Why wasn’t Salman Khan allowed to meet Rajesh Khanna?

Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan was prohibited from entering Lilavati Hospital when he went to visit ailing actor Rajesh Khanna recently.

The actor who is famous for never adhering to time was shown the door by hospital management as the actor came after the visiting hours were over.
Ailing star Rajesh Khanna was admitted to the hospital due to exhaustion and weakness. Salman wanted to pay him a visit but the strict management of Lilavati Hospital did not oblige the star.

In spite of his star status, the actor could not convince the authorities to allow him to meet Khanna. A disappointed Khan had to go back without meeting ‘Kaka’.

Zeenews Bureau

Tables Turned on Tom: Katie Holmes Shocks Him Like He Surprised Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

For Tom Cruise, the shoe is finally on the other foot.

Cruise's publicist said the actor was "deeply saddened" by Katie Holmes' divorce filing this week, and a source close to the "Rock of Ages" star told ABC News that Holmes' decision came as a "complete surprise."

33 The Magic Number For Cruise?

Curiously all of Cruise's marriages ended when his ex-wives were 33 years old.

The previous times Cruise has gotten divorced, he was in control. He filed for divorce from actress Mimi Rogers in January 1990 after three years of marriage. She seemed to get over it quickly. In October 1990, she told the Associated Press, "As far as I know, we're divorced, but I've been so busy on this new film that I haven't had time to check, so I'm not sure. I bet that sounds pretty silly, huh?"

Later on, she seemed to loathe the fact that she was ever married to the mega movie star.

''[I'm] waiting for the moment when I don't have to talk about that [blankety-blank] name anymore," she told People magazine in 1995.

Cruise filed for divorce from his second wife, Nicole Kidman, in February 2001 after she miscarried their baby (they had previously adopted two children). He dropped the bomb less than two months after they renewed their vows on their 10-year anniversary, Christmas Eve 2000.

Kidman broke down on Oprah Winfrey's talk show in May 2001, calling the situation a "nightmare."

"I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare, it just is, and you can pretend you're fine," she said. "And days you're great [and] days you're not great."

In a written response to a divorce petition filed by Cruise on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, Kidman said she was stunned when he told her that he no longer wanted to be married, and allegedly begged him to stay and seek marriage counseling. He refused and left for good, according to her response.

When asked by Winfrey whether she thought she would always be married, Kidman timidly replied, "Yeah."

"I've had a blessed life," she said. "I've always thought [if] something bad is going to happen, something bad is going to happen. But then something really bad happened. A number of really bad things happened. You go, 'I'm dealing with it. I'm stronger than I thought.'"

Kidman is now happily married to country singer Keith Urban. They have two children together.

Given how adoringly Cruise has spoken about Holmes throughout their relationship -- he told the May issue of Playboy, "I'm just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her" -- he may take a while to get back to his eccentric, couch-jumping self. But the last time this happened, his first ex-wife voiced her confidence in Mr. Mission Impossible's ability to rebound.

"Tom is very strong -- he handles stress," Rogers told People magazine in 2001. "He's human. He has a temper. He blows up sometimes, whatever, but it's not like he can't deal with it."


By SHEILA MARIKAR (@SheilaYM)

The first trailer of Sunny Leone's Jism 2 gets a thumbs up from fans

If you were holding your breath for Sunny Leone's Jism 2 trailer, it's been released on Twitter as promised by director Pooja Bhatt.

Pooja had decided to release all trailers, promos and songs from her film after the Censor Board handed an A certificate to the film's firsttrailer.

The first trailer is what one would imagine to be typical Sunny Leone style - sensual and overtly sexy.

Sunny will be romancing Yeh Saali Zindagi actor Arunoday Singh and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster's Randeep Hooda.

The first trailer has already got a thumbs up from the fans:

Watch the Trailer Here:

Where have Kareena's cheeks gone?

This is Kareena Kapoor at Mumbai airport. Unless she's experimenting with an extreme version of a pout, Bebo's cheeks seem to have disappeared completely. The hollows of her cheeks look totally sunken in, and it looks like she's catching the trout lips syndrome, currently afflicting many Hollywood heroines including Lindsay Lohan.

Kareena, who was known for having curves in all the right places when she first started out in Bollywood, suddenly dropped to a size zero when shooting for Tashan (2008). Watching Kareena's weight soon became something of a national pastime. 


And just when she looked like she was headed back to her old bootilicious self - notably, in RA.One, gyrating to Chammak Challo in a slinky red sari - up popped the size zero question again. Fat is not sexy, she declared recently. Thin is every girl's dream, she added for good measure.

But Is Bebo taking her thin obsession too far? We understand she wants to look her radiant best at her October 16 wedding to fiancé Saif Ali Khan, but we can't believe even Kareena's going to like what she sees in this photo.



By Midday

Is Kristen Stewart or Nina Dobrev the Sexier Vampire?

Kristen Stewart plays a vampire in the upcoming Breaking Dawn Part 2—due out in November—and Nina Dobrev is a vampire on the television drama The Vampire Diaries. Which of these two actors makes the sexier vampire?

According to a report from Hollywood Life, Kristen is the every-popular Bella Swan in the Twilight series of films, and now she's a bona fide vampire, too. She and husband Edward Cullen, played by her real-life boyfriend Robert Pattinson, have a little girl named Renesmee, so sexy takes on a whole new meaning for her now.

Nina plays a dual role on The Vampire Diaries, and she, too, plays alongside her real-life boyfriend Ian Somerhalder. As Elena Gilbert she is the love interest of two vampires who are brothers—one of whom is Somerhalder—and as Katherine Pierce she portrays someone the brothers once loved a long time ago, namely in the 19th century.

You can check out a few shots of both Kristen Stewart and Nina Dobrev by clicking on the Hollywood Life link above.

So which actor do you think makes the sexier vampire? Would you vote for Nina Dobrev or for Kristen Stewart? And no, Robert Pattinson and Ian Somerhalder's votes don't count!

by Kimberly Ripley (celebs.gather.com)

Blake Lively felt scared filming `very intense` sex Scenes

Washington: Blake Lively has revealed that she was “very scared” shooting sex scenes with Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson in forthcoming crime-thriller ‘Savages.’

The 24-year-old actress had to film threesome scenes on the trio’s very first day of shooting drug thriller ‘Savages’ - written by Oliver Stone - and while she found it “very intense,” the blonde beauty was pleased to complete the erotic parts of the movie first because she bonded with the actors immediately.

“They were very intense and very scary and we shot them on the first day and I mean if you don’t feel comfortable with a person after that it’s going to be a long road,” Contactmusic quoted her as telling Hollywood Life.

“It was lucky that we got to do that first ultimately because we really bonded,” she said.

She admits the movie, which tells the story of marijuana growers Chon (Taylor) and Ben (Aaron) battling a Mexican drug cartel who have kidnapped their shared girlfriend O (Blake), has some frightening scenes, but she found it an “exciting challenge” to film.

“The content is something that’s really scary, you know especially someone who’s so close with their family and has a very young audience.

“But to do something this violent, this graphic, this racy is something that’s scary but also it was such an exciting challenge.

“When you hear these people and hear that it’s their real life story, it gives you such a responsibility to do it well and do it right,” she added.

ANI

Kim Kardashian’s younger sisters writing sci-fi novel

Washington: Kendall and Kylie Jenner are reportedly working on a sci-fi novel along the lines of ‘The Hunger Games’, aimed at young adults.

The younger sisters of Kim Kardashian are collaborating with co-writer Maya Sloane, author of ‘High Before Homeroom’, on a story set 200 years in the future. The book could be the first of a potential series.

“We want to do something so different, something that we really love,” Fox News quoted Kendall as telling E! Online.

The novel will feature two sisters as the main characters.

The sisters are currently known for their roles on the reality television show ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ as well as their modeling work.

They are hoping to publish their book by next summer.

ANI

Sunny Leone's hot 'Jism 2' promos only on internet

Pooja Bhatt's statement on Jism 2 promos being censored with an 'A' certificate... 3 songs will be shown on TV and 3 songs which have adult content will be shown only on the net and social media.

Like I have inherited my genetic disposition,my face,my body, I have also inherited this supposed 'culture' that we all brandish and use like the most lethal weapon. I accept the limitations of my mind and body don't I ?

So I have to come to terms with this truth that the state will do everything in their power to 'control' and 'manipulate' to maintain a status quo while talking about the artists rights and freedom of speech etc.

But I refuse to point at a finger at the Censor board while conveniently forgetting that four of those fingers point squarely back at my mostly schizophrenic community,the film Industry that has no 'stand' of their own. I look around and am appalled by 'adult' film-makers who wish to then worm their way onto a prime-time family slot and want to with an amputated,watered down version of their original film,now pathetically try to sell their wares to the very audience they first claimed they were not interested in.

So am I upset with the Censor board? No! I thank them for creating this road-block with the Jism2 first look promo as it forced me, my music company and marketing team to re-think our archaic way of promoting films.

“Irreverence is our only sacred cow.” it is said and that is why I have decided to NOT promote songs of Jism2 where I simply cannot tone down the sexual content on television to an unsuspecting public. I will instead release it exclusively on the internet and social media where my core audience of thinking,passionate ADULTS can CHOOSE to view it,like it or reject it.

But yes what we do need is clarity. A clear set of directives which make crystal clear without prejudice what each film-maker must follow in order to obtain a U, U/A or A certificate. the problem today is that there is none of that and that lack of clarity is creating chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

By Sanskriti Media and Entertainment

Katy Perry: I'm in a modern fairytale, but now I know I don't need Prince Charming

As I’m ushered in to see Katy Perry, I’m expecting the usual Hollywood outrage if I dare ask about the emotional rollercoaster that’s hurt her so badly.


Her estranged husband, comic Russell Brand, blew his top when TV host Graham Norton brought up the impending divorce.


But despite Katy’s PR people hovering near us in her Los Angeles hotel suite, the pop princess nods sadly when I say she must have been through hell.


Katy, 27, clearly isn’t your typical image-controlled superstar, and she opens up when I ask her what she has learnt from the past year when she had to cope with that very public marriage split.


“I’ve learnt I’m in a very modern fairytale,” she replies after a moment’s thought. “But I also know I don’t need the Prince Charming to have a happy ending. I can make the happy ending myself.”


Then, knowing I’m from London like her ex, she adds with a wink: “But I still like London boys… except one.”


Katy’s honesty also shines through in her new 3D documentary, Katy Perry: Part of Me. Made by British film-maker Dan Cutforth and New Yorker Jane Lipsitz, it follows Katy over the course of a year when she had phenomenal success with hits such as Last Friday Night (TGIF).

Her album, Teenage Dream, became only the second, after Michael Jackson’s Bad, to produce five US No1 singles and her California Dreams tour featured 124 arena shows across the US, Europe, South America and the Far East.

But the 300 hours of footage shot over the year also show her curled-up, crying and barely able to move as the emotional pain hit home when Russell filed for divorce.

In one heart-rending scene, Katy is in pieces backstage at a gig in Sao Paulo – but somehow slaps a smile on her face and performs.

“I could feel the energy and support from my fans,” she said.

“Just before I started a song, they kept saying in Portuguese, ‘Katy, we love you’ and I felt comforted by that.

“Watching it in the edit suite later I was saying, ‘This is OK’.

“I’d just needed a shoulder to help me walk up the steps. I had to bend over so my false eyelashes didn’t come off.

“I couldn’t let the tears stream because it would ruin the make-up.

“But I got through it. I’ve learnt a lot and am moving forward one step at a time.

“It was a year I’ll never be able to recreate. It had amazing highs and some big lows, but that’s life.

“Everyone goes through the good and the bad and it makes you stronger. But my ultimate goal is to make people smile.”

It’s difficult not to smile when talking with Katy. She has an infectiously bubbly personality and laughs a lot. But she is also wise beyond her years.

The singer, famed for outrageous costumes, is wearing a white sequinned dress and her long, dark hair is tinged with purple.

She has a tattoo on her inner wrist that says in Sanskrit “Go with the flow”.

Katy is an intriguing blend of sexy and innocent. Yet she is the daughter of two devout Christian ministers who kept a strict household and did not allow any music in the house other than gospel.

Katy learnt to play guitar and sang wherever and whenever she could.

She said: “When I was 13 I’d sing on the corner at open air markets and put my guitar case out.

“People weren’t sitting listening, they were just passing so there wasn’t a lot to be nervous about and I’d make maybe 10 dollars. It was a nice way to start.”

She released a Christian pop album under her real name of Katy Hudson but it only sold around 100 copies.

Then she landed a contract with Capitol Records, shedding her Christian roots and good-girl image and zooming to the top of the charts in 2008 with the album One of the Boys, which featured the cheeky single I Kissed a Girl.

She dated several musicians, including Travie McCoy, of Gym Class Heroes, before meeting Brand while filming a cameo for comedy film Get Him to the Greek, which the comedian, 37, was starring in.

They were reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards and announced their engagement in January 2010 after a four-month courtship. They married in the October but he filed for divorce 14 months later, citing irreconcilable differences.

The marriage had started to crumble while she was on her year-long tour.

Katy says she tried her hardest to keep the relationship going, adding: “Being in love is the dream.

“But the reality of making it work is not like the movies.”

She also recently said: “I really wish I had more time to be cuddled right now, but I don’t. And I am very particular.”

Katy tells me that watching the two-hour film was strange and uncomfortable.

She said: “There were things that made my tummy turn when I saw them because I had already lived them and really didn’t want to live them again. But I thought maybe if I showed I got through the problems, other people wouldn’t feel so alone in their problems.

“It was important to leave some of the more difficult things in the film so it wasn’t a narcissistic film about how great I am. Because I’m not all great.

“We all feel our problems are unique but we all go through a lot of the same things and it’s not about the problem, it’s about how you solve it.

“So the whole movie is about me overcoming obstacles, my upbringing, the guys in suits from the record labels and then my personal struggle – going through it and landing on my feet.

“The message is pretty simple — it’s ‘be yourself and you can be anything’.”

If you’re Katy, being yourself is a combination of fun and hard work.

“I like to have fun and get crazy but I do that in my private time,” she said.

She is also working on starting a record label, writing songs, planning an album and promoting the film.

“What holds me up is focus, determination and an incredible ambition that hasn’t subsided yet,” she added.

“I know I have been given something great and I have a certain responsibility so I try to keep a moral compass about me in everything that I do.
I ask the karma gods if this is going to turn me into something hideous, or if it’s going to be good for me.

“It’s been a long journey of learning, tolerance and acceptance because I’ve met different people and travelled a lot and educated myself instead of wandering around aimless and ignorant. I hope to evolve every day and be a better version of who I was yesterday.”

Despite the heartache, Katy says that she is still a romantic and hopes to have a family.

“I want to be a mother but now’s not the right time,” she revealed.

“A baby can’t have a baby, and I’m still a baby.”

When I ask if she is afraid of falling in love again, she says: “No, absolutely not. I’m excited for the future, whatever it brings. I still believe in love, most definitely.”



By John Hiscock

Jennifer Lopez tops list of perfume makers

Los Angeles: Singer Jennifer Lopez has topped a list of making the most profitable range of perfumes, earning $80 million out of it.

The singer banked the amount from her range of 18 perfumes that she released in the past 10 years, reports contactmusic.com.

The 42-year-old defeated actress Sarah Jessica Parker and singer Madonna.

Singer Britney Spears` range which includes `Believe` and `Fantasy` was the fourth largest selling range. Singer Avril Lavigne came fifth, reports online beauty products retailer Escentual.com.

The company`s founder Rakesh Aggarwal said Lopez`s role as judge in "America Idol" helped her raise the sales.

"JLo remains the queen of the scent industry. I am sure starring on `American Idol` with Simon Cowell has helped sales. The celebrity perfume market is massive and fashion can change very quickly, sometimes literally overnight," Aggarwal said.

IANS

Prince Charles left to count £720,000 cost of Kate Middleton

Prince Charles received an extra £232,000 from the taxpayer last year, but also saw his own costs rise following the addition of Kate Middleton to the Royal Family, official accounts have revealed.

Charles and Camilla covered almost 48,000 miles to and from official engagements

The amount the Prince of Wales received in grants-in-aid and money from government departments rose from £1,962,000 to £2,194,000 in 2011-12 – an 11.8 per cent increase.

However, his own outgoings increased by £721,000, with the costs of the royal wedding and his daughter-in-law’s wardrobe making a dent in his wallet.

The figures, published by Clarence House, list the prince’s total income and expenditure for the last financial year.

Although they do not outline the cost of William’s and Kate’s wedding in April last year, it is believed the cost of the dress, flowers, food and hotel bills was split between the prince, the Queen and the Middleton family with the total bill amounting to less than £500,000.

Kate’s clothing costs were also not listed, coming instead under the broad heading of “expenditure for official duties and charitable activities”. Spending on this rose by nearly £400,000, from £9,444,000 to £9,831,000.

Charles pays for much of the public work of sons William and Harry, and wife Camilla, through his private Duchy of Cornwall income. The income from this landed estate rose by 3 per cent to £18.3 million.

Official travel, which is paid for with taxpayers’ cash through grants-in-aid – along with communications and the upkeep of royal residences – rose a massive 22 per cent. A spokesman for Clarence House said there were a number of reasons.

“The increase was due to several factors, including more overseas visits by the prince and the duchess, more overseas visits by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and by Prince Harry, longer distances travelled during those visits, and the inclusion in the latest financial year of part of the costs of a spring tour in 2011 to Portugal, Spain and Morocco.”

During the last financial year, Charles and Camilla travelled almost 48,000 miles to and from official engagements at home and abroad. They toured Norway, Sweden and Denmark in March, and last autumn visited South Africa and Tanzania while Charles visited Kuwait and Qatar.

William and Kate embarked on their first tour as a married couple last summer, visiting Canada, while Harry carried out a Diamond Jubilee tour to the Caribbean in March.

This led to an increased carbon footprint for the eco-conscious prince with CO2 emissions for overseas travel up from 438 tonnes to 1,206 tonnes, almost a threefold increase.

The accounts showed that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, have the equivalent of nine full-time staff, up from 7.8 the previous financial year.

Graham Smith, chief executive of the campaigning group Republic, commented: “At a time when the country is facing sweeping cuts to public spending, Charles Windsor wilfully helps himself to whatever travel funds he wants or feel he needs.”

'Avengers' is the big box office hit

Superhero mash-up brings in more than $600M

The audiences are proving far more unpredictable than the movies Hollywood has created to pack them into theatres this summer.

Studios have released a familiar assortment of action tales, family flicks and star driven comedies since the summer-blockbuster season began in early May.

However, while overall business has been solid, fans have been choosier than usual, spending a fortune on one superhero sensation, kicking in for a handful of midline hits and generally bypassing everything else.

Movies featuring box-office heavyweights Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows), Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) and Adam Sandler (That's My Boy) fell flat, as did the action spectacle Battleship.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones pulled in fair crowds for Men in Black 3, though the action comedy played to a smaller audience than its predecessors. The animated tales Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Brave joined the action adventures Snow White & the Huntsman and Prometheus as $100 million hits.

But a summer that looked like an easy record-breaker at the start really can be summed up in two words: The Avengers. With $600 million domestically, the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up accounts for a third of Hollywood's summer revenues, taking in more than the rest of the season's top-five movies combined.

The Avengers continues a trend in which a few big movies suck up a greater portion of moviegoers' money as studios focus on their so-called tent-pole releases, franchise films that cost a fortune to make but pay off like billion-dollar jackpots when they work.

But The Avengers has made this summer more lop-sided than ever, and with two more colossal superhero films coming in July - The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises - the season could end up with three towering tent-poles and a whole lot of tadpoles down below.

"I don't know that I've ever seen a summer so top-heavy," said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "I think we're going to have Avengers, Dark Knight and Spider-Man being the big, big movies of summer with a lot of other movies really bringing up the rear, like way behind.

"They can't all be home runs, but you need solid doubles and triples, and we haven't seen that many of those so far." Hollywood went on a box-office tear the first four months of this year, with revenues running as much as 20% ahead of 2011's on the strength of such pre-summer hits as The Hunger Games, Dr. Seuss' the Lorax, 21 Jump Street, Safe House and The Vow.

After The Avengers opened with a recordbreaking $207 million weekend domestically, the ensemble film featuring Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson kept on filling theatre seats while other big releases came and went with barely a ripple.

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Katrina Kaif plays a ballet dancer : Ek Tha Tiger

Mumbai: It looks like Sheila is all set to put on her dancing shoes again. After a slew of item numbers including Sheila Ki Jawaani and Chikni Chameli, it is rumoured Katrina Kaif is now prepping up for her role as a ballet dancer in her upcoming film opposite Salman Khan.

Our sources tell us that Kat's character Zoya is a ballet dancer, who not only takes lessons in the dance form but also teaches it to her fellow students. The film's crew has shot some of the sequences in London's Trinity University that is known for its contribution in arts and music.

It is being learnt that while Kat didn't really take any lessons to portray her character in the film, she has dedicated her role to all the choreographers who she has worked with in the past. Katrina confirms to us that she is playing a dance teacher. However, she denies that her character has anything to do with ballet dancing.