Ileana debuts in Bollywood with Burfi!
Following the footsteps of Asin, Genelia and Trisha, South India's slim beauty Ileana is also making her Bollywood debut. According to sources, the actress has signed a Hindi film Burfi under the direction of Anurag Basu.
Ileana will play the second heroine, while the main female lead will be played either by Asin or Priyanka Chopra. Ranbir Kapoor is the hero.
Burfi is said to be a full-fledged comedy entertainer. More details are awaited. Ileana is currently busy shooting for Rana’s Nenu Naa Rakshasi and NTR’s Shakti. She has also bagged the Tamil-Telugu remakes of Bollywood super hit 3 Idiots.
'Golmaal 3' ford 'Raajneeti'; is second biggest hit of 2010
With audience being totally oblivious to the new releases a week ago, the one which made the best of the situation was 'Golmaal 3'. Despite a huge opening of over 60 crores in the Diwali week, 'Golmaal 3' hung on tremendously well at the box office to register a mere 55% odd fall. This Rohit Shetty starrer garnered around 30 crores more in its second week, hence crossing the 90 crores milestone. Add to this the collections of the third weekend and 'Golmaal 3' has comfortably marched past 'Raajneeti' to become the second biggest money spinner of 2010 after 'Dabangg' (140 crores).
On the other hand 'Action Replayy' further crashed at the box office with a 70% fall. With a mere 6 crores more coming in, the film has touched the 29 crores mark but would merely cross 30 crores at the box office.
One can't really exclaim 'Dunno Y...' for the disastrous fate of three new releases - 'A Flat', 'Ramaa - The Saviour' and 'Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...'. None of the three films could even complete a single week run at the box office and hence proved to be a complete washout. In fact the release of the three films too went unnoticed while a biz zero in the balance sheet didn't come as a surprise either. The collections were negligible and except for 'A Flat' which could still find some audience amongst the ones enticed by horror genre, 'Ramaa - The Saviour' and 'Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...' won't even find any takers on the home video front.
Deepika Padukone crowned as world's sexiest woman
Deepika Padukone has been crowned as the sexiest woman in the world by men's magazine FHM. After donning the glamourous look in Housefull and Karthik calling Karthik, the dusky beauty has definitely captured people's imagination.The sultry siren has grabbed the 'Sexiest woman of the world' title by overthrowing reigning beauty Katrina Kaif from the top spot.
Deepika has always received rave reviews for her unique attitude and sense of style. And now, she has jumped five places from her No. 6 spot last year to grab the top spot. Katrina Kaif had been topping the list for the past two years.
Ranbir, not Shahid in fray for role in Mira Nair's next
US-based Indian filmmaker Mira Nair says she in talks with Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor for the role of Changez in her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
"I am in touch with Ranbir for the role, but there are three other actors who are also in contention," she said, dismissing media reports that Shahid Kapoor was also in the fray for the role .
The film is aimed at dispelling the notion of Islamophobia, which has pre-occupied the West in the recent past.Describing the film as an answer from the subcontinent to the American perspective on war and issues like Islam, Nair said: "The movie is about a dialogues between two friends in a cafe in Lahore, which presents a south Asia perspective of the war."
KJo's remake of Agneepath
A birdie from Karan Johar's production house called to tell us, "Sanju Baba hasn't replaced Rishi Kapoor in Karan Johar's remake of Agneepath.
Rishi is very much there. Sanjay Dutt plays the main villain Kancha Cheena (essayed by Danny Denzongpa in the original) while Rishi is playing Haji -- a grey character specially conceived by director Karan Malhotra.
Hrithik Roshan looks up to Haji and wants to become like him. While Sanju is an out-and-out ruthless villain in the remake, Rishi's character is grey."
Minissha Lamba miffed with Imran's nasty comments
Minissha Lamba hasn't taken kindly to her Kidnap co-star Imran Khan saying she has "crazy eyes" on Koffee With Karan.
A friend of the actress says, "She feels it was out of turn and really uncalled for.
She's never said anything derogatory about him, so it left her puzzled why he would go out and make strange faces mimicking her!"
Kareena chooses mamu Aamir, dumps bhanja Imran
It seems Bollywood hottie Kareena Kapoor does not want to upset ‘perfectionist’ Aamir Khan. That is why the Kapoor girl is reported to have reworked on her schedule for Karan Johar’s Imran Khan starrer ‘Short Term Shadi’, so that her shooting schedule of upcoming film with Aamir Khan stays intact.
Reportedly, the Kapoor lass’ first shooting schedule for Reema Kagti’s film was clashing with the second schedule of Karan Johar’s next. The lady could not dare to disturb her schedule with the senior Khan, especially after the audiences went gaga over their chemistry in ‘3 Idiots’.
Apparently, the sexy actress asked her close friend and director Karan to help her fix the dilemma and the filmmaker had no choice but to oblige.
And he knows it wouldn’t be a good idea to rub ‘perfectionist’ Khan the wrong way.It was but an obvious choice for Kareena. Even Imran can’t have a say on this issue. After all he is an obedient bhanja of a superstar Mamu.
