Priyanka Chopra to attend 48th Annual Grammy
Priyanka Chopra, currently attending 62nd Berlin International Film Festival to promote her film Don 2, which is being showcased there, will be attending the 48th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on Sunday evening.
Everyone knows Priyanka’s passion for music, so it is obvious that she is really excited to attend the award ceremony that honours outstanding music. She will be joined by heavyweights like Jimmy Iovine, the CEO of Interscope Records, and Troy Carter, the owner of her management company Atom Factory, at the event.
The actress who is in the process of releasing her international album feels this is the best global platform to meet and interact with people from the international music fraternity. She is also thrilled about meeting her favourite singing sensations at the award function.
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.
Big Bs abdominal surgery successful
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan went through an abdominal surgery today morning at Mumbai’s Seven Hills Hospital. The good news is that the surgery was successful and the Big B’s condition is stable.
Big B was wheeled into the operation theatre at nine thirty in the morning today, where they performed a surgery for his abdominal pain.
Abhishek Bachchan thanked all the people for their well wishes and tweeted, “Thank you all for your wishes and prayers. The surgery went off well and dad is now in the room resting.”
News Trends wishes the megastar a speedy recovery.
Abhay Deol walks out of Rajkumar Santoshis film
A while ago it was announced by Rajkumar Santoshi that Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor would be starring in his next film. The duo, who had worked earlier together in Aisha, had agreed to be a part of Santoshi’s rom-com.
However, now the latest is that Abhay Deol has walked out of the project as he was tired of waiting for Santoshi to begin filming. While the filmmaker didn’t deny the reports, he said that Abhay is not doing the film owing to date issues.
Rajkumar Santoshi will be deciding whom to cast as a replacement for Abhay in the next few days.
Shekhar Kapur to play Kamal Haasans uncle in Vishwaroopam
Well known filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is seldom seen in front of the camera. However, the director will soon be seen playing Kamal Haasan’s uncle in the film Vishwaroopam. The film, which also features Sonakshi Sinha as Haasan’s love interest, will have Shekhar Kapur (who is just 12 years older than Kamal) playing his uncle.
What’s interesting to know is that this will be the first time after Saatwan Aasman (released nearly two decades ago) that Shekhar will return to acting. This apparent return to acting has been credited to Shekhar’s inquisitiveness towards exploring Kamal Haasan as an artist.
Farhan shoots public service campaign with SRK
Excel Entertainment believes in not only entertaining audience with quality cinema but also realizes its social responsibilities. The company co-founded by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani has now come up with 2 public service videos promoting important issues such as adult literacy and power conservation
The videos have been shot by Farhan himself and features top Bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor and Shabana Azmi among others. This is an initiative taken by Excel Entertainment at the insistence of the HRD (Human Resource Development) Ministry. The lyrics of the song have been penned by veteran Javed Akhtar while the music has been composed by the trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
Confirming the same, Ritesh Sidhwani tweeted, “Shot a public awareness campaign for adult literacy with @iamsrk, Shabana Azmi, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, @priyankachopra and @FarOutAkhtar. I was thanking all the actors who were kind enough to be a part of the literacy campaign… And this literacy campaign was initiated by @Javedakhtarjadu.”
Besides this, Farhan has also agreed to feature in a 90 second film on women’s safety, an initiative by the Delhi Police.
Esha Deol to tie knot with Bharat Takhtani
Dharmendra and Hema Malini’s daughter Esha Deol is all set to marry her boyfriend Bharat Takhtani this year. The couple is getting engaged on 12th February.
Esha has been dating Bandra based businessman Bharat Takhtani for more than a year now. Earlier it was reported that Esha would get engaged soon after the release of her comeback film Tell Me O Kkhuda.
Preparations for the engagement are on in full swing. Their engagement will be a very private affair.
Siddhant Kapoors character is called Gyanchod in Shootout At Wadala
Shakti Kapoor’s son Siddhant is all set to make his debut as a gangster in Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala. Interestingly, his character’s name would surely amuse Siddhant’s colourful father. It’s…er, Gyanchod. And he is called that with a reason.
Explains Gupta, “Gyanchod has gyan about everything and everyone. He’s one of John Abraham’s gang’s sharpest shooters with the sharpest tongue.”
Alas, Siddhant’s Big Scene in Shootout At Wadala may get snuffed out almost entirely by the censorboard. It’s a lengthy 10-minute sequence where the debutant has to hold forth on the virtues of the Hindi expletive bahenc**d.
Believe it or not, Siddhant’s monologue on the lurid cussword is actually inspired by a speech by Acharya Rajneesh.
Says Gupta, “Go to Youtube and check out the lengthy speech that Osho has given on the virtues of the word ‘f…k’. Likewise, Siddhant waxes eloquently on the ways that the Hindi cussword ‘bahenc**d’ is used by people. It can be put into any kind of relevance and any language -Punjabi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Bengali – and acquire a completely new relevance. Siddhant will be seen putting forward the many flavours and significances of that oft-abused cussword.”
Would the young debutant just starting out on his career be comfortable rattling off the taboo expletive at least 27 times in 10 minutes? Gupta seems think so. “The boy is a fabulous actor. He can do anything.”
We asked Siddhant Kapoor what he thought of doing a monologue where he has to put forward the virtues of the Hindi profanity with the same seriousness, gravity and profundity as Osho, but with plenty of pokerfaced humour.
Said the Kapoor boy, “I don’t think I’d be uncomfortable doing it, as long as it’s done in a humorous way. The characters in this film and their real-life counterparts used a lot of MCs and BCs. It will sound real and funny.”
Chip off the old block, we must say. But would the censor board allow the boy’s Big Scene to remain?
Sanjay Gupta has his fingers crossed. “I hope and pray they do. Because if they cut they wouldn’t know where to start. Siddhant uses the word so many times they’ll lose count. They would have to cut the entire sequence.”
Big B and Sanjay Dutt to star together again
After Department where the Big B and Dutt don’t have any scenes together, the two are expected to come together for an out-and-out action outing for director K. S. Ravi Kumar’s film.
Ravi Kumar has so far never done a Hindi film. The film has heavy duty action scenes for the Big B as well.
When contacted, producer T. P. Aggarwal confirmed, “Yes, Sanjay Dutt is doing an action film directed by K. S. Ravi Kumar. We’re also in talks with Mr. Bachchan for the film. It’s Ravi Kumar’s first film in Hindi. But it’s an original subject. It’s not a remake of one of his Tamil hits.”
What clinched the casting combination of the Dutt and the Big B was the director’s formidable reputation.
Says Aggarwal, “Ravi Kumar has done a number of films with Tamil cinema’s top most stars Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth. In fact he was directing Rajinikanth in Rana when the star fell ill. Almost all of Ravi Kumar’s films are big hits in Tamil. We’re hoping he would deliver a big hit in Hindi as well.”
