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Even before its far release at the end of the year, ‘P.K.‘ is daily in the headlines. The controversial poster of Aamir Khan posing nude on the railway track is the talk of the town these days. Where some are fascinated, some consider it as a taboo to the Indian society. Whatsoever people think, we have insight news of this poster being shot at the real location in Rajasthan and not in the studio. It’s a real picture and not a chroma background.

‘P.K.‘ team was scouting across when they found a non-functional railway track in Rajasthan, which was just few hours away from the city. They instantly finalized the location and got in the process of seeking the permission for the shoot. When everything got finalized, director Rajkumar Hirani reduced the crew team to the handful of people who had to go through the security measures. They were made to deposit their mobile phones and laptop at the hotel and travel to the sets distanced at 2 hours away. And then this controversial poster was shot.

Well, all the efforts that the ‘P.K.‘ team took while shooting the poster has paid off in the form of publicity.

Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra shares comrade bond off-screen, where they are often spotted praising each other. But director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is producing cold-vibes between these friends onscreen, by making them fight for Ranveer Singh‘s love in the periodic film ‘Bajirao Mastani‘.

As per the sources, Deepika and Priyanka will be seen playing the character role of Bajirao’s lovers Mastani and Kashibai, respectively. They both will indulge in lot of confrontation sequences and a dancing drama. Even though the film is named after Mastani (Deepika), the other woman in Bajirao’s life Kashibai (Priyanka) will be given equal importance in Bhansali’s script.

Eight years ago, when Bhansali decided to make the film on this periodic drama, he had planned the script visualizing Kareena Kapoor as Mastani and Rani Mukherjee as Kashibai. But ‘Bajirao Mastani‘ took time to take off and with time his leading ladies also got changed.

Salman Khan‘s ‘Kick‘ is actually breaking all the records of Bollywood. After cracking the bars set by ‘Chennai Express‘, now it has beaten the lifetime collection record of ‘Krrish 3‘ by reaching the figure of INR 225.1 Crores on the domestic front, while worldwide it has made the total business of INR 366.72 Crores!

As per the reports, ‘Krrish 3‘ was earlier topping the charts by earning its lifetime collection of INR 224.69 Crores. But, now Salman as changed the whole number game with ‘Kick‘ being the biggest box-office spinner of the year 2014.

Yesterday was the third Monday after its release on July 25, yet it has tightly made his uphold at the theatres. Now lets see, what will be its fortune after the release of Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor starrer ‘Singham Returns‘.

A Maharashtrian cop of ‘Singham Returns‘, Ajay Devgn has a Marathi connection in his real life too. Want to know how? Well, then his wife Kajol is half-Maharashtrian by birth and now taking this connection forward the actor is up to present a Marathi film ‘Vitti Dandu’ under his production house Ajay Devgn Films.

‘Vitti Dandu’ is a periodic drama based on patriotism and the love for one’s family in which a relationship between a grandfather and his grandson is subjected. It stars eminent actors Ravindra Mankani, Dilip Prabhavalkar and Yatin Karyekar in the lead role.

Ajay has planned a big launch for ‘Vitti Dandu’, as he will be attaching the film’s trailer with his upcoming Independence release ‘Singham Returns‘.

Once in a media interaction, Ranveer Singh said that if he wouldn’t have been an actor than he would have chosen to be a copywriter. While he excelled in this starry job, it didn’t blunt his penning skills. As he will write and present a rap in the next commercial for a Chinese cuisine brand Ching’s Noodles, which has hired him as its brand ambassador.

Ranveer introduced us with a rapper in him while signing the title track “Aadat se majboor” of his second film ‘Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl‘. After this Bollywood made him rap in various award functions and last when we heard him rapping was in the television commercial of Durex condom which he endorses.

The upcoming Ching’s Noodles commercial will be directed by Ranveer’s friend Shaad Ali, who is also directing him in his next film ‘Kill Dil‘. Whereas, the music for this commercial will be tuned by the trio-composers Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.

Just like Bollywood film is incomplete without songs, similarly highest TRP grossing TV show Bigg Boss is incomplete without its host Salman Khan. Earlier there were speculations that he might not be the part of this season, but just for the sake of his fans the star has agreed to host the show.

Salman holds the record of hosting this celeb reality show for back to back four years and this year too he has given his nod. Colors TV channel on which the show is aired, have confirmed the news by officially announcing Dabbang Khan as its host.

A source also reveals that Salman will be soon flying to Bangkok to shoot a special promo for Bigg Boss- Season 8, which will begin its fresh season by this year’s September.

After Sajid Khan and Govinda rejected the role of Alia Bhatt‘s father in ‘Shaandar‘, now the young actress is likely to find her dad in her real-life mentor Karan Johar. The buzz being director Vikas Bahl is quite impressed with Karan’s acting in ‘Bombay Velvet‘ and desperately wants him to act in his upcoming film ‘Shaandar‘.

The other side of the news also reveals that Karan is busy being a producer of Dharma Productions and has no time to be an actor at present. But Vikas is determined to get him on board and he is trying every possible way to convince him for ‘Shaandar‘.

Well, even we hope Karan agrees to this “Shaandar” offer so that we get an example of how actually he guides Alia in her real life too.

This Independence Day cars will burst, corruption will diminish and common man will get back to the power as Bajirao Singham will fight against the evil odds of the society. Are you interested in joining him? Well, then grab the exclusive ‘Singham Returns‘ merchandise that are available on a leading website portal at attractive prices.

‘Singham Returns‘ team has recently launched a special line of merchandise comprising of T-shirts, sling bags, caps, school accessories, logo pendants and the laptop bags. At the launch, entire ‘Singham Returns‘ team sported in the black T-shirt which had the Singham emblem printed on it. There actor Ajay Devgn stated that through this initiative the team hopes to connect with the audience. And he himself has liked the merchandise and has picked up some T-shirts and Tiffin boxes for his children.

Produced by Ajay Devgn Films and Rohit Shetty Productions, ‘Singham Returns‘ also stars Kareena Kapoor as Singham’s lady love.

Yesterday was a big day for actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who celebrated her 28th birthday on the sets of her upcoming film ‘Bangistan‘ in Poland with co-stars Riteish Deshmukh and Pulkit Samrat.

This year has been special for Jacqueline, as she recently tasted the success with her first 200 Crore film ‘Kick‘ and now she has some exciting projects in her kitty. Therefore, celebration was double and we got a glimpse of it when Riteish uploaded her cake-cutting picture on Twitter with the following post- “Happy Birthday my dear @Asli_Jacqueline – happiness love & success. Some more dancing on s set tonight. Polish style.”

Well, we know it’s late but HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JACQUELINE!

Several reports were fuming up about ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara‘ star-buddies Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol reuniting in Dev Benegal‘s ‘Bombay Samurai‘. But here comes the latest report which states that Abhay was never a part of the film.

Abhay took Twitter to clarify this false news, where he posted- “So many reports about me doing Bombay Samurai. Not true! Love Dev Benegal‘s work though. My best wishes for him and all involved.”

‘Bombay Samurai‘ originally stars Farhan Akhtar, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kalki Koechlin and will soon go on the floor.