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Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is going to enter in Bollywood by his comeo debut in a film, “Vighnaharta Shri Siddhivinayak” about the miracles of the elephant-headed deity Ganesh. The film is about the god and Tendulkar himself will play a small role of “Vighnaharta Shri Siddhivinayak”.

The star of Indian cricket, Sahin Tendulkar is a devotee of Ganesha and he will not charge any money for his role in the movie. The film is expected to start from next month and it will also feature a voice-over by Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan.

The film is being produced by the Siddhivinayak Temple Trust, which looks after a famous temple dedicated to Ganesh in Mumbai. Film’s production is handled by company of Rajiv Sanghvi. “He will play a small role, as himself, either in a song sequence or in an actual scene,” said Rajiv Sanghvi.

“Sachin has been a regular at the temple for many years now and he never gives up an opportunity to show his devotion,” said Subhash Mayekar, chairman of the trust.

Indian cricket team is in touring Sri Lanka at present. Sahin’s office confirmed the cricketer would be shooting for the film after he returns from Sri Lanka.

Tags: Bollywood, Cricket, film, Ganesha, Master Blaster, Movie, Sachin, Sachin Tendulkar, shri siddhivinayak

According to the foretold stories, earlier the Taj Mahal was build by the emperor “Shahanshah” for his beautiful wife “Mumtaj”, but with changing times, we see a change in that story as well. Bipasha Basu, the bong beauty of Bollywood, desires the reconstruction of her house, which she would address as her Taj mahal, as her birthday present for herself.

When enquired, as to why she wanted to reconstruct the house instead of buying a new land which is a lot easier as compared to the previous idea, an all excited Bips instantly replied that she had no problems with the place she was living in and that she just needed the place to become more suitable and comparative to her energy levels. With this she explained that the last time, her house was being built, she did not have much time to look into the construction personally due to her busy schedule, but this time round she plans to completely concentrate and give an ample time to her “Taj Mahal”.

The energetic lady shared that she was all game to travel to every corner of the world to buy the best color and material wood, tiles, upholstery. The furnishings etc for which she has already planned sometime off and informs that when she is traveling for her shopping fiesta, the construction would be looked after by her parents who live very near by to her place, which is called the Muktangana.

The Muktanagan situated on Sarojini Road in Khar, which was previously owned by Rakhi Gulzar, was sold by her on only one condition that its name would be retained even when she has left it, and Bips took over to the top floor of the building.

With energy bustling in her and excitement rushing in her mind about redressing her den, Bipasha Basu announced her deadline for the completion of everything would be January 7th, which is also supposed to be her birthday as she believes that if she does not keep a deadline, the work keeps on piling up and then there is no date of completion.

Wishing Bipasha Basu a happy living…

Tags: Bipasha, Bipasha Basu, Bips, Bollywood, Mumtaj, Shahanshah, Taj Mahal

Thanks to Rajshri production house and its mobile services, the masses have a new word to learn from the dictionary, Mobisode. As the first half of the word suggests, it is something related to the mobile. It exactly means any entertainment stuff being aired on the mobile.

Rajshri productions launched their first mobile show, Akbar Birbal remixed with collaboration with the leading telecoms service provider, Idea. The Bollywood style tale telling show based on the Mughal emperor Akbar and his advisor Birbal, has been launched in the sms, mms, audio and video formats on the Idea cellular services. The first of its kind has been directed by Siddhartha Anand and its cast comprises of Shehzad Khan as Akbar and Rajesh Jais as Birbal. The other cast also includes Priya Arora, Mohit Daga and Yug Italia. The exclusive programme comprises of ninety videos and audios of three minutes each.

The chief marketing officer of Idea Cellular Services, Mr. Pradeep Srivastava informed that the show available on the Idea Fresh WAP GPRS services and on voice portal will be available for three months. The clips of the show are also available on www.rajshri.com.

The media house has shown excitement while they wait for the audience response of this new style entertainment viewing and have declared if their show is a decent hit, then they are game to produce more such stuff for other service providers as well. The Barjatyas in the end, informed that after the expiry of the decided period of three months, the show would be made for television, video cd and FM radio as well.

Considering the fact that Idea cellular services is a part of the $28 billion Aditya Birla Group and have a 26 million customer ship in India, we wish the Barjatyas all the luck for their new venture…

Tags: Aditya Birla, Akbar, Birbal, Bollywood, Idea, Mobile, Mobile Show, Mobisode, Rajshri Productions, Telecom

The Bollywood big star Amitabh Bachchan is issued a notice from Goa Bench of Mumbai High Court on Monday for allegedly violating the Anti-Tobacco Act after National Organization for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) had filed the case against Bachchan and others.

Along with Big B, Anchor Electric appliances, Keshu Ramsay and others were also issued the notice followed by a hearing of the case on Monday after billboards showing the megastar smoking a cigar were raised on the Goa highway.

The notices have been issued before admission and the respondents will have to appear in person or through lawyers, court officials said.

NOTE had taken strong objection to Bachchan’s still from a film Family which was displayed on the billboards raised along the Panaji-Margao highway depicting Big B smoking a cigar. The organization had contended the billboards violated anti-tobacco laws applicable in the state.

Earlier, the lower court had refused to entertain the case stating that there is no substance in it. Bachchan had apologized to NOTE but the organization than challenged the case in high court who issued the notice against them.

“I am deeply apologetic of the advertisement that has hurt the sentiments of the people at large and organizations such as yours,” Bachchan had said in a letter to NOTE India general secretary Shekhar Salkar.

Bachchan tried to make the things clear by saying in the letter that: The publicity banner carrying my photograph was a still from my film Family in which I am portraying the character of an underworld don.

“While I was not instrumental in designing the publicity campaign, I find from the photograph of the billboard stated to be put out on NH 17 in Goa that the manufacturers of Anchor electric switches are seeking to promote their own products. Neither B Corp Limited nor I have promoted Anchor products or tobacco products.” He added

“I have made a note of anti-tobacco legislation and informed my producers and told them to take immediate steps so that no such violation takes place as far as I am concerned,” he said.

“I am a teetotaler, I do not drink nor smoke and I have not indulged in these activities for almost 30 years and have no intentions of indulging in them in the future,” Bachchan had said in his letter.

NOTE had issued legal notice to Bachchan on January five for violating Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003.

Tags: Amitabh Bachchan, Anti-Tobacco Act, Bachchan, Bollywood, Legal Notice

The long talks between the Bollywood damsel Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shankar for the Rajnikant dream project ROBOT have finally reached to a conclusion leading Aish to sign the movie for which she is being paid mind boggling money estimated to be around six crores making her the actress to be paid maximum ever in the Bollywood history. The project being produced by Ayngaran international, is supposed to start off in the last week of August after a small pooja, as opposed to the first week of June, as plans originally, due to some problems.

Considering the whopping amount being given to Ash, date problem could not have been an issue for this star struck actress and as considered, she has offered bulk dates to the producer. Lately being in the news for the Bachchan parivaar’s “Unforgettable World Tour” which is being organized by Wiz craft and starring a list of some A-list bollywood celebrities, Aishwarya now sure has become every actresses’ envy. The world tour, which is to begin on July 6th is almost a two months long event after which the Bachchan bahu is goin to start off with her Robot.

In the meanwhile, till the time Aish covers the world tour, Shankar is planning to shoot a song for his movie which does not require her presence. As the lady finishes the family professional tour, she would again be globe trotting with the crew of Robot, as Shankar plans the shooting of his dream project all around the world.

Her recent release, Ram Gopal Verma’s sequel to his hit Sarkar, Sarkar Raj, also brought accolades to the actress where she was seen with her new family, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and the hubby dear Abhishek Bachchan. With all the new big projects falling in her kitty, be it Hollywood or Bollywood, Aishwarya is sure in her best face of the Bollywood career, but now the question lies, is all this sudden luck, the Bachchan charm or is it her self made status and her hard work which has made her the maximum paid actress?? Whatever be the reasons, Best of luck for her career……

Tags: Abhishek Bachchan, Aish, Aishwarya, Aishwarya Rai, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan Parivaar, Bollywood, Rajnikant, Ram Gopal Verma, Robot, Shankar

Rabbi Shergill, the “Bulla ki Janna main kaun” fame singer has come out with his new album which he claims to be dedicated to the girl child and the social issues associated with it. Titled Avengi Ja Nahin, the complete album has been focused on the issues like female feticide, racism etc.

The album is a nine song venture which is Rabbi’s first attempt to work for a noble cause. The title track Avengi Ja Nahin, which is already on air and doing the rounds of various music channels focuses the issues of a girl child while through another one titled

Ballo, Shergill puts light on the illegal act of pre natal determination of sex. Known for his Sufi style of singing, the Punjabi Sufi singer has not deviated from his style of singing and presents his concerns and expresses his grief over the manipulation and exploitation of females in such an advanced era.

Another song, Pagri Sambhal Jatta deals with the brewing problem of racism, which he shares, is also influenced by the Billy Joel song We Didn’t Start The Fire. Explaining how he had to face problems while he was in London, where people seeing him wearing a turban thought small of him, the singer claimed that it affected his thoughts a lot which led him to the song which has been shot in Brazil, Mumbai and Italy.

The famous singer also has a bollywood release in the near future, Delhi Heights for which he has sung and composed songs but marks that bollywood music is repetitive and one cannot soar very high in it. Routing back to his recently released album, Rabbi describes the songs very straight forward and is hopeful that people would connect to the songs. Wishing him all the luck for his work, we hope that his concerns towards the social issues create some difference.

Tags: Bollywood, Bulla ki Janna, Italy, Mumbai, Rabbi Shergill

After winning Big Brother show in the United Kingdom, Shilpa Shetty has made her place in the A- list of the bollywood stars. The small Britain stint has brought not only an inflow of cash and movie offers but has added her name in the most talked about people of the tinsel town.

After her recent success of Life… in a metro and being in the news for her relationship with a certain Mr. Kundar, Shilpa had recently come out with a yoga cd of hers in which she has revealed her yoga knowledge for a toned up body like hers. But most recently she has made news for herself by committing her dancing skills to be showed off at the ‘unforgettable’ world tour being organized by the Bachchan family.

Confirming the news of her being a part of the world tour Shilpa informs that she would be dancing in two acts sharing the stage with the very new bahu of the bachchan parivar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. She explains her excitement to be working with Aish by stating that as both of them belong to Mangalore, she hopes that they would get along very well. Adding to this she claims that Preity, who is also a part of the show, is a hassle free person and would be good to work with. With this she recalls that it isn’t the first time she would be doing a stage show with Amitji but her excitement is at a different level when she has to work with the whole family.

When enquired about the sudden entry of her in the show, she replied that it wasn’t a sudden decision, they were planning it out and when it got finalized, it was announced. An all charged up Shilpa would be a part of the show throughout whereas Madhuri would perform in the United States and Canada and Akshay Kumar would be present at the inaugural show at Toronto.

Tags: Aish, Aishwarya, Aishwarya Rai, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Amitabh, Amitabh Bachchan, Bachchan, Bachchan Family, Bollywood, Britain, Madhuri, Preity, Preity Zinta, Shilpa, Shilpa Shetty, UK, United Kingdom, Yoga

After fighting one hell of a series at the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) and boosting her team’s morale to the core, the Punjabi Preity is back on the Bollywood front with all her energies jam packed and so are her schedules as she is lined up with four films and the famous Bacchan world tour.

The oh so busy bee explained how the game got her so engrossed even not realizing the stuff she is missing out at the film front and informs that she has to start dubbing for two different movies titled “Har Pal” and “Heroes”.

The latter movie comprises of Salman Khan as her co-star. She has also signed a cameo in Salman’s next home production starring Kareena and the man himself. The film has been titled Mr. and Mrs. Khanna. Explaining her friendly bonding with Salman, she expresses her excitement to work for him and clarifies it not to be an ordinary item number but an interesting cameo. Another reason she states for agreeing to the stint is the director of the movie, Mr. Prem Soni being a very dear film and on the lighter note, she chuckles and reasons that as Salman has played a lot of Prems in different movies, so this cameo is for Prem.

Another prestigious director going ga-ga over Preity’s work is none other than Deepa Mehta of the Water fame who has cast her in her next Punjabi movie titled, “heaven on Earth” and claims that she is the best actress she has worked with till date.

Describing her experience of the Indian Premier League, she claimed that she has enjoyed the series to the core and learn her lessons too. Rubbishing the rumors of her sitting on a player’s lap, she claimed that it is not at all her to make a public spectacle by do8ing such a thing and denied her being of that sort.

The Mohali team co-owner also revives of the series time when she even got to realize who her real friends was, because there were a lot of her so called friends cribbing over not being called for the matches and making issues of no sense.

Learning her experiences from the series Preity admits she sure is a more mature person after the IPL and explains that there are a lot of things to be looked after for the next season of the Indian Premier League but as of now she has her commitments totally to the Bollywood front and is all set to deliver hits and recreate her magic on screen and on stage as well as she performs on stage with the Bachchan parivar on their World tour.

Tags: Bachchan, Bachchan Family, Bollywood, Deepa Mehta, DLF IPL, Har Pal, Heroes, Hindi Movie, IPL, Kareena, Kareena Kapoor, Mohali, Movie, Mr. and Mrs. Khanna, Preity, Preity Zinta, Punjab, Salman, Salman Khan, Water

Yeah you got me right people….yes this is the news….no no no…hold it…I am serious…We finally get to see our very own, the most loved couple of our bollywood industry SRK and Kajol. After the super hit “Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gam”, after almost six years, the hit producing Jodi is roped in by their very loved friend Karan Johar in his next directorial venture “my Name Is Khan”

After Baazigar, Bollywood found a new way of producing hits. The duo was a sensation with the masses. The oh so natural actress kajol with the then onscreen chocolate boy  were surely an eye candy and even in this generation of new stars on the silver screen, their magic has not faded, instead after the marriage of Kajol, there was a lot of anticipation as to weather people could watch their favorite on- screen pair together again.

This is for sure one of the most awaited movies in the near future and hope to attract a major number of audience. As the sources reveal, the first half of the movie is based on a real life story. Any further details about what the storyline would be have not been splashed out, but as they say, bollywood just can’t make money only on the real world, it is being heard that the second half sure has some drama, masala and masti.

To this we would keep you updated about the further details of the movie and its release date….till then we wish them BEST OF LUCK

Tags: Baazigar, Bollywood, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam, Kajol, Khan, Masala, Shahrukh, Shahrukh Khan

Cast: Amita Pathak, Nakuul Mehta, Adhyayan Suman
Director: Anil Devgan
Producer: Kumar Mangat
Writer: Dhiraj Ratan

This movie introduces 3 new faces to the bollywood industry- Amita Pathak, daughter of the producer, Kumar Mangat, Adhyayan Suman, son of Shekhar Suman, and a new by Nakuul.

Adhyayan and Amita are college students in a relationship just when she meets the third guy on a never ending train journey to Simla. The movie had been promised to be young, vibrant love story but fails to create any kind of magic.

Sanjana, played by Amita, is a strong believer and worshiper of true love. But gets stuck in a situation when she finds herself in love with the train guy and is in a delimma to choose between his college love or the train affair. The train journey is exaggerated to limits without any excitement. The movie lacks script to such an extent that trust me you’ll love Tashan after watching it. It is being compared to Jab We Met because of the train part but it is far from any comparisons. Unlike the pep in the Bebo starrer, the movie drags itself and you would want to leave the theater not bothering about the cash you spent on it.

The two guys though won’t go unnoticeable and surely have a career ahead only if they stop committing the crimes of signing movies like this. The girl is just about fine, but it surely is a total paisa, time and energy waste to go to the theaters for such crap.

Coming to the music part, it is the only attraction that might pull up crowd in the first few days. The songs are good, including all kinds of genres and the lyrics are touching too. It can be said that the music is its saving soul.

Considering the failure of most films this Friday and the last, the movie might see some tickets being bought at the weekend

My star ratings: 1.5/5

Tags: Adhyayan Suman, Amita Pathak, Bollywood, Haal-e-Dil, Hindi Movie, Movie, Nakuul Mehta, Shekhar Suman