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Isabel is a young starlet from United Kingdom. Her passion is to hindi films and Salman Khan is going out of his way to help her. And Isabel so happens to be none other than Katrina Kaif’s little sister. Salman Khan’s Veer will commence in August and director Anil Sharma is busy writing its dialogues. Meanwhile an interesting buzz doing rounds of Bollywood is that Katrina’s younger sister Isabel Kaif will be paired opposite Salman Khan. Veer is a period drama sets in the year 1852 to 1900. It will be Salman’s first period film. While according to an industry insider Katrina, whose little sister harbors a dream of joining Bollywood is looking forward to the right film to make her debut. Katrina feels beau Salman’s period film will be the right film to launch her sister. Hence the actress has insisted that the filmmaker cast Isabel in Veer. However, director Anil Sharma declines it, calling it a rumor “I am working on dialogues of the film. I am yet to finish some parts of the script. On...

Black & White Starring: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Aditi Sharma Producer: Subhash Ghai Director: Subhash Ghai It certainly is a valiant bid by the master showman Subhash Ghai to suddenly shift gear and express his social concerns on celluloid. Kudos to him for stepping into the world of real cinema. The genial Professor Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor) who teaches Urdu in a Delhi college unwittingly becomes associated with a suicide bomber Nomair Qazi (Anurag Sinha) whose secret mission is to blow up the Red Fort on Independence Day. Posing as a victim of the Gujarat riots, Nomair wins the sympathy of the professor and his activist-wife (Shefali Shah) and uses them to accomplish his task. The climax is a classic nail-biter. This without a doubt is Anil Kapoor’s most nuanced performance till date. In fact, he gives all the right shades to Black & White with his stellar show. Newcomer Anurag Sinha is a discovery. But there was no need to wear that permanent scowl on his face. Quite a f...

Ranbir, Deepika are in love Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni can stop vying for Deepika Padukone’s affections. Rumours notwithstanding, the truth is that the Om Shanti Om girl’s Saawariya is the suave Ranbir Kapoor. The two are said to have grown close during the shooting of Bachna Ae Haseenon in Australia. Back home, they shot for an ad together and the rest, as they say, is history. At the Filmfare Awards function in Mumbai, they were even caught by the media confessing their love for each other, backstage. Ranbir has in fact gone on record as saying that Deepika is his girl though it’s too early for both of them to think of marriage. Where does that leave Sonam? “Well, we’re childhood friends. She’s an amazing girl but we’re not seeing each other,” clarifies Ranbir. Sanjay Bhansali finds his ‘Saawariya’ Saawariya might not have ignited the box office but it sure kindled the spark of love in the hearts of its director and choreographer. Yes, after all the speculation it’s offici...

The slated big releases of April are the Saif-Kareena-Anil Kapoor-starrer Tashan and U Me Aur Hum directed by Ajay Devgun, starring Kajol and Ajay himself. A film in English to be released in Hollywood is being shot in the idyllic settings of Ooty in southern India. The thriller titled Karma - One Life in Two Life Times is being produced by Golden Tickets Private Ltd., an Indian production company. Karma... is a mystery tale of reincarnation in which a former maharaja's American daughter-in-law unravels her bloody tryst with Ooty in her previous life. American actors, Carl Weyant and Alma Sarcassi, play the maharajah's son and daughter-in-law. The film will hit the screens in April. Aishwarya Rai has been offered the role of Yashodara, wife of Prince Siddharth, in an English-Hindi bilingual film called Buddha being made by Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin. Kangana Ranaut is going places. The actress will now be doing an English film, a modern day version of Romeo and Juli...

The slated big releases of April are the Saif-Kareena-Anil Kapoor-starrer Tashan and U Me Aur Hum directed by Ajay Devgun, starring Kajol and Ajay himself. A film in English to be released in Hollywood is being shot in the idyllic settings of Ooty in southern India. The thriller titled Karma - One Life in Two Life Times is being produced by Golden Tickets Private Ltd., an Indian production company. Karma... is a mystery tale of reincarnation in which a former maharaja's American daughter-in-law unravels her bloody tryst with Ooty in her previous life. American actors, Carl Weyant and Alma Sarcassi, play the maharajah's son and daughter-in-law. The film will hit the screens in April. Aishwarya Rai has been offered the role of Yashodara, wife of Prince Siddharth, in an English-Hindi bilingual film called Buddha being made by Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin. Kangana Ranaut is going places. The actress will now be doing an English film, a modern day version of Romeo and Juli...

JANNAT and JIMMY postponed Two diverse releases, one featuring the son of the original Disco Dancer, Mithun Chakraborty and the other, the comeback film of the serial kisser, have both been postponed. Obviously we are talking about Mimoh Chakraborty's JIMMY and Emraan Hashmi's JANNAT. While JIMMY, which was scheduled to release on the coming Friday and JANNAT, which was set for a May 2nd release have both gone ahead to the same date. The two very different projects are now likely to see an interesting clash on the 16th of May. It may augar well for both considering that their publicity has not yet reached the peak. While the audio of JIMMY has just been released, it will definitely take some time to grow. On the other hand, the music of JANNAT has started dominating the charts, with the two songs, 'Lambi Judaai' and 'Zara Si' already quite popular. However the publicity of JANNAT has not really been upto the standards associated with Vishesh Films and hopefully...

By the bollywood khabare, Shah Rukh Khan blows kisses as he arrives at a photo call for the movie Om Shanti Om at the 58th International Berlinale Film Festival on February 8, 2008 in Berlin. Twenty-one films from around the world will vie for the Golden Bear top prize at the 58th annual International Berlinale Film Festival running to February 17.

According to the bollywood khabare, As may be recalled, many a months back (January), we had broken the news that Swedish director, Robert Nylund was to direct Aamir's Khan's home banner venture, DELHI BELLY . Unfortunately, things did not work out as per the plans and the new director of DELHI BELLY is now the well known ad film director, Abinay Deo, as was disclosed across the media last week. However, we are not here to rehash that authentic but now stale news. The reason that we are here is because it is being postulated in certain sections of the print and electronic media that Aamir Khan is all set to do a negative role in the film, DELHI BELLY. And that is the reason why the original director, Robert Nylund has been replaced! Well, we can only laugh at the fallacy of the above statement as Aamir never had and does not have any plans of playing a negative character in DELHI BELLY . ...

A Family Affair We hear Kajol is rather irrtated. Reason: Karan Johar's I'm Khan is delayed because Shah Rukh Khan's dates have first gone to Aditya Chopra's film Rabne Banadi Jodi. Kajol however isn't going to be sitting at home twiddling her thumbs. She has a busy three months shooting schedule for her reality show with hubby Ajay Devgan and mama Tanuja. Siamese Twins Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor seem to be fast turning into Siamese twins. They are constantly together and when ever one is working, the other is always visiting. As an industry insider relates,"Kareena Kapoor paid Saif a surprise visit when he was shooting with Katrina Kaif in Goa. She took a chartered flight to be with him. The result: Chhote Nawab didn't shoot for the film the next day. In fact, while the unit was sent back, in Goa for two days." Ah, love. John-Ash Film Scrapped? We hear that the John Abraham-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer has been put on the back burner. Apparent...

According to the Bollywood Khabare, Unforgiving Akshay Though Akshay Kumar is reportedly citing date problems for not taking on Percept Picture Company's Come on Pappu being directed by David Dhawan, ali'l birdie infoms us that the real reason is the problems that cropped up between Percept and Akki during the schedule of 8*10 in Canada. It appears the producers didn't can a single shot of Akshay for almost 20 days. Akki, we hear, is not in a very forgiving mood right now. By the way, the new film also stars Pappu, the famous chimpanzee from London. Badshah Sequel? Abbas-Mustan are planning a sequel to Badshah. They reprotedly have a rough story idea ready but will approach Shah Rukh Khan only after the entire script is ready. Anurag's Found His Girls It's final now. After much speculation and endless deliberation Anurag Basu has finally zeroed in on Latin American Superstar Barbara Kore to play the lead opposite Hrithik Roshan in Kites. Says a happy Anurag,"I ...

John Concinces Bipasha The story goes that apni Bipasha Basu wasn't too happy doing the film Freeze. Moreover, she wasn't too keen on working with newbie Neil Nitin Mukesh as she wasn't sure how good they would look together. Rumour has it that beau John Abraham convinced her to do the film. Pourquoi? John, who's working with Neil in the next Yash Raj film, is quite confident about the new kid on the block. The good samaritan John finally convinced Bips about Neil and Freeze. Cool na? Govinda's Strange ways Recently Govinda was shooting for producer Kumar Mangat in Film City when he told the producer that the set of Neeraj Vohra's Run Bhola Run was waiting for him in an adjacent studio. Since he had only two hours of work left in that film, he'd hop across, finish the work and come back. Mangat readily agreed. Govinda left and drove straight home. Never to return. Both the sets were left standing. Clearly, old habits die hard. Govinda Refuses to s...

According to the Bollywood Khabare, Bipasha Basu feels she's skating on thin ice when it comes to her Yash Raj film Bachna Ae Haseeno with Ranbir Kapoor . Initially the actress had problems remembering the colour of her hair she'd used for the first schedule. That posed a few continuity problems. Then recently she came down with a throat infection that made it difficult for her to dub for the film. Chin up Bips, these are mere teething troubles. We love your professionalism and you are a true blue star.

Rakesh Roshan, the producer, director & writer with par excellence has never trod the beaten path but always done the unexpected. Rakesh Roshan has always explored new cinematic territory, which won him numerous awards & accolades. With KRAZZY 4, Rakesh Roshan hands over the directorial baton to Jaideep Sen (who worked closely with Rakesh Roshan on both KOI..MIL GAYA and KRRISH) even as he revels in the role of producer par excellence! Impressed with Jaideep's dedication and willingness to learn, Rakesh entrusted his next film KRAZZY 4 into Jaideep's capable hands. The music of the film has been composed by award winning music composer none other than Rajesh Roshan Character Sketches : Juhi Chawla is Dr Sonali. As a psychiatrist she knows what's wrong with her patients; as a sensitive woman she firmly believes that if you really want to make them well, you should treat them with your heart, not just your mind. Arshad Warsi is Raja. Truly the angry young man! His blo...

The couple Ajay Devgan and Kajol is coming together again from a movie called U, Me Aur Hum. The movie U, Me Aur Hum like Pyar To Hona Hi Tha is a love story and is about romance between strangers on a cruise. The actress Kajol who married Ajay Devgan a few years back when she was at the peak of her career and had settled down in her personal life, made a comeback in Bollywood movies from the movie Fanaa last year opposite Aamir Khan. She got a hearty welcome on her comeback from all her fans that are waiting for some more movies from the lady. Ajay has already two movies releases in the month of January that are Halla Bol and Sunday. Halla Bol is liked by all his fans and they are waiting for the next movie Sunday. The third movie by Ajay in the year 2008 will be U, Me Aur Hum and the year is coming with a definite note for the actor. The story of the movie is a love story that starts on a cruise that looks like the concept of Titanic. But here Kajol is playing a woman called Pia’ who...