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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 3:43 pm Natalie Portman to play Thor's love interest
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Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 3:22 pm In the world of Imran Khan - Part 2
Imran Khan folds his leg and sits on his sofa and starts off by saying, "This Condemned thing is going to kill us all. Luck is not 13 Tzameti nor is it The Condemned. It is Race, Dhoom and Dhoom 2." The last time I was in a room with Imran Khan, he was giving interview for Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na in London, sitting on the carpet stretching his legs, sitting cross legged and changing his sitting positions. We could've understood the reason because the film in question was Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, a romantic film about friendship. One year on, his latest film Luck will see him play a tough guy with a lean look and a tough body language. The actor looks chiselled when I meet him but is still sitting with his legs stretched and sometimes cross legged on his sofa. He hates changes but yet it seems there are two contradicting Imrans: entrusting and circumspect Imran, and gregarious, up-for-anything Imran. He's been careful to display both, so I'll never pin him down as one or the other. He's answered everything. He's played a perfect game. He keeps you smiling and he's laughing, even. He doesn't let you get too close, but he doesn't let you notice the distance. "Man can be destroyed but not defeated" is what reads on his t-shirt when I meet him for the second part of this special interview featuring his film Luck. For starters, the actor does not believe in it, yet he is considered the Indian Film Industry's luckiest new entrant with one flop and one hit. UK's Harrow Observer columnist and Bollywood Hungama's London correspondent meets the rarest of breeds in the Indian Film Industry. Lucky me!
Luck
"It's a tricky thing because I don't really believe in luck. I am a very pragmatic and a very practical person. My head tells me that there is no such thing and there can't be such a thing. At the same time, I also feel that if there is something called luck, then I'm a very lucky person. Good things happen to me and bad things don't happen. In a bad traffic jam, somehow I will be able to make it to the theatre to watch the film before it starts. But whatever it is, I've been blessed with good things all my life."
Casting of Luck
"Casting of Luck is bang on. I've seen the film and that's the reason I'm telling you. Shruti is perfect for her role. The second my director Soham said that I want Mithun in the film, I said, "Correct" because it fits him perfect. We were thinking of a younger actor like me to play the role which Ravi Kissen plays in Luck, but eventually it worked for Ravi. As a poster, the cast might look strange and a little weird, I know that, but when you watch the film you'll get lucky."
Inspiration from 13 Tzameti and The Condemned
"This Condemned rumour is going to kill us all I guess. Yes, I agree that the gun sequence in Luck is inspired by 13 Tzameti and Soham has admitted that. We all know that. The talks about Luck is inspired by The Condemned is crap. Soham had written the script long before The Condemned was ever made. He wanted to make Luck in 2006. At a very simple level, if I wanted to rip off a Hollywood film, I'll rip off a successful one and not The Condemned. A tabloid carried some screen shots from both the films and compared them. But I can also find screen shots from How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days that would match Luck as well. Visually, many films can look the same but they're not."
Lucky bet
"The film is based on the reality betting but at the very core level, it is about luck. Betting is about luck, agreed. But it also depends on the people who are playing, the contestants. The games we are playing in the film has nothing to do with the skill. It also depends on the contestants luck. Which to me was a very cool concept. You see, good things can happen to bad people and bad things can happen to good people. That's the fact of life and luck."
Luck in the overseas
"Bollywood films have got a big territory in the UK, US and UAE. Australia is a smaller territory compared to the ones mentioned. Each one of these has different tastes for the same Bollywood film released there. I think Luck has a good chance in the UK. The UK audience tends to like these kinds of pot-boilers. They like the classic Bollywood films. I know they've liked Dhoom and Dhoom 2 and so I can say that they'll like Luck."
Action
"Action films take a lot out of you physically because you are not doing a lot of character work. Say 30% of your scenes in the film are the actual talky scenes. Action takes a lot of time to shoot. A three minute sequence will take two weeks to shoot. You spend the entire day running, jumping, falling, getting beaten up, beating someone, having explosions go off, you dive and roll for cover. You do that all day, then go home and wake up the next day and repeat the same strenuous stuff till it gets over. At the end of it, everything hurts. We shot the climax of Luck in twelve days involving a plane, jumping off the plane onto the train, explosions, and running through the train on fire."
Lucky girlfriend and friends
"I like to keep my work and personal life separate. Once I'm done with work, I want to pull out of the movie business. When you are in the film industry, you tend to hang out with the industry people and you become a part of that film world. The rest of the world does not exist for you and you forget what real life is. I'm very weary of that and don't want to be in that position. So when I hang out with my friends, I talk about them. One of my friends is doing a t-shirt business. One of them is launching a company called 'Pani Puri'. It's a cool concept. One of my friend is a commodity trader, one of the most boring s**t in the world man. He talks about his pepper trade business. All this reminds you that there is much more than just films."
Danny Denzongpa
"He is a cool dude man, is sixty five and can kick your a** and my a** right now, which means that if two of us attack him from the back, he would still bring both of us down. He has rippling muscles. I had a scene with him in Luck where I am suppose to grab his collar, slap him and slam him against the wall. Now while doing this, his chest muscles were so hard that I hurt my knuckles. It's 'kadak'. He knows that he is a dude. He comes to the gym in a sleeveless t-shirt, does his massive weight training and you can see his biceps popping up and down. There is something about him which is so damn difficult to term. You will always see him walking tall, suited, pushed back hair, no slouching and his firm hand shake. I'd describe him as a cliff."
Mithun Chakraborty
"If Danny is full of attitude, Mithun is complete the opposite. He is a little relaxed, chilled out, has a good couple of drinks, etc. Mithun turns on when the camera is on. I've seen him exhausted and sea sick and falling during the filming of the shark sequence. He is not as fit as Danny. He is tired, his muscles are hurting him and suddenly the camera turns and he is someone else. Even if Mithun is bleeding, he'll do the scene. Moment you say 'cut', he will fall down."
Shruti Haasan
"There is still an inherent fear and lack of confidence when you are a first timer in Bollywood. I know I had it during Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. But I should say this, Shruti proved me wrong. She has surprised me in the film. I had faith in her but she proved better than what I thought of her. Her language has come out quite clean after the dubbing."
Chitrashi
"Now what I'm going to say is real. You must've seen Chitrashi talk in Chak De India. Well, that is exactly how she talks off screen too. Chitrashi brings in a lot of emotional angle and a comic relief to Luck. Now the part she plays in Luck was originally written for a male and somewhere something happened. Soham told me that he wanted to cast the Chak De girl Chitrashi. I told him, "What're you doing man. You want to cast a female in a role which is written for a male actor?" He then brought her in, auditioned her and the result is that it works much better than the guy playing it. She is so real."
Satisfaction and celebration
"I am satisfied and celebrate my satisfaction too sometimes. Not always. I don't come home after doing a great scene and say that I am going to celebrate tonight. I do it only when I've done something successful. Like I celebrated with my friends and family after the success of Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. I celebrated after Ranbir and I got a good response being hosts during the Filmfare awards, etc."
Transformation
"Talk of transformation; I've been doing exactly that in all my films. Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na was sweet. Kidnap was rough, Luck is tough and you won't believe if you see my look in Delhi Belly. I've lost all my weight in Delhi Belly like Tom Hanks and Christian Bale in Cast Away and The Machinist. It's a complete transformation. But the sad part is that you tend to become like a loser when you play such roles. You feel bad about yourself. You'll feel unpleasant when you look at my picture from Delhi Belly because all my hero-giri has gone for a toss."Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 15 Jul 2009 | 3:11 pm Kareena will be part of 'Race 2': SaifBollywood star Saif Ali Khan was so keen to revive the "Race" magic with Abbas-Mustan that he has convinced the producers to rope them in as directors.Source: Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 3:11 pm Ash, Hrithik in Sanskrit textbooks
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 2:22 pm I inherited flair for dramatics from my mom: Kirron KherKirron Kher lost her mother Diljit Thakar Singh recently.Source: Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 2:14 pm Shruti Haasan makes adventurous debut
Source: NDTV Entertainment News | 15 Jul 2009 | 1:37 pm Kareena Kapoor to interact with her fans on Facebook
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Kareena has never been net savvy. But thanks to the clamor for her glamour on social-networking sites, she has decided to get on the net. But just for a bit.
This week Kareena plans to give her fans on a hugely popular social-networking website (Facebook) a big surprise.
Kareena plans to get on the networking site for about 30 minutes "to say hello" to her fans. She may even break her resolve not to become a member of the networking site. And who knows, she may even get over her reservations about starting her own website.
Says Kareena, "I've been repeatedly told that I've the maximum number of fans and well-wishers on Facebook. I could never find the time to connect with them. More importantly, I was too shy. I can't bring myself to answer over-specific questions on my activities, where I am, what I do, eat, etc."
It was Saif Ali Khan and director Imtiaz Ali who informed Kareena of the massive fan following she has on Facebook and how imperative it was for her to reach out to those trying to reach out through social networking.
"I now realize it's a whole large global community out there on the computer. I can't blog about my life. But I need to understand and connect with the internet community. In fact," reveals Kareena, "It was Saif who introduced me to the computer. He does practically all his work on the internet. He coaxed me into understanding the basics. And then I got hooked, though not to social networking because I'm too private a person to share my day-to-day movements and activities even with my closest friends."
It was Imtiaz Ali who pointed out the importance of reaching out on the social networking site. "Imtiaz said the number of people on Facebook who put up my pictures and messages about me had to be seen to be believed. I'll now be going on Facebook in a few days to interact with my friends there."
Not that Kareena wants to be regular on social networking. "That's not me. But I respect and love the thousands of people who want to reach out to me through the internet."Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 15 Jul 2009 | 1:23 pm Hermione is more loved than Harry Potter
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 15 Jul 2009 | 11:09 am Leading lady of Aladin, Jacqueline Fernandes, unveiled
It's time for the red carpet to be laid out. Aladin is aiming for a Diwali release and as the film hits the screens, Bollywood would also see the arrival of its 'most exotic' import ever - Jacqueline Fernandes.
All set to regale the audience with a lethal mix of cute persona and some sensuality, Jacqueline is finally being unveiled by the makers of Aladin. "Well, the journey has just begun. Last one year was quite happening but now it is going to be even more exciting times with Aladin being round the corner", she says.
Over the last few months, Jacqueline was closely guarded for all the right reasons. 2008 had seen quite some noise being made around the number of newcomer girls (Asin, Anushka) while Aladin was still quite some distance away.
Says Sujoy Ghosh, the film's director and co-producer, "There was no point for anyone associated with the film to gaga over Jacqueline because of two major reasons. First and foremost she had just stepped into the industry and she wanted to focus on doing a good job in her debut film. Secondly, it was felt that her being 'exposed' to millions out there so soon would have resulted in an over exposure."
The protective director goes on to add, "Since Jacqueline is one of the four major protagonists of the film, other than Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh, she has always been someone special. Now is the time for her to reach out to the world and I am sure Bollywood followers out there would be stunned with what they see of her."
Jacqueline gets nostalgic while remembering the times she spent on the film's sets, "Playing Jasmine was all fun and frolic with just the right ingredients of quintessential Bollywood 'naach gaana' routine and countless romantic and dramatic moments. It couldn't have been a better start."
Considering the fact that 2009 is perking up now after a dry beginning, it only makes Jacqueline's arrival in the industry even more precious.
An import from Sri Lanka who already has a beauty pageant crown in her kitty (she was Miss Sri Lanka 2006), Jacqueline has been academically inclined as well, as apparent from her degree in Media and Communications from Sydney, Australia. Ambitious to the core, she had once stated - "Being independent and accomplished was imperative to me and I always demanded the best of myself. Perfectionism is my strongest asset."
That's something which is pretty much on display, as clear from her choice for her debut film Aladin which is a co-production of Eros and Sujoy's 'Boundscript' and stars none other than Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt along with Riteish Deshmukh.
Says Jacqueline while spreading out that million dollar smile of hers, "The way Riteish's character is fleshed out in the movie, it was all rather cute. However, nothing can beat the excitement of working with Mr. Bachchan and Mr. Dutt. In a way, they were just the antithesis of Riteish. I couldn't have been luckier."Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 15 Jul 2009 | 10:44 am Shweta Tiwari woes with saltless food - Oneindia
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Kambakkht Ishq has hit the bull's eye at the box office. With Eros International declaring Rs.100 crores gross worldwide in the first week run of the film, hence making it one of the most successful openings in Indian cinema, it is left to anyone's imagination that the film has defied bad press with audiences grabbing the film with both hands. The film has grossed Rs. 70 crores in India (Rs. 42 crores net) and Rs. 21 crores overseas with music & digital platforms grossing Rs. 10 crores, hence making it the most successful outing for Akshay Kumar so far.
So can one say that Akshay Kumar is 'back'? Well, not really, because the fact remains that he was never 'gone' in the true sense. Of course he had setbacks in the form of Chandni Chowk To China and 8X10 Tasveer but if one looks at the dozen odd near back to back successes that he had delivered in the last three years, it was about time that he enjoys a box office winner again.
With the film taking one of the best starts ever in the history of Indian box office (and certainly the 'best' of 2009); Kambakkht Ishq has made Akshay Kumar smile again. While the talks have resumed around his Box Office pull and his progress towards the 'Number One' slot, Akshay Kumar surprises by stating that he has never been a contender for the coveted slot, let alone being anywhere close to it. Talking to Joginder Tuteja, Akshay Kumar bares his heart while responding to critics reaction to the film, allegations around the film being vulgar, Kambakkht Ishq bringing cheers back in the industry and of course the battle for 'Number One'. Over to Akshay...
Collections speak louder than anyone's voices or words for good movies and bad ones.
Just like Chandni Chowk To China, this time too people tried to pull your film down, both before and after the release. However, audiences had made up their own mind for Kambakkht Ishq. Some kind of redemption of sorts for you?
I know I don't seem to be able to sneeze in the street without getting shouted at, this year. No problem. There are always some things in life that no one can take away from me. Even if I make only my own family happy with my movies, that's enough for me.
How about audiences?
The rest of the world liking my movies would be one hell of a huge bonus. I just want my audiences to have fun, and I'll never stop trying, that's my only aim. I am not going to point fingers and rub people's noses in anything. Collections speak louder than anyone's voices or words for good movies and bad ones. No one can predict anything in this life; we have just got to make the best of what ever we can.
Even if one single fan gets uncomfortable with my film it bothers me
There were some who cornered the film calling it crass, vulgar, below the belt etc. etc. Were you prepared for such criticism?
Yes, I am aware that some people were offended by the jokes in the film. See, we all had conviction that this script was funny. It was meant to be a slapstick comedy and that's what we set out to make. In the middle somewhere, the jokes crossed certain lines that made some audiences uncomfortable.
While doing the film, didn't you feel like curbing down the jokes a little fearing the response of the family audiences?
I do regret that 100% of my audience was not happy with the film. Believe me; even if one single fan gets uncomfortable with my film it bothers me. So yes, I am going to be more careful with my scripts and see that 100% of the people in the theatres enjoy them with their families.
Shah Rukh, Aamir, Salman, Hrithik, Abhishek - enjoy, you don't have to worry about me
Good news though is that the film has succeeded. So what do you think has/have been the factor(s) that made the film click with the masses?
I am overwhelmed at how well our movie has done, and I think it was down to its subject. Every relationship has its mad times, the cat and dog fights, the tears, the fact that one doesn't feel as loved as the other. We all know what men and women behaviour can be like; we just enjoyed blowing it out of proportion and making a joke of it. The youth loved it for its braveness, its spunk, its sexiness; we put it all out there for you so that you could just enjoy the ride. And now with New York and Kambakkht Ishq, I think our industry is back on a very healthy track for sure. This year will be full of hits, I guarantee you all!
Last but not the least, since you have bounced back in a massive way; has the battle of being No.1 resumed?
Do you know what, anyone who wants it please have it! I beg you, be 'Number one', anyone for that matter. I want no part of it. I was happy when I was not a contender; I am the last guy who is interested. Shah Rukh, Aamir, Salman, Hrithik, Abhishek - enjoy, you don't have to worry about me! I just want to make movies and go home, so you guys figure it out. I support you all the way!Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 14 Jul 2009 | 2:09 pm Family can press alarm bell on Sach ka Saamna! - Times of India
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 14 Jul 2009 | 1:47 pm Shruthi Haasan skips Jackson's memorial concertTamil superstar Kamal Haasan's singer-actress daughter Shruthi, who was set to sing at a forthcoming memorial concert for pop legend Michael Jackson, will not participate in the event to be held in Chennai.Source: IndiaeNews.com: Bollywood News | 14 Jul 2009 | 1:30 pm Akshay Kumar shoots for soft drink ad in Malaysia
On Friday Akshay left for Malaysia. "I'm shooting an ad for a cola in Malaysia. It's very different from all the ads that I've done so far. No action this time. It's a nice soft and gentle ad. I hope my critics will like me at least in this ad," chuckled Akshay wryly before taking off for Malaysia.
After a two day shoot in Malaysia, he flies straight to London and will be back only in September. Ideally Akshay would've returned home after shooting the ad in Malaysia and proceeded to London later.
But the critical response to his new film has been a complete downer. "The same aggressive tu tu main main in Hangover got 4 and 5 star rating while my film was treated so shabbily," Akshay observed unhappily.
Disgusted, appalled and disillusioned by what he sees as a clear case of jealous rivals trying to rain down on his parade, Akshay Kumar has left the country ahead of schedule.
Akshay was supposed to leave for London later during the month for a long schedule of Sajid Khan's Housefull. But he decided to pre-pone his trip, offering the excuse that he liked to arrive at a location ahead of a schedule to get comfortable. "If I've the time I like to arrive early check out the ambience, make things comfortable for myself and the unit before they arrive."
But those close to Akshay pooh-pooh this line of thought. According to a source very close to Akshay, "He couldn't bear the savage criticism of Kambhakkht Ishq. Even when the film was declared a hit, the barrage of criticism continued. Akshay needed to get away from the backlash."Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 14 Jul 2009 | 11:03 am
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