Sunday, March 23, 2008

Aamir Khan crops his hair for Ghajini

Recently, there has been a lot of gossips going on and the media was buzzing with news from various sources that Aamir Khan will go bald for his role in his upcoming film ‘Ghajini’. But at the premier of Abbas-Mastan’s thriller, ‘Race’, he stunned everyone with his new look, whereby he did not go bald. Instead, he had a small crop with ‘marks’ (that will be ‘scars’ in the film) in between his small hairline. Totally unexpected as always! Kiran Rao, who was with him at the premier, finds his new look ‘hot’. Media went abuzz to catch his new look, and of course, his bytes! He did steal away a lot of media glare from others at the launch.

Khan is a man, who, with almost his every new film, goes into hibernation and comes out with a new version of ‘Aamir Khan’, which fits perfectly into the character he is playing in the film. Lot of efforts have been made to match Khan’s looks with the character he is playing in the film, because he does not want to use wigs. Even before the launch of the movie, he becomes the ‘center of attraction’ wherever he goes, and this definitely creates a lot of hype about him. For me, he is the master makeover man and stands to his repute of being a perfectionist in the film industry.

He was innocent ‘Bhuvan’ with his village youth looks in Laagan, ‘Aakash’ with his suave urban cool youth looks in Dil Chahta hai and one cannot forget the tapori ‘Munna’ of Rangeela and ‘DJ’ of Rang de Basanti. He was brilliant in playing sensitive painting teacher ‘Nikumbh sir’ in Taare Zameen Par, with looks matching his character, of course. One of Khan’s makeovers that made headlines was his Mangal Pandey looks, which many did copy. I am sure that it will happen with his ‘Ghajani’ looks also. We just have to wait and watch, or who knows it may already be happening in the saloons of hair stylists next door!

Contributed by anil

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Kareena Kapoor Collapses during while Shooting

According to sources, the actress, who has been on this major diet to look absolutely perfect in a bikini for her film Tashan, that she actually stopped eating a few days before the shooting of the sequence in Greece.

But the grueling shooting schedule proved to be too much for her and her 'only orange juice diet' as she collapsed on the sets sparking off concern about her health. The actress who is currently holidaying in London with boyfriend Saif Ali Khan brushed aside the incidents as a minor health scare and resumed shooting. Kareena as p[er media sources has had weight less than 48 kg with a waistline of 23 inches. She has raised serious concerns about anorexia but the actress insists that she is healthy and has credited yoga and balanced eating to her weight loss.But one guy who is happy with her new figure is Tashan producer Aditya Chopra who texted her compliments on her stunning look in the film and especially the bikini sequences

Monday, March 10, 2008

Shah Rukh's wax statue in Paris

Shah Rukh Khan will have his second wax statute coming up in France. Paris's Grevin wax museum will present King Khan's wax statue next month. This is almost a year before his wax statue was unveiled at Madame Tussauds, London.

Shah Rukh will be the second Indian celebrity after Mahatma Gandhi to have a wax statue in Grevin. He will be the first Bollywood star to have two wax statues in the two most prestigious wax museums worldwide.

Khan is extremely popular in France with a huge fan following and the wax statue would give Indians another reason to travel to that country, already Paris is a hot destination among Indian tourists. A 19th century French journalist Arthur Meyer conceived Grevin's wax museum. He collaborated with Alfred Grevin, a cartoonist, sculptor and costume designer to work on the project. Wax museum was open to the public in June 1882, and it became a grand success.

Some of the wax statues in the Grevin collection include Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul-II, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Jodhaa Akbar goes south

NDTV movies.com, Natasha Raj

Ashutosh Gowariker's epic romance Jodha Akbar will now be seen in down south. Tamil audiences who saw Bollywood's hottest pair Aishwarya Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan sizzle in the dubbed version of Dhoom 2 will once again hear them speak in Tamil.

The Hindi version of Jodha Akbar, which was released world wide three weeks ago is said to have collected around Rs 70 crore with Chennai alone making grand collections crossing the Rs 65 lakh mark.

With 60 prints in Tamil, the producers are certain that the dubbed version of the movie will draw in more audiences, especially those who had trouble understanding dialogues, which had a light dose of Urdu.

"We believe they are superstars here also. They are well known across the country and well known in the south and we want to cash on that," said Henry, Distribution Head (South), UTV Motion Pictures.

The music of the film has been scored by the Mozart of the south, A R Rehman. He has worked his magic in the dubbed version as well.

A bonus will certainly be a grand release of this movie in Telugu following a star studded premiere in Hyderabad, which will be attended by none other than the cast and crew of Jodha Akbar including Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Bachchan, A R Rehman and the man himself who has created box office history, Ashutosh Gowariker.