Kareena Kapoor to spend her birthday with Saif sans her family though

Kareena Kapoor has special plans for her 30th birthday celebrations this year which happens to fall on September 21, Tuesday next week. She will be with her boyfriend Saif Ali Khan at Latvia in Eastern Europe busy shooting for his home production ‘Agent Vinod’ in Latvia. Kareena is there busy with hectic shooting schedule and grueling stunts and the birthday will give her a breather and some quality time with her beau. Plans have it that Kareena’s mother will fly off to join her for her special day.

Karisma cannot join them because of her baby. Before this, Kareena had missed her sister’s birthday as she was in London busy with the shoot of SRK’s ‘Ra 1’. Kareena expresses helplessness about her impossible schedules. “What can I do? I barely have time to breathe. I’ve just come to Mumbai for two days. I’ve been away for 25 days. Now I fly off to Latvia for over a month’s shooting,” said Kareena before leaving Mumbai.

Kareena has hopes pinned on the year to come. She says, “I’m now entering a new phase in my life and career. This year I hope to conquer many new peaks. By God’s grace Agent Vinod and Ra.One are shaping up very well.”

Bhupathi and Lara Dutta are officially engaged now

Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi and Bollywood babe Lara Dutta have been going sround for quite sometime now, but it was only recently that the couple decided to go for an official announcement that they have been engaged. Though the two have been spotted together oft and on recently during the Filmfare awards and also during the IIFA weekend at Sri Lanka, it was during the recent US open in New York that Mahesh proposed Lara.

A very happy Bhupati has tweeted ‘So @DuttaLara and me got engaged in NY last week. Its official now…’

In case you popped in late, Lara Dutta has had a living relationship with Model and Actor Kelly Dorjee while Mahesh Bhupathi was married to model Sweta Jaishankar. Lara came close to Mahesh as a client of Mahesh Bhupathi Celebrity Management Company.

Out team at “Bollywood stars” wishes a very happy life ahead to the couple……

Vidya Balan and Ajay Devgan to pair up for Ekta Kapoor’s next

Vidya Balan and Ajay Devgan, both are known to be sensitive actors who get into the skin of their characters very easily. Now, it so seems that the two would be seen together once again (they were together in ‘Halla Bol’) in Ekta Kapoor’s forthcoming project on the life and relationships of South siren Silk Smitha. Ajay has recently worked with Balaji in his latest release ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai’ which went on to be a rage at the box-office.

If Ajay gives a nod to the role, he will be seen playing of a renowned filmmaker, who was involved with the actress Silk Smitha when her career was in its peak. The film will deal more on Smitha’s relationships than her career. Director Milan Luthria is really keen on Vidya to play the role as she just fits easily into the criteria of a Malyalam girl with a very Indian type of body.

As for us, we would like to see the sparks between the two refines actors set the screen afire once again!!

The ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ girl to play Goddess Kali on-screen?

If all goes well, the ‘Hips don’t lie’ girl Shakira will be playing Goddess Kali UK based film producer Karan Arora’s 3D VFX movie ‘Kali-the warrior Goddess’. Though the movie is not strictly speaking on the Goddess herself, but it does draw inspiration from Hindu mythology.

Throwing more light on the project and its association with the Columbia based singer Shakira, Arora said, “It’s a fiction movie. Only the look, feel and fabric are inspired by Hindu Mythology. The story is different than what people may expect.”

“We are fine tuning the association and it will be finalised after negotiations, paper work, and documentation. The casting is still in the initial stages. We started pre-production little less than a year ago. The film will be set in the imaginary world and no timelines have been set. Hence, there will not be any real location in the film. It will be similar to James Cameron’s Avatar but not as big,” Arora added.

Kali-the warrior Goddess will be directed by Simon Hunter with technicians from USA, UK and Research team from Kolkata to work on the look of the movie.

Arora said “Kali will not be typical song and dance movie. One will not see Shakira as we are used to seeing her dance. The movie will not hurt anybody’s sentiments.”

The movie will go on floors in April next year and is slated for a 2013 release. Arora’s ‘Bhindi Bazaar’ starring Deepti Naval and Manisha Koirala is almost ready and ‘Padosi’ and ‘Lets Talk Love’ are near completion.

When Sonakshi upset the Dutts and Ameesha Patel

Recently, Ameesha Patel organized and played the perfect host to the baby shower ceremony of the Dutts — Sanjay and Maanayata. However, when most of the Bollywood biggies were polite enough to either accept the invitation or gave up their reason for not attending the function, (Aishwarya was out of the town and Kirron Kher was down with conjunctivitis), that Punam Sinha and her daughter Sonakshi didn’t care to respond to their invite for the event. When Ameesha called up, Punam didn’t pick up the call and later she did not reply to their messages nor did she inform them that she and Sonakshi would not be attending the event as Sonakshi would be in Norway promoting Dabangg with Salman on September 13.

Punam, on the other hand, is not ready to take up the blame as she cites her reasons for not replying. She said, “So what if I couldn’t call or message back? My sister, a cancer patient for eight years, suddenly had to be admitted to hospital last week. She is my priority. I couldn’t even attend Sonakshi’s Dabangg events.

I have been in the hospital for the last few days and it’s impossible to even think of calling or messaging people from there. I have far more important stuff going on in my life. Please understand my frame of mind and what I am going through. Even now I am sitting with my sister at home after she was discharged a day ago.

Sanju and Maana are very close to us and will always be. I hope they understand my situation…”

Hmmm…. We see a valid excuse here and hope the Dutts do not take it to their heart with the Sinhas….

The ‘Robot’ effect gives chills to South producers and distributors

As Rajnikanth-Aishwarya starrer ‘Robot’ awaits the release on October 1, Friday, the entire nation is shivering with ‘Robot’ fever and there are enough reasons for it too as it is the costliest movie ever with an extraordinary pairing of South God Rajnikanth with Bollywood’s diva Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The movie will simultaneously hit the screens in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi on October 1.

The film will be releasing in all three languages in over 3000 screens and 2250 prints around the world on Friday, October 1. According to Hansraj Saxena, COO of Sun Pictures, Tamil version will be releasing in 1450 theaters with 1000 plus prints.

Such is the hype and power of this flick that most of the producers and distributors in South have decided to shy away from opening their films in the two weeks leading up to robot’s premiere on September 24. So, there will be no new releases this month until the buzz around this sci-fi flick settles down after its release.

The movie is directed by Shankar and it has Oscar award winner AR Rahman’s music.

Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif: Too close for verbal fights??

Both Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif have proved lucky for each other delivering many hits together (De Dana Dan, Blue, Singh Is Kinng, Welcome, Namastey London and Humko Deewana Kar Gaye) but this time the two fell out after a nasty verbal argument when Kaif refusal to shoot a music video with Akki for ‘Tees Maar Khan’.

Katrina seemed to have refused the actor point blankly on her dates which she had already allotted for Yash Raj Films a film with Imran Khan. Akshay asked for these dates to shoot the music video reminding Kats for all the favors he had made for her with his dates in the past. The fight went to the extent of making the two stop words with each other.

Here, Farah Khan stepped in to sort out the matters. She spoke to Katrina, who managed to speak to YRF and has got permission to shoot the title video track of the film on October 15, 2010, which has the entire star cast.

However, both the actors have vehemently denied the story of their fight. Akshay commented, “Katrina and I go back a long way and she is a dear friend of mine and has always been there. I would like to clarify that she is one of the most professional stars we have and she and I are amused with these reports since there is absolutely no truth to them.” On the other hand Farah Khan too spoke up - “There is absolutely no problem between any of us. Katrina is a wonderful girl and very professional. She has done a great job in Tees Maar Khan.”

Katrina, on the other hand, too, seemed shocked and said, “Well, what more should I say? I guess Akshay and Farah have already stated the facts. See, these stories are malicious. These are all fabricated lies. Akshay and I share a wonderful equation so the entire talk about us getting into an argument just doesn’t make any sense. Also, how I wish that people find out truth instead of fabricating stories.”

Priyanka Chopra walks the ramp for ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ fashion show

With ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ set on near release, there is buzz all around. The actors Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor are being spotted together at a number of instances. Also creating stirs are the two intimate lip locks that Ranbir and Priyanka share in the film.

These kisses weren’t part of the script but were added in much later during the US schedule. So sensational are these lip locks that they were shot with only the cameraman, director and a light man present. The rest of the crew was asked to leave the sets.

Apparently, Shahid Kapoor is not very comfortable with these scenes as he stills shares close relationship with Priyanka and is even reported to be sending gifts to her in Brazil where she is shooting for ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’.

With so much of buzz already up before the film hits the screens, the expectation quotient is sure to be high. Check out gorgeous Priyanka Chopra as she sashays down the ramp for Manish Malhotra’s special Anjaana Anjaani fashion show.

Manish Malhotra had informed on twitter that he has not made any new collection for the Fashion Week. Since people have not yet watched the movie and Priyanka’s outfit in it, he has decided to bring the same for the most awaited fashion gala of the country.

Alluring Freida Pinto with inviting looks on GQ’s October issue

Making the debut with director Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ did that to Freida Pinto’s career what a couple of films could not do with many talented actresses. Pinto modeled for two years prior to auditioning for film roles. She has been into close relationship with her co-star Dev Patel for quite sometime now.

“The camera never gave me cold feet. I have always felt comfortable in front of it. When I gave my first shot for the film, I was a little scared. But then I gained confidence.” The sexy babe has been quoted as saying.

Check out Freida Pinto as she oozes sensuality and appeal for the latest issue of GQ magazine October issue….

Hrithik, Aishwarya and SLB form the mutual admiration club

Bollywood queen and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has three promising releases this year, ‘Robot’, Action Replayy’ and ‘Guzaarish’. Among these Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Guzaarish’ has high expectation quotient with Ash pairing with Hrithik Roshan with whom she has delivered two megahits in ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Jodha Akbar’. It narrates the story of Ethan (Hrithik), who is suffering from limb paralysis and his relationship with his caretaker and married nurse, Sophie (Aishwarya).

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all praise for Aishwarya and Hrithik. He said, “I want to thank Aishwarya. She’s my jaan. I get terrible excited when I make a film with her. She’s very very special. And I have never enjoyed with any other actor as I have with Hrithik just for the talent he has and for the kind of person he is.”

The actors too are more than overwhelmed to be associated with the project. “GUZAARISH is more than a film to me. It’s a manifestation of one man’s vision and that is Sanja Leela Bhansali. It has changed my prospective on the world. It has affected my life. 30 or 40 years from now I will look back and smile because I had the opportunity to do this film. Some films are made for commercial reasons and some must be made for the world to see and that’s the kind of film GUZAARISH is,” said Hrithik.

Talking about her career graph rising even after marriage, Aishwarya said, I’m so blessed. It’s so wonderful that my faith has been kept in the professionals that I have worked with. Directors like Shankar, Mani Ratnam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali came to me with scripts. They didn’t say ‘Now you are married. What should we do with your role?’ None of the directors thought that.”

Check out the wonderful looking stars at the press conference of ‘Guzaarish’.