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'Men are scared of woman like me'

Even as every other Hollywood celebrity is busy tying the matrimonial knot and brushing up on parenting skills, their counterparts in the Indian film industry seem to be living it up and giving domestication a big miss. It is the best time to be single, famous and rich in Bollywood and no one seems to be in a hurry to walk down the aisle. And even those who are into committed relationships for many years are happy to keep waiting for the right moment to take the vows. This week's much-promoted release "Zindaggi Rocks" that has Sushmita Sen portraying a slice out of her own life on the big screen would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. Not one to be waiting for the right man before experiencing motherhood, the film is about a rock star (Kria) who brings up an adopted child all by herself. Kria is not averse to falling in love and marriage but she simply does not need the security net that marriage is perceived to bring. Critics have described performances by Sushmita and Shiney Ahuja (Rehan) as first rate but felt let down by the script. Filmmaker Karan Johar, a celebrity in his own right, said in a recent interview that marriage as an institution was being misused...and he doesn't need marriage. Karan reportedly said: "I love the fact that I'm single. I've my mother. Who needs another woman in my life? Why be married when I can be happy?" But Urmila Matondkar says she feels like the Indian version of 'Bridget Jones'. The 30-something actress told a leading industry magazine: "I think that to a large extent, single is rocking but I am so single that I feel like an Indian version of Bridget Jones, only many pounds lighter, sans a Hugh Grant! But after a while, it can also get on your nerves as it's very uncool to be single." For every Urmila there is a John Abraham, Salman Khan, Rani Mukerji, Tabu, Kareena Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen who don't even have marriage on their radar. Surprisingly, the list of glamorous women staying single either by choice or by sheer unavailability of good men seems far longer than the eligible bachelors. An explanation may reside in this remark from a leading lady: "Men in this city and country tend to get very intimidated by successful women and they certainly don't seem to be thinking right." But it is equally possible that Bollywood actresses just want to have fun alongside making good movies. Herein also lay some similarity with Hollywood. The current reigning Hollywood women brigade includes most women in their 30s. The likes of Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz and Meg Ryan are all a tremendous force indeed. Even in Hollywood when female stars reach the mid-30's - a pivotal career point for them - they have to do subtle artistic shifts. In entertainment 30-something is the age when one has to choose career options with care or be forgotten forever. But in Bollywood the situation is somewhat more complicated. Not only do actresses need to tread carefully, they also need more examples like Kajol, who continues to be a box-office draw post marriage, to convince them that marriage is no longer a bane in the Hindi film industry. Until then, it will be more fun to be single and ready to mingle.

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Katrina Kaif kicked out, Kat denies!

Tough time for Katrina Kaif are refusing to end. Her skirt controversy at Khwaja Moinudeen Chishti's shrine at Ajmer was barely over when the petite starlet got another shock from her mentor Ram Gopal Verma. Verma had announced that Katrina is no longer playing Radha in his Sholay. According to insiders, Ramu was unhappy with Kat's diction and asked her to opt out of the film. We also hear that the maverick director is already in talks with Sushmita Sen for the role. Katrina, however, cites dates problem as a reason of her exit from Sholay. She says, "I'm not doing the film because the dates are causing too much of a problem. I had signed Sholay a long time ago, and now all of a sudden the dates have changed, so it isn't working out for me. "I am busy with Anees Bazmi's Welcome, Vipul Shah's Namaste London and David Dhawan's Partner, and don't have dates for Ramu Ji's film right now. But I do wish Ramu the best." Ask her about her diction problem and she adds, "I don't think Ramu would ever have had a problem with my accent. I'm doing roles which need more emphasis on the diction and language. David's films have long dialogues and funny lines, which I have done. So it's completely untrue." Source:-santabanta.com

'If there's Mallika, It's got to be Hot'

Bollywood actor Mallika Sherawat is set to steam up the big screen playing an ex-CIA agent in a movie 'Dasavatharam' with veteran actor Kamal Hassan, where the actor himself plays a record-breaking ten roles! Ravi Kumar, director of the movie said Sherawat agreed to do the movie even before she saw the script since she was very keen to work with Hassan. "She plays a bold, modern girl. It was a pleasure working with her as she would report every morning at seven on the dot," Kumar said. "But one had to be professional since Kamal himself would reach the sets around 2.30 -3 am everyday! He would do his make-up for about five hours and by the time Mallika arrived he would be ready for the shot," he adds. With a budget of around Rs 30 crore, the film has imported a make-up team headed by Michael Westmore from LA. Kamal has written the script, screenplay and dialogues of the film. Asin is also playing the female leads along with Mallika Sherawat. "If there is Mallika, there have to be hot scenes," he said when asked about the scenes between Hassan and Sherawat. Sherawat also played an Indian princess in her latest movie The Myth with Hong Kong movie hero Jackie Chan.

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'Mika and I can never be freinds'

Mika and Rakhi Sawant are at loggerheads again… this time over a song which Meet Brothers and Mika have composed to reminisce latter's infamous kissing escapades. Sawant's arch enemy Krazy Kat aka Nandini Jumani has been chosen to play Rakhi. The animosity between the two item girls is well known and their war had reached a point where Nandini had filed a police complaint against Rakhi Sawant. Confirming the news Nandini says, "I am doing the video and we will be shooting the video on October 5. The concept revolves around the Meet Brothers asking Mika why he kissed the girl, and he answers in a humorous vein." Reacting to entire controversies she says, "It is an utter shame! I appeal to music companies not to take his album. If anyone does, I will not work with that company." But didn't they patch up after Mika apologized to her on a TV show? "The show did what the judiciary and the police could not do. He apologised to me on the sets of 'Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai'. Finally, I feel good that he did say sorry. But I didn't patch up with him.. Mika can never be my friend," she fumes. Source:-Santabanta.com

Sushmita Sen in Zindaggi Rocks

By Subhash K Jha Starring: Sushmita Sen,Shiney Ahuja, Moushumi Chatterjee Written & Directed by Tanuja Chandra Rating: *** Hey, this film rocks! Tanuja Chandra's Dushman and to some extent Sangharsh and Sur, were incredibly sensitive films. After a long hiatus the director returns to form with a film that's heartbreakingly real. Colonized by a cluster of believable characters, Zindaggi Rocks showcases Sushmita Sen's awesome personality in a tailormade role of the fey-and-fab Kriya. A stage performer and a single mother, the role acquires a tangy flavour and an abiding character that only Sen knows how to create. "But have no fear," her 13-year old utterly endearing son Druv (Julian Burkhadt) mischievously tells the doctor who's getting interested in her. The mom ain't married. Nor is she an unwed mother. Kriya, trust her to be unpredictable, adopted Druv when he was 2. Dhruv's majestically malfunctional family comprises only of wacky women, mom Kriya, Kriya's mom (Moushumi Chatterjee) and her wacked-out twin sister (Moushumi, in a double role, a carryover homage to Kajol's twin act in Tanuja's Dushman ), a squeaky secretary (Kim Sharma) and an assistant (Ravi Gossain) who believes he's a cowboy. Into this mad-house of malfunctional wackos comes the hesitant repressed Dr Suraj Rihan (Shiney Ahuja). The Sushmita-Shiney relationship grows in full of view of the fingers-crossed hospital staff and the equally curious and encouraging family of Kriya's relatives. Tanuja Chandra portrays the warmth at work, at play and within the defined comforts of domesticity with a deftness and warmth that you'd come across in the finest works of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Or more with the times, the cinema of Mira Nair. From little domestic vignettes the director constructs a big-little film with moments where a giggle grows grim, right in front of our riveted eyes. The emotional control of the narrative is exceptional. The support provided to the film's frail yet strong narrative by dialogue writer Mudassar Aziz, is beyond substantial. The words, specially those spoken by narrator Shiny Ahuja convey deep home truths with a throwaway casualness. You smile and you sob almost simultaneously as Kriya's life as a professional, a mother and a woman in love (in thar order) comes together in a fluent and virile clasp. The film's deeper thrusts on life and death emerge effortlessly from the rhythms of the routine. Indeed there are so many endearing moments in the narration that you wonder if the warmth of lived-in emotions comes from the characters or their ability to be true to ambience that they represent. The film has a charming ensemble of actors, instilling optimum conviction in the plot without losing their innate charm as stars of substantial longevity. As contrasting twin sisters Moushumi Chatterjee comes into her own after ages . As for Shiney his tentative eyes filled with the pain of a tragedy that paints his past and threatens to colour his future, and his coming out of his self-imposed shell is mapped by the actor in fine and sharp strokes. A special word for the boy Julian Burkhardt who plays Sushmita's son. The boy's winsome personality is so unders-tated, you wonder if actors are made from their childhood. But it's Sushmita Sen who holds you in a thrall. As a working woman struggling to remain chuckle-motivated as life comes and kicks her from behind, Sushmita makes you wonder once more. There's no one quite like her? If in her musical numbers she whips up a vigour that breaks your heart, in key emotional scenes she rips the screen apart with emotions that comes straight from her guts. After Chingari earlier this year Sushmita again pours a volcanic intensity into a role that would work with no other actor in the world. And a word for Sunidhi Chauhan's vocals,. If Sushmita provides the body and soul to her part of a fiercely protective mother who will give a new life to her ailing son no matter what it takes, Sunidhi is the voice that caresses the actress's soul…and then she's gone! In a year that's cluttured with remarkable films, Tanuja Chandra has emerged with a work that lodges itself in your heart. But I wonder if it would've worked so well without the amazing Ms Sen! Source:-santabanta.com

Bald look woke the actor in me: Saif Ali Khan

Saif Ali Khan Speaks To Subhash K Jha On Omkara. Q: Your last release Being Cyrus was in English. Omkara takes you into a rough UP lingo. A: Now we're talking! I was hugely relieved and excited that the film generated positive news and some money. I know how little we spent on the film, trying to work fearlessly without caring about profits. I was scared it would arrive after Salaam Namaste and expose my limitations. But I'm happy I've the range and reputation to carry off both. Yeah I could get away with Being Cyrus. That's good for our cinema. Today so many filmmakers have the liberty to make so many kinds of cinema without getting mainstream. Being Cyrus was made with clockwork precision. It was an artistic experience. Q: Being Cyrus and Omkara explain your range. Everyone has a range. It's about actually exploring that range. And I'm doing that. I'm deep into Siddharth Anand's Tara Rum Pum Pum which is totally commercial. It focuses me in a flattering light. Q: Omkara puts the film's main responsibility on your character? A: I wouldn't go so far as to say that. Ajay Devgan's Othello is central to the conflict. But if my character of Langa Tyagi didn't work then nothing would happen. So it's my responsibility, but only as an actor. If you're taking about stars then there's Ajay Devgan, Viveik, Kareena, Bipasha and others. Q: But in terms of plot propulsion Iago is central to Othello. A: Right. There can be no Othello without Iago. And the better the Iago, the better the Othello. Q: Kareena feels Omkara has changed her attitude to her career. What about you? A: I can't speak for her. But I personally went through a phase where I wanted to cash in on my city-boy image.. You know the urban dude who fits in nicely in New York…I changed the tenor of the Hindi so it sounded more westernized….I really enjoyed that space. It was an image I thought I could capitalize on specially since people were writing roles specially for. Q: Why not. A: Yeah….specially since this image came with the luxury of shooting in a posh environment and cool climate. You'd have to agree the world of Omkara is absolutely removed from Hum Tum and Salaam Namaste. Q: Would you say Omkara has weaned you away from your comfort zone? A: But haven't I been doing that in my own way for some years now? While doing the urban cool of Dil Chahta Hai I also did Ek Haseena Thi where I was the scheming cad. And while I was doing Hum Tum I did Parineeta. I'd say films like Hum Tum and Salaam Namaste gave Yashraj Films a more fun image. I remember after Parineeta I got myself a funky haircut and decided to have fun with Arshad Warsi in Melbourne for Salaam Namaste. Then when I was offered Omkara. I knew it was going to take me away from the luxury of Melbourne to the sweltering heat of Wai. Getting my hair cut and preparing for the role in Omkara really appealed to the actor in me. I did my homework, played those lines over and over again in my head, figured out the mannerisms for my character. I actually felt like a real actor. It was absorbing and rewarding. But a role like Omkara doesn't happen every day. Q: What about your female co-stars Kareena and Konkona? A: I don't have that many scenes with Kareena. My co-star is Konkona. I had a different notion about her. I saw her as this National award-winning actress who was very different in her choices. But our moms(Aparna Sen and Sharmila Tagore) have been associated for years. That pre-determined our relationship. I was aware of Konkona's reputation as an actor. I remember she did this big scene with all the actors. It required her to flit around the courtyard in a good mood. She did it bang-on. And I knew I was on to a good thing. I just felt happy to have done my homework and be on the set of this film. Not like the Saif Ali khan that anyone would imagine. Vishal told me how theatre actors were smirking because he had apparently sold out to stars. Langda Tyagi and Saif Ali Khan? Doesn't jell. Q: Is Omkara is a coming of age for you? A: It certainly is. They first said I can only play the rich city boy. Then they said he's good for the second lead. For a long time I wasn't ready to play a village role. It daunted me. But the fact that it was Shakespeare egged me on. Iago was not quite my radar. When it came to me it excited me. And I think I've made something out of it. I wouldn't do something that doesn't grab me. Shakespeare certainly is dramatic. There's action murder, drama, intrigue…. These are emotions that are important to the Indian temperament. We're one of the few countries which has such a culturally diverse mass of audience. Shakespeare is a superstar who in his time catered to front-benchers as well as for a higher more sophisticated audience. Q: Do you think Vishal has done justice to Othello? A: Yes, I think he has captured the essence of Othello in Omkara. To a large extent Maqbool was a departure from Macbeth. In Omkara he stuck faithfully to Shakespeare, down to the nuances. He has brought a new power and energy to the original. And the way he has dressed up Shakespeare in the Western UP's political mafia is stunning. Source:-Santabanta.com

Big B wiped off Gabbar's image: Ram Gopal Verma

By Subhash k Jha It's Day 2 of Ram Gopal Varma Ka Sholay and the indefatigable Ram Gopal Varma is shooting with his new-age Gabbar in a house near Yari Road in suburban Mumbai. "It's Mr Bachchan's introductory scene. I had to start with Gabbar Singh's scenes first. And what can I say? Thirty years of the impact that Amjad Khan had on me as Gabbar Singh, has disappeared in one days' shooting. In the very first shot Amitji just bowled me over. For a guy like me who has grown up on Gabbar Singh and everything that I know about filmmaking came from watching Sholay….to forget the earlier Gabbar wasn't easy. Mr Bachchan has made the impossible happen." Ramu warms up to the topic. "For me Gabbar Singh is now Amitabh Bachchan. And I'm sure that's how it's going to be for audiences when the film releases." Dressed in intimidating clothes with a stick in his hand, AB looks every inch the decadent gangster. "He has got quite a lot of accessories. See the whole point of Gabbar Singh in the city in my Sholay as opposed to Gabbar in the Chambal Valley is that the latter is cut off from all civilization. Mr Bachchan's Gabbar is a devious gangster who stays in Mumbai and challenges the authorities to catch him. So he isn't on the run nor is he in prison. This isn't a scruffy frantically on-the-run gangster like the ones in my Satya or Company. My Sholay is going to be a very exotic glamorous film. And Mr Bachchan 's Gabbar will be suave, dapper and elegant. Mr Bachchan's Gabbar is like Phantom. He's in touch with the minds of terrorists from all over the world. I wanted to make him look menacing and yet magnetic appealing and panther-like." On Wednesday When Mr Bachchan walked in for the first day's shooting in his ordinary clothes and the stick, there was a discernible gasp. Says Ramu, "He hadn't done that much to his looks—no wigs, not too many accessories except the stick, no stained teeth at all—but he exuded terror. He has brought in all the elements of the original Gabbar. Then he has brought in his own element which only he can describe." Ramu chuckles, "All these years Mr Bachchan has hidden his evil side so well. I want to bring it out on screen. How can anyone be so correct? No one can be so morally perfect. Like I always said Sholay to me is synonymous with Gabbar. And now Gabbar is synonymous with Mr Bachchan. He's the heart of the film." One radical change from earlier plans. Himesh Reshammiya will no longer sing Mehbooba o mehbooba. "Male vocals didn't fit into the song any longer. Asha Bhosleji will sing the song for Urmila and Amitji will pitch in a few lines. That's a change from the original. Because in the earlier Sholay Amjad Khan never danced or sang. I'd have loved to have Himesh sing Mehbooba. But it just didn't fit in." So does Gabbar Singh still remain the guy with no overt sexual desires? Ramu nearly falls off his directorial chair. "Are you crazy? Did you see Gabbar's lust when Helen was dancing? Who says Gabbar was disinterested? He was looking at Helen as though he'd eat her up. Trust me. I'm the lust expert. The same sort of chemistry will exist between Mr Bachchan and Urmila." In the meanwhile the voices against Ramu's Sholay continue to blare. "I believe Amjad Khan's son gave a statement that Mr Bachchan shouldn't play Gabbar Singh. He should at least see what I've done. Everyone from Lata Didi to Hemaji feels making Sholay is like playing with fire. Well I've one consolation for them. Since the critics have already exhausted all their expletives for Shiva, they'd have nothing left to say about Sholay. I think they'll pool their money and hire a gangster to get rid of me. If Allah, Jesus Christ and Vaishno Devi come together to plead against my doing Sholay I'm still making it. Aage jo hoga wohdekha jayega." Incidentally Basanti remains un-cast. "Why this brouhaha over Basanti? She isn't as important in my Sholay as she was in the earlier version. If you remove the tonga and ghagra-choli from Basanti she's just another girl in the plot." Source:-santabanta.com

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan

I'm too young for a biography

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who launched his biography 'SRK-Still Reading Khan' by Mushtaq Shiekh, said he had always thought that he was too young to have a book written on him. ''I never considered myself so important to have a biography on me. But, it pays to have a writer as a neighbour. I feel overwhelmed, embarrassed and at the same time emotional at this honour,'' SRK said at a grand book launch function last night. The superstar remembered his late parents on the occasion. ''I wish they were alive today to see the importance being given to me,'' he said emotionally. ''I have never felt so special. They should have been here to witness the importance being given to me which I do not deserve. There is nothing more than materialistic success,'' he added. Mushtaq described the 460 page book published by Om Books International and priced at Rs 2,995 as his labour of love which took more than four years. Shah Rukh said Mushtaq would speak to him a lot about his personal details. ''He never gave me an idea of what he was doing. In fact, I did not know that he had gone to my old home and school in Delhi to research on me. Apart from doing informal interviews, Mushtaq did not trouble me much,'' he said. Shah Rukh said in the last three years, this was the third book on him. But, this is the first biography on the superstar. According to Mushtaq, 'SRK-Still Reading Khan' was more of a real life journey book than a biography. ''Shah Rukh has just began his quest to the top. To put him on paper and say this is it would be unfair to the man and all that he has achieved. He moves at such a speed that I would have to come up with revised editions on the biography every month. This book is not just about the written word. It is a treasure trove of rare and unseen photos of the man called Shah Rukh.'' The author said the book covers everything about the actor. His journey from nowhere into the hearts of every Indian is the fodder of the book. Sajid Khan was the compere of the evening. Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta, Farah Khan, Abbas Mustan, Aziz Mirza, television actors from Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms, Karan Johar, Javed Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar were prominent among those present on the occasion.

Source:-santabanta.com