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Just as when the world was waiting to witness  yet another grand wedding bash of the most talked about couple of Bollywood, speculations of the start of a cold war spread all around leaving Bebo-Saif lovers into questions like-“Would they be together or not?”.

This lovey dovey couple, who stays in news for every little action taking place in their life, has been facing a hard time in their relationship for a while now. First there was the news of Kareena’s mother being unhappy of Saif’s interference in her career due to his obsession for his lady love and accompanying her to every do. And now what we hear is‘COLD WAR’ sorts of a thing between the two.

Incidentally, Saif fumed up to see Kareena dressed up to perform in an ‘exposing dress’ for the IIFA awards function.

The tiff began when Saifu entered the van and saw Kareena flaunting her size zero in a short dress and got so agitated over the scene that he burst at the actress and without even letting her explain her side of the situation, left the van. Sources revealed that the Hum Tum star was seen unhappy even when Kareena performed on stage.

Saif’s over possessiveness, which is clearly seen after this episode might just piss off Kareena. Well, as possessiveness enters a relationship, it is generally noticed it sours it up. But in this case, all we can hope is a happy ending for both of them. Though that happy ending, we pray should be of the cold war and not of their relationship.

Just a question Saif: Where was the possessiveness when your damsel was tearing away her jeans in Tashan or flaunting the lime green bikini? Hmmmm….so is life!!!!!!!!

Tags: Bebo, Bollywood, Junior Pataudi, Kareena Kapoor, Khan, Saif Ali, Saif Ali Khan, Saif Kareena

Finally the gun license of Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan is cancelled today while concluding the Soha Ali Khan’s gun license case by the Gurgaon trail court.

However the court maintained that Soha had indeed acquired the license after the age of 18, and hence is free to appeal against the judgment.

It was reported that the gun is used by her father Masoor Ali Khan Pataudi for hunting down a blackbuck for which the case was filed against the actress. It was also claimed that Soha was a minor when she got the gun license.

The issue came in to limelight after Naresh Kadyan, animal rights activist, issued an application under the Right to Information Act in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in Gurgaon asking whether the administration had ascertained if the applicant (Soha) was an adult when she moved the application for a gun license.

For the last one month she was questioned over the legality of the license and was asked to clarify how gun came in possession of her father and why was it used for hunting a protected species?

The actress was also accused of concealing important facts regarding the gun when she had applied for the renewal. Later she had also requested for a personal hearing also.

Earlier, Soha had pleaded innocence and invoked RTI to inspect copies of the documents attached to her application for securing the license in 1996.

The poaching case was registered June 5, 2005 by Jhajjar police and the gun, .22 bore rifle number 91501, was seized by them.

Tags: Gun License, Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Soha, Soha Ali Khan Pataudi

Tashan is yet another Yash Raj banner’s movie but nothing sensual is there. Some unusual twists and turns left the characters as dumb without any strong impression. This will be the weakest film of the Yash Raj camp.

The debutant director Vijay Krishna Acharya of Yashraj camp, who is behind the scripts of Dhoom and Dhoom2 also, could not make any impressive stroke for the audience.

First half of the movie starts with a cool call centre executive Jimmy (Saif Ali Khan) who is entrusted the responsibility of teaching English to a desi bhojpuri gangster, Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor). The teaching lessons to Bhaiyaaji gave some laughter strokes to the story initially which fades after some time.

Bhaiyyaji is hoping to sign a big project with some foreign delegates. But Bhaiyyaji’s key help the cunning girl, Pooja (Kareena Kapoor), who can’t be trusted, uses Jimmy to swindle Bhaiyyaji of Rs. 25 crores. Now Bhaiyajji wants his money back and also his revenge to Jimmy and Pooja.

Now Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar), an electricity stealer came into the scene to lift the story. He can climb, jump and fly with the support of just about anything. He can break all bones of the body and the result will always be 100%. He has done a great job in the movie.

Bhaiyyaji settles him to trace Pooja after Jimmy surrenders. And after a few drama lines and turns, the story ends. The proceedings in the movie tend to get vague as the movie moves ahead right from the Hollywood style road chase for treasure to a typical Hindi formula film of revenge and lost love etc.

Anil does a good job as the villain from Kanpur. Kareena couldn’t show her best in the film but Saif is in a new look.

Akshay is the real hero of the film. He enters in the second half to precede the dragging story of the movie. He leaves you awestruck with his action sequences. He really rocks in the movie giving a superb performance.

There are a lot of unwanted scenes, meaningless sequences and lengthy fight scenes made the movie rough. Music by Vishal Shekar and Choreography by Vaibhavi Maerchant are definitely entertaining and foot tapping enough but tend to barge into any portion of the film making the film’s Tashan take a dip.

However, the cinematography by Ayananka Bose is superb giving an eye feeling capturing of locales of Greece, Rajasthan, Kerala etc. Editing by Rameshwar S. Bhagat and art direction by Sukant Panigrahy further enhanced the Tashan (style) of the film.

The audience who are fed up of IPL, which is forcing producers to push their release further ahead, can go for Tashan. It can give a new style (Tashan) to their rough routine.

Tags: Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Kareena, Kareena Kapoor, Khan, Saif, Saif Ali Khan, Saif Kareena, Tashan, Yash Raj

The Indian cricket hero, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is looking forward to participate in the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay to be held in the Capital city on Monday April 17.

Indian Olympics Association president Suresh Kalmandi confirmed his ongoing presence in the relay.

The Olympic relay is in trouble for being protested by Tibetans following China’s crackdown in Tibet. Today demonstrators interrupted the relay in Paris and forced the officials to extinguish the torch twice which is re-lit after a lot of efforts.

There are also strong chances of protest and demonstrations by Tibetans and other human right groups in Delhi also on the day of the torch relay next week against China’s Tibetan policy.

For security concerns and to avoid any mis happening due to protest the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) shortened the route of the relay in Capital city. Earlier the route was set from Red Fort to India Gate covering around 8-9 Km area which is now squeezed to only 2-3 Km.

The batting maestro, who has been ruled out of the ongoing Test series against South Africa, will have the privilege of sharing the honor with greats from diverse fields like Leander Paes, actors Saif Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan, Tata Consultancy Services CEO Subramanian Ramadorai, Ingram Micro India CEO Jaishankar Krishnan and orthopedic surgeon Dr Vaibhav Bagaria from Nagpur.

“It is a great honor for me. I grew up watching the Olympics and I am looking forward to carry the torch,” Tendulkar told.

India’s football captain Baichung Bhutia is the only one who boycotted the relay and denied to take part in it.

Australian cricket player Shane Warne has now retired to be the new face of 888.com. Visit here to see if his cricket skills match his poker skills!

Tags: Baichung Bhutia, China, India, Olympic, Sachin, Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Tendulkar, Tibet, Torch

The ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) 2008 is rocked by many top Bollywood stars on show. The celebrities sizzled the ramp in top Indian designer’s creations in Mumbai.

The main attraction of the show included the first time ramp walk by the Saawariya fame Ranveer Kapoor. He showcased his designer friend Arjun Khanna’s collection. People gave a cheerful applause for the graceful Ranveer in an embroidered long coat with standing collar, straight pants in batik print and a scarlet tied around the neck.

Neetu Kapoor and Deepika Padukone cheered Ranbir as he walks the ramp for Arjun Khanna.

“I’m a bit degraded as far as fashion is concerned. All I know is through Arjun. He’s very passionate about everything in his life from designing clothes to his cars and bikes and even interior decoration. I love this guy to death and he asked me if I could walk on the ramp and I was more than happy to walk as I also love his fashion,” said Ranbir Kapoor.

Khanna’s collection offered evergreen slim fitted pants and cropped jackets. “Fabrics were coarser in my collection. I am looking at the fall-winter. I played with fabrics like Coudray, Cotton Coudray and Woolen Coudray. There is a lot of technique which went into making of all these clothes,” said Khanna.

Other Bollywood icons on the show include Urmila Matondkar, Farah Khan, Amrita Rao, Kajol and Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. King Khan’s wife Gauri Khan was also there to grace the occasion.

Saif admitted to his relationship with Kareena at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai last year. This year too the couple was spotted at designer Manish Malhotra’s showing.

It was for the first time the Bath and body product giant Lux showcased a line at the Lakme Fashion Week. Bollywood designer Manish Malhotra inspired by Lux’s new fruit extracts - strawberry, cream, peaches and put on display an array of flirty, feminine garments in shades of pink, ivory, oyster and coral.

“I have done it long time back when Urmila Matondkar walked on the ramp for the first time then. Then Preity Zinta, Kajol, Karishma Kapoor and Urmila all of these girls who have walked for me have worked with me for ten years. They believe in my brand, they believe in me, I believe in them and we had a long association but I just feel that now it has become that let’s make so and so walk. So I think now it is time that I don’t make any one walk so today I was the Lux boy,” said Manish.

Overall the day went totally unique and exclusive presenting the cool summer spring collections of Indian designers.

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The grand event of the 53rd Fair One Film fare Awards went on at Yash Raj Studio in Mumbai on Saturday night till late hours. Leading Bollywood stars were present on the eve.

Aamir Khan’s dictorial debut “Taare Zameen Par” and Shahrukh Khan starrer “Chak De India” gained most of the awards.

“Taare Zameen Par” has stolen the best film award and given the best Director Award to Superstar Aamir Khan on Saturday night, while Shah Rukh Khan for ”Chak De! India” got the Best Leading male actor.

The Critics’ Award for Best Film went to Shimit Amin’s “Chak De! India”. The film also won the Best Cinematography Award. Child artist Darsheel Safari was named the Best Actor for”Taare Zammen Par”.

In the Critics’ Award series, Tabu was also named the best actress for “Cheeni Kum”. Kareena Kapoor gained the Best female Actor for ”Jab We Met”.

The Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) is caught by Irrfan Khan for “Life In A Metro” and the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) award went to Konkana Sen Sharma for the same film.

Deepila Padukone of “Om Shanti Om” won the Fresh Face of the Year Award as well as the Best Female Debutante, while the Best Male Debutant Award went to Ranbir Kapoor of “Saawariya”.

Best Music Award went to A.R. Rahman for “Guru” and also for the best background score. The Best Lyrics Award was won by Prasoon Joshi for “Ma” from “Taare Zameen Par”. While Shaan was named the best male singer for his song ”Jabse Tere Naina” from “Saawariya” and Shreya Ghoshal was honoured with the best female singer for her song ”Barso Re” from “Guru”.

The Best Story Award again went for “Taare Zameen Par” to Amol Gupte.

The award for the best screenplay went to Anurag Basu for “Life In A Metro”, and Imtiaz Ali was credited for the best dialogue of “Jab We Met”.

Rishi Kapoor got a prolonged applause as he won the Lifetime Achievement Award by Dimple Kapadia.

Two special awards were also announced. While the father-son director duo Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra won the Power Awards, Monty Sharma won the R D Burman Award for Saawariya.

Tags: Aamir Khan, Award, Bollywood, Chak De India, Film Fare Award, Mumbai, Saif Ali Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Taare Zamin Per

Saif and Kareena, one more love story of bollywood after break up of Kareena with Shahid is in air. Saif is so fascinated in love that he has got Kareena’s name tattooed in Devnagri on his arm at Hakim’s Alim in Bandra.

For last few days, it was hot gossip in media that Saif and Kareena got married on Wednesday in his new house in Bandra but Saif Ali Khan denied the news and said that it’s all fake rumors about his marriage with Kareena Kapoor. There is no truth in these gossips.Saif was shocked and surprised to hear the fake rumor of his marriage. He requested the media to avoid these types of rumors which can hurt his family members also. He asked the media to leave him alone. Also he made very clear that there is no intention of marrying Kareena for next few years. They are more concentrated towards their career at present.

Tags: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan