Thursday, November 1, 2012

Kareena Kapoor inspired by Karisma in Dabangg 2?

Way back in 1994, Karisma Kapoor set temperatures soaring with her sultry moves in a red kurta and lungi in Raja Babu’s hit song, Sarkai Lo Khatiya Jada Lage. Eighteen years later, sister Kareena will repeat the moves with Salman Khan in Dabangg 2. Although the filmmakers are tightlipped about the number, we’ve found out that in her item song, ‘Fevicol’, Bebo is likely to appear in a lungi dress similar to what Lolo (Karisma) wore.

“Kareena will be wearing a similar dress, but this time it will be in black,” says an insider close to Bebo. When the idea first came up, Bebo was game for it since she is close to Karisma and adores her sense of style.

“Kareena and her designer friend Manish Malhotra brainstormed and came up with the final dress design. Both Bebo and Karisma are excited about it. Besides the colour, the only other major difference would be the length.

Bebo, unlike Karisma, won’t be wearing that long a lungi. It has been modified to suit today’s times,” adds the insider. Kareena, who married Saif Ali Khan recently, remained unavailable for a comment. Manish too couldn’t be reached. But when contacted, Bebo’s spokesperson said: “At this point, we can’t divulge any details (about the song).”

As for the song, Kareena has already started rehearsing for it at Mehboob Studio in Bandra with choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan and her team. “The song will be shot from November 5 onwards with Salman Khan,” adds the insider.

After doing Halkat Jawani in Heroine, newlywed Kareena Kapoor Khan is all set to do an item in Salman Khan’s Dabangg 2. The song is titled Fevicol. “She is back in Mumbai and Dabangg 2’s item song will be her first work after the wedding celebrations. She is trying to keep fit,” a source had told HT.

Malaika Arora to make appearance in Dabangg 2 item song: She danced in Munni Badnaam Hui alongside Chulbul Pandey in Dabangg (2010). And Malaika Arora-Khan’s item number went on to become a chartbuster. Now, she is back in the sequel with the song, Pandeyji Seeti Mare. Even though Malaika and her actor-director hubby Arbaaz Khan are tightlipped about it

Aishwarya overwhelmed on receiving French award on birthday

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan was honoured by France with a prestigious civilian award for her contribution to art on Thursday on her birthday.

Francois Richier, Ambassador of France to India was present to confer the honour of 'Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters' (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres), the second highest civilian French honour on her.

"I want to thank the French government for honouring me with this award. It is truly overwhelming," Aishwarya told reporters here.

"Also, I take this opportunity to thank everyone who I have worked with as they made it possible for me to have such a glorious career," she said.

Aishwarya's entire family including husband Abhishek, in-laws Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan and daughter Aaradhya were present.

Aishwarya, who turned 39 today, took the Miss World crown in 1994 and made her acting debut in 1997. She starred in films in various languages including English, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali. She is a regular on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

Her father-in-law, megastar Amitabh Bachchan was awarded France's highest civilian award, the Legion d'Honneur in 2007.

One can recollect that in 2009, Aishwarya was to be conferred upon the same award but she did not accept it because her father Krishnaraj Rai was unwell.

Aamir Khan turns make-up artist!

Actor, producer and director Aamir Khan has now added another feather to his cap by turning into a make-up artist for his upcoming film. For Talaash, Aamir managed to do what no one else could do on sets while shooting a particular scene. He did make-up for a shot in the film for his co-star, Nawazuddin Siddique.

A source informs us, “What happened was, one day when Reema Kagti (director) was shooting for a scene with Nawazuddin, she wanted a bruise mark on his face as the scene required Nawazuddin to sport marks on his face. However, none of the make-up artists present could come up with the exact look that she wanted for the scene.”

Initially, Reema was not at all happy as she felt that his look wasn’t coming across as real. “The bruise was looking too done up and patchy. She did not want to compromise on it since everything in the film had been kept so real, including the shooting locations. Reema was keen on achieving a real bruised look to keep in line with the feel of the film. This made the shoot stall for about two hours, until Aamir stepped in,” the source reveals.

“That’s when Aamir came out of his van and asked why the shoot had been delayed and what’s going on. When he learnt about the problem from Reema, he asked her to just hand him a brush and a palette and let him try! Within a few minutes Aamir did something on Nawazuddin and asked Reema what she thought about the make-up," the source adds.

Much to everyone’s surprise and relief, Reema simply loved it and was ready to go ahead with the shoot. Aamir simply managed to get the real bruise make-up done,” the source further said.

Arjun Kapoor has a crush on Kareena Kapoor

Arjun said in an interview: “Kareena Kapoor! I have a huge crush on her and will literally give my right arm to work with her! I really, really want to work with her!”
It's confession time for Arjun Kapoor. The actor reveals he has a huge crush on actress Kareena Kapoor and would do anything to grab a chance to work with her.

The actor, who made a successful debut with Ishaqzaade, made the candid confession during UTV Stars' Live My Life 2 show, which lets a lucky fan be in the shoes of his or her favourite Bollywood celebrity for a day.

Asked by his fan Amulya, as to who would he like to work with from the industry, Arjun said: "Kareena Kapoor! I have a huge crush on her and will literally give my right arm to work with her! I really, really want to work with her!"

The episode featuring Arjun will be aired Sunday.

In the meantime, Arjun has projects Gunday and Aurangzeb in his kitty.

Make-up artist picks Kareena Kapoor over Madhuri Dixit?

Apparently, the Bollywood make-up artist chose Kareena Kapoor over Madhuri Dixit for a make-up session before an awards gala.

It was all about who would look like a million bucks. When it comes to putting their best face forward for the red carpet and the flashbulbs, actresses leave nothing behind. They demand and obtain what they want in the one-upmanship of the looks department.


Kareena Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit were both keen to have Bollywood make-up artist Mickey Contractor apply his deft strokes for the People's Choice Awards. The event was held on Saturday night at Film City. But Mickey could oblige only one and it was Saif Ali Khan's Begum who managed to have Mickey do her make-up.

Says an onlooker, "Mickey was heard talking about his dilemma in Gujarati about choosing Kareena over Madhuri. At events he prefers to do the make-up of only one actress. He is not keen to multi-task."

Adds the onlooker, "Everyone is aware of frayed nerves before a big event. Costumes and make up is one region where no one wants to rub any actress off. It often leads to hushed whispers that do the rounds of vanity vans."

Madhuri had recorded her dance performance a day earlier -- on Friday for the awards show. Mickey had done her make up for her act. So the actress assumed that he would also apply his magic tools on the following day as well for the red carpet and awards gala.

But as the onlooker states, "Madhuri was taken aback when she was told that Mickey would be doing Kareena's make up on the big day. She kept telling him that he could do hers as well as Kareena's make-up. But he preferred to stick to the newlywed Bebo."

He was apparently overheard saying that as Kareena had told him in advance that she wanted him on the awards day, it was a first come-first serve situation. While on the other hand Madhuri felt that as he had done his make up for her performacce a day earlier, he would do it for the main event as well. Mads had apparently fetched a lot of compliments for her make up on that day and wanted to do a repeat the next day as well. But Bebo certainly spoilt her flawless act on the red carpet.

What Katrina Kaif likes about Shah Rukh Khan

"Gentlemanly behaviour" may be outdated, but Shah Rukh Khan's chivalry is "nice to see", says Katrina Kaif.
"He is very gentlemanly. He will always open the door for you. If you come in, he'll stand up and he always pays attention to the small things," Katrina, 28, told reporters Monday at a promotional event of Jab Tak Hai Jaan (JTHJ), in which she has teamed up with the superstar.

"When we were shooting the song Ishq Shava (for JTHJ), it was freezing cold. As soon as it was called cut, he would make sure I had a blanket. You don't see that a lot these days. Gentlemanly behaviour has gone out of fashion, so it's nice to see it," she added.

However, Katrina is sad that the Switzerland song planned by late Yash Chopra for Jab Tak Hai Jaan could not be shot and reveals 12 saris were readied for it.

"Personally, I think it was a little bit sad, it was a little bit emotional for us that we didn't get to do it. Yashji (Chopra) kept on coming up to me and saying that it's not going to be a shoot, it's going to be a party, we are not working," she said.

Plans to shoot the song have been cancelled after Yash Chopra's death. He died of multi-organ failure on October 21.

"We had actually done the entire costume fittings, there were 12 saris which Manish (Malhotra) had made, and Yashji saw each one of them. He had also planned a sequence in the water (in freezing cold) and we were laughing about it. He said now we will just go to Switzerland and party," said the actress.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan also stars Anushka Sharma and will hit theatres on Diwali.

By: Indo-Asian News Service

Katrina Kaif's sister Isabella and Anil Kapoor's son to co-star in short film

There have reports about Katrina Kaif's younger sister Isabella making her bollywood debut soon and it looks like the youngster will apparently feature opposite Harsh Kapoor (son of Anil Kapoor) in a crossover short film.
The film directed by Steven Roy Thomas has been written by Erica Stair Reddy and Melanie Easton.

The film has Bollywood elements and is set in New York, although it might be re-written to make it suitable to shoot in Mumbai.

Harsh has been studying in California and is keen to be part of Bollywood like his sisters Sonam and Rhea while Isabella also wants to follow in her sister's footsteps.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart back in magical phase

Actor Robert Pattinson who forgave girlfriend Kristen Stewart for cheating on him has reportedly again entered the romantic phase of relationship with her. Stewart, 22, was caught cheating on Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders.

 "They are not living with each other but they are spending plenty of time with each other and they do sleep over often. Rob usually sleeps over at Kristen's new home in Los Feliz, rather than the other way around," Hollywoodlife.com quoted a source as saying.

"They are in a really magical place right now despite some lingering trust issues on Rob's side," the source added.

The couple started dating in 2008 with beginning of Twilight franchise. They will soon be seen together in the last movie of the series Breaking Dawn 2.

IANS

Kareena Kapoor agitates Priyanka Chopra?

There are no points for guessing that two of the contemporary actresses in Bollywood- Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor- don't really get along well. Latest buzz doing rounds is that preferential treatment given to Bebo at a recent awards ceremony miffed Pee Cee.

"Priyanka, who was supposed to dance to Yash Chopra's songs, had been practising hard since the afternoon. She had been sweating it out on the floor when, closer to the show time she noticed Kareena sailing in. This was her first public appearance post wedding, and Bebo simply breezed in and out without putting in even as much as a fraction of the effort or time that Priyanka had for the show. This irked PeeCee no end," an eye witness told Mumbai Mirror.

"She threw a fit behind closed doors, upset with the organisers with their preferential treatment. And though she was professional enough to go through the rest of the evening, she was visibly agitated. Her argument was, why would a star of her stature be expected to go through the grind of rehearsals when her contemporary is allowed to breeze in and out," the tabloid quoted another source as saying.

Bebo-PC war
Bebo had commented about Priyanka Chopra's accent on Karan Johar's chat show Koffee With Karan saying: "I wonder where Priyanka got her accent from?" Priyanka had responded saying: "I want to tell Kareena that I got my accent from the same place where her boyfriend got his," referring to Saif and her education overseas.

PC had also said, "I don't think people take Kareena too seriously." When she was asked what she would steal from computers of Bollywood superstars like Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid, Kareena and others, Priyanka giggled and asked, "Does Kareena have a computer in the first place?"

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