Zarine Khan gets favor from Salman Khan in ‘Ready’

Zarine Khan shot to limelight as Salman Khan’s discovery in ‘Veer’ and because of her apparent similarity in looks to Salman’s love interest Katrina Kaif. It seems that Salman has not forgotten the Kat-look-alike and is making all possible efforts to keep Zarine’s career going. He has convinced director Anees Bazmee, who is directing ‘Ready’ to rope in Zarine for a guest appearance in the film. In the movie Zarine will be seen with Arbaaz Khan in a brief role. During the weekend, Arbaaz and Zarine flew down to Bangkok to shoot the film.
In Pattaya, Salman Khan shot impressive stunts while driving a tuk-tuk in the narrow streets, in line with Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan’s fast-paced ad in the ubiquitous Thai rickshaw. The scene shows two tuk-tuks blowing up and the actor jumping into another one and driving off.
Producer Bhushan says, “It was bhai’s (Salman) idea to shoot in a tuk tuk. Unlike the two and three-wheeler vehicles in India, the tuk tuks are very fast and powerful. Their drivers too are experts and can ride them as two- wheelers also. People have shot romantic songs or scenes perhaps, but such a high-voltage action sequence will be seen for the first time in ready. People will enjoy this unique Thai action.”

Bipasha Basu’s controversial Twitter pic which raised the child labour issue

Bipasha Basu joined in the social networking site, Twitter, late but it seems that she has put her foot in trouble. She was accused of promoting child labour when she posted a pic of hers showing two little girls tying her shoe laces. The pic read, “I need to learn to tie shoe laces ASAP! Embarrassed that I can`t! No patience grrrrr! Promise I am not spoilt! Will learn soon”.
The pic immediately sparked extreme reactions. A follower of her wrote, “Bipasha should be arrested for this act. Only then these film studios will not do any child labour”. Another one posted:, “Disgraceful Bips - cannot believe you are dumb enough to add this photo on Twitter!”
Bipasha immediately deleted the pic from her Twitter page and wrote: “Well, the people helping me in the pics are my friend and sister, who I help often with the same! So am sorry if it hurt anyone’s sentiments!”
She later added, “About the pic, the pair of boots were a different pair so my sis and my friend were helping me and I thought it looked damn funny n took d pic as a joke!…A pic put 4 fun gets picked up by people as `child labour` is absolutely unbelievable. Just so that all get it right: neither of the two are children!…Also `child labour` is a serious issue that can`t be used in such a light connotation,” she wrote in a number of tweets.
“I wish that the ones who created such a furore n reacted immensely, actually do something worthy against child labour,” she wrote.

Mink shedding those extra kilos for ‘Zor Ka Jhatka’

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Zor Ka Jhatka’ on Imagine TV is showing some real action-packed water sports games where celebrities are battling out with each other. One of the contestants on the show is Mink Brar, who, after three weeks on the show, claims to have lost six kilos.
Mink grew up in Germany and stepped into Bollywood with ‘Pyar Ka Tarana’ (2003). She was then seen in few films like ‘Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain’ and ‘Saat Rang Ke Sapne’. She then did a music album – ‘Ghoongat Remix’ and also launched a production house Bro & Sis Productions with her brother, Punnu.
As for the reality shows on smaller screen, Mink did a dancing show, Dancing Queen on Colors, where she was a mentor. She was also one of the contestants of the 2009 adventure reality show, “Sarkaar Ki Duniya” on Real TV channel but was eliminited early.

Bollywood makes way for PC’s cousin Parineeti Chopra

Bollywood often sees the relatives of celebrities stepping into the acting career. This time, it is Parineeti Chopra who happens to be the first cousin of sexy and successful Priyanka Chopra. Parineeti has worked in Yash Raj’s marketing team and impressed the banner so much that she bagged in a pivotal role in YRF’s next ‘Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl’, to be directed by ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ fame Maneesh Sharma. Parineeti impressed Maneesh and producer Aditya Chopra with her audition and will star in the movie along side Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma. In the film she plays one of the ladies whom the protagonist (Ranveer Singh) flirts with. The movie’s leading lady, however, will be Anushka Sharma.
Well, with Priyanka Chopra being the reigning queen of Bollywood, we hope to see Parineeti too building on a successful career here……

Anushka Shetty’s loss is Kajal Agarwal’s gain

Rohit Shetty is set on making the remake of ‘Singham’ which had been a huge hit down South. He has already finalized Ajay Devgan for the male lead and wanted Anushka Shetty to play Ajay’s love interest because she was in the original film with Sooriya.
However, when Anushka was offered the film, she reportedly demanded Rs 1.5 crore. Not to mention here that Rohit did not entertain her high demands and she had to let go this golden opportunity for a break in Bollywood.
Anushka has now been replaced by Kajal Agarwal, a popular name in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada who gathered a huge fan following after her performance as Yuvarani Mitravinda Devi in Magadheera.
No wonder Rohit is all praises for his new heroine and says, “She is very popular down south. She has done Magadheera, one of the biggest Telegu hits of all time. We are confident about her pulling off the role successfully.”

Yana Gupta completes her act with a broken nose

Yana Gupta made her debut into Bollywood with the item number Babuji in Dum (2003) which on to be a rage among cine goers. Later, she also featured in the item song Oh! What A Babe in Rakht (2004) and in a music album of her own. Gupta is better known to the Tamil audience for ‘Kadhal Yaanai’ in Anniyan. She is now-a-days in news once again with the dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 4’. She has impressed everyone with her dancing skills and is one of the finalists along with Sushant Singh Rajput, Ankita Lokhande, Mahi Vij and Meiyang Chang on the show.
So much is her dedication to the show that he broke her nose while performing in a dance sequence but managed to complete her performance with the broken nose before rushing to the hospital. She had to undergo an operation for the fracture. Here is what the beautiful 31 year old Czech-born model-actor wrote on her micro-blogging site, “Remember our domestic violence act? Did X-ray finally and my nose is fractured. Surgery on Thursday. I wonder how I managed to dance till the end.”

Rakhi Sawant & Veena Malik to add spice to the World Cup craze

The drama and spice cannot just be ignored when item girl Rakhi Sawant and Pakistani star, sexy Veena Malik come on screen. So, they were obvious choices when India TV chose 12 contestants for their unique show, ‘Big Toss’ to cash in on the World Cup Fever. The show will be shown only when India is playing. It will have 12 contestants divided into two groups. Each group will choose its favourite player from the Indian team and bet on him. The group that scores the maximum points will be declared the winner of a Honda car.
“Both of them can add a lot of drama to the show and people are interested in watching them on small screen,” explained Hemant Sharma, news editor of India TV, for choosing Rakhi and Veena for the show.
Sharma also explained why he came up with this idea of a show. “Usually, during the World Cup matches, all the news channels organize discussions with four or five experts in the studio. This concept doesn’t excite people anymore. We wanted to do something different so we zeroed in on this concept,” Sharma told.
Apart from Rakhi and Veena, the list of contestants includes cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s father Yograj Singh, singers Shankar Sawhney and Ashok Masti, beautician Sylvie and RJ Simran, among others.

Will Aishwarya Rai pair opposite Sanjay Dutt in ‘Satte Pe Satta’ remake?

Aishwarya Rai and Sanjay Dutt have worked together in Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin (2002) and Shabd (2005), but unfortunately both the films failed to create any magic at the box office. If, everything goes well, we will now get to see the two talented actors together once again in the remake of the 70s superhit ‘Satte Pe Satta’. Ash will play the role of Hema Malini and Sanjay Dutt, of course, will play the role played by Big B.
Earlier, Filmi pandits had been speculating that Vidya Balan was being considered for the role, but it has become apparent now that Sanjay Dutt is very keen on having the Bachchan Bahu for the role. The film is going to be produced by Sanjay’s own production house, and Aishwarya sharing close vibes with the Dutt family, she is also very interested in the project. Since she is now in New Zealand holidaying with hubby Abhishek Bachchan, who is shooting there for Abbas-Mastan’s film Players, the writer of Satte Pe Satta remake will especially fly down to New Zealand to give her a story narration.
Hope the remake does the same for Sanju and Ash what it did for Amitabh and Hema Malini’s career………..