November, 2011

Pooja Bedi, who has been evicted from the house of Bigg Boss Season 5, has revealed that Laxmi Narayan has asked her to change her sexuality for her. Bedi also made the confession that she and Sky (Akashdeep) were good friends inside the house and she would love to continue this friendship after the show.

She rubbed all the rumors of her romantic link-up with Sky. When asked her, if she knew inside the house of Bigg Boss that Sunny was an adult movie star, what would’ve been her reaction. She responded to it saying that she got to know about it after she came out post her eviction from the show.

Then Pooja was again asked that now as she knows, does it really disturbs her? On this the sexy Bedi responded, “Why she should be worried about it.”

She went on revealing that Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, who was a trangender, happened much closer to her and she even many a time asked her to change her sexuality specially for her as she liked her.

Pooja also depicted that there were times when Laxmi cuddled her like a man and while hugging her voice changed totally.

Pooja Bedi said that she would always cherish the moments spent with Sky, Juhi and Laxmi in the house. Pooja Bedi, who is a yesteryear Bollywood actress, is currently a TV host and a columnist. She was evicted over the weekend when Pooja Missra was thrown out of the house by Bigg Boss due to hitting Siddharth.

By: Goher Iqbal Punn

Producer: Karan Johar

Director: Karan Malhotra

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra

Music: Ajay Gogavale and Atul Gogavale

Dharma Productions makes the remake of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer blockbuster Agneepath (that was originally made with Amitabh in the lead by Yash Johar in 90s) taking Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the main leads. Karan Johar, the son of the deceased filmmaker and the producer Yash Johar, is much excited to churn out the remake of his father’s blockbuster product. Karan and his mother Hiroo Johar produce the flick under their banner Dharma Productions.

The film is directed by Karan Malhotra, who also writes the screenplay of the movie. Ajay Gogavale and Atul Gogavale score the music whereas Amitabh Bhattacharya writes the lyrics for the film songs. The film’s shooting is going on and the movie is expected to hit the theaters on January 26^th, 2012.

Katrina Kaif has specially been roped in to do an item number.

Synopsis:

Mandwa, a small village in India, where Vijay Dinanath Chauhann (Hrithik Roshan) gets the training by his principled father about the fire’s path, Agneepath. Vijay’s life gets utterly scattered when a hazardous drug dealer Kancha (Sanjay dutt) drags his father and hangs him to death. Along with his pregnant mother, Vijay leaves the place to reach Mumbai. He now has only one purpose and mission in his life and that is to return to Mandwa to tackle the things with Kancha. He wants revenge from the drug dealer.

In Mumbai, the 12-year-old Vijay gets to meet the gang leader of the city Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor) who takes him under his mentorship. From this point on, the saga takes place of revenge where Vijay does all to reach at Kancha. Kaali (Priyanka Chopra) his love supports him all the way. After 15 years, he gets all set to take revenge from Kancha.

By: Goher Iqbal Punn

Producer: Aditya Chopra

Director: Maneesh Sharma

Cast: Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma

Music: Salim-Sulaiman

Yash Raj Films’ much-awaited project, ‘Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl’ is geared up to allure the audiences. An utter romantic comedy, the film stars today’s much brawny guy Ranveer Singh, who is the central attraction of every Bollywood woman, Anushka Sharma, Aditi Sharma and Dipannita Sharma. The movie also provides the launching pad to Priyanka Chopra’s cousin, Parineeti Chopra.

The film album has been composed by the composers’ duo Salim-Sulaiman and the lyrics have been penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya. The movie is slated for release on December 9^th 2011.

Synopsis:
Dimple Chadda (Parineeti Chopra) is an arrogant 19-year-old girl from Delhi who starts loving a guy named Sunny Singh who happens to be a fitness trainer.

Raina Parulekar (Dipannita Sharma) is an independent woman who is runs a successful business in Mumbai. This 28 years old lady makes the dealings of business with an art dealer Deven Shah.

Saira Rashid (Aditi Sharma) is a hardworking widow of Lucknow. Saira, 24, befriends with a shy boy named Iqbal Khan.

These three women get deceived by the guys they get attached with them and in actual, there is only one guy who disguises the avatars of three various men. This guy is named Ricky Bahl (Ranveer Singh) who is a suited-booted conman whose only religion is to make money.

Because of a chance encounter, these three ladies bump into each other and fasten belts to grab Ricky Bahl to get their respective money back. They hatch a plan for the same. Enters Ishika Desai (Anushka Sharma) who happens to be a young and ambitious gal comes into the scene. There emerges the game plan of the angry trio. The plan happens in Goa. What will happen next is forms the interesting story.

Ustad Sultan Khan, the legendary classical singer-sarangi player of international stature, has died this afternoon on Sunday. Ustad Sultan was tremendously famous on the international music scene.

The news of the legendary maestro’s death was first broken by the famed musician and singer Salim Merchant (of the famous composers’ duo Salim-Sulieman).

He broke this news on Twitter announcing that he lost his real mentor and friend Ustad Sultan Khan this afternoon. He further mentioned that India would not have another Sarangi player like Ustad in future.

Shaan, the coveted playback singer of Bollywood, got much sad about learning the news of Ustad Sultan Khan’s death.  He said that he got really shocked that Khansahib was no more with us now.

Ustad Sultan has made number of international collaborations with many internationally famous musicians in his career. His collaborations with the legendary tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain are still loved by the classical music and percussions fans.

The music industry turned so much sad after the demise of Sultan Khan since in just short time, the industry lost many gems like Jagjit Singh, Bhupen Hazarika and now Ustad Sultan Khan.

Ustad’ Piya Basanti album had turned colossally sold soundtrack in Hindi music scene. Wherever he went in the world, he was awarded huge respect. His works will always make him live in the hearts of his fans. He was a genius musician who knew the music in depths. He made many musicians and singer learn the techniques from him. He was classy in every sense of the word.

Hollywood’s adult movie star, Sunny Leone, who has entered into the house of Bigg Boss season 5, has revealed that she is a bisexual but likes to be with men. Leone raised the claim that she explored this by the time she hit 18.

The entry of Sunny, the X-rated star of Hollywood, has already raised many eyebrows and protests in the country, has turned the show towards being more controversial. Now an American national, Sunny was born in Canada with the actual name Karen Malhotra to a Sikh family of Punjab, India on 13^th May 1981.

Her parent sent her to Catholic school since they were of the view that a public school would be an utter unsafe place for the daughter.

When Leone turned 14, her family moved to Fort Gratiot in Michigan, USA and then the final settlement took place in California. When Sunny was getting the training of paediatric nurse in Orange County, she bumped into John Stevans (porn stars’ agent). The meeting between the two was arranged by Sunny’s exotic dancer friend.

John took her to meet with Jay Allen, the photographer for the magazine Penthouse. Bob Guccione, the ex-owner of Penhouse, gave Sunny her second name ‘Leone’.  In 2005, Sunny entered into the world of hardcore when she was signed by the porn mogul, Vivid Entertainment under three years’ contract.

The first porn movie that she enacted in was ‘Sunny’ and the following one was ‘Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone’. This flick bought her AVN adult award.

Sunny too like all girls wants to settle in life one day with husband and kids but when she will retire from the porn industry.

Film Critic: Goher Iqbal Punn

Producer: Eros Entertainment

Director: Rohit Dhawan

Cast: Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangda Singh

Music: Pritam

Desi Boyz, the much-awaited flick of Akshay Kumar and John Abraham has finally hit the screens. The duo has early enticed the moviegoers in Priyadarshan’s 2005’ blockbuster comedy, ‘Garam Masala’ and their acting skills were hugely acknowledged and adored by the cine fans and the critics alike. The pair is now all set once again with yet another comic caper, ‘Desi Boyz’ directed by David Dhawan’s son Rohit Dhawan.

Akshay and John no doubt take the comedy to the next level with this new product and the chemistry between the two stars is what appreciated previously with Priyan’s Garam Masala and with the latest Rohit’s Desi Boyz.

The movie works high on many fronts like music, picturization, dialogues, graphics’s works, eye-pleasing locales, costumes, art direction and even some others as well but the film nonetheless lacks in punch that is the attraction of a moviegoer who comes out of the home to spend the hard earned money for the two or three hours’ pleasures. The script and storyline are the lackluster. First half of the movie goes well grabbing the attention of the cinegoers but the post interval portion of the film falters and there appear many flaws on the flow of the story. Sometimes the movie starts appearing lethargic and often you begin thinking, the scene is forced into the narrative. An average movie buff too can feel there is something missing in the second half otherwise the overall product is fine and entertaining from tip to toe.

The concept of gigolos, male escorts and male strippers is what the movie buffs have been seeing in many of Bollywood films. It got noticed much many years back when the actor-turned filmmaker Deepak Tijori had made the movie on this subject titled ‘Oops’. The film was liked by the cinegoers and it was unique at that time.

Desi Boyz tells the story of two jobless guys who struggle hard to get a job for their livelihood in the recession period. Rohit Dhawan has the knack of delivering the content on screen with aplomb that the viewers get glued to the screens till the finale despite the fact that script has flaws.

Two friends – Jignesh, famous as Jerry (Akshay Kumar) and Nick (John) work as security guard and banker respectively in London. Their happy life turns horrible when they lose their jobs due to the recession. They start searching the jobs and struggle hard but in vain. The desperate job seekers come across Sanjay Dutt who offers them the jobs as male escorts in his organization. What follows next is what is laced with the comic caper situations and their journey being the male escorts!

Rohit Dhawan directs the flick superbly, there is no doubt in it but he has to face the problems on part of script that lacks the punch. The idea (story) of the movie is good and attractive by Rohit himself but the script written on the story is weak and Rohit takes his credit on this front as well along with Milap Zaveri.

Pritam’s music is classy. Cinematography is first-rate. Dialogues are well penned.

Akshay Kumar once again does the job with finesse. His comedy timing is superb. The facial expressions he uses while delivering comedy are what lure the audiences. John Abraham is intelligent in his comic skills of acting. The actor impresses with the job. Deepika Padukone attracts with her part. Chitrangada Singh loots the scene with her role. Sanjay Dutt, Anupam Kher and Om Vaidya – they are impressive.

On the whole, Desi Boyz is an entertaining fiesta that lacks punches and drops the magic in second half.

Rating: 2/5

Sunny Leone, world famed adult star, has been chewing up the bigger ripples in the India media and among Indian masses these days a lot. And after her entry into the Bigg Boss house, she has turned more popular than before on the Indian terra firma.

The latest about Leone is that she has been offered a porn film (XXX) by a renowned US based porn company that wants to encash Sunny’s popularity now. The movie, reportedly, will be based on the theme of Indian Bigg Boss house.

This American company, that has world audience and market for its products, has derived the inspiration from Sunny’s fame in India and her entry into the house. Since she is basically an Indian having Indian origin, this added values to the offer too.

It has been learnt that the movie’s storyline would be revovlving around Sunny Leone (whose actual name is Karen Malhotra) who will enter into the house of Bigg Boss and then land into the sexual acts with the male and female housemates. The formalities will be done in California once she returns back to the country.

Sunny had made the announcement few years back that she was a bisexual and after the announcement, she was colossally and offered the porn movies based around the subjects of lesbian but she preferred doing the adult movies with the subjects of males over females.

Mahesh Bhatt, Indian ace filmmaker, too has signed her in the third sequel to the blockbuster Murder 3 opposite his son Rahul Bhatt.

KP Singh, the Real Estate tycoon, celebrated his birthday and the bash was simply grand and extravaganza laced with the performances by Shakira and Adnan Sami in particular.

On Tuesday night, the party happened at Udaipur's Jagmandir, an island on Lake Pichola. Whosever was in attendance and witnessed the bash said that it was undoubtedly a night to remember.

The evening began rolling on with the classy performance of the great Pakistani singer-musician who has spelled magic with the world of Bollywood Adnan Sami, who allured the souls with his mesmerizingly spongy songs. His rendition of ‘Kabhi Toh Nazar Milao’ was what all and sundry got caught with the magic. Kabir Bedi hosted the event. After around one hour’s Adnan’s performance, Bedi gave a ten minutes long welcoming speech to the world famous Columbian pop icon, the Latino singer Shakira, who is popular for her hip-shaking dancing.

She trilled her famous songs, ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, ‘Waka Waka’ and others. The audience got simply crazy in enjoying her songs. She was clad with golden top. She was as usual looking top sexy in this outfit.

No Bollywood attendance was seen at the bash. But the biggies of the corporate and social worlds came to adorn the event. There were more than 400 guests there.

Shakira and Adnan Sami’s performances really looted the hearts of the guests out there. Bedi delivered superb hosting in his usual heart-hitting style. Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor were due to shake hips with Shakira but due to some urgent works, they could not make it.

Aishwarya Rai’s pregnancy was the biggest and the hottest topic of the media since the day she revealed her pregnancy. Even we heard about the gambling by the bookies on her baby’s birth dates. There were even a number of speculations about her delivering the baby on 11.11.11. Apart from all these gossips, her husband Abhishek Bachchan and family members like Amitabh Bachchan’s statements too made the bigger rounds of the media.

The hospital where the world’s most gorgeous woman gave birth to a baby girl has also been the central focus of the media. The whole media was gathered outside the Seven Seas Hospital where the baby was born earlier today.

In short, every inch of news was given by the media to the masses about Aishwarya Rai’s pregnancy and then baby’s delivery.

Today morning when Aishwarya Rai delivered the baby girl, the news spread like wildfire in the world. The internet community in particular was abuzz.

Abhishek Bachchan made the announcement on Twitter saying, ‘It’s a baby girl’.

Amitabh Bachchan, the proud and excited grandfather too came on Twitter to let his fans know about the new arrival to his house. He said that he has become Dada (grandfather of son’s kid) of the cutest baby girl.

It’s the first baby for the couple – Aishwarya Rai, 38, and her hubby Abhishek Bachchan, 35.

It is being said that the baby’s name would start from the letter ‘K’. Well, wait and see - how far this prediction goes right. The whole family of Bachchans is super excited today.

By: Goher Iqbal Punn

Heartthrob of Indian cinema Ranbir Kapoor’s Rockstar rocked the country and the world. The film witnessed a strong beginning at the box office. The good business was seen at the multiplexes but if seen the single screens, they did not generate good business for the movie.

Since Ranbir’s star power is high among the youngsters, the movie’s business was seen more at the multiplexes. Rockstar got the mixed reviews and reports but the opening weekend was impressive for the film. The bigger centers of the country such as Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune and Bangalore have been impressive in terms of business.

The opening of Rockstar has witnessed with the mammoth collections of gross Rs. 53 crores in India (Nett Collection: Rs. 37 crores) in just three days’ time. Shah Rukha Khan’s Rs. One has now dropped.

Rockstar : Rs. 53 crores (Nett Rs. 37 crores)

Ra.One : Rs. 15.50 crores (Nett, week two collections)

Loot : Rs. 3 crores (Nett) First week

Ranbir’s star power has increased more after the success of this film. Although the film got mixed reviews by the critics, the film witnessed good business in the opening days just because of the star persona of Ranbir. He multiplied his worth after the release of the film and is now being roped in many big projects. The prominent one is Sajid Nadiadwala’s 2 States in which Imitiaz will once again be directing him. Ranbir did the efforts to fetch in Imitiaz in this flick, as he is quite impressed by his directing skills.