Filmy News

We had earlier informed you that filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia has approached actress Rani Mukherjee to star in mafia kingpin Dawood Ibrahim’s younger sister Haseena Parkar’s role. But now, this hard hitting news has fizzled out just being a rumour.

In the recent media interaction, Apoorva cleared the air around Haseena Parkar’s biopic saying that though he thought of making a film on her life, nothing got materialized as her family wanted creative control over the film to ensure that she is not getting portrayed in unsavory light. Also, a source revealed that Rani won’t be signing any new films for awhile now.

Thus, the “much-talked” about biopic has got vanished with the time.

On October 2, Prime Minister initiated “Swachh Bharat” campaign to make India free from dirt and nominated nine celebrities to take part in this cleanliness drive. Amongst those celebs, Bollywood actors Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan were also nominated by him.

Here comes Salman to fulfill the responsibility by participating in the “Swachh Bharat” campaign cleaning the garbage in Karjat city of Maharashtra. He posted the picture of his act with a caption, “I once again thank @narendramodi for taking up the Swachh Bharat initiative and nominating me. First, I nominate my fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter. Each one of us can make a difference. And I nominate Aamir Khan, Azim Premji, Chanda Kochhar, Omar Abdullah, Pradeep Dhoot, Rajat Sharma, Rajinikanth & Vineet Jain.”

Following this in the words of appreciation, PM Narendra Modi wrote “The effort by Salman Khan is a significant one that will inspire several people to join Swachh Bharat Mission.”

What happens when sugar gets mixed with salt? This rare combination gives treat to your taste buds with its blend of “Khaata-Meetha” taste. Same is the case with film ‘Happy New Year‘, which stars two diversely opposite personalities- Abhishek Bachchan and Sonu Sood in one frame.

Taking you behind the camera, it is said that big-time foodie Abhishek Bachchan used to spoil his ‘Happy New Year‘ team by indulging them in best cuisine of various cities, which they visited during the shoots and promotions. Whereas, Sonu used to encourage the team to work out as much as possible, so that they can lose the extra calories which they have gained because of Abhishek.

Directed by Farah Khan, ‘Happy New Year‘ is all set to mark its release on October 24.

Siddharth Malhotra once revealed that Katrina Kaif was his first crush and also expressed desire to work with her someday. Less did he know that Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar are hearing him and will reportedly cast them together in their next film.

As per the sources, Excel Entertainment has hired Siddharth to romance Katrina in their next untitled film, which is based on a high concept love story. The film will go on the floor by middle of the next year, when Kat finishes off with her prior work commitments.

It is said that earlier Aamir Khan was going to star in this romantic film, but then the financial clauses didn’t work out. As a result, producers Ritesh and Farhan had to look out for a fresh pair.

Internationally acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan has been handed over the responsibility of judging the films being a jury member in the Abu Dhabi Film Fest 2014.

ADFF will be held from October 23 to November 1 in the second most populous city of UAE, Abu Dhabi, where over 197 films will be projected from 61 countries.

Irrfan holds the long-back connection with ADFF as his films ‘Paan Singh Tomar‘ and ‘Qissa’ were earlier screened at the fest. He will be sharing the accolade with Algerian novelist and academic Waciny Laredj, English writer-director Steven Shainberg, Australian film director Cate Shortland and Palestinian actor Ali Suliman, all being listed in the panel of judges.

Wondering, what is making ever-spontaneous actress Priyanka Chopra upset these days? Well, then it’s not a heart-break nor is she losing out on any business deal. But, a soar-eye has caused her mood-off.

Reportedly, PeeCee has acquired Conjunctivitis Infection in her eye which has reduced her to bed. Therefore, she won’t be able to work and to celebrate Diwali this year. She mourned over this by writing- “What a downer!!!!! Shoot cancelled! Diwali cancelled! Instead I sit in bed with conjunctivitis!!!! Aaaargh! I could kill someone!”

All we can say now is- Get Well Soon!

The current highest TRP grossing TV show ‘Bigg Boss 8’ is the most favourite show trending these day. Well, not just the “Aam Aadmi” but even stars don’t dare to give it a miss. One such die-heart fan of this controversial reality show is actress Parineeti Chopra, who takes time from her busy schedule to watch the eighth season daily.

It’s not just her interest in watching spicy controversies, but her love for ‘Bigg Boss 8’ host Salman Khan makes Pari stick to the idiot box and watch the show. Recently, she took Twitter to quote word of praises by writing “Mr. Salman Khan has to be the most intelligent, spontaneous, real and funny host ever!!!! #BiggBoss8″.

This tweet makes us predict Pari’s presence on ‘Bigg Boss 8’ to meet her favourite TV host Salman, when she comes to promote her upcoming film ‘Kill Dil‘.

Kapoor lad Ranbir Kapoor is showering gifts on B-Town beauties Parineeti Chopra and Shraddha Kapoor. But, his act won’t end him in trouble with girlfriend Katrina Kaif as he is doing this to promote his football team Mumbai City FC and those gifts are actually the merchandise of his team.

Overwhelmed Parineerti shared her goodies with fans by writing “Look what I got!! Thx Ranbir ” and posted the picture of Mumbai City FC’s entire merchandise collection which she received. It included a t-shirt jersey, cap and cell-phone cover printed with the standard navy blue and white colored logo.

Even Shraddha was flooded with these goodies and in return she thanked Ranbir by posting her picture wearing Mumbai City FC cap and wrote “#MumbaiCityFC goodies! Thanks & congrats Ranbir “

With the good luck of B-Town ladies, Ranbir’s Mumbai City FC team will be playing their match on October 24 in Mumbai’s D.Y. Patil stadium.

Taking back to era of 1943 Calcutta, Yash Raj Films and Dibakar Banerjee Productions present the exclusive teaser of their upcoming film ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshi‘.

Set at the backdrop of war torn Calcutta, Detective Byomkesh Bakshi enters the plot to reveal the mystery over those blood-shaded facts. Seeing the suspense filled teaser, one can rightly “Expect The Excepted” things to unveil on-screen.

Starring Sushant Singh Rajput in the lead role, ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshi‘ is all set to mark its release worldwide next year on February 13.

Shatrughan Sinha will be a proud father today has his kids- Sonakshi Sinha, Luv Sinha and Kush Sinha come in alliance to announce the launch their own production house on the occasion of Dhanteras.

Dividing their respective business roles, Kush said that he will be the in-charge of the finance and his siblings- Sonakshi and Luv will pay attention on the creative aspect of their newly announced production house.

It will be interesting to watch out what this “Sinha Siblings” has to present, but whatever it is one thing is sure that their films will be high on entertainment quotient.