Sajid Nadiadwala and Sajid Khan differ on item song for Housefull 2

There is a sizzling debate brewing between producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director Sajid Khan over a pending item song in Housefull 2.

We’ve been hearing of an item song in the big-budget under-production film that according to the grapevine is to be performed by some A-lister.

Not so fast! Before the item girl has a blast on screen, she would have to go through close scrutiny by the film’s producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director Sajid Khan.

While Khan favours the tried-and-tested formula of getting an A-lister actress on board, Nadiadwala feels the item song by a hot-and-happening actress has truly been done to death and to keep audiences’ interests alive in the cult of the item song, the phenomenon of the surprise dance must really and radically be re-invented.

“Really, after Munni and Sheila and all the others there’s not much that can be done with an item song with just a big-name actress dancing to it,” Nadiadwala argues and favours a new stunner to perform the item song in Housefull 2. Or else, the enterprising producer wants 2 A-listers for the item song.

However, Khan apparently feels that Jacqueline Fernandez who was a virtual unknown when she performed the item song to the remixed version of the Bachchan chartbuster ‘Apni To Jaise Taise’ in Housefull proves that an item song by a solo performer is very much a commercially viable proposition. The number was to be originally performed by Sushmita Sen.

And that brings us to the other bone of contention between the two Sajids. After the copyright-related harassment that Nadiadwala faced on using the old hit ‘Apni To Jaise Taise’ in Housefull, he wants to record a completely new item song for Housefull 2.

Says Nadiadwala, “Creating a new excitement in the item song has become very difficult. All the top actresses have been seen in item songs. What do we do?”

Khan was more guarded in his response, “It’s early to say anything about it. We’re shooting it after three months.”

Y-Films is releasing their debut film Luv Ka The End internationally

Given the brand new star cast of Y-Films’ LUV KA THE END, one assumed that the youth wing of Yash Raj would not release the film internationally, but the company, headed by the enterprising Ashish Patil, is gung ho about the product and has taken the decision to release the film in theatres internationally.

While the film will have a fairly extensive release in U.A.E., Yash Raj will release the film limited screens in U.S.A., South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Fiji, Mauritius and Indonesia. Generally, non-star cast films or those starring new names are released directly on DVD, but this move should encourage film-makers making films with new faces to explore international avenues as well theatrically.

Anjaana Anjaani postponed further?

With the Ayodhya verdict deferred to next week, rumours started flying fast and furious within the industry that ANJAANA ANJAANI has been postponed yet again. The film was pushed from 24th September to 1st October and was now rescheduled for 8th October. The news gave panic attacks to several people in the film industry, especially film producers whose films are slated to release in October. A further postponement of ANJAANA ANJAANI would only mean that the release schedule would go haywire, yet again.

However, ANJAANA ANJAANI producer Sajid Nadiadwala denied he had decided to shift the film any further. “There’s no truth to these rumours. I am not pushing the film ahead. ANJAANA ANJAANI is confirmed for 1st October and that’s final,” the enterprising producer put an end to all speculation.

‘Anjaana Anjaani’ postponed to next week?

Speculation is rife that Sajid Nadiadwala, the producer of ANJAANA ANJAANI, has decided to push the film ahead by one week, since the judgement on Ayodhya dispute is expected on September 24, which coincides with the release date of the film. However, the enterprising producer has decided to take a call – whether to release the film on September 24 or push it ahead by one week – on Monday today, after consulting his distributors. Watch this space for further developments!

Tiger Woods Golf Balls

Tiger Woods Golf Balls, Embattled golf legend Tiger Woods invited all sorts of women to play around with his balls. Now you can play a round with balls featuring said women!

That joke duck-hooked out of bounds, but our point is this: Someone came out with a collection of 12 golf balls emblazoned with Tiger’s mistresses.

“Tail of the Tiger,” the enterprising website selling these hilarious items, notes says they are “designed to lift the spirits of golfers around the world.”

The only “lift” Woods got was … yeah, never mind.

Anyway, this is your chance to play Tiger and the tag the crap out of Rachel Uchitel, Jaimee Grubbs & Co. (just try to say out of the rough… or something).

Our only two problems with this amusing novelty:

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Tiger Woods Golf Balls was first posted on February 4, 2010 at 11:44 pm.

Jesse Eisenberg

Jennifer Beals,Jesse Eisenberg:Beals originally came to fame as the welder-turned-dancer in 1983’s hit movie Flashdance, a role she landed as an undergraduate at Yale University. She has starred in several movies since then, but most have been small roles in large studio films, like Denzel Washington’s Devil in a Blue Dress and the recent John Cusack/Gene Hackman film Runaway Jury, or roles in small independent films, like Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, The Last Days of Disco, Twilight of the Golds, and The Anniversary Party.

Then last year, she was cast in The L Word as Bette, a lesbian museum director trying to have a baby with her partner, Tina (Laurel Holloman), and the rest is about to become history.

Beals is not a lesbian in real life (she was married for 10 years to director Alexandre Rockwell before they divorced in 1996, and she is now married to Ken Dixon, a Canadian film technician), but she finds it easier to play one on TV because she’s biracial, so she has “always lived sort-of on the outside,” she told Curve Magazine last December. “The idea of being the other in society is not foreign to me.”

With an African-American father and an Irish mother, Beals belongs to the growing group of Americans–seven million, in fact, according to the 2000 census data–who have a racially mixed heritage, but she did not publicly identify as biracial until recently. Prior to taking this role on The L Word, in fact, only two of the dozens of characters Beals played over the years have been biracial; the rest have been white women or women whose race was unspecified but assumed to be white. This likely has less to do with Beals, however, than with the fact that there have been almost no explicitly biracial characters on film or television.

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Jesse Eisenberg was first posted on October 1, 2009 at 4:34 pm.

Katrina Kaif With Shahrukh? Salman not Fuming

MUMBAI: Dream merchants in Bollywood are working overtime to whip out the most sensational casting coup in years.

Efforts are on to pair up Katrina Kaif with none other than Shahrukh Khan for a film.

Yashraj Films have reportedly been trying to rope in Kat with their blue-eyed-no-longer-boy SRK. Now Karan Johar has joined the queue.

K-Jo said that Shahrukh and Katrina are the actors with the most romantic image in Hindi film industry presently. When quizzed if he wants to cast them together in a film, Johar, the enterprising producer that he is, did not rule out the possibility.

If indeed the efforts of these filmmakers come to fruition, we might see Katrina and Shahrukh romancing each other on screen sooner than expected. The on-screen match is now all the more possible, because Salman Khan, Katrina’s beau, has made it clear that he has absolutely no objection to Katrina working with anyone “except one idiot” (Sallu clarified he’s not SRK) in the industry.

So the door is open. All that the filmmakers have to do is come up with the right script that brings SRK and Kat together. For Sallu surely won’t be fuming.

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Katrina Kaif With Shahrukh? Salman not Fuming was first posted on October 1, 2009 at 6:11 pm.