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Anurag Kashyap‘s much-anticipated film ‘Bombay Velvet‘ has finally got its release date next year on May 15th.

Earlier, the film was touted to release on November 28th this year, but the pro-longing post production work sighs that it won’t get over before January. Since, Kashyap is recreating 1960s era in ‘Bombay Velvet‘ with the VFX.

‘Bombay Velvet‘ stars Ranbir Kapoor in an ordinary man’s role, who fights against all odds and forges his destiny to become a big name. The film will also mark Raveena Tandon‘s come back on-screen as an opera singer and Karan Johar‘s debut on-screen.

Arjun Kapoor paid his “Tevarific” tribute to his real life mentor Salman Khan with the song “Superman” from his upcoming film ‘Tevar‘.

“Superman… Salman Ka Fan” happens to be the first song of ‘Tevar‘, in which Arjun marks his entry flashing his superman moves on the roofs of Agra city. The audio is quite appealing with the catchy lyrics voiced by Wajid Ali, whose voice suits Salman on-screen.

In ‘Tevar‘ Arjun will be seen playing a diehard Salman Fan named “Pinto”, who is a national level Kabaddi player.

‘Kill Dil‘ promised to be a blockbuster film with the killer star cast of Govinda, Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra and Ali Zafar. But it has performed inversely from what it was expected to do.

Garnering an average rating from the critics, ‘Kill Dil‘ first weekend box-office collection proves that it was also not successful in making its stand in the audiences mind. On its opening day ‘Kill Dil‘ took off with the amount of Rupees 6.53 Cr. Saturday was expected to hike the film’s collection, but it slipped fetching Rupees 6.14 Cr. However, on Sunday the business got slightly improved with Rupees 7.35 Cr. Therefore, the overall first weekend box-office collection of ‘Kill Dil‘ is Rupees 20.29 Cr.

Considering its budget of Rupees 35 Cr, ‘Kill Dil‘ has delivered below the average performance at the box-office. Directed by Shaad Ali, the film is presently running in the theatres.

Finally, the much-delayed venture ‘Fitoor‘ took off last week in Kashmir and the makers made it official by revealing the first look of Aditya Roy Kapur from the film’s sets.

On the occasion of Aditya’s 30th birthday, UTV Motion Pictures released his first look sitting with director Abhishek Kapoor with the caption “Fall colours on #Fitoor. Now filming in breathtaking Kashmir with @Abhishekapoor, #AdityaRoyKapur @GuyInTheSkyPics” on Twitter.

Aditya will be seen in the title role, adapted from the character Fidraus of Charles Dicken’s novel Great Expectations. ‘Fitoor‘ will also cast diva Rekha and actress Katrina Kaif in the lead.

Shah Rukh Khan hold true to his words, attending Salman Khan‘s youngest sister Arpita Khan’s pre-wedding Sangeet ceremony on Sunday night of November 18 at the sea-facing Galaxy Apartment in Mumbai. As earlier, he had mentioned that he doesn’t need an invitation for her wedding.

SRK spent quality time with the entire Khan family and sportingly posed for a picture kissing bride-to-be Arpita’s forehead along with Salman. After couple of hours, when he was leaving Salman played a gracious host and saw him off.

Arpita’s big fat wedding will take place in Hyderabad’s royal Falaknuma Palace. The Khan family has booked the entire palace turned hotel at the whooping cost of Rupees 2 Crores for two days. Khan brothers- Salman, Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan will be making Arpita’s wedding day more special by performing on the popular songs of Salman.

The youngest member of the Bachchan clan- Aardhya Bachchan turned three on Sunday, 16th November 2014 and her proud parents Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan threw a grand birthday bash at their Mumbai’s residential home Pratiksha.

Aishwarya had been planning for Aaradhya’s birthday of “Fairy Tale” theme, since long time and it indeed turned out to be a grand affair attended by several star-kids along with their famous mommies and daddies. Its guest list included Hrithik Roshan, Homi Adajania, Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra, Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia D’Souza, Tara Sharma, Kiran Rao, Lara Dutta and Raveena Tandon. The invitees were presented with the return gift of jar filled chocolates which had animal stickers all around specially decorated by Aaradhya.

16th November also happened to be a special day for Aishwarya, as yesterday she won ‘Icon of the Year’ Award. Must say, Aaradhya is her mom’s lucky charm!

The happiest film of the year, ‘Happy New Year‘ has got one more reason to be happy as the film marks its entry into the Oscar Library. The library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has officially selected the screenplay of the film for its Permanent Core Collection.

Here after, ‘Happy New Year‘ screenplay will be accessible to students, filmmakers, writers, actors and others from the field of cinema, for the purpose of research in the Oscar library, which already has more than 11,000 produced films spanning the years 1910 to the present.

Shah Rukh Khan and his ‘Happy New Year‘ team were amongst the first Indians to promote their film at Google and Twitter headquarters in the US. On the basis of its superstar-power the film has managed to rake Rupees 350 Crores across the world and is still running strong in the theatres in its fourth week at the Box-office.

What will happen when Sunny Leone‘s hot avatar will meet Ram Kapoor‘s jolly persona on screen, obviously there will be an unstoppable entertainment for the viewers. Their film’s former title ‘Patel Rap’ wasn’t strong enough to handle their cuddling chemistry; therefore the makers have now renamed the film to ‘Kuch Kuch Locha Hain‘.

‘Kuch Kuch Locha Hain‘ will feature Ram in a Gujarati businessman’s role, whereas Sunny will be seen playing a superstar. Filmmaker Devang Dholakia is confidently describing his film as biggest laughing riot ever.

The latest title is making us expect for an out and out fun over Ram and Sunny’s “Loocha”.

While no one can match the epitome of Rekha‘s beauty in Bollywood, Aditi Rao Hydari has been hired to play Rekha‘s younger version in Abhishek Sharma‘s much awaited film ‘Fitoor‘.

Reportedly, Rekha‘s role is inspired by a wealthy spinster Miss Havisham’s character from Charles Dicken’s novel ‘Great Expectations’, where she also has some sequences of her younger days. So, it was Abhishek’s call to get Aditi on board to play the younger Rekha on screen.

Starring Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur, film ‘Fitoor‘ will go on the floor by the end of November.

With the killer star cast on board, Yash Raj Films‘ ‘Kill Dil‘ hit the theatre on November 14. Though it failed to achieve the “Blockbuster” remark from the critics, let’s check out how far it flared in front of the audience.

‘Kill Dil‘ marked its release in over 2400 screens across the world. The film was watchable far too many reasons- first of all comeback of Govinda, charm of Ranveer Singh, power-house of Parineeti Chopra and rusticity of Ali Zafar. Still, the theatre occupancy remained limited to 35% on its opening day with the box-office collection of Rupees 7.15 Cr nett.

Mostly being shot in North India, ‘Kill Dil‘ won the maximum viewership in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Chhattisgarh. While, the film took an average start in Rajasthan and Mumbai. With no such big competition, ‘Kill Dil‘ is expected to do a good business over this weekend.