Max Stardust Awards 2009 Glittered With Stars

In the period of cinema awards around the Globe, whether it is Golden globe or Oscar awards, Bollywood no way is behind in this frenzy and the latest event occurred on the line is Max Stardust Award that occurred on last Saturday dated 14th February 2009 in Mumbai.

Nearly, every big star was seen at this function performing, receiving award or sitting among guests. The best movie awards was given to the “Singh is Kinng” to Akshay Kumar. And his wife twinkle was also present at the event. Amitabh received best actor award and Priyanka Chopra bagged the trophy for Female Star of the Year. There were all, the list is countless including Kangana Ranaut with beau Adhyayan Suman, Kareena Kapoor and boyfriend Saif Ali Khan, Ameesha Patel, Fardeen Khan, Salman Khan, Neha Dhupia, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Rao and more.

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A chilling action sequence for the climax of ‘Kites’

Sources say the climax of Hrithik Roshan’s romantic thriller ‘Kites’ has a nail-biting action sequence inspired from ‘Bad Boys 2’ and ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’. Director Anurag Basu recently shot a difficult action sequence in Santa Fe in New Mexico. The scene required around a month of preparation and was shot over three days.

The scene was initially directed by Dick Ziker, but the Roshans weren’t quite pleased with his work and reshot the scene with action director Spiro Razatos and they were happy with the final result.

It is a scene similar to Bad Boys 2 where the villain pushes cars off an automobile mover (the vehicle that transports cars from the factory to the dealer) during a car chase. The rented a garage for a month where he kept second-hand cars that he purchased. These cars were modified to make them look new.

No, wonder, the film’s marketing and distribution rights have reportedly been sold for a whopping amount of Rs. 110 crores to Anil Ambani’s Big Pictures.

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Shah Rukh in Good Health after Successful Surgery

The good news, after all came out from the Breach Candy Hospital where King of Bollywood Shah Rukh had undergone a surgery of his left shoulder on Monday 16th February. All the anxious souls were relived after listening good news that the operation was successful and SRK is in good health. He has some post surgery pain; however, would recover very soon as time would pass away. He is expected to be in hospital for someday and would be discharged very soon, however, he has been asked to away from the action and shooting for at least four months and to take bed rest. However, king Khan has decided to take rest till start of next IPL season and to continue work from May or June. This has not created much problem for Bollywood. Yet Karan Johar’s much expected MY NAME IS KHAN is on hold till Shah Rukh recovers, completely.

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Celina Jaitley faces misbehavior at New Delhi airport

Celina Jaitley has time and again raised her voice against abusive and rude behavior against women, be it in foreign land or India. Recently, she again faced rude misbehavior from authorities at New Delhi airport while she was going through the security check for her morning flight to Mumbai.

That day there was special security check for the Valentine event in the city but what left Celina shocked was that her expensive state of art iPod and Blackberry were scratched while quite a few other things in her bag were broken after the scanning of her belongings. Worse still, the cops who were apparently responsible for the damage, were found smiling even as Celina was complaining against them.

“I agree that authorities there are doing their duty and we too are completely cooperating with the security measures. It is for our own benefit and I understand that we should comply with them. However, who gives them the right to mishandle things belonging to others? It was heartbreaking to see my stuff in a bad shape. Both my iPod as well as Blackberry have lost their sheen due to callous attitude of men who were doing the scan,” said Celina.

“These guys don’t know how to behave with women. I went up to the officer in charge and all he could say was ‘Sorry’? Also, they told me in no uncertain terms that they couldn’t repair what was broken. Moreover, the guys who did it were grinning in front of him. What a shame! Someone ought to teach these cops how to behave with women”, she added.

Celina is thinking of approaching higher authorities and apprise them about what transpired with her at the airport. “I was not only angry with them for breaking my stuff but for their misbehavior with other women. They are there to secure us and not to humiliate, insult and manhandle us, especially women. They are misusing the power of uniform everywhere now-a-days. At the end of the day we are paying passengers and they can’t break our things, insult us and indulge in indecent behavior,” she said adding,
“True, the women there were thanking me and one of them even said that I did what they couldn’t have possibly done in fear. Well, nice to hear this as a compliment, but my request to all womenfolk out there is - ‘Fight for yourself and raise your voice in events like this’. Till the time we don’t come out in open and let the authorities know that they are there to help us and not harass us, such shameful things would continue to happen.”

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Lekha Washington steps into Bollywood

It is the time for South beauties to rule Bollywood now. After Asin took everyone by surprise bagging some plum projects with big Khans of Bollywood, Lekha Washington is the latest south side actress to join Bollywood. Lekha has been chosen to star opposite Rajeev Khandelwal in UTV’s new film, ‘Peter Gaya Kaam Se‘. She was chosen since UTV needed a heroine who could play football, ride the bike, look like a super model, do martial arts, and be everything from cold-hearted to a girl next door.

An NID graduate, Lekha is a powerhouse of talents being associated with theatre, adventure sports, sculpting, and hosting travel shows. Apart from being a qualified documentary filmmaker, Lekha co-hosted the first season of the Indian Premier League with Ajay Jadeja on Sony Max. A Maharashtran Burmese Italian Punjabi hybrid, Lekha Washington is quite a known name in Tamil Cinema.

In October 2008, Lekha had hosted the Al Barakha Canada Cup Twenty20 tournament on international television. She has also hosted travel shows around the world, and been an active theatre enthusiast for much of the last eight years, directing her theatre group Khel.

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Tara Sharma’s loss is Minissha Lamba’s gain

They say to gain something you have to lose something. The saying goes well for actress Tara Sharma who got married to Roopak Saluja since November 2007 and is pregnant now. However, her pregnancy took toll on her acting career and the actress has to forego an important role in director Rensil D’Silva’s film on terrorism, starring Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Vivek Oberoi. The actress has told producer Karan Johar and director Rensil about her condition and the duo have relieved Tara from the project.

Reportedly, Minissha Lamba has been roped in to pair with Vivek in the film now. But Tara has not lost everything. She will act in a film called ‘Suno Na’ in which she plays a pregnant woman. She is presently dubbing for a movie called ‘Mocktail’.

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Priyanka & Saif win the NDTV Profit Car & Bike Awards

Indian Business News Television Channel announced awards in various categories for automobile products on 20th February, 2009. The award function “NDTV Profit Car & Bike Awards” was held at ITC Grand Maratha in Mumbai. While Bollywood beauty Priyanka Chopra won the award in best female model category for her Hero Honda Commercial Ad, Chhote Nawab Saif Ali Khan won the award in best male model category for his Chevrolet Car Commercial Ad. The duo looked smart and adorable with Priyanka in black leather outfit and Saif with his rock star image.

The company on the occasion said, “Over the last 4 years, NDTV Profit Car and BikeAwards have emerged as the most coveted awards in the automobile industry - which stands for credibility and a sense of fair play. There is complete transparency in what we endeavour to put out - since we have a responsibility to our viewers and readers to carefully assess, select and recognise the best automobiles of the year”.

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Sayali Bhagat walks the ramp for SNDT College Show

She entered the glamour world by winning the beauty contest followed by modeling assignments and finally entering the Bollywood with ‘The Train: Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed’ opposite Emraan Hashmi. Though the film did not give the desired push to her career, Sayali Bhagat has always managed to stay in news due to her ramp shows and also due to candid proposal to Rahul Dravid and Irfan Pathan on TV. Currently she is dating the Pakistani cricket team captain Shoaib Malik . Shoaib Malik too has confirmed friendship with her.

Recently, the dusky beauty walked the ramp for SNDT College Show. Other models like Janice and Geetika also walked on the ramp with collage girls. Neena Gupta, Leena Mogre were spotted too.

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“SlumDog Millionaire” Won Eight of the Oscar Awards

Ultimately, at Kodak theatre in Los Angles it turned out to be day for “SlumDog Millionaire” at 81st Oscar award ceremony, where the movie based on the plot of Mumbai, surrounded around a slum Boy’s tale of rising from rag to riches bagged eight Oscars out of 10 nominated categories.

“SlumDog Millionaire” won award as Anthony Dod Mantle for Best Cinematography, Simon Beaufoy for Best Writing & Screenplay, Resul Pookutty, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke for best sound, Chris Dickens for Best Editing, AR Rahman for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Movie also bagged award for Best Director given to Danny Boyle and The Best Picture award also retained by the movie.

Following is the list of 2009 Oscar Award winners.

Best Actress – Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Director – Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography - Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Writing & Screenplay based on Material - Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Sound - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Editing - Chris Dickens - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Score - AR Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Song - AR Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Makeup - Greg Cannom - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Art Direction - Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Visual Effects - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best Sound Editing - Richard King - The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress -Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Costume Design - Michael O’Connor - The Duchess
Best Animated Film - Andrew Stanton - WALL.E
Best Writing & Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen - Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Best Picture - Slumdog Millionaire

However, winning of Oscar by SlumDog Millionaire put forth the case of Bollywood Cinema in the International arena and is positive sign that in coming future there would be production of movies of International standard. Bollywood-stars.net congratulates  crew of SlumDog Millionaire on this great achievement. “Proud to be Indian”

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Anil Kapoor Graces the ‘Montblanc Signature for Good’ Affair

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ leading light, Anil Kapoor ascended at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on February 20th for the ‘Montblanc Signature for Good’ event. It was a high profile gala hosted by Montblanc in support of UNICEF.

Anil’s co-attendee was Reese Witherspoon. The celebrities that graced the occasion were Paris Hilton, Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Oliver Stone, Michael York and many more.

The ‘Montblanc Signature for Good’ idea unveiled the portraiture photography of American photographer Roger Moenks to do well to UNICEF’s education and literacy programs. Many renowned actresses were honored for their sustained support of UNICEF. Their autographed portraiture that was unveiled on the occasion will be auctioned and all the proceeds will go to UNICEF.

The stars had ascended for a good cause and also enjoyed the night away! The stars gorged on a distinctive menu presented by world-famous chef, Wolfgang Puck along with a swing band entertaining them exclusively.

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Two new projects for Vidya Balan

With the advent of a new year on Jan 1, Vidya Balan has ventured on new arenas. Vidya’s birthday falls on the 1st Jan itself and this year she went to Panchgani with her family for birthday celebrations. The New Year brought two new promising roles for Vidya. One is Nikhil Advani’s ‘Chand Bhai’ and the other is Vibhu Puri’s ‘Chenab Gandhi’. The latter is produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. ‘Chand Bhai’ does not have Miss Balan in the central role and she gets to pair opposite Akshaye Khanna. The film is based on a delinquent boy’s character and has a social message attached to it.

Advani’s ‘Chand Bhai’ is a far cry from Advani’s last release ‘Chandni Chowk To China’. Says Vidya, “It’s nothing like the high-flying glam-wham stuff that one expects from Nikhil after Chandni Chowk. Chand Bhai is a stark very real kind of drama. And I get to co-star with a very talented actor Akshaye Khanna with whom I was in Nikhil’s Salaam-e-Ishq though we had just one passing shot together.”

Vidya is excited about ‘Chenab Gandhi’ too and says, “I haven’t really interacted that much with my co-star Hurman as yet. With Mr. Bachchan who plays the title role, I share a lifelong bonding. Right from Eklavya we’ve been paired in so many films right up to Chenab Gandhi and now Balki’s Pa. If I did all the films last year that I was offered with Mr. Bachchan, I wouldn’t be working with anyone else.”

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Sonam Kapoor heading for an image makeover

Sonam Kapoor has had two releases uptil now and the girl has appeared as the coy girl-next-door in both her flicks. Now, it is time for an image makeover for this newcomer. But since no film maker has approached the Kapoor girl with a glam role, Sonam has turned to her Papa dear Anil Kapoor to get her wish fulfilled.

So now we have Anil Kapoor to produce a movie titled ‘Ayesha’ based on the the famous novel “Emma” written by Jane Austen. Sonam, of course, will be playing the lead role of Emma (Ayesha here) who is rich, easy going and flamboyant. Abhay Deol has been reportedly roped in for the project and a new actor named Arunodoy Singh is to play another male lead role.

While Abhay will be seen as a man who clandestinely loves and cares for the heroine, Arunodoy will give life to a role of a playful young man for whom the leading lady has a soft corner. V.J Cyrus Sahukar will be come across as a man who wishes to marry Ayesha. The task of editing the novel has been trusted upon Devika Bhagat, the writer of ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’.

Though both her previous films bombed at the box office, Sonam Kapoor has stolen everyone’s heart with her beauty and freshness. Lets see how much appreciation she gets in a glamorous role.

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Preity Zinta in Napier to cheer Indian team

Bollywood star Preity Zinta made a surprise visit to the McClean park, moments before the toss in the first ODI between India and New Zealand there to cheer The Kings Eleven Punjab, an IPL franchisee co-owned by Zinta.

“I have been invited by the New Zealand Prime Minister and will be attending the official function hosted for the Indian team on March 5 at Wellington,” said Preity, who looked gorgeous as ever clad in faded blue jeans and a blood-red top.

Preity briefly met Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Irfan Pathan before the start of the match and wished them well. “I met Yuvraj, Dhoni and Irfan briefly. Nothing much,” she revealed.

Indian team moral was already down by white wash in T20 series. But it seems her present has worked magic and Indian team won that day’s match.

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Wedding Bells for Bollywood beauties

It is wedding time in Bollywood with two of our most gorgeous actresses tying knots with their hubby. Actress Amrita Arora got married to Shakeel Ladak by Catholic rituals at Olive restaurant in Mumbai. The wedding was graced by Bollywood biggies that include Gauri and Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan and Zayed Khan with their wives along with Twinkle and Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, Urmila Matondkar, Priyanka Chopra, Mehr and Arjun Rampal, Manish Malhotra, Tusshar Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan to name a few. However, there was an initial disappointment when the got a call from the Mt Mary Basilica stating that the wedding ceremony would not be possible because of security issues.

Also, this March, beautiful Ayesha Takia married her long time boyfriend Farhan. Her wedding took place on March 1, 2009 in Mumbai. They had a quiet nikaah as per Islamic tradition. Only family members attended the wedding ceremony which was a simple, private affair with only near and dear ones invited. On the night of 2 March, Ayesha and Farhan gave a party to their friends and other friends from the industry.

Check out the beautiful Bollywood ladies as coy brides at their wedding ceremony.

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Bipasha Basu revealing her fitness mantra in ‘Cosmopolitan’

Bipasha Basu’s ‘Aa Dekhe Zara’ is set for release and the promos of the film are already on the television screens with Bips looking as fit and gorgeous as ever. There is no denying the fact that this dusky Bong beauty is a proud owner of a fit and perfectly shaped body. She is featured On Cosmopolitan India (supplement) March 2009 issue which portrays her at different poses in the gym. In the interview titled “Fly High with Bipasha”, Bipasha reveals that if she has 2 hours free, she spends half an hour with her boyfriend John Abraham, and the rest at her gym or at the pool. Check out the scans of the super sexy Bipasha Basu from the March 2009 issue of Cosmopolitan.

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Shilpa Shetty opens up her chain of medi-spas

After winning the title of ‘Big Brother’, Shilpa Shetty has stepped into many shoes, Television host, Yoga Guru, actress, producer, business woman, active fighting against AIDS and racism, to name a few. Now, she has decided to take up the task of making people beautiful. It is known to very few people that Shilpa is a trained beautician and that she always wanted to own a ‘beauty parlour’.

Shilpa Shetty has launched a chain of medi-spas all over Mumbai in partnership with spa owner, Kiran Bawa. IOSIS is not quite a beauty parlour, it is closer to a spa, Shilpa said at the inaugration.

A source close to the actress reveals, “Shilpa hasn’t had a party for a long time but on March 10, she will have a double celebration the Royal Rendezvous to celebrate her partnership with Rajasthan Royals as well as the opening of her new medi-spa at a five-star hotel in the suburbs. She has already asked people to block the date.”

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Deepika Padukone at Tissot watches launch

Though her much ambitious project ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ bombed at the box office, there is no stopping the leggy lass Deepika Padukone who looked gorgeous at the launch of Tissot watches at ITC Parel where she arrrived with her dad and ex- badminton world champion Prakash Padukone.

Attired in a saffron mini dress at the event, Deepika was all praises for the brand and said, “The Tissot T Touch Expert is not only a watch, it’s a gizmo which every ambitious traveller will wish to posses. It makes the simple act of wearing a watch or seeing time a thrilling experience with its extraordinary functions. I would step out of my house for an expedition with my T Touch Expert.”

Asked about her fetish for watches, she said, “I love watches. Infact, I gifted a watch to Ranbir on his birthday too.”

And yes, when asked about her future plans regarding career and marriage, she repeated Ranbir Kapoor’s words saying, “We are too young to get married. For now, both of us want to focus on our careers, marriage would come later.”

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Ranbir Kapoor goes candid for GQ

Ranbir Kapoor, son of veteran actors Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, as soon as he stepped into the industry became a hot property and also drew all the public interest because of his open and candid love affair with Deepika Padukone.

And this time, Ranbir is making headlines by his cool new look on GQ magazine’s cover page. The issue has an added point of a free and candid chat with the actor with Ranbir revealing each and everything about himself, from his hidden secrets, habits to his personal life.

He also said, “There was marijuana, there was alcohol, I started smoking cigarettes.”

The actor has not only disclosed his drug-addiction stories, but also told that he must have been around 15 years old when he lost his virginity.

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Rucha Gujarathi making her big screen debut with ‘Lottery’

The fine line between the small screen and the big screen seems to be disappearing now with increasing number of television stars steeping into the tinsel town and Bollywood celebrities making constant appearances on the smaller screen.

While it was Prachi Desai last year, it is Aamna Shroff and Rucha Gujarathi this year making their debuts with ‘Aloo Chaat’ and ‘Lottery’ respectively.

Rucha has been seen extensively on television so far with appearances in tele-serials like Kkusum, Bhabhi, Waaris, Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya, Shh Phir Koi Hai and the reality dance show Saas V/s Bahu. Moreover not many are aware that Rucha had in fact started her career as a child artiste and did a few movies like Dancer, Sahabzaade, Hum Hain Kamaal Ke, Kanyadaan and Shikari in her initial years of facing the camera. Rucha has also starred in music videos of albums by Gurdas Mann, Pankaj Udhas and Vaishali Samant.

Now finally she has managed to reach the big platform with ‘Lottery’ which also marks the debut of Indian Idol Abhijeet Sawant and newcomer Manisha Kelkar. A romantic musical thriller, ‘Lottery’ is special for Abhijeet too since other than being the lead protagonist of the film; he has also lent his vocals to as many as three songs. The rpomos of the film are already on air. Directed by Hemant Prabhu, ‘Lottery’ is set for a March release.

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Imran Khan - Partakes in ‘Vagina Monologues’

The one the most promising newcomer Imran Khan, who has already laureate the much prestigious Best New Actor trophy is all set to gratify himself theatre work. Grabbing much sought after revolutionary role in Eve Ensler’s ‘Vagina Monologues.’ The play is written by Eve Ensler with much controversial title as well as concept is hitting Mumbai and will be directed by Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal

The reoccurring subject is employing the vagina as a means of feminine empowerment and the ‘Vagina Monologues’ series of monologues are supposedly read by female actors. Imran Khan will interpret the piece, ‘My Short Skirt’ which was also formerly read by Mallika Sherawat. Here Imran will read the piece while a female performer will act it out on stage; while this is the first time in history (the play was first written in 1996) a guy actor will be rendering a monologue.

Enthused by a gal pal who is in the play herself, Sonali Sachdev, to be a part of the play Imran anticipates more men involving in the female oriented play.

Nevertheless, the finest thing about it is the reality that the proceeds will be forwarded to generate wakefulness towards violence aligned with women and helping the victims of hostility.

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