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Rohit Roy’s blog: Sex And The City
01 year ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By ROHIT ROY (17 October 2011, 12:50 PM IST)
When I started as an actor, a very dear uncle of mine gave me an invaluable piece of advise. He said, “keep looking and studying people around you in your day to day life, it’ll help you whilst playing characters in your movies”. And I have tried to do that as much as possible without seeming like a stalker! Whether it’s while working out at the gym, or while I am stuck in a traffic jam, while walking around the park with my wife, or while partying with my friends at a nightclub. And I can’t help but notice the one common factor in all these situations, SEX, or the thought of it!
You must be wondering what is so sexy about being stuck in traffic and sweating it out in the gym? Or walking in the park with your own wife!!! Allow me to explain.
While I am pounding the weights at my neighborhood gym, 60 % or more of the people there are looking at someone or the other thinking how he or she would be in bed! How to approach them causally without looking like a pile on and ask for his/her number. They might be doing squats with 100 pounders but they are not necessarily concerned about their own glutes. They are looking at the hot number in tiny black shorts and sweaty, body hugging t-shirt and wondering if she’s noticing his perfect form. And please do notice the last repetition of this squatter while you are at your gym the next time. It will be the longest and loudest grunt of all time! Very like the medieval ages, wherein the More >
Big B sings medley of his hit songs in Bbuddah
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, May 2, 2011 – 16:48 IST
In his illustrious career, Amitabh Bachchan has had several chartbuster songs to which he has danced. And now in his forthcoming film Bbuddah, Big B will be seen performing a song sequence featuring a medley of some of his most popular songs. What’s more, the medley has been sung by Bachchan himself making it all the more exciting for his millions of fans.
Big B has been shooting for the song for most of last week along with choreographer Remo. Describing this song sequence on his blog, Big B wrote, “Song picturisation is fearful and so exacting, especially so when the song has been sung by the person who is enacting it. At times during the shoot you wonder in disgust why in hells name did I sing it so – having the most terrible time trying to lip sync it … Hmmmm !!
The song sequence surely seems to have been quite a tiring task for Big B who seems relieved that the song is finally over and done with. The actor writes in his blog, “The song for ‘Bbuddah’ that we have been shooting for is finally over. And so another day of singing and dancing and hoping that it all comes out well … such apprehension and fear of the results … ahh…painful!”
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Big B, Saif, Deepika on sets of Aarakshan
02 years ago
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, January 31, 2011 – 14:13 IST
Till date, you must have heard of only the ‘Clash Of The Titans’. Well, now, its time for ‘Coming together Of The Titans’. We are referring to the association of Amitabh Bachchan and director Prakash Jha for the film called Aarakshan. Big B recently posted some of the pictures from the sets on his blog.
If one looks at both, Big B as well as Prakash Jha, they look like long lost brothers. No…this isn’t a filmi drama of lost brothers. The fact is that, it was actually Big B who insisted on growing his beard like Prakash Jha so as to get into the ‘skin of the character’.
The entire film has been shot keeping Bhopal as the backdrop. This doesn’t come as a surprise as most of Jha’s movies are set in the heartland of India.
They came together in Love Aaj Kal…now will get repeated in Aarakshan. We are indeed talking about the oh-so-lovely paring of Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. Saif looks almost unrecognizable with the glasses and moustache. Deepika too will be sporting desi look in the film.
The film is based on student politics and reservations. Besides the towering presence of Big B, the film also has Prateik and Manoj Bajpayee in pivotal role. If the reports are to be believed, then, Prateik’s character is in love with Deepika Padukone. However, Deepika loves Saif Ali Khan instead. She makes this very clear to Prateik who continues to pursue her.
All in all, Aarakshan is the film to More >
Ajay Devgn to launch ticketing website
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, January 8, 2011 – 12:01 IST
After a super successful year at the box-office with releases like Raajneeti, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and Golmaal 3, Ajay Devgn is taking another step in the entertainment industry!
Buzz is that Ajay is a part of new ticketing cum entertainment website called www.ticketplease.com. This website is a one-stop portal for tickets to movies, concerts, plays and sports events. With the growing convenience of online ticketing and entertainment, this website has everything you need from Expert Film reviews to Exciting features, Celebrity news and interviews, Thrilling trivia and more. Be it about upcoming movies, concerts or celebrity events…you can catch the whole lot here!
What’s more, one can also shop online for movie CDs, DVDs and merchandise. And it doesn’t end here. This site also gives the fans a platform to connect with their favourite celebrities through online chats, blogs, videos and photographs. One can also become a member and avail special discounts, loyalty benefits and the works.
Ajay Devgn says, “We have been working on it since the past one year with the team. When they came to me with the concept I liked the idea, found it interesting and agreed to be a part of it.”
The launch of the website is happening on Monday 10th January, where Ajay will be seen buying the first tickets of the upcoming movie Yamla Pagla Deewana. The Deols too will be a part of the launch.
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We’re going housefull!-Vipul Shah
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
Mark Manuel (BOMBAY TIMES; October 10, 2010)
Vipul and Shefali Shah are beaming. The prolific filmmaker has returned to Hindi theatre with Bus Itna Sa Khwab in which his hugely talented and attractive wife holds stage. No, that doesn’t mean that Vipul has given up cinema. Far from it. He’s got the Akshay-Ash starrer Action Replayy coming up in Diwali. But, yes, Vipul has just realised that Shefali is an actress of a rare calibre. And Hindi cinema, which has its own framework, does not offer her enough opportunity to showcase her enormous talent. So, the enterprising Bollywood movie mogul gave his wife Bus Itna Sa Khwab, a Marathi play by Chandrakant Kulkarni and Prashant Dalvi that he updated to suit society’s tastes today. And ever since the play opened, the Shahs have had no rest, Vipul has actually resorted to shows on Saturday as well for theatre enthusiasts… which is rare for the Hindi stage. “But what to do,” he asks, “I never imagined the play would get this kind of response and respect.” He’s got to be present at every show himself, because at the end, the audience expects Vipul to take a curtain call. “Standing ovations, we get for every performance,” he says, “but for one show, I wasn’t there to take the curtain call — and the audience refused to budge!”
All his friends from Bollywood, from Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan to Akshay and Twinkle Kumar, have seen, enjoyed and raved about Bus Itna Sa Khwab. Says Vipul, “Amitji More >
Big B complaints against harassment by follower on his blog
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, August 30, 2010 – 12:12 IST //
Amitabh Bachchan was probably the first most sincere celebrity blogger in Bollywood who used the platform to connect with his fans and update them on his activities, thoughts and interact with them regularly. No wonder then that he had innumerable followers who would start their day with reading what the revered Big B had to say.
But apparently there was one errant follower who used the ability to comment on the blog to vent out his negativity. He would leave derogatory remarks that would cross the line of decency and were abusive. Big B mentions in his blog, “There is a serious effort by a member that writes and comments on this blog to use language and expression that is abusive, filthy and utterly disgusting.” The unrelenting person would even send messages that were downright vulgar on Big B’s phone and provoked the star to take corrective measures.
Amitabh Bachchan reported the matter to the authorities and now any attempt from this miscreant would come under legal cyber space action.
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Aamir records his own ‘Peepli Live’
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Interviews
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After the tremendous success of his latest movie, ’3 Idiots’, Aamir Khan takes a back seat in his next production, ‘Peepli Live’.
Jyothi Venkatesh (BLOG.BIGCINEMAS.COM; August 9, 2010)
What is the budget of your latest film ‘Peepli Live’?
When I set out to launch my maiden film as a producer – ‘Lagaan’, I thought that the budget should be around Rs 15 crores but ultimately I produced it at a cost of around Rs. 25 crores. Similarly when I thought of making my film, ‘Taare Zameen Par’, I planned to plough in around Rs. 8 crores but ended up spending around Rs. 15 crores on the film. Take for example my latest film, ‘Peepli Live’ directed by Anusha Rizvi. I thought of making it in Rs. 6 crores but ultimately spent Rs. 12 crores in its making.
What drives you to say yes to a film, either as an actor or producer?
I do not look at any film of mine from the point of view of its commercial value but try to find out what it sets out to tell the audiences, whether it was ‘Lagaan’ or for that matter ‘Taare Zameen Par’. I have always gone by my own gut instinct, whether as a producer or for that matter as an actor. It is always the subject that lures me to say yes to any film that is offered to me as an actor. Any one who is sane would have not More >
Ash didnt deserve 4 crore-Mani Shankar Aiyar
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
Nishtha Arora | TNN (BOMBAY TIMES; July 1, 2010)
It is just three months to the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi, and former Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Mani Shankar Aiyar has raised his voice further against the “enormous waste of money on India’s biggest sporting event to which the poor won’t have access at all”. Mani, who is all in favour of the same money being spent on anti-poverty and welfare measures, has now voiced shrill disapproval about the organising committee’s “obsession with Bollywood” on his blog. Speaking from his past experience of the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne, Mani says that crores of rupees were offered to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who surely didn’t need that money.
“I heard it was Rs 4 crore for a four-minute appearance in that programme, which lasted 11 minutes. Then, Saif Ali Khan was also there, and yes, I’ve said this before too, that Saif got Rs 75 lakh for his performance,” says the former minister. “All this Bollywood, glam and the tamasha angle are proof of the organising committee’s obsession with Bollywood. Even the cheerleaders in IPL failed. We have a 5,000-year-old civilisation, why limit its presentation to just Bollywood?”
The Congress Party has distanced itself from Mani’s views and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit has been carrying out a spirited battle of repartee with him on the Commonwealth Games. But Mani remains indefatigable in his criticism. Over and above More >
Raavan is an intelligent film…-Amitabh Bachchan
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
Five things Amitabh Bachchan did not tweet or blog about in response to the criticism Raavan has faced…
TNN (BOMBAY TIMES; June 23, 2010)
1 If there have been rabid remarks on Raavan then that is what the people who made these observations have felt. When you are in the public arena, you will always be vulnerable to adverse comment and accusation. You will also be the idol of several, loved and admired equally. You cannot have it good all the time. You must learn to live with it or stop being a member of the celebrity club. Take it on the chin and smile. If you are right, get up and prove it. If you are wrong, acknowledge and accept it.
2 Mani Ratnam is an exceptional talent, even his so called ‘worst’ is a million times better than many so called ‘bests’. When one sets such high standards of credibility, you garner high expectation also. And when the audience feels that the standard has been even minutely compromised, it expresses disappointment. Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan may have disappointed you in Mela and Paheli, respectively. But that never stopped you from loving them for box office excellence in 3 Idiots and Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna.
3 The film is an astonishing mix of mythology and politics put out in ethereal poetry. It is an intelligent film that the ticket-paying audience and the box office pundits are not necessarily impressed with. Hence, the adverse reactions. Fair enough. It is Mani’s vision. We may not like his More >
Aamir Khan to join Twitter from July 1
03 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Bollywood Hungama News Network, June 17, 2010 – 19:49 IST
The perfectionist Khan is known to be a recluse. However he did start his personal blog and then ventured onto facebook when his film 3 Idiots was up for release, but now we hear that he is all set to join Twitter.
Come July 1, Aamir will be on Twitter with the handle @aamir_khan, this comes post requests by none other than Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who convinced the reclusive Khan to join in. Bachchan who sometime back launched his own blog and even joined twitter is the main reason.
Aamir on the other hand says that with a request from a cinema stalwart like Mr. Bachchan who can in their right mind say no? So gear up as your favourite star Aamir Khan will get even closer to you on Twitter.
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