By Subhash K Jha
The mesmerizing Sridevi only did one film Jaanbaaz and that too a 10-minute role for Feroz Khan .
But what an impact!

Sophisticated, elegant and ultra-glamorous.

Watch designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil’s spring summer 2009 collection on ‘Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week’ on NDTV Good Times.

Dia Mirza clarification regarding the film Acid Factory

According to speculated report stating that Dia Mirza has certain differences with the makers of acid factory is completely untrue.

RED FM baajao Diwali manaao!!!

Mumbai, October 22, 2008: RED FM is all geared up to bring in the festivities of Diwali in its true Bajaate Raho ishtyle. The No. 1 station has lined up special content for this festive season, with lots of exciting goodies up for grabs for its listeners!

AKK Entertainment enters Bollywood with two ready to release projects.

Bangalore based businessmen Ashok Kheny is all set to make an entry into Bollywood with 2 ready to release projects. Ashok Kheny is a much revered role model in Karnataka especially amongst the youth with the Ashok Kheny Fan Association all over the state with over 6 lakh members.
His production house’s first movie “Prem Ka Game” starring Arbaaz Khan introducing Madhuri Bhattacharya, Tara Sharma with a guest appearance by no other than Salman Khan who plays the sutradhaar.
The other project that the production house is ready with is titled “Aishwarya” which stars Dipika and Upendra. Actually dubbes into Hindi from the Kannada version.
Other than this Ashok Kheny has plans to build up a film city in Bangalore, which is his ultimate dream.

I really get along very well with Vikrant Massey Sriti Jha

Charming television actress Sriti Jha’s acting skills has been appreciated in both her on air shows, Shaurya and Suhani and Jyoti. Lets find out how the actress manages to shoot too dailies at a time and many more.

Mika not yet over with Rakhi Sawant

It seems like singer Mika is not yet over with her good friend turned rival Rakhi Sawant. It all started at Mika’s birthday bash where Rakhi blamed Mika for forcefully kissing her.

This day in history: 10th April, 2009.

1915 - Harry Morgan Born 10 April,1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")

1931 - Kishori Amonkar (born April 10, 1931) is a noted Indian classical vocalist. She sings khyal in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana style.

Interesting Facts and Figures: Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty; born 8 June 1975, is an Indian film actress and model.

Passenger moving at a brick pace

Ranjit Shankar’s directorial debut flick Passenger’s shooting is progressing at a fast pace in Guruvayoor. The film stars veteran actor-director Sreenivasan and comedian-turned-hero Dileep in lead roles. The film is being produced by S.P. Pillai and Sankaran Kutty under the banner of Vijay Combines. The movie also features Jathathi Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Sivaji Guruvayoor, Sona Nair and Ruby in other important roles. Music director Bijibal has composed the music on the lyrics jotted down by Anil Panachooran. P. Sukumaran is capturing the flick in his camera. Passenger is said to be a family entertainer with a focus on humour.

I TURNED DOWN OFFERS FROM BALAJI TELEFILMS BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO ACT IN REGRESSIVE SERIALS

NIKI WALIA tells JYOTHI VENKATESH that she is the queen in her sasural in London ad her mother in law is her best friend.

Praveshlal Yadav [Junior Nirahua] Dubbed for CHALANI KE CHALAL DULHA

Praveshlal Yadav [Junior Nirahua] Dubbed for Sai Entertainments and Nirahua Entertainments Present Film ‘Chalani Ke Chalal Dulha ‘ at Audio Lab Mumbai . Director :Ajay Sinha .Story –Screenplay by Leela Sinha , Dialogue – Ajay Sinha and Nilay Upadhyay , Lyrics –Pyarelal Yadav - Shyam Dehati - Ashok Sinha , Camera :Manish K Vyas , Dance : Kanu Mukerjee, Action :R.P.Yadav , Art : Shammi Tiwari . Ajay Sinha and Dineshlal Yadav ‘Nirahua ‘are Producers of Film. Cast Introducing Praveshlal Yadav [ Junior Nirahua ] with Dineshlal Yadav ‘ Nirahua ‘ , Pakkhi Hegde , Shubhi Sharma , Santosh Shreevastav , Kanu Mukerjee , Akhilesh Singh , Manvendra , Ram Naresh , Shri Kumar , Sandhya , Mamata Tiwari , Nikita , Harikesh , Sanjay , Master Priyam ,Baby Namrta , [ Avdhesh Mishra and Manoj Tiger in Guest App.] , and Ajay Sinha .

Shooting in Progress of
PREM KE ROG BHAIL
Shooting of Nirahua Entertainment and Senhur Entertainment Present film Prem Ke Rog Bhail in Progress at Azamgarh [U.P.] . Cast – Dineshlal Yadav ‘Nirahua , Pakkhi Hegde , Manoj Tiger ,Sweety Duttani ,Gopal Ray , Anoop Arora , Heera Yadav and Avadesh Mishra Producer Paveshlal Yadav and Pakkhi Hehde , Exec Producer Manoj Tiger . Story Screenplay and Director : Farog Sidhhiqi Ahmed , Music : Kumar Jeet , Lyrics and dialogue S.K.Chouhan , Camera man Pramod Panday , Dance : Kanoo Mukergee. - SAMPURN

Anant Narayan and Minissha Lamba in a film together?

Bollywood’s latest chocolate boy Anant Narayan is inundated with film offers. But producers put only one condition - they want Anant to be paired opposite "alleged" girlfriend actress Minissha Lamba

Akhil Kumar (Boxer) as Model in Asha Bhosle Music Video

The song has Akhil playing a boxer who is totally immersed in his work and is followed around like a little lamb by Ankeeta who wants his attention. Akhil had earlier promised her his heart and she finally gets it towards the end….

Red FM tops RAM in Mumbai!

Thursday, December 04, Mumbai: Whether it’s 62 Weeks! 52 Weeks! 26 Weeks! 13 Weeks! or the Latest Week, Red FM is clearly the No. 1 Radio station in Mumbai in both Shares and Cumes (Without any Filters used!)

Himesh Reshammiya Visits the sets of Jassuben Jayantilal Joshi Ki Joint Family Only on NDTV IMAGINE

The Telecast date of the episode is Wednesday Oct 15 @ 10 pm

Following is the concept note of the scene in which Himmesh will feature.

The story will be building up to Nandini and Pinakin’s engagement for which everyone in the house is very excited. But there will actually be 3 couples of the Joshi family getting engaged on the same day – Nandini-Pinakin, Chirag-Roshni and Aarti-Ravi. So the situation itself will be very festive and vibrant. A dance competition within the family is planned for the day of the engagement, to get in a colourful, fun-filled vibe to the whole affair. The competition will be between the 3 couples, wherein the best couple would get diamond rings as a prize. Himmesh, as Monty of Karz, will be the chief guest and judge for the competition. He would also sing a song from Karz, which the 3 couples of our show would dance to for the competition.

Mr. and Mrs. Karan Johar Premiere show has a House Full

On Sunday evening, Nirav Parekh of Main Course Productions much awaited play, ‘Mr and Mrs Karan Johar’ opened to a full house, at Rangsharda in Bandra. The comedy play in Hindi meant for the entire family viewing had talented actors like: Aman Yatan Verma, Delnaaz Paul, Nigaar Khan, Kiku Sharda, Sheela Sharma, Ferdaus Mevawala, Umesh Jangam and Richa Singh. Though the play had nothing to do with the actual Karan Johar as opposed to its title, yet it managed to grab the eyeballs!!

After Slumdog is it White Tiger for the west?

After the movie loosely based on Vikas Swarup’s new novel ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ impressed the world and swept the Oscars, looks like another Indian author’s book will be adapted soon.

Fun and festivity adds to the celebration on Burey Bhi Hum Bhale Bhi Hum

Monday-Friday at 7.30 pm only on Star Plus

Shoot ends for Bhagyada Balegaara

The shooting of Shivrarajkumar and Navya Nair starrer flick Bhagyada Balegaara, has been completed. It took a schedule of 45 days for the movie to get completed and the last shot was the picturisation of a song in the Abhiman Studios in which Shivarajkumar, Navya Nair and many dancers participated. The flick is been directed by Sai Prakash and Kashyap has produced the flick. This is going to be Navya’s third film in Kannada. Gaja was her first film while her second film Nam Yajamanru released a couple of weeks ago. The gorgeous actress is also busy shooting for Boss alongside Darshan. - SAMPURN

Interesting Facts and Figures: Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan (born Aamir Hussain Khan on March 14, 1965) is an Indian film actor, director and producer.

I want to be bigger than Shah Rukh Khan: Avinash Mukherjee

Avinash Mukherjee, commonly and popularly known as Jagdish or Jagya is the youngest son-in-law, the Indian television has ever seen. After showing his amazing talent in popular serials like Kahaani Kahaani Ghar Ki, Jasuben Jayantilal Joshi Ki Joint Family and Rajkumar Aaryan this young lad is someone who seems to have made a point to make it big in this Industry. If you guys want more then this lad has got the opportunity of doing something which even the biggest stars dream of till date; walking the ramp with the sizzling Bollywood beauty, Katrina Kaif at the Lakme Fashion week.

Real cops still remember Eesha Koppikars reel inspector act

Eesha Koppikar acted as a cop in 2005’ hit comic caper Kyaa Kool Hain Hum. Her character was named Urmila Martodkar. Though she played a no-nonsense cop, her histrionics had everyone in splits.

Mentally-challenged Aindrita Ray

Making her debut with Meravanige, gorgeous actress Aindrita Ray instantly earned a huge fan following. In this flick her performance of a college girl gave her a girl-next-door image. But the actress showed her versatility in acting by doing a glamorous song in Junglee. The daring act in the song made her a hot property in Sandalwood and films started pouring in her kitty. But where every actress dreams of working alongside superstar Upendra, Aindrita denied a film with him and her role was given to Aarti Chabria. The thing was that the actress had committed her dates to Yograj Bhat’s directed Manasare and she didn’t want to do two films at a time. She expressed how Yograj Bhat is one of her favourite directors and she didn’t want to miss this opportunity. In Manasare, Aindrita yet again plays a difficult character of a mentally-challenged girl. - SAMPURN

DLF IPL broadcast gets Extraaa zing on Max with Mandira and SEL

India’s Premium Hindi Movies and Special Events channel on Monday April 13th evening announced a slew of power packed initiatives for the second season of the DLF IPL action on the channel at Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai. Max has brought back the ravishing and articulate first lady of Indian cricket –Mandira Bedi, as a co host for Extraaa Innings T20. Making the broadcast much bigger and better, MAX has roped in the dynamic trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy to create musical magic for it’s popular wrap-around programming ‘Extraaa Innings T20’. Based on MAX’s popular campaign for the DLF IPL - “Ek Desh Ek Junoon” - the musical maestros’ powerful composition will be played as an opening montage on every episode of Extraaa Innings T20. Also announced was a fresh new team of anchors for Extraaa Innings T20 - Samir Kochhar who successfully hosted DLF IPL season 1, is back with us for season 2, Meiyang Chang - one of the most popular Indian Idol contestants and the host of the Indian Idol 4 show and Gaurav Kapoor - the very recognizable VJ and presenter for six long years and now ready to set the big screen on fire with two upcoming films.

RDX set to blow you out

Debutante filmmaker Don Goutham is all set to unleash his maiden venture RDX – The Movie. To be released in mid-May, RDX is the first ever Bollywood movie about the transformation of a woman into a human bomb and her successful come back to normal life. The inspirations for the same has been derived from real life incidents taken place post the infamous post Godhra riots. The makers of the film have done extensive research for their subject, including meeting and taking inputs from real life post Godhra riots victims. The film comes at a time when all national and international news channels are abuzz with the news of female fidayeen’s (suicide bombers) being planned to infiltrate India from our neighbouring country.

Interesting Facts and Figures: Lara Dutta

Lara Dutta: It is not a secret that Bollywood beauty Lara Dutta is a beauty with brains. This was demonstrated when she scored the highest possible marks in the history of the Miss Universe Contest. After this she was crowned Miss Universe 2000, making history as not only the most beautiful but also the most intelligent young woman to wear this crown in the history of Miss Universe.

Akshaye Khannas unpredictable ways

If there is one actor who continues to remain unpredictable on both on and off screen consistently then it is Akshaye Khanna. Industrywalas are left confused as to how he manages to have a high handed attitude when he has only one film on his hand that’s Anil Kapoor’s home production Short-kut – The Con is On in the pipeline. “He has not even been considered for Abbas-Mustan’s Race sequel yet he cannot stop himself from throwing his weight around to all and sundry.” an industry insider comments.

Sukhwinder feels duped

Singer Sukhwinder Singh’s song ‘Jai Ho’ form ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won an Oscar but due to some lapse on the part of the organizers he couldn’t even perform at the Oscars.

Akshay Anand happy with Saat Pheres generation leap

Akshay Anand aka Brijesh of Saat Phere is a very fine and senior actor of the television industry. Few days ago there was news that he was not satisfied the way his role was shaping up in the show and he is going to quit the show. He felt that his character was not showing any progress but then we saw Akshay continued in the soap, having faith in the creative team. We called up Akshay and asked about the matter. He said, “Yes, I wasn’t so happy the way my character was progressing before but now I am very satisfied. I just felt that from quite some time my character was losing its importance and I felt like withdrawing the show but now it’s shaping as per my expectations. The show has taken a generation leap and I think all of us will now get to play something different from what we used to play before.”

Movie Review :Meri Padosan

Meri Padosan: Utter rubbish

‘I could not believe my ears when my name was announced’ Anamika Choudhury

Anamika Choudhury has made her parents proud by winning the SRGMP L’il Champs 2007 trophy! "I am very happy that I fulfilled my parents’ dreams. They always wishes and prayed that I win this competition", says the proud Anamika. Even though triumphant, Anamika feels sad that she will now miss her friends, judges, the sets of Zee and the various people who had helped her thro’ her journey.

Producer K. Manju upset with remakes

For the last few years Sandalwood has been plagued by remakes. It seems the creativity has disappeared from Sandalwood as every other flick that releases is a remake of some other film made in different regional language. The audiences too are bored due to this and have raised strong voices to produce movies with innovative ideas as they want to see some fresh and new stuff. Now Producer K. Manju has also raised his voice against remakes formula. In an interview with a leading daily, K. Manju said “It’s wrong to think that films that have been hits elsewhere will also score with the Kannada audiences. In these tough times, our heroes should instill confidence in their producers by making original films run.” He added that the growing trend of remakes is ‘nauseating’. - SAMPURN

This day in history: 2nd April 2009

1902 - 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)

1902 - Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born.

The she-gang of Taarak Mehta comes to the rescue of the children

Looks like the she gang of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah are on a mission It so happened that the children of Gokuldham society just got free after taking their exams and wanted to go out for a picnic. The fathers, as always, preoccupied with their work refused the kids out-and-out. On seeing the sad faces of the children, all the mothers decided to take the onus on themselves of taking the kids out on a picnic.

Well, after much contemplation, Daya finally decides to hit an entertainment park by the name of Tikuji Ni Wadi. Everyone gets dressed, pack their luggage and head towards the picnic spot. On reaching the fun-filled place, the children were overjoyed and were seen having a whale of a time. Everyone was having the time of their lives, when suddenly one of the kids suddenly disappears, leaving everyone in utter dismay. The fun and frolic time completely changes into that of a panic moment, leaving everyone looking for the lost kid.

Catch the drama unfold only on SAB. - SAMPURN

Sridevi: He Made Me Agree To Do Janbaaz By Speaking Tamil