ‘screen age’ has become considerably more than her real age. Unlike Deepika and Anushka, Katrina doesn’t have films opposite younger actors like Ranbir, Imran and Shahid. It wouldn’t have hurt to do a film that would bring down her screen age,” explains a respected film producer.

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New Beginnings with Old Friends – Rajeev Masand’s Gossip Column


Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif no longer seem to be trying to hide the fact that they are a couple.

Harman Baweja (remember him?), who hasn’t had a release since 2009’s colossal dud What’s Your Raashee?, was spotted partying in Vancouver recently during a Bollywood awards ceremony. The actor, who has dated Priyanka Chopra and Shamita Shetty and is now reportedly seeing Bipasha Basu, was noticed chatting up pretty locals and happily posing for pictures with star-struck fans. Bipasha was in London while her beau made the most of his Canadian vacation.

Since her break-up with John Abraham two years ago, Bipasha has admitted that she’s been dating frequently, and actors like Shahid Kapoor, Harman and Hollywood’s Josh Hartnett are some of the men she has been linked to. It is also a well-known fact that Bipasha has renewed her friendship with exes Milind Soman and Dino Morea, who her friends say she was categorically asked to “stay far away from” while she was with John.

Speaking of Dino Morea, he is believed to have signed up for—wait for it—a theatre acting course in Delhi. Too little too late? Dino has apparently told friends that he is taking a three-month break from “the scene” to “recharge my batteries”. He successfully transitioned last year into a producer with Jism 2, on which he had Pooja Bhatt as his partner.

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Salmans New love interest


Salman in “woman on top” position :D


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SOTD: Khaabon Ke Parinday – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara


Check out the song Khaabon Ke Parinday on Hrithik Roshan’s birthday. It is still Jan 9th here and is birthday of Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Kalki Koechlin. So this is what they call Ek Teer Chaar Nishaan ;-)


Singers: Mohit Chauhan, Alyssa Mendonsa, Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Lyrics by Javed Akhtar


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Too Talented to Be a Heroine – Rajeev Masand’s Gossip Column


But it’s his falling out of Vishal Bhardwaj’s good graces that the industry considers Shahid’s most grave error.

If Zoya Akhtar had her way, it wouldn’t have been Katrina Kaif who starred opposite Hrithik Roshan in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, but—hold your breath—Kalki Koechlin. Sources within Excel Productions reveal that the Luck By Chance director had screen-tested Kalki to play the big female part in her second film, but the idea was allegedly shot down by everyone—from her producer Ritesh Sidhwani to her close friends and associates.

Apparently everyone around her felt the Dev D star was too ‘arthouse’ to be cast opposite a heartthrob hero like Hrithik, and Zoya was persuaded to seek out a more ‘conventional’ actress. Not that she had issues with Katrina or was forced to cast her against her choice. Zoya reportedly zeroed in on Katrina once she’d been convinced the film needed a more ‘mainstream’ presence, and got along with the actress famously while shooting together.

When it came to casting the second female lead in the film, the director reportedly insisted on Kalki. For the role of the nagging, clingy girlfriend who crashes her fiancé’s bachelor holiday, Zoya couldn’t look beyond Kalki, who sportingly took the part even though the character doesn’t even get her guy in the end. Zoya has said this was the role she had most fun writing “because it has so much meat to it… it’s a more fun character to create”.

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Dhoom 3 Logo Revealed



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Suprabh’s Take on Jab Tak Hai Jaan


Prolog

Bhoora, Gora Gaye bazaar, wahan se laaye Bomb ka achaar
Bhoora Bola Mai Fussunga, Gora Bola Mai fussunga
Gore ne diya bhaav
Bhoora bola, assi major saab

Review

Bhagwaan Ke liye mujhe ChHod Do
please Bhagwaan ke liye mujhe chHod do

These are legendary lines that have been spoken by various actresses throughout the time line of Hindi Cinema. Here’s finally a movie that justifies these words and makes you believe that everything happens for a reason.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan- the title could not have been more apt. It literally asks its viewers to bear it while their life and the sanity inside it can hold off from exploding like a bomb. Jab Tak Hai Jaan tells a tale of how God works in mysterious ways- Jab miya biwi raazi toh kaand karega paparazzi. Jab Tak Hain Jaan begins its love cum lust tale of Army Jawans and the reason why they are called jawaans. It tells you that discovery reporters’s short chaddis are the reason why they are still in the army and why they allow any 21 year old to call them by their first name as if she was their class buddy. It shows that we have so supremely talented guitar strumming poetry churning, and confident Bomb diffusing men in the army that they would allow a trainee reporter to swing her ass right next to the bomb while filming and chit chatting.

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Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Son of Sardaar Boxoffice Update by Komal Nahta



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Jab Tak Hai Jaan Dialogue Promos



More Dialogue Promos below.

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Film with Salman not going to happen, says Shah Rukh


Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says his longstanding “disagreements” with Salman Khan will not come to an end courtesy a film, a filmmaker or an actress. And neither would it be on a public platform.

The two Bollywood icons, who did films like “Karan Arjun” and “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” together, had a major fight in 2008 at Salman’s then girlfriend, Katrina Kaif’s birthday bash.

Even as Katrina hopes to produce a movie featuring Shah Rukh and Salman, SRK says it’s not going to happen – not at anyone’s behest.

“My thing is that we had a little bit of personal issue. This is not the first time. It was four years ago and it had been before. We (Salman) have been very close for 20 years and even more. From the time I came, I respect his family and the fact that they gave me so much of love. I can never be disrespectful about that. Having said that, we have grown together.”

“We have certain things similar and certain things which we completely disagree on. So, at this point of time we are at that plain of disagreement and there might come a time when these things will get resolved, not resolved… but it will never be on a public platform.

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Ishq Dance Full Video


Possibly the best thing about the 3 hour film :D


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The Vigil Idiot: Jab Tak Hai Jaan


What originality this film is, man! We have Shah Rukh Khan playing a romantic lead by the name of Samar Anand; Katrina Kaif playing Meera Thapar, an NRI who speaks accented Hindi; and Anushka Sharma playing Akira Rai who is—are you ready for this—a feisty girl from Delhi! Shocker, I know. But hey, actors get typecast all the time. As long as their roles are written well, right? Well, I wonder where all the costume money they saved on not giving pants to any of the women went… Because it sure as hell didn’t go to the script department.



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