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An IPL team is Bollywood’s most wanted accessory these days. Anybody who’s anybody in the film industry either owns one, has tried to buy one, or has thought about buying one. SRK, Preity Zinta, and Shilpa Shetty are in the first category; Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor are in the second; and Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan are believed to be in the third.

But there’s a fourth category, film folk who can’t afford to buy an IPL team – and Priyanka Chopra falls in this category. She says so herself!PC was at an event in Mumbai yesterday (March 10) to announce the screening of DLF IPL 2010 matches live in theatres across India. She was asked if she thought about getting an IPL team herself, when she said, “I can’t afford an IPL team!” She said it with a laugh, of course.

And we don’t think the actress has to pinch pennies (or actually even the crores it takes to buy an IPL team), even though her last release ‘Pyaar Impossible’ disappointed at the box office. So what’s stopping her from buying a team? Any guesses?

The producer took the strict decision after he saw a constant inflow of pictures and information being put up on the said site. And with his both lead actors Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor being active users of the site, Sajid had little choice but to impose his will. Confirming the news, Sajid told a daily, “I actually took the decision to forbid my cast and crew from putting any information on websites after an incident that happened with Sajid Khan, my director of ‘Housefull’. We were doing a photo-session with the film’s stars.

We weren’t even finished and Sajid Khan had already put one of the pictures on the site. I was horrified. That’s when I decided it was time to make the confidentiality clause a legal issue in all my contracts.”Regretting the lack of privacy among stars, Sajid further added, “I remember when my father produced JP Dutta’s Ghulami, we’d stand outside Dharmendra’s van for hours waiting for him to emerge so we could see what he wore, how he styled his hair, what watch he had on, etc.

Today the stars volunteer all this information on the social networks even before the director takes his first shot. I think all of us need to make confidentiality compulsory for every film.”Well, looks like Priyanka Chopra will have all work and no play on this one!

This week Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra return from the US after finishing Anjana Anjani… well, almost! One sequence of the couple jumping into cold water had to be cancelled in New York at the last minute, leading to a major inconvenience in the schedule. Says producer Sajid Nadiadwala, “It was a fun sequence to be shot on top of a bridge in New York. Ranbir and Priyanka were to jump into the water.” The daredevil pair were more than willing to take the plunge.

But better sense prevailed, at least on the film’s crew. “We called it off. The water was zero degrees. We couldn’t risk their lives,” adds Sajid. Now that one day’s shooting will be done on a similar location in Bangkok. “We’ve found a bridge to match the one in New York, now we need to match Priyanka’s and Ranbir’s date,” laughed the goodnatured Sajid. Which is the real challenge more than shooting the scene.

Ranbir returns and begins work on Imtiaz Ali’s film instantly while Priyanka’s dates are with Vishal Bhardwaj.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is set to cross the 200,000 mark in Twitter fans, visited the headquarter of the micro-blogging website in San Francisco after being particularly invited there. Priyanka tweeted about her visit to the headquarter where she met Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder.“My day was really interesting because I was invited to Twitter headquarter in San Francisco! Had a great time.

Thanks Biz and team for the wonderful hospitality,” she posted.The 27-year-old, who has been shooting in US for Sajid Nadiadwala’s “Anjaana Anjaani”, is going to cross the 200,000 mark as far as her followers on Twitter are concerned. At present, she leads the Bollywood bandwagon on the site with 196,903 followers and has left stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Shahid Kapoor far behind.

“Priyanka was in the US for her movie shoot. She had to drop by at a studio for the NDTV Indian of the Year programme and there she met the Twitter team. She was invited to the headquarter office in San Francisco since she is so popular among the Bollywood celebs on Twitter,” a source close to the actress told IANS.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra seems to be in no mood to get back to her ex boyfriend Shahid Kapoor. It is said that she has cut off ties with Shahid but also his close friend Mubina Rattonsey.The news is doing the rounds that Priyanka Chopra had a major fall out with Mubina for leaking their secret talks to Shahid Kapoor. She confronted Mubina the first time it happened but she denied leaking out any information.

But she decided to severe ties with her after she repeated the same mistake.It’s said that Shahid was not happy with Priyanka’s friendship with Mubina when they were having affair, as he thought she would conspire against him. They even fought over it but Priyanka continued her friendship and even shared her secrets with her.

Interestingly, Shahid was linked to Mubina in the past.

With Neil Mukesh, Priyanka Chopra’s six husbands have been finalized. Yes, the cast of Vishal Bharadwaj’s most ambitious project which has one woman with seven husbands is getting last touches. The name of the film is ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’ and Neil gets to play the youngest spouse of Priyanka. So what made Neil sign the movie?“When I heard the script, I was zapped.

This was something I had to do. I play one of Priyanka’s husbands, the youngest of the lot.The fact that I get to be in the same movie as actors like Naseeruddin Shah and Mohanlalji was incentive enough,” Neil is quoted as saying by a daily.Yes, the movie has Naseeruddin Shah and south megastar Mohanlal; both are playing Priyanka’s husbands.

In fact, Vishal has also roped in an American actor for the movie.Now the hunt is on for the seventh one.For ‘Saath Khoon Maaf’, Neil will be given a special look. It’s learnt that he will be almost ‘unrecognizable’ on screen.

Ex-miss World turned actress Priyanka Chopra is all set to tie the knot, of course only in roll life. The news is doing the rounds that she would play a woman who marries seven men, all of whom get killed, in her next movie titled Ek Batta Saat by Vishal Bhardwaj.

Actors like John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Mohan Lal and Naseeruddin Shah have given the nod whereas Emraan Hashmi backed out due to his movie with Mohit Suri. It is said that Vishal is planning to pick the rest of the cast from the relatively unknown names.

Priyanka is said to be excited about her role in the movie, as this kind of role doesn’t come everyday.

February 19, 2010: Priyanka Chopra’s film with Vishal Bhardwaj, ‘Ek Batta Saat’, seems to be drawing a lot of attention. In the film, Priyanka, who plays.

Shirish Kunder’s debut production vehicle has been enclosed with controversies ever since it was announced late last year. If Farah Khan opting for Akshay Kumar instead of Shah Rukh Khan wasn’t a reason good enough to ignite fire, there were also murmurs around the toss up of the leading lady between Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and Sonam Kapoor.”Well, there were quite a few top names in thought as well as newcomers. But then no one was approached per se.

Once we decided that Katrina Kaif was the best fit, we finalized her, approached her and got her on board. It’s as easy as that. Anything else that was said or heard was plain rumor”, Shirish brings to end yet another controversy.Shooting of Tess Maar Khan will kick start on 1st March and would get over by the month of August. Also starring Akshaye Khanna in a major role, Tess Maar Khan has music by Vishal and Shekhar and has already confirmed its global release date as 24th December.

“Farah and I are mighty excited to start shooting for the film”, says Shirish, ” Tess Maar Khan would belong to Farah Khan brand of film. You would surely be aware about the language that she talks. Her films are meant to be complete masala entertainers that cater to all segments of audiences and Tess Maar Khan does exactly that. I am so convinced that we have the best case scenario here with her donning the hat of the director and I running the film’s production.”

New Delhi, Feb 16 – Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is on a spree of firsts this year. After winning a national award recently for her role.