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Hrithik escapes car accident

The news that Hrithik Roshan was involved in car accident on Monday night while he was on the way to Karjat has his fans worried.
But Hrithik is just fine. So says his father Rakesh Roshan. “Yes there was an accident. Nowadays Hrithik is shooting nights in Karjat for Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodha-Akbar.

Bollywood ruined my back: Sanjay Dutt

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt says too many action roles in Hindi-language movies have ruined his back. He needs regular physiotherapy to manage the pain, the actor told Indian newspapers in interviews published on Tuesday.
“After doing so much action over many years, my back has gone. I’m in pain,” he told The Times of India newspaper.

Bollywood movie about Mumbai train blasts

Bollywood movie about Mumbai train blasts

A planned Indian movie recounting deadly bomb blasts on Mumbai commuter trains last year will be a serious rather than a musical film.
The movie will describe the events of the day last July when bombs ripped through first-time director Neera Pandey said. “The movie, without any songs, will narrate events of that day,” Pandey said. [...]

Radha gets a makeover in new Sholay

Radha gets a makeover in new Sholay

Radha, the role immortalised by Jaya Bachchan in Sholay is back. But both the look and the name are different in Ramgopal Verma’s remake of the classic.
Radha is now Durga played by Sushmita Sen and the white saree in the original has been replaced with black. While Radha had hardly spoken a few lines in [...]

The girl who refused to work with SRK tops CBSE

Any other girl would have killed for even a cameo in a film with Shah Rukh Khan. But Pearl Verma, preferred to choose her crucial Class XII exams to taking up the offer to work with Shah Rukh Khan in all-girls hockey team film titled Chak De India produced by Yash Raj Films.

I had affair with Nagma: Ravi

I had affair with Nagma: Ravi

Thanks to ‘Big Boss’, Ravi Kissen, who has now become a household name, is in the news once again. This Bhojpuri super hero has revealed on national television that he was once having an affair with Nagma!
Speaking to Santa (Siddharth Kannan) and Banta (Baba Saigal) on Santa and Banta Newz Unlimited on Zoom, Ravi Kissen [...]

Spoof video of Abhishek-Aishwarya honeymoon!

A parody video featuring the look-alikes of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai is making rounds on the Internet.
The 6-minute-49-second video has been posted on youtube.com under the title ‘Aish-Abhi exclusive honeymoon video and interview’ and has already been viewed more than 35,000 times.

Amitabh ‘Lands’ in Big trouble

An Uttar Pradesh court is scheduled to hear Monday a case related to alleged irregularities in allotting a plot of government land to Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
The actor has sought from the court of Faizabad divisional commissioner review of an order of the Barabanki district magistrate quashing the allotment citing violation of rules.

Sunil Shetty turns down role in his own film

Sunil Shetty turns down role in his own film

Sunil Shetty would rather be a producer than an actor.
“Or rather, I can’t be both. I’ll either be a producer or an actor. I’ll never act in a film I produce,” says Sunil Shetty, and proves it by actually saying no to a plum role in Apoorva Lakhia’s film on international terrorism.
Relates Sunil, [...]

UK to attract more tourists to Bollywood film locations

UK to attract more tourists to Bollywood film locations

Britain has drawn up a map featuring dozens of its locations used by directors of 30 Bollywood hits to attract more Indian tourists to London and the rest of UK.
The tourism body, VisitBritain, will launch the map this week ahead of the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA), regarded as Bollywood’s Oscars, ceremony [...]

Spider-Man 3 biggest-ever Hollywood hit in India

Spider-Man 3 biggest-ever Hollywood hit in India

Spider-Man 3′ is Hollywood’s biggest hit ever in India, a news report said on Monday, although it still has earned far less than Bollywood’s most popular films.
“Spider-Man 3” has already collected 570 million rupees (US$14 million, euro10.5 million) since it was released earlier this month at a record 588 theaters across India, the [...]

SRK: The Khan with a magnanimous heart

Shah Rukh Khan goes out of his way to help his friends.
When SRK’s good friend Viveck Vaswani approached him with the script of his movie ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, SRK not just agreed to act in the film he also made an offer to financially support the film.
Vaswani says he was deeply touched when SRK gave [...]

Mike Tyson shot clips for Indian movie in Las Vegas

Mike Tyson shot clips for Indian movie in Las Vegas

Mike Tyson danced to Bollywood music for a promotional video for a new Indian movie about a diamond heist, but he performed in Las Vegas, not India, a newspaper reported on Monday.
The former boxing champion had been expected to travel to India to film a dance sequence for the movie “Fool n Final,” [...]

GURU producer Mani’s brother dies in an accident

GURU producer Mani’s brother dies in an accident

The producer of the critically acclaimed YUVA and the box-office hit GURU, G Srinivasan, died in an accident, in Patlikuhal, 30 kilometres from Manali, yesterday (Sunday). As per our local sources, Mr. Srinivasan was trekking at village Charanag in Patlikuhal when he slipped and fell into a 30 feet deep gorge.

Celina signs Hollywood film

Celina signs Hollywood film

After Aishwarya Rai another actress of bollywood is going international. Celina Jaitley, miss India universe has recently signed an international film. It’s a New Zealand- Australian co production, “Love Has No Language”. This production house has already created a sensation making the trilogy ” Lord Of The Rings”. Not only that the technical advisor of [...]

John-Bipasha face racism in London

The actors and the crew of Vivek Agnihotri’s movie Goal faced racism while shooting the film in London.
For more than two months now, Agnihotri has been shooting ‘Goal’ in London with the movie’s stars John Abraham , Bipasha Basu and Arshad Warsi .

John Abraham injures himself filming new movie

Bollywood actor John Abraham hurt his shin while playing soccer in the climactic scene of his movie “Goal,”” the film’s director said. Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri said Abraham completed filming in London after medical attention. “John was on the field with all the other actors and that’s when he felt this sudden pain in his shin,”” [...]

Shilpa’s big day in London

Shilpa’s big day in London

Actress Shilpa Shetty was in London for the premiere of her latest film Life in a…Metro at London’s prestigious Leicester Square, where UK film and royal premieres are regularly hosted at one of the square’s four cinemas, on Wednesday.
Needless to say, the actress was on cloud nine. “I am really excited that I am here [...]

Don 2: Priyanka’s out, Sush is in!

The Don sequel is very much on, but Chopra’s continued presence remains unconfirmed
Priyanka Chopra kicked some serious butt in Farhan Akhtar’s Don.
However, the chances of her appearing in the sequel are bleak.

Big B, SRK set to shoot together

While rumour mills alleged growing rivalry between superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, the two are already in the process of shooting a film together. Bachchan and Khan will soon be shooting for Ravi Chopra’s Bhootnath in July. Bachchan plays a ghost and is [...]

Spider-man 3 scores biggest opening in history

Spider-man 3 scores biggest opening in history

“Spider-Man 3″ sold a record $373 million wor

Miss England to star in Bollywood movie

Miss England to star in Bollywood movie

Miss England winner Eleanor Glynn has been selected to play a role in the musical “India Rocks”, a movie directed by Aditya Raj Kapoor.
Glynn, 21, from Sandford-on-Thames, said she was delighted to have won one of the lead roles in the movie. Filming is due to start in London later this month, shortly before she [...]

Abhiash marriage sparks the great Bollywood divide

A raging rivalry between two of India’s biggest screen stars has worsened after a marriage in one of their families obliged actors and producers in the world’s largest film industry to begin taking sides.
For years, India has watched the popularity battle between the iconic Amitabh Bachchan and younger superstar Shah Rukh Khan — the former, [...]

Can SRK beat the Bachchans?

With the shutting down of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, if people thought Shah Rukh Khan, also known as King Khan, was abdicating, they were of course very wrong. Nothing really stops SRK, neither his bad back nor flops.
Bollywood’s dimpled romantic hero (who actually took off with a sneery anti-characters), Shah Rukh is back with Aditya Chopra, [...]

SRK Studios!

Buzz is that King Khan wants to buy the landmark Mehboob Studio, but he denies having the [...]

Hrithik Roshan to star opposite Uma Thurman?

 Reports are that Hrithik Roshan may star opposite Uma Thurman in a planned biopic on Nadia, a Bollywood star of the early 20th century.
Produced by UTV, the film is to be directed by Vishal Bharadwaj .
If UTV plans go through, Uma Thurman will become the first mainstream Hollywood star to play a lead role in [...]

Ash’s new dilemma: Rai or Bachchan?

Aishwarya Rai has certainly become the ideal Indian bahu (daughter-in-law). She has decided to change her name to Aishwarya Bachchan after marriage.
Numerologists, according to a leading Mumbai daily, on their part have loads of advise for Bollywood’s newest bride.

Rani Mukerjee tones up for short skirt stint

Rani Mukerjee tones up for short skirt stint

For those who are wondering how Rani Mukerji managed to get into those short skirts in Siddharth Anand’s just released Ta Ra Rum Pum, the actress reveals it all.
“Getting slim, my dear. That’s the magic mantra,” she says. “The minute I was told about what kind of look I’m supposed to carry off in a [...]

Rakhi Sawant hurts Buddhist’s religious sentiments

Rakhi Sawant hurts Buddhist’s religious sentiments

Rakhi Sawant and controversy are the words that have become inseparable. The item girl has become famous mainly due to her controversies than for her performances. She recently appeared on the celebrity chat show Koffee with Karan where she confessed to Karan that controversies just keep happening with her.