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After Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan played 10 different roles in “Dasavatharam”, it is Rahul Bose’s turn to play a multi-character role in a forthcoming film, “Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam”. Rahul will play six different characters in the movie directed by Sanjay Chhel, a press release said. He will essay the roles of a daredevil officer of the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Mughal prince Jehangir, an underworld gangster, a Hyderabadi Nawab, a dumb deputy of an underworld don and also a don’s bodyguard. Mallika Sherawat and Paresh Rawal will also feature in “Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam”.

Well, the sources say yes. The perfect looking couple, who seem to have no fights, has finally started to live a normal married life. And with a normal married life, come the enhancement called fights. But then, this couple seems to not know how to deal with it. Recently, at IIFA, the male Bachchan seemed to have lost his temper on Ash and the couple was found screaming so much that the voices could well be heard outside their room.Apparently, the reason was the typical eager-to-catch-attention nature of the actress. While Jr. Bachchan tried to keep her low in an award function, the lady was busy being over expressive with Kunal Kapoor at an award function. This allegedly made Bachchan to excuse himself and Ash, to take her to a corner and talk about the issue. Ash seemed to be unconvinced and thus the duo, later had a huge fight!!
Now, this is like what it is to be really MARRIED!!!

Believe it or not but Emraan Hashmi has become a huge craze in Pakistan. At the world premiere of Jannat in Lahore, there was a stampede to get a grab of the dazed ‘serial kisser’ from Mumbai.

If Jannat is the unlikely hit of the year (unlikely, because hero Emraan Hashmi has had a flop run for the last two years and Jannat itself is not the best from the Bhatt stable), there was clever strategy at work backstage.

Another surprise: Mahesh is not the only quotable Bhatt in the family. Here’s the rarely-heard Mukesh Bhatt, matching his outspoken older brother, word for word.

For a producer whose films have a certain polish, his office is amazingly overcrowded, in a tacky sort of way, like a chaotic municipal ward. But the two brothers in their rooms upstairs remain insulated from the mess below. Satisfaction hangs in the air, there’s energy in the upbeat atmosphere.

“It is a very satisfying feeling,” acknowledges Mukesh, the financial brain of the Bhatt family team. “It’s our own Sicilian clan with Mahesh Bhatt as Don Corleone,” cracks Mukesh Bhatt as he discloses how they went about creating Emraan Hashmi, the star.

“Four or five years ago we launched this boy called Emraan Hashmi and consistently backed him. Then he got lost by doing films for outsiders, very bad films like Jawani Diwani and Dil Diya, including Mr Subhash Ghai’s Good Boy Bad Boy which was disastrous. It undid all the good we had done.”

“Last year, we took a firm decision that Emraan won’t do any outside film without consulting us. Fortunately, he listened to us. He had burnt his fingers and learnt his lesson. Now, after Jannat, he is getting an average of 10 offers a day. Emraan Hashmi charges a fee of Rs 5 crore today and there’s no guarantee that he’ll do your film even if you do pay him that money.

“We have certain conditions before he’ll do a film. It has to be a solo film, he won’t do two-hero and multi star cast films. The story should revolve around him, he should be the protagonist and the film has to be made by a reputed banner which won’t compromise with the making or promotion of the film.”

Warming up to how the Bhatt family put together this hit project called Emraan Hashmi, Mukesh boasts, “One sane decision that Emraan has taken is to listen to me. If he hadn’t, he wouldn’t be in the position he is in today.” Thank you, Mukesh Chacha. Not only for bullying your nephew for his own good but also for making and promoting Jannat so aggressively that an average product turned out to be the biggest winner of the first half of 2008.

We didn’t just get lucky with Jannat, it was intended to be a hit,” Mukesh unabashedly thrusts out his chest. “My brother and I have the confidence to stand on our own feet. We don’t need the crutches of a star to see us through a Friday.

“In 2000, when we saw the trend of stars getting irrational prices, we took a conscious decision not to work with any stars. Believe me, our best period started from 2000.”

Look at the statistics:

“In 2001, I made Kasoor, the only silver jubilee hit that Aftab Shivdasani has had in his entire life.

“In 2002, we made a film with two newcomers called Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu, the latter was a vamp in her earlier film Ajnabee and she was the heroine of our film, Raaz.

“In 2003, once again we made a film with a new boy called John Abraham and made a hit film called Jism.

“In 2004, we gave the biggest hit of the year with Murder.

“In 2005, we had Zeher, a silver jubilee success.

“In 2006, we launched Kangana Ranaut with Gangster.

“In 2008, we’ve got Jannat.”

After challenging the star system, Mukesh now takes on finance minister P. Chidambaram. “The cost of film-making has escalated because, thanks to Chidambaram, there’s a service tax on everything. Whether you make money or not, the government makes the maximum out of you. It’s a one-way street. The worst things to have happened to the country are the Congress and Chidambaram.

“In every budget, Chidambaram looks at us like we don’t exist. In spite of that we (as an industry) are surviving for which the credit should go to us, not him. If he had his way, he’d have killed us long back!”

A big welcome to the latest refreshingly outspoken Bhatt.

After playing the silent and mysterious Subhash Nagre, a character loosely based on Bal Thackrey in Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar and Sarkar Raj, Amitabh Bachchan will now produce a Marathi film under the Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) banner. Without revealing much about the film, the Big B said, “Every regional cinema has its own importance. We should encourage the Marathi film industry as we all are a part of the Indian film industry.” The film will be directed by Umesh Kulkarni, whose first film as director, ‘Valu’, was a hit. Quite naturally, Kulkarni cannot believe his luck. Big B’s foray into Marathi cinema should keep his detractors quiet for a while. After all, those who were criticizing him for not contributing to Maharshtra will have little to say after this move by the Big B.

Abhishek Bachchan, who has been known by for his happy go lucky nature with unusual calmness, created a scene on the sets of Drona a few days back. The actor, recently got mad at no good reason, and slapped a poor spot boy. The fault of the spotboy was only that the poor man had forgotten to switch on the fan which was one of the chores Abhi had given him including fetching the latter’s stuff from car and bringing him a glass of water. While following the actor’s orders, the spot boy forgot to switchon the fan, for which he was rewarded with an instant slap on his face. The slap and the insult was so hard that the spot boy could’t stop crying for hours. The son of a super star, though, didn’t even tried to go apologise or pacify him. At this, the spot boy finally resigned and left after being unable to tolerate the insult.
After all, they’ll find many spotboys, but ABHISHEK BACHCHAN is not born daily!!

Meet the Khiladi Akshay Kumar in his new rugged and rough and tough look for his reality show ‘Fear Factor- Khatron Ke Khiladi’. Keeping in toe with the script and his action hero personality, Akshay Kumar has styled his look to be absolutely unconventional and defiant.
Styled by a London based designer, his fashion line includes unusual hooded jackets, contemporary scarves, and trendy ankle length boots. Sporting a military crew cut, salt-pepper stubble and of course designer aviator glasses, the actor sure gives several beats a miss. Tall, athletic, leaner and extremely handsome Akshay has done all the death defying stunts in the show himself, given that he is trained in martial arts.Talking about his new look, Akshay Kumar said, “I wanted to show all my ‘COLORS’ through my new style, Akshay’s personal style… I don’t want to look like someone else to be cool. What you see is what I am; from laughs to tears, to dangerous stuff, ladies and cheetah…It’s just me, myself and all my scarves.”
Just in case you forgot, the show will have 13 Bollywood beauties who’ll compete with each other- Yana Gupta, Aditi Govitrikar, Pooja Bedi, Sonali Kulkarni, Anita Hasnandani, Meghna Naidu, Tapur Chatterjee, Tupur Chatterjee, Nethra Raghuraman, Anjana Sukhani, Dipannita Sharma, Vidya Malvade and Urvashi Sharma. The show will be shot entirely in South Africa, over a period of one month and is being produced by Endemol India.

John Abraham’s last hit was Dhoom (2004) and since then he has given 14 flops in a row. And if that wasn’t bad enough his Aashayein has been delayed again. The film which was earlier scheduled to release on May 9 and then June 20 has now been postponed to September 12.

Informs our source, “After the success of Jannat, we don’t want to take any risk by releasing the film in July and August. Jaane Tu, which is a love story based on college life is a much awaited film while Love Story 2050 has lots of special effects. So these two films will divide the audience’s attention.”

Adds the source, “Our film is very serious and John plays an intense role so to fetch more money from the box-office we have decided that finally the film will be releasing in September. Also, John is busy shooting for Dostana in Filmcity so he was not able to give time for the promotion of Aaashayein.”

Aashayein is the story of a compulsive gambler who faces a lot of trauma in his life as he suffers from cancer. The film is directed by Nagesh Kukunoor whose last hit film was Iqbal.

Yuvraj Singh`s Bollywood fixation refuses to end. After a series of link-ups with several leading ladies from Kim Sharma to Deepika Padukone and more recently Preity Zinta, the latest to catch swashbuckling southpaw fantasy is Riya Sen.

Yuvraj was seen with his new arm candy from tinsel town in a private party in Mumbai before Yuvraj left for the Asia Cup in Pakistan. And after some cozy moments, they reportedly left the gathering and quietly slipped into Yuvraj`s car.

Yuvi was also seen with Riya`s elder sister Raima at a fashion show, earlier this year. But while that may have been a platonic relationship, coming close on the heels of his rumored break-up with Deepika Padukone, his well known liaison with Kim Sharma was never in doubt.

A prince on the field, he surely knows how to bowl maidens over off it as well.

Once upon a time Amitabh Bachchan had the total copyright over the anger matters. Later on heroes like Sunny Deol and Ajay Devgan shared few bits of the losing control.

On screen sweeties like Salman and Chichi have even created off screen hunguma either by knocking ladies’ doors or by slapping news guys. But sweet babies ire-ing and firing in the industry is quite an offbeat catch.

Though hard to believe but it’s true that it hardly takes few seconds to ignite anger in Priety. We all are aware of this tamed lioness’ angry side. Once this pretty actress gets angry then she is not the one who would back out from the fight.

Recently producer Tito Juneja’s son Sonny Juneja had to face the storm from this lady when he dared to throw comment on Priety’s acting capabilities while she was dubbing for Tito’s film Har Pal.

Priety got so bugged up with the continuous comments from Sonny that she decided to quit dubbing session and took a seat in a nearby park.

In the end director Jahnu Barua had to arrive on the sets to convince the angry actress for resuming the dubbing. Preity did so but only after Sonny was asked to leave the studio.

Whether reports of cold vibes between films cast Shiney Ahuja and Preity Zinta or Shiney’s balding problems, Har Pal has always been associated with these kinds of negative stories. But as you say in Bollywood, negative or positive, B-town personalities always welcome free publicity.

Maybe the uncontrollable anger fuming in the babe is just a part of that!

With just one week to go for the release of his debut film Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na, Imran Khan surely is the talk of the town. The promos have already caught on big time and Imran seems to have found many girls going ga-ga over him. While there is a lot written and spoken about Bollywood’s new pin-up boy,brings you some facts which you surely didn’t know about Imran Khan.

1.  Imran studied in Conoor in a hostel. After finishing his school, he studied filmmaking at New York film academy

2. He actually wanted to be a film director until one day he met Abbas Tyrewala and fell in love with the script of the film and Jai Singh Rathod’s character. He then made up his mind to do the film

3. Imran is the son of Anil Pal and Nuzhat Khan, his father works with a very famous web portal in US

4. Imran hates to train or gym. He has been forced to start training for his character in Sanjay Gadhvi’s Kidnap. He has now taken over Aamir’s gym and works out daily

5. Imran Khan is an extremely good cook and according to him cooking is a therapeutic exercise. After a long day’s work, its cooking that helps him unwind. His favorite dish is Dal Tadka and Rice

So after reading this, we hope we have helped you in improving your I.Q. (Imran Quotient) by a few points.