Watchout for six-month pregnant Vidya Balan

Vidya will be seen as a six-month pregnant woman throughout Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani

Vidya Balan will be seen in a totally different avatar in Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani. The actress will be seen as a woman with a six-month baby belly. And it is not just in passing. The actress will be seen with a big bump throughout the film.

Shot in Kolkata and London the film will be out some time mid 2011. A source reveals, "Vidya's character is that of a pregnant woman whose husband travels from London to India for work. However, he goes missing and she comes to Kolkata in search of him."

Not without her

Sujoy, who just wrapped the Kolkata schedule, confirms, "It's the story of a woman who's six months pregnant and her journey. I had written the script keeping Vidya in mind. I wouldn't have made the film without her. For me she's a perfectionist who has beautifully brought the character alive."

He adds that she met the challenges of playing an expecting mom rather well, "She made it look so effortless. She never compromised on any aspect of filmmaking. Since cinema is a visual medium it was very important for her to look the part. There is lot of simplicity in her character and at the same time great turmoil within.

Also there were boundaries because a pregnant woman isn't Batman or Superman. She can't do much, there's only so much you can make her do. But the beauty lies in the vulnerability and subtle nuances that she's used to play the character."

Source : mid-day.com/santabanta

Aishwarya refuses to dance with Shah Rukh Khan

Bachchan 'bahu' Aishwarya Rai is getting popular these days for her starry tantrums and attitude. The actress has always been extra protective about her so called 'family' thing and this time she went one more step ahead by rejecting Bollywood 'badshah' Shah Rukh Khan.

Shah Rukh planned a gig on Bollywood heroines during a recent award function, so he approached Ash with the offer of dancing the popular number 'Kajra Re' with him.

But the actress immediately turned down the offer saying that it is a family song and she can't perform it with anyone else. The song from the film Bunty Aur Babli was picturised on her along with hubby Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan.

The beauty queen turned actress has earlier worked with SRK in the films like Josh, Mohabbatein and Devdas. We can understand her stand with Salman Khan but what was the harm to perform with a gentle superstar like Shah Rukh?

It sounds very silly when she terms the song 'Kajra Re' as a family song because Bachchans never got the copyright of the song. After much persuasion, SRK had to finally scrap the plan.

It seems Ash is going to isolate herself from the industry people as she has problem with everyone around starting from Salman, Vivek Oberoi and now SRK. It may happen that one day she comes with the declaration that she won't sign any film without her hubby and father-in-law!


Source : santabanta

Ranbir Kapoor says Sorry to Deepika Padukone

Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor creates a lot of drama in font of the house of Deepika Padukone on Sunday night. The actor was in a bit inebriated condition and dropped in front of Deepika’s house at around 12:45 Pm in a bid to say sorry. The actress was not in a mood to allow him and asked the security guard to goon with his duty.

According to the eye witness, Cozy home apartments guard was adamant on his words and did not allow the star, despite huge bribery by Ranbir and also literally falling on his legs. Ranbir was dressed in jeans and white T shirt and started to create a ruckus.

However, after an hour long wait, Ranbir Kapoor was allowed inside by Deepika, in order to avoid media attention. Ranbir started to shout at Deepika’s balcony, with the word sorry and this melted the heart of the beauty and allowed him inside. But sources say that, Ranbir was saying sorry, for the heated argument he had with her last week and also was apologizing to her, from his parent’s side as well.

It is a fact that Deepika Padukone has also got rid of the RK tattoo from her hand.


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Bollywood: The Hyped Affairs Of Hot Shot Stars

Bollywood and the never ending string of affairs are almost like bread and butter with each term contributing towards making the other seem complete.

Bollywood has had such great affairs right from the time it has come into existence that more than half of the popularity of the stars are due to these affairs and counter affairs that always are an interesting aspect in glossy magazines and gossip columns.

Almost every star has had some fling or the other making them a very focused celebrity at some point of time in their careers before they move on to become indifferent to such news or simply stop having any more flings with their co stars and colleagues.

The hot affairs of the hot shot stars in today's time and age are almost always hyped to perhaps gain more publicity or merely because it captures the viewers attention more than anything else in the world.

Thus taking a few cases in these modern times, there are these couples like Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor who both have been in past relationships and yet have found solace in each other. The couple is so much in love that they have no qualms in coming out in the open about their relationship and now the next thing that is waiting to grab the headlines is their ultimate decision to tie the knot.

Then there is the Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra affair that everyone is busy trying to speculate on. This is one couple that has made the gossip columns go crazy with their on and off relationship status. Both have been smart enough to cover up their feelings if at all it is there for each other under the blanket of being 'Just Friends'.

The two keep appearing at public events, chat shows etc to make gossip columns go haywire in reporting that there is something surely brewing between them, but this couple will not leave their stance of being just friends-leaving everyone guessing as to what exactly is going on.

Well these stars and their hyped affairs are surely never going to stop are they?

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Kangana no longer a part of erotic thriller Ragini MMS

Actress Kangana Ranaut reportedly walked out of the upcoming Balaji Telefilms project Ragini MMS after she acquired cold feet on hearing that the upcoming Bollywood film is replete with explicit content.

Although the reports have not been confirmed by the actress or her representatives in Bollywood, it is to be assumed that this is the reason why Kangana Ranaut said no to the project because a lot was being written on the sexual content and skin show that the lead character would have to engage in. Kangana was to play the lead role of Ragini in the forthcoming film.

The association between Kangana Ranaut and Balaji Telefilms started after their 2010 film together Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai.

Kangana played one of the lead roles in the film which was declared a hit. After this she was regarded as the best choice for Ragini MMS because Kangana Ranaut is not shown to shy away from intimate scenes onscreen.

However, the actress may have changed her preference of roles now that she has already made her mark in Bollywood after winning a couple of awards for her role in Fashion. Last heard, Kangana Ranaut will not be playing Ragini and Ekta Kapoor, who is at the helm of Balaji Telefilms, is looking for another actress to play the lead in her upcoming Bollywood flick Ragini MMS.


Source : Santabanta

Katrina's Jawani leaves Men drooling

After the Munni madness comes Sheila Ki Jawani josh. Dissecting the item number concept that is setting movie screens on fire all across the country

You have to hand it to Katrina Kaif. She got rid of all her British contours and proved she's a pucca desi girl in Sheila Ki Jawani.

The latkas-jhatkas amidst the pots and the matkas in the inspiring company of Akshay Kumar did not come easily to Katrina. She got herself a belly dancer to make her belly button acquire a life of its own.

She lost weight and she gained that glorious and gorgeous gait to make the men drool and women smirk in the darkness of the auditorium.

This, just months after Katrina's would-have-been sister-in-law Malaika Arora sizzled on screen with Munni Badnaam Hui.

Sigh. Zara Hottie kay zara bach kay yeh hai Item-bomb meri jaan!

Sallu connection

Is it just a coincidence that the three most cherished 'item' song queens in recent times have some kind of connect with Salman Khan? There was Aishwarya Rai Bachchan jiving to Kajra Re in Bunty Aur Babli three years ago with her future husband Abhishek Bachchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan. Now there is Malaika's Munni and Katrina's Sheila act.

Kajra effect

No one expected Kajra re would be such a rage. It spawned a virtual explosion of item songs ranging from Mallika Sherawat's clumsily performed Maiya Maiya in Guru to Malaika Arora's raunchy but ravishing Honth Raseele Tere Honth Raseele in Welcome where Anil Kapoor pranced all around Malaika.

There are item songs and there are I- thumka-songs. If you throw in a raunchy desi-folk beat into the item song like Shilpa Shetty's Main Aayee Hoon UP Bihar Lootne in Shool, Aishwarya's Kajra re and Malaika's Munni, you have a sure`shout' winner on your hands.

Item, huh?

This is where the battle between Munni and Sheila really hots up. Though Katrina dances like a dream in Sheila Ki Jawani most experts feel the song is too urbane, chic and slick to make an impact in the interiors of the country.

But Katrina has a peculiar protest against Sheila Ki Jawani being termed an item song. Says the sizzler, "How can Sheila be an item song? I play an item girl in Tees Maar Khan.

But I am there throughout the film as the leading lady and I have a number of songs and dances. Isn't an item song one appearance by an actor and actress, like Shah Rukh Khan's opening-credits number in Karan Johar's Kaal or Lara Dutta's Aisa Jadoo Dala Re in Khakee?"

One 'n' gone
Katrina makes a valid point. How do we define the item song? It continues to be the domain of any top actress (and sometimes actor too) sweeping into sight for one song and then vanishing leaving a lingering impact.

By this definition Madhubala's immortal Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya in Mughal-e-Azam does not qualify as an item song. Hema Malini's Mujra in Pradeep Sarkar's Laga Chunri Mein Daag and Joothe Nain Bole in Gulzar's Lekin are item songs because Hema came, danced and vanished from the plot.

Sequins, feathers

So, which is the first item song of Hindi commercial cinema? Long before Munni Badnam Hui darling box office ke liye, there was Mumtaz in a 1970 potboiler called Humjoli. She performed the first item song by a leading lady in Bollywood. The film starred Jeetendra and Leena Chandavarkar.

But there was a situation in the plot where Jeetendra needed to make his girl jealous by dancing with another girl, the hotter the better. The makers were thinking on the lines of the obvious. Helen, the ultimate item girl. But the ever-enterprising Jeetu had a brainwave.

Why not his pal Mumu? That's how commercial Hindi cinema's first title song; Tik Tiki Tiki Mera Dil Dole in Humjoli was born. The ever-bindaas Mumtaz got into the feathers, sequins and a body stocking that was meant for Helen. And boy, did she sizzle!

A rage

Today, the item song is just not the same. Is it a victim of overkill? Koena Mitra who has performed a couple of them seems to think so. Now in Los Angeles for the past few months, Koena says, "The item number is just not interesting any more.

Any and every one is doing it. What's the big deal? It has lost its exclusivity. I am done with item songs. Let the others do it." Raveena Tandon performed an item song Shaher Ki Ladki way back in 1996 in the film Rakshak. It was a rage.

Raveena says, "I had just gone through a period of personal stress and needed to get out of it. Suneil Shetty who was the hero of Rakshak recommended me for the song. I was like waaaat? But he convinced me. And I did Shaher Ki Ladki. My God! What a rage it was!"

No questions

The ultimate item girl or the IT girl as she was known, was Helen whose cabaret numbers warmed up the box office potential of scores of films in the 1960s and 70s right until her drizzle of sizzle in Yeh Mera Dil Pyar Ka Deewana in 1978 in the film Don.

Helen once reminisced that she never thought of her numbers as item numbers. "I just did what I was asked to. I never questioned the choreographer. But I made sure I never crossed the line of decency."

Zeroed in

All Helen's cabaret numbers were performed under strict self-censorship codes. Every inch of unclothed skin was covered in body stocking. The dance movements never crossed the limits of decency.

And pelvic thrusts which are almost mandatory to the average item song today, were a complete no-no for Helen. Ironically Helen's repertoire of cabaret dances were never given the status of dignity and grace in their heyday that they are given today.

While in the past, Helen's dances were often accused of being off colour, today, they are looked on as the epitome of grace and decorum. Recently when Ekta Kapoor needed a new-age Helen for her 1970s retro-gangster film Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai she auditioned dozens of wannabe Helens and finally zeroed in on Gauhar Khan who did scant justice to Monica, Oh my darling.

Toast them

Guess we need more power for the item girl to rise and shine to a place where Helen's magic took those immortal cabaret numbers like Aa Jaan-e-Jaan (Inteqam), Piya Tu Ab To Aaja (Caravan) and Mehbooba oh Mehbooba (Sholay).

It is plain to see that love them or hate them; most filmmakers can't do without them. Yeh jaam item numbers ke naam.


Source: santabanta

Raima worried about mom watching her sex scenes

Actress Raima Sen comes from a family where acting in the genes. Her mother Moonmoon Sen and grandmother Suchitra Sen were renowned actresses in the Bengali film industry. So, it has been quite easy for the 31-year-old actress to convince her family while performing sizzling and intimate roles in the movies.

However, as per the reports, Raima Sen has become very conscious about her lovemaking scene in her latest film Mirch. In this Vinay Shukla directed film, Raima has an intimate lovemaking scene with her co-star Arunodoy Singh, who was last seen in the Sonam Kapoor starrer movie Aisha.

Mirch has four parallel stories, which deals with the female sexuality from the angle of women, who are quite candid about sex.

Raima shot a bedroom sequence with Arunodoy but the director Vinay Shukla found it not passionate enough and asked her re-shoot the scene. He also convinced her that the other actress Konkona Sen has also re-shoot her sex scenes. Raima agreed to do that and during the second time, the sequence was shot in more elaborate way.

However, when Raima watched the final graphic detailing, she was almost shocked to see that her seen was too much elaborate and Konkona's scene was same as it was earlier. The actress was almost in tears and requested her director to tone down the sequence. She was feeling embarrassed thinking that how her mother will react watching this too intimate sequence.

The director has got his work done by making his film more sizzling with the re-shot sequence and he does not seem to have any interest in toning it down. Well, Raima you must have thought about this before going so passionate with Arunodoy. Now, your mother must have heard about it at least through media so there is no use of feeling so shy about it!


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No more lip-locking on screen for Saif-Kareena

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor announced on Koffee with Karan that they won't be lip-locking on screen anymore.

While Bebo wasn't thrilled with Saifoo's chumma with Deepika Padukone in Love Aaj Kal, he too expressed his reservations over her kiss with Akshay Kumar in Kambakht Ishq.

Despite their self-imposed ban, sources reveal that Kareena might have to re-think her strategy as Reema Kagti's untitled film with Aamir Khan does have a kiss.

A source reveals, "AK won't be too thrilled to hear that Kareena went on national television to announce her fatwa on kissing. He would have preferred her to discuss her stand with him."


Courtesy: Mid-Day.com

Yana Gupta offered Rs 1 Crore for a Naked shoot

India's item girls does not need to go a long way to grab attention now. Yana Gupta has made the hard work easier for them. Yana is now reportedly being offered a whopping one crore deal by a foreign magazine. The offer, if accepted, will make Yana shed all her clothes, and be the USP of that edition of the magazine.

A British magazine has made the offer to Yana it appears.

The item girl, who could not become an established actress in Bollywood so far, seems did just a small act to gain the much wanted attention.

Recently, at none other than a charity event, the lady went without her panties. She not just missed her panties, but also wore a short mini dress, becoming the eye candy for many a camera men and audience.

To make matters more candid, Yana had back then stated that now she could be the brand ambassador for a underwear company. We are sure that the lady must have been approached by some big names of the industry. And now, it is her other clothes which have raised offers… not to be worn, but to be thrown away!

Source : Santabanta

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