Salman to get new villain for Dabangg 2
It is final – Sonu Sood has made it official that he won’t be seen in Dabangg 2. Though till a month back there were rumours making the rounds that Salman has shown keen interest in roping him back for the sequel, Sonu’s final declaration has put things in black and white. However the twist in the tale here is that now Salman may have to hunt for a new villain and that when the film’s shooting is just a month away.
“Sonu has categorically stated that he isn’t doing Dabangg 2 since the character written for him wasn’t as powerful as Cheddi Singh. For the last six months there have been so many speculations about him being in and out of the film. However Sonu is now sick and tired of these rumours and wishes to quash them for good. For the record, he is not doing Dabangg 2. It is final and there would be absolutely no change in his stance”, informs a friend of the actor.
Though Salman is currently in Cuba shooting for Ek Tha Tiger, the onus is now on Arbaaz Khan to get his plan B into action.
“It’s a matter of time that a new name is announced for the young villain in Dabangg 2“, a source adds, “While Prakash Raj is the main villain, there is requirement for the second villain as well since the script already has place for such a character. With Sonu not doing the film, someone else has to fit in now. It is quite unlikely that this character would be done away in entirety since it is way too late in the day to make any amends to the script. After all, the film’s shooting begins in March.”
Meanwhile Sonu has moved on and is busy promoting his next film Maximum where he is playing a solo lead. As for Dabangg 2, he maintains calm exterior and says, “No, I am not doing Dabangg 2. I wanted to do the film but the script couldn’t do justice to a character which was going to be a follow up to Cheddi Singh. I thought that it would work only if it is much stronger than the one in Dabangg 2. However it is a creative call that has been taken by the writer and the director.”
While this means that the makers have to now rope in an actor to step into a part that is presumably ‘weaker’ than the one which was seen in Dabangg, Sonu is maintaining the stance of ‘all is well’. “My rapport with Salman and Arbaaz is as good as ever. They too realized that my take on not doing Dabangg 2 is right. I am sure in future we would do many good things together.”
Till then we wait to see whose turn is it to get bashed by Sallu. Well, on screen of course!
Pyaar Ka Punchnama director is busy shooting his next titled Akashwani in Delhi
There is a long queue of filmmakers waiting to start their films with Ajay Devgn. These include his long-term friend and collaborator Kumar Mangat. Mangat has partnered and managed Devgn’s career since the actor started acting. Mangat turned producer with Prakash Jha’s Ajay Devgn-Kajol starrer 1999 starrer Dil Kya Kare and has since then produced a number of films featuring Devgn.
With Devgn’s fortunes skyrocketing in recent times, Kumar Mangat has no choice but to look at new talent. Last year he produced the sleeper hit Pyaar Ka Punchnama featuring six newcomers. One of the debutant actors Divyendu Sharma is now playing one of the leads in David Dhawan’s remake of Chashme Buddoor.
Kumar Mangat has instead assigned Luv Ranjan to write and direct a film with one of the three leads pairs of Pyaar Ka Punchnama. The film entitled Akashwani is currently being secretly shot in Delhi by Luv Ranjan. It features the pair Kartikeya Tiwari and Nushrat Bharucha who played Rajat and Neha in Pyaar Ka Punchnama.
Mangat and his director Luv Ranjan want to keep the shooting as quiet as possible. When contacted Luv Ranjan spilled the beans, “It’s a very intense love story about two young people who can’t think beyond their mutual love. It’s about the hardships in love. I’d call it a classic love story on the lines of Mansoor Khan’s Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.”
On why he chose Kartikeya and Nushrat and not the other two pairs, Luv Ranjan explains, “I chose the pair which suited Akashwani the best. But I am committed to making the Pyaar Ka Punchnama sequel entitled Pyar Ka Punchaama Reloaded with all three pairs at the end of the year. Besides they are being looked after well. Kumar Mangat Saab is managing the careers of all the six newcomers from Pyaar Ka Punchnama. He’s also negotiating for the remake rights of a Hollywood film which would star Rayo Bakhirta (another actor from Pyaar Ka Punchnama).”
This came as a surprising piece of news, since so far Kumar Mangat was managing only Ajay Devgn’s career.
“The film industry urgently needs new talent, don’t you think? I’ve two films lined up with Ajay. But he is busy throughout 2012.I thought I’d take that opportunity to give talented newcomers a chance,” said Mangat who is also launching television star Pulkit Samrat with Mangat’s daughter Amita Pathak in Bittu Boss.
Pyaar Ka Punchnama director is busy shooting his next titled Akash Vani in Delhi
There is a long queue of filmmakers waiting to start their films with Ajay Devgn. These include his long-term friend and collaborator Kumar Mangat. Mangat has partnered and managed Devgn’s career since the actor started acting. Mangat turned producer with Prakash Jha’s Ajay Devgn-Kajol starrer 1999 starrer Dil Kya Kare and has since then produced a number of films featuring Devgn.
With Devgn’s fortunes skyrocketing in recent times, Kumar Mangat has no choice but to look at new talent. Last year he produced the sleeper hit Pyaar Ka Punchnama featuring six newcomers. One of the debutant actors Divyendu Sharma is now playing one of the leads in David Dhawan’s remake of Chashme Buddoor.
Kumar Mangat has instead assigned Luv Ranjan to write and direct a film with one of the three leads pairs of Pyaar Ka Punchnama. The film entitled Akash Vani is currently being secretly shot in Delhi by Luv Ranjan. It features the pair Kartikeya Tiwari and Nushrat Bharucha who played Rajat and Neha in Pyaar Ka Punchnama.
Mangat and his director Luv Ranjan want to keep the shooting as quiet as possible. When contacted Luv Ranjan spilled the beans, “It’s a very intense love story about two young people who can’t think beyond their mutual love. It’s about the hardships in love. I’d call it a classic love story on the lines of Mansoor Khan’s Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.”
On why he chose Kartikeya and Nushrat and not the other two pairs, Luv Ranjan explains, “I chose the pair which suited Akash Vani the best. But I am committed to making the Pyaar Ka Punchnama sequel entitled Pyar Ka Punchaama Reloaded with all three pairs at the end of the year. Besides they are being looked after well. Kumar Mangat Saab is managing the careers of all the six newcomers from Pyaar Ka Punchnama. He’s also negotiating for the remake rights of a Hollywood film which would star Rayo Bakhirta (another actor from Pyaar Ka Punchnama).”
This came as a surprising piece of news, since so far Kumar Mangat was managing only Ajay Devgn’s career.
“The film industry urgently needs new talent, don’t you think? I’ve two films lined up with Ajay. But he is busy throughout 2012.I thought I’d take that opportunity to give talented newcomers a chance,” said Mangat who is also launching television star Pulkit Samrat with Mangat’s daughter Amita Pathak in Bittu Boss.
Tia Carrere Finds Tough Broads on Season 5 of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
By Beck/Smith
TrendPK.com: Season five of “The Celebrity Apprentice” doesn’t debut until Feb. 19, so contestant Tia Carrere has to be circumspect about what she reveals regarding her journey on the show. But it can’t have been too hard on her — considering that now she’s now contemplating opening her own business back in her native Hawaii.
“The great thing was I found out I’m a really good team player. I’ve never been in a corporate environment before,” says the actress and Grammy-winning musician who rose to fame in the “Wayne’s World” movies. “I was pleased that I was able to anticipate people’s needs and be a self-starter. Most important, I promised myself going in that no matter what, I would maintain my integrity. There is no reason for being backbiting and manipulative. Other people are — but I guess that makes good TV, doesn’t it?
“I was surprised. Some of these broads are tough,” adds Carrere. She’s part of an eclectic group of 18 including Arsenio Hall, George Takei, Cheryl Tiegs, Penn Jillette, Clay Aiken, Victoria Gotti, Aubrey O’Day, Lisa Lampanelli, Adam Carolla, Victoria Gotti, Lou Ferrigno, Michael Andretti, Debbie Gibson, “Real Housewives of New Jersey’s” Teresa Giudice and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider.
Carrere reports she was a last-minute addition to the cast. “They had asked me for the past few years, and I’d always kind of shied away from it because I knew it would be difficult. I was the last one to jump on. I didn’t have time to think about it. It was, ‘Let’s just see if make money for my charity,’ which is After-School All-Stars. It’s a group Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced me to nearly 20 years ago when we did ‘True Lies,’ that provides fitness and enrichment programs for kids all across the country.”
Even if she’d had the time, however, “You can’t prepare for this. What I like about the show is that we’re so exhausted and overwhelmed with the tasks we’re asked to do, people’s true personalities come through,” she notes. “Yeah, people put on this happy face, but when push comes to shove, all that wears off. I got some interesting insights about people: ‘Oh, you really went to that place? How disappointing.”
It’s already a ridiculously busy year for Carrere, who has just started filming her new recurring role on the USA Network’s “In Plain Sight,” and is also juggling hosting-producing chores on two more shows she says are going into production soon. “One is called ‘Forsaken Places’ and the other is called ‘Street Stars,’” she says. “I’ve got to go to Vancouver, and Albuquerque — and there’s another movie that I might do that would mean going to Montreal and Louisiana.”
Carrere admits she finds it “very hard” to be away from her six-year-old daughter for long stretches, but credits her ex-husband, British photojournalist Simon Wakelin for stepping up. “Bianca’s daddy is terrific about being right there.”
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Siddhant Kapoor to star in Ugly
Shakti Kapoor’s son Siddhant, who is all set to make his debut as a gangster in Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala, has now been signed on by Anurag Kashyap for his next directorial venture titled Ugly.
In the film, Siddhant will be seen playing a dark character, who is into drugs. But what Siddhant is more excited about is that in Ugly, he will get to share screen place with his aunt Tejaswini Kolhapure (his mother Shivangi’s sister). What many people don’t know is that Tejaswini’s debut film was Anurag Kashyap’s unreleased film Paanch (2003).
Ugly also stars actors Ronit Roy and Pallavi Sharda and will go on floors in March.
John takes Marathi lessons for SAW
John Abraham, who is all set to play the role of the gangster Manya Surve in Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala, will be taking Marathi lessons to brush up his Marathi speaking skills. Director/actor Mahesh Manjrekar will help him grasp the colloquial nuances of the language.
Since Manya Surve was a local Mumbai dacoit, he spoke colloquial Marathi and to get into the skin of the character, John too needs to brush up his Marathi. Since Mahesh is a Maharashtrian and knows how to speak fluent colloquial Marathi, Sanjay felt he would be the best to train John in speaking Marathi.
Manjrekar will also be acting in this multi-starrer. The film also stars Anil Kapoor, Kangna Ranaut and debutant Siddhant Kapoor.
Shootout At Wadala goes on floors this year on 1st March.
Ramesh S Taurani files case against Deepika Padukone
Producer Ramesh S Taurani of Tips, who was miffed with Deepika Padukone post her last minute exit from his ambitious thriller Race 2, was prompt to take action against the actress.
Deepika’s impromptu exit from the film after having shot for a week upon being offered a Hollywood project, hasn’t gone down well with the producer, who on Thursday filed a complaint with the CINTAA (Cine & TV Artistes Association) and the Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producer of India (AMPTPP).
The fact that just after her exit from Race 2, Deepika announced that she would be doing Rajinikanth’s next film Kochadaiyaan was like rubbing salt on Taurani’s wounds.
CINTAA was quick to inform the actress about the complaint filed in her name by the filmmaker. Citing her unavailability to not having dates and being over-committed to other projects, the actress also seemed indifferent to the developments after having left the film in the lurch.
As per procedural norms, if an artist fails to respond to a complaint or grievance, the case then passes onto the FWICE (Federation of Western India Cine Employees). If still not
addressed, the artist is then liable to face a NCD (Non-Cooperation Directive).
Explains senior producer Pahlaj Nihalani said, “If Taurani has filed a complaint against Deepika, she will have to honour the dates which she had allotted to him. If she has given the same dates to any other producer, she cannot shoot for the other project”
Says an upset Ramesh S Taurani “I have been a part of the Hindi cinema industry for 25 years. I have made several blockbusters. But I have never faced a situation like this before. Our directors and the other actors are extremely annoyed with her. Tips as a company in its last 25 years has never had a dispute with anyone in this industry, there
is no single case in the association which involves us.”
Produced by Tips, director duo Abbas-Mustan’s Race 2 was scheduled for a November release.
Oscars: Reese Witherspoon to present to Alexander Payne at ACE Eddie Awards – AWARDS ALLEY
By Sean O’Connell
TrendPK.com: Reese Witherspoon, whose latest film “This Means War” opens in theaters next week, will join editor Kevin Tent, A.C.E. to present “The Descendants” director – and her “Election” collaborator – Alexander Payne with the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor at the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards. They will be held on Feb. 18.
The black-tie event will take place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Witherspoon and Tent will be joined by industry luminaries such as Clint Eastwood, who will be presenting to Career Achievement honoree Joel Cox, A.C.E. and Dick Wolf who will present to Career Achievement Honoree Doug Ibold, A.C.E.
Additional presenters include Robert Forster, famed editor Anne Coates, A.C.E., Rumer Willis (90210), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break, Castle), Robert Morse (Mad Men), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Matthew Lillard (The Descendants), Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead), Missi Pyle (The Artist), Penelope Ann Miller (The Artist), Donald Faison (The Exes) and Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights).
As previously announced, Patton Oswalt will serve as the evening’s MC.
Nominees for the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards were previously announced and can be found at www.AMERICANCINEMAEDITORS.com.
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“Modern Family” star Ty Burrell added to cast of “Jackie Brown” prequel
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TrendPK.com: Are you interested in a “Jackie Brown” prequel if Quentin Tarantino isn’t involved? How about if a cast member of “Modern Family” holds down a leading role?
Because EW is confirming that Ty Burrell, the loveable suburban dad on ABC’s smash comedy, has earned a role in writer-director Dan Schechter’s planned “Jackie Brown” prequel, titled “The Switch.” According to the site, Burrell will play Marshall Taylor, a “guilt-riddled country clubber who witnesses the kidnapping of a woman he secretly desires.”
Like Tarantino’s effort, Schechter’s film will be adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, though the action in this story takes place 15 years before “Brown.”As of right now, John Hawkes and Mos Def have been cast as Louis Gara and Ordell, two Leonard characters who were portrayed by Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in the 1997 film.
EW says filming “is scheduled to begin in May, though no release date has been announced.”
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Kristin Cavallari debuts the start of her baby bump
TrendPK.com: Kristin Cavallari is expecting her first child with fiance Jay Cutler, and it seems she is finally starting to show a little baby bump.
Cavallari was at the ‘This Means War’ premiere in Los Angeles where she happily showed off her growing baby bump in a red mini dress, states UsMagazine.com. The former reality TV star then shared a picture of the bump on Twitter.
“Here is a pic from last nights premiere and you can see a little baby bump,” Cavallari tweeted.
Her wedding is apparently on hold for now while the two focus on preparing for their first child.
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