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Filmmaker Apoorva Lakhia is keen to cast Rani Mukherjee in mafia kingpin Dawood Ibrahim’s younger sister Haseena Parkar’s role in his next film.

Haseena came into limelight after her husband Ismail Parkar was shot to death by Dawood’s rival gang operated by Arun Gawali. For which the don took revenge by appointing his top lieutenant to kill the murderers in the infamous J.J. Hospital shootout. Later, Haseena moved in to Mumbai’s Nagpada area and became the godmother to many.

Amazed by Haseena’s life, Apoorva decided to make a biopic on her. He was constantly in touch with her and her family to understand the complexities of her life. Until, she passed away this year on July 4 with a heart attack. Now, Apoorva is done with the screenplay and wants to cast Rani in Haseena’s larger than life role as he thinks she can pull off the character with confidence and aplomb.

As per the sources, Rani is likely to give her nod to Apoorva’s proposal after going through the entire script. Also, she doesn’t mind to put on weight to suit Haseena’s resemblance.

Behind Abhishek Bachchan‘s stern look, there lies a prankster who can bully anyone and everyone without giving it a second thought. After Rohan Sippy and Priyanka Chopra, his recent victim is ‘Happy New Year‘ director Farah Khan.

During ‘Happy New Year‘ shoots, Abhishek quietly took Farah’s cell phone and used her Twitter account to post the word of praises about himself. While, everything was on air, poor Farah had no clue about this tweet which was cuddling under her name. It was later, when she discovered this mischief after her followers started commenting on this post.

We guess, this Bluffmaster was taking his “badla” from the director for all the yelling which she showered on the actors to get her scenes right.

16 years back, Karan Johar marked his directorial debut with ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai‘ and gave a new definition to love. Releasing on 16th October 1998, the film attained the blockbuster status with it’s college days love story. His created characters Anjali, Rahul and Tina played by Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukherjee remain immortal in the memoirs of Indian cinema.

Karan took Twitter to remember his early stepping days in the path of direction, by writing, “16years ago…#kuchkuchhotahai.:..the film that gave me everything I have today..indelible memories….”

Today, Karan is one of the prominent filmmakers of India, directing films like ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham‘, ‘My Name is Khan‘ and ‘Student Of The Year‘.

Bollywood celebrities flagged the 16th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) in Mumbai’s Chandan Cinema on October 14.

Number of stars studded the inaugural eve organised by Mumbai Academy of Moving Images to launch the eight day international film fest in city of Bollywood.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan inaugurated the opening ceremony, congratulating MFF’s chief campaigner and creative director Anupama Chopra and her team, who kept the flag of festival flying with their belief, conviction and excitement. This was followed by the welcome speech of MAMI chairman Shyam Benegal.

Yester-year actress Helen and French actress Catherine Deneuve won Lifetime Achievement Awards. Other iconic personalities like Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Anurag Kashyap and industrialist Niraj Bajaj attended the launch event of this grand film fest, which will screen 185 films from 65 countries.

When you are determined, nothing can stop you. Following this mantra in her life unstoppable Shraddha Kapoor gave her smashing stage performance dancing with an injured leg at a recent award function, which recognised achievements of Hindi films at the box-office.

Though, her leg was severely injured Shraddha’s spirit was undeterred and seeing this choreographer designed some simple yet elegant hip-hop moves for her. And at last, she performed it well on stage earning huge applause in turn. This commendable act will go on the air on October 19.

We guess, Shraddha has acquired such unbeatable attitude from her upcoming inspirational-dance based film ‘ABCD – Any Body Can Dance 2‘, for which she is presently shooting.

Bollywood stars played their role of responsible citizens of India by casting their valuable vote in today’s Maharashtra and Haryana general assembly elections. Today they got inked to ensure a better future for India. Celebs like Rekha, Jaya Bhaduri, Hema Malini, Bhagyashree, Rahul Bose, David Dhawan and Gulshan Grover. While, others took Twitter to post selfies of their inked finger and urged their fans to cast their vote. Here’s what they tweeted:

Salman Khan: Go Vote.

Abhishek Bachchan: Go for it! #GoVote #GetInked

Anupam Kher: Voted.:)

Riteish Deshmukh: Stop whatever you are doing- #GoVote #GetInked

Varun Dhawan: Just got I inked with my daaaad. Go #vote.

Madhur Bhandarkar: Voted. Plz vote. Every vote counts!!!

Milind Soman: Get out and vote! Be proud to be part of the largest democracy in the world, to keep it healthy is in our hands.

Mandira Bedi: Just got inked.. Responsibly! Your turn to do the same. Go vote! Make it count.

Sophie Choudry: For those who can, please vote today! (Before you ask, I can’t vote hence I am not there else I would be!) #GetInked #makeadifference/

Pooja Bedi: Voted!!! And I urge ALL of u in Maharashtra and Haryana to vote:) your vote is your right… and it DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Those who don’t vote dont have the right to complain about the way the system functions. #GoVote WISELY!

A year back, when Bhatt’s attempted ‘Murder 3‘ without the conceiver Emraan Hashmi, the film failed to attain the stature of “Murder” franchise set by this serial kisser. This made Mahesh Bhatt quote, “Emraan is inseparable part of the brand- Murder Franchise”. But now, he has revised his mind and officially stated that Emraan won’t be the part of Murder franchise anymore.

As per the sources, Mahesh said that Emraan has got matured as an actor and graduated to meaningful films like ‘Mr. X‘ and ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahaani‘. He doesn’t need the franchise anymore. Therefore, Bhatt camp will be launching new faces in ‘Murder 4’, which will be the remake of Telugu film ‘Maaya’.

Over the years, key components like erotica, young actors, hit music, betrayal, passion and an edge of the seat experience has made “Murder” a brand. The premises of ‘Maaya’ provide all these opportunities and thus, Bhatt’s are likely to gear their fourth “Murder” collection from next year onwards.

‘Heropanti‘ actress Kriti Sanon is getting her skills sharpen to flaunt her “Heroinepanti” in her next film ‘Singh Is Bling‘. Reportedly, she has adorned boxing gloves to take karate classes from the celebrity trainer Mehul Vora.

Kriti’s character in ‘Singh Is Bling‘ requires her to perform stunts and, hit kicks and punches to the goons. Therefore, her co-star Akshay Kumar recommended the expert to her.

As per the sources, Kriti is so dedicated to learn Karate that few days back it took toll over her health. Due to exertion, she was down with food poisoning, but then she quickly resumed her fitness and now she is back in action.

Sanjay Dutt‘s life has been a roller coaster ride. Born in Bollywood family, he was destine to be actor. But when he was about to mark his debut, he lost his mother. Next, when his career was taking an up flight, he got prey to addictions followed by the 1993 bomb blast controversy. His personal life was facing the turmoil too. After getting failed in number of relationships, he finally found long lasting love in Manyata Dutt. But, like always fate took a turn and landed him to jail. Summing this, it is evident that this Kalnayak’s life has been quite engaging to roll on reel. Therefore, his best friend-filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani has decided to make a biopic on him by casting Ranbir Kapoor in his character role.

Though it’s not an easy task to depict Sanjay’s life on celluloid, Ranbir has taken this challenge giving a nod to Hirani to start working on script and screenplay of this biopic.

The film will go on the floor when Sanjay comes out of the jail, serving his jail term in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast case.

After much of mishaps, Sooraj Pancholi breathes fresh air on a cool yacht in the exclusive first look of his debut film ‘Hero Remake‘.

The exclusive look features Sooraj in the sailor’s outfit popping a champagne bottle at the backdrop of a sea surrounded yacht. He will be seen romancing Suniel Shetty‘s daughter Athiya Shetty in the remake of 1983’s blockbuster film ‘Hero‘.

Directed by Nikhil Advani, ‘Hero Remake‘ is being produced by Bollywood’s godfather Salman Khan.