rajeev can't ignore ekta!

Every one is aware of Rajeev Khandelwal and soap queen Ekta Kapoor's love-hate relationship. Once known as the blue-eyed boy of Balaji telefilms, Rajeev soon makes his Bollywood debut with UTV's Aamir.

Many people know that it was his Bollywood aspirations that made Rajeev quit Kahin toh Hoga, a popular TV soap from the Balaji stable. And that's what was resposbile for his so-called tiff with Ekta Kapoor.

But Rajeev Khandelwal feels he can't ignore Ekta's contribution in his career and so has invited her to a special screening of his debut film Aamir.

Says Rajeev, "This is my first film and hence very important to me. I want Ekta to be there for the premiere. I was remembering all those people because of whom I'm in Mumbai and Ekta is one of them. I just can't ignore her contribution in my career."

But does he really think Ekta will turn up for the screening?
"She's quite unpredictable! Though I'm aware she's busy with her own film which is releasing the same day," replies Rajeev.

When contacted, all Ekta had to say was to wish Rajeev "All the best".
Now let's wait and watch if the Soap Queen makes Rajeev's day or not!

'saif' distance between saifeena!

The ‘inevitable’ has happened. There are cracks in the perfect passion already.
If rumours floating out of the couple’s friendly circle are to be believed, Kareena and Saif are constantly having problems, and it isn’t Saif’s fault, really.

Not yet. Says a source, “Saif is constantly crowding her for attention. Nowadays, he’s only talking to Bebo. Saif has stopped communicating almost completely with all his family and friends.”

He is now constantly pre-occupied with keeping tabs on his lady love, and accompanying her to events which have nothing to do with him, all over the country.

Says the source, “Kareena likes her space. She’s very giving in love, but doesn’t want her man to constantly question her. She gets what-are-you-doing, where-are-you calls from Saif throughout the day. Initially, she enjoyed all the attention. But now it’s begun to tell on her nerves. More than Kareena, it’s her mom Babita who’s worried that Saif’s ceaseless trailing may affect her career.”

Friends say Kareena’s asked Saif to back off a bit. Quite a bit. “Ironically, he used to complain about Rozza’s constant attention. Today, he’s behaving exactly like her. Kareena can’t help but remember Shahid’s easy-does-it, gentle attention,” says the source.

So where does the relationship stand? “Nothing alarming yet. All Saif needs to do is give Bebo the space to find her pace. Otherwise, he’d have to get another girlfriend with a name similar to Kareena so he can get the tattoo re-done without too much pain,” says a friend.

superstar wives to join the race!

Now its time for Bollywood superstars wives to pull up their socks and hit the industry by their own way. Suzanne Khan, Gauri Khan and Twinkle Khanna the better halves of superstars Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar respectively will be entertaining audience on the small screen.

Gauri Khan is all ready to host a show ‘First Wives Club’ inspired from an Americam Show ‘The View’. This Show will be produced by her own production house ‘Red Chili Entertainment’.

In the show Gauri will be discussing about the marital lives of top star wives before married women’s studio audience. Show will open with Kajol and Farah Khan as special guests. There will be for surely feature Khan couple’s friends like Maheep Kapoor (Sanjay Kapoor’s wife), Mehr Jessia Rampal (Arjun Rampal’s wife). An executive producer from the production house said”, They will ensure that married women’s studio audience from all fields of life”.

Even Twinkle Khanna is all set to make entry to small screen with show ‘Makeover with Twinkle Khanna`. Under the production of Red Chillies Entertainment show will go on air on same channel on which Akshay’s ‘Fear Factor’ will be aired i.e. A new channel ‘Colour’. “Show will offer handy tips on, be it home or style make over, “ says Colour sources.

Suzzane Khan Hrthik’s better who has kept her aside from the screen is also in talks to host a show on home making with Discovery Travel and Living. Acc to news Suzzane is not yet ready for the show because of being mother for second time.

With sizzling wives of superstars like Akshay and Shah Rukh Khan joining them on small screen competition is rising on silver screen.

amir launches nephew

Aamir Khan back again to make a hat-trick as far his production is concerned after the success of Lagaan and Taare Zameen Par; both did well in box office. Lately Amir Khan Production has launched a sneak-peak from his upcoming film ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’ as producer featuring his nephew and debutant Imran Khan.

Though not much info of the storyline was revealed so far but ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’ as the promos looks might be something in as usual fashion of Aamir who in his constant endeavour, trying to make meaningful movies.

Directed and written by Abbas Tyrewala the sound score has been goes to the credit of AR Rahman while introducing yet another newbie to Hindi films as Telegu actress Genelia in the role of leading lady. Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah would also be seen doing cameos in the film.

Aamir Khan in his blog talking about Jaane Tu...says, “Abbas who has is an established writer having written films like Munna Bhai MBBS, Maqbool, and Main Hoon Na among others has done a great job as a director. While I was busy with TZP he was doing JT, and when I saw the completed film it was an excellent translation onto screen of the script, which for me is the most imp yardstick for any filmmaker”.

However Mansoor Khan, the well-known producer of Aamir’s debut movie ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’, who was out of film circuit for several years, too came in this production knowing that his cousin Nauzhat’s son Imraan is making his debut in this film.

Aamir says in his blog: “Yes, I finally managed to lure Mansoor out of his hiding place. When I took over as director of TZP I needed a hands-on producer on Jaane Tu so I requested Mansoor. To his credit despite his reluctance he did not hesitate to step in. I would like to think it was because of me but I suspect it was because of Nasir Sahab. Both Mansoor and I know that Nasir Sahab would have wanted the two of us to stand by Imran at this important juncture in his career. So Mansoor makes a return, albeit as Producer”.

The film is expected to be released somewhere in the first week of July.

NO MORE SINGLE!

Vidya Balan couldn’t be happier. “I must say I’m very content in the space I’m occupying right now,” she says, indulging in some frank speak. With a mysterious smile, Vidya suggests she is no longer single and is enjoying it. Vidya says, “The other evening, I went to watch Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak perform Dear Liar at Prithvi theatre.” On being asked who accompanied her, she chuckles, “Ah, it was friend whose name begins with ‘S’. I'm not saying any more than that!”

All this forthright talk without us mentioning Shahid even once! She adds, “I don’t deny that Shahid is a very close friend. For the first time, I’ve worked with a co-star who’s actually closer to me by way of age, experience and temperament. We were together for two months in Toronto shooting Aziz Mirza’s Kismat Connection and we really got along well. I found him very calm and intelligent. I think we’re alike in many ways. I really enjoyed working with him. And I would love to do more films with him.”

She adds, “I’m amazed by the range of men I’ve been linked with. From Pradeep Sarkar it went to Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham and now Shahid. I seem to have been going down the generations until I’ve finally come to a guy who’s my age,” she says. Time to stop here then, Vidya?

the dog fight!

The blog business gets dirty once again. Not long back Aamir Khan had said, “I would like to ask Shah Rukh, how it feels to be No.2.” Then, SRK had taken it in a good spirit and once again, SRK proves that he has no time or interest in the game of words.

Read an excerpt from Aamir Khan’s blog which goes as,
"Shah Rukh is licking my feet and I am feeding him biscuits every now and then. What more can I ask for?Now, before you jump to any conclusions let me add that Shah Rukh is the name of our dog. And before you jump to any further conclusions let me add that I had nothing to do with naming him. In fact Shah Rukh is the dog of the caretakers of our house. When I bought this house it came with the caretakers and their dog! Apparently Shah Rukh (the actor) was shooting for a commercial in this house a few years ago, and that very day the caretakers bought a pup…, and named him Shah Rukh. What are the chances of me buying a house which comes with a dog called Shah Rukh!!!Some of my friends claim that I bought the house just because of the dog. I would have to be a serious fan of Shah Rukh’s to want to do that. Your guess…”

Even before signing off from his blog he takes one final dig at the Baadshah of Bollywood by saying, “Well Shah Rukh is once again begging for my attention, so let me get back to him. He is smelling too much, I think he needs a bath. “Heel boy, heel.”

On this Shahrukh again proves his maturity by choosing to close the controversy instead of bloating it. Says the King Khan of Bollywood: “Moving towards blogs is a way towards joining the journalist fraternity, I love journalists but I am an actor and would like to keep it that way.”

Shahrukh brushes aside all controversies by commenting: “Hum log hum umar hai — main, Salman, Aamir. Aur hum jab milte hain toh is se bhi ajeeb batein karte hai. (All three of us — Salman, Aamir and me are the same age and when we meet, we talk stranger stuff than this.) I have to take it with a sense of humour and I do have a sense of humour. If I can do it with others, then I should accept it.”

We guess that with SRK’s cool reaction like this, there could not be a better end to this dog-blog controversy. What say, pals?

BACHCHAN RAJ!

SARKAR RAJ is all set for a release on 6th June and unlike Ram Gopal Verma ki AAG which hardly seemed to create any positive energy around it, the latest Ramu venture is indeed managing to make heads turn in a positive manner.

Ramu's SARKAR RAJ, the Bachchan family film, is indeed turning out to be the most awaited film this summer by leaps and bounds. The film has been constantly in buzz for various reasons like sequel of acclaimed SARKAR, Aish-Abhi’s first film together post marriage; The Bachchan family film, strong characters by all the Bachchan members. Response to SARKAR RAJ has been widely positive till date which gives a very positive signal to this mega film coming from the maverick film maker.

Ramu agrees though that SARKAR RAJ is a complex project when compared to its prequel SARKAR. "If you look at SARKAR, it was a fairly simplistic tale. It had a basic plot of a son (Abhishek Bachchan) taking revenge against those who attacked his father (Amitabh Bachchan). Simple, isn't it? Of course there was a power game involved with political and underworld angle coming in as well but the basic germ of the plot was centered on revenge", says Ramu.

"SARKAR RAJ goes on a different trip in fact. Actually it doesn't even start from where SARKAR left. It is just another episode in the life of Nagres where the situations become far more complex. There is a conspiracy theory in the running which makes SARKAR RAJ a gritty affair", further informs Ramu.

bahu turned babe

That television’s most popular Bahu, Prachi Desai, is making her big screen debut with ‘Rock On’ opposite Farhan Akhtar is stale by now. That Prachi has gone for an image makeover has been all over the gossip columns for quite sometime now.
The latest one is that this 19 year old female has already bagged in her next project even before her debut film hits the screens. She has been signed as one of the female leads in Abbas-Mustan’s home production ‘Life Partner’ starring Fardeen Khan, Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza to be directed by Rumi Jaffrey.
Prachi confirmed the news saying, “Yes, I have signed the film but it’s too early to talk about it. I can’t reveal many details about Life Partner. All I can say is that when I heard the script, I loved it and am happy that I am a part of it.”
After having her full share of success in small screen, looks like Prachi is ready to sweep off the bigger screen too. Good going, Prachi!

SRK'S NEW LUV!

Yash Raj films had created much mystery and speculations about the girl who would be cast opposite SRK in their next mega venture ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. The suspense now comes to an end with the announcement of Anushka Sharma’s name as the female lead for the film.

Anushka, 19 year old teenager, is a small time model from Bangalore. During the last Fashion Week, Anushka was one of the models picked for Wendell Roderick’s finale. Since then she has been doing product endorsements.

Talking about the choice, Yash Chopra said, “We were looking first and foremost for someone who could truly embody the spirit of small town Punjab and we know we have found her in Anushka Sharma. And while she has no previous acting experience, we have seen that unique spark in her that makes us confident that she will be a standout even opposite Shah Rukh.”