Bollywood Shoot

Ever since Shankar announced his next film titled “Robot“, there has been a lot of buzz about it. Be it about trying to cast Shah Rukh Khan, later Hrithik Roshan or about the high budget. Now the recent buzz is about if Aishwarya Rai would accept act in this film or not. Apparently Shankar offered a big sum to Aishwarya. A lot of Rajinikanth’s fans are waiting eagerly to see if they would be fortunate enough to see his favorite super star pair up with Aishwarya Rai.

Until yesterday there was some news that Aishwarya Bachchan may not accept this project as she wants to have babies before she gets too old for that. But today there was some news that Aishwarya has confirmed that she is going to pair up opposite Rajinikanth in “Robot“. According to the sources that this news came from, she has confirmed this in her recent interview to a private news channel. If that’s true, there is good reason for Rajini’s fans to celebrate the occasion.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film “Saawariya” opened the five-day South Asian film festival in New York yesterday (8th november). The Film Festival, organised by the Indo-American Arts Council offered a warm welcome to the actors and directors. Some of the notable actors include Mira Nair, Milind Soman and Konkona Sen Sharma. This film festival is claimed to be one of the biggest film festivals of South Asia films outside India. The event is scheduled to showcase over 50 Independent and diaspora films in its five days.

On the closing night of the festival the awards for best film, best director, best actor and actress will be announced. The films that are nominated for the best film category include “Valley of Flowers” directed by Pan Nalin, “Via Darjeeling” directed by Arindam Nandy and “Manorama Six Feet Under” by Navdeep Singh. Rituparno Ghosh for “Dosar” and Buddhadeb Dasgupta for “The Voyeurs” are the nominees for best director.

Milind Soman for “Valley of Flowers”, Kay Kay for “Via Darjeeling” and Danny Denzongpa for “Frozen” are the nominees for best actors. Best actress nominees include Konkona Sen Sharma for “Dosar” and Raima Sen for “Manorama Six Feet Under.” Directors Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Das Gupta and authors Salman Rushdie and Shashi Tharoor are among the ones that are expected to attend the closing night ceremony.

Sonam Kapoor has been offered the female lead in “Rang De Basanthi” fame Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s new film opposite Abhishek Bachchan. The new actress has made her debut with the film “Saawariya” in the direction of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, one of the finest directors of Bollywood film industry. And now she has got an opportunity to work in the direction of Mr. Mehra, who shot to fame with the tremendous success of “Rang De Basanthi“. The film is probably going to be titled Delhi 6 or Dilli 6. She seems to be very lucky to have got this film opposite Abhishek even before the release of her debut film “Saawariya.”

According to sources Sonam has been offered a handsome amount for the movie. She gave her consent immeadiately after the movie was narrated to her in the presence of her father Anil Kapoor. The male lead was initially offered to Hrithik Roshan but when he rejected the film, the director took his time to consider Akshay Kumar, Siddharth, Ranbir Kapoor and finally settled with Abhishek. Can the director show his magic again and turn this film another huge hit just like his first movie?

“Om Shanti Om” is a movie that deals with a story of 1970’s Bollywood with some reincarnation (punar-janam) touch. The two lead roles are “Om” played by Shah Rukh Khan and “Shanti” played by Deepika Padukone. Om is a junior artist in Bollywood in the 70s, while Shanti is a superstar in the industry. Om adores Shanthi, in love with her, is a big fan of her. Om dreams of becoming a superstar but unfortunately he dies in a mishap. Later, he is reborn into the present time. He tries to discover the mystery of his past life. At this stage you might think of it as a rehashed version of Subhash Ghai’s “Karz“, BUT IT’S NOT. Although some of the scenes of this film reminds you of the same of some old movies, this movie gives you a new feel with its “1970s Bollywood” look. This film has some traces of Kudrat, Karz, Karan Arjun.. though.

Om Shanti Om has got some twists which take you by complete surprise at some points. At some points people might get confused with the twists of this film, especially when Shanti (Deepika) re-emerges. All in all “Om Shanti Om” is a good entertainer. The performances of the lead actors Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal(who played a negative role), Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade are superb. Vishal-Sekhar’s music is first-rate. This film may not create new records but this would secure a place in one of the hit movies of the year. But as always it would take one to two weeks to get the verdict of Bollywood audience.

Bollywood badshah Shahrukh Khan started his acting career with the film “Deewana” in 1992, in which he acted with Rishi Kapoor. He has eventually crossed many milestones in his 15-year long Bollywood career. Now Rishi Kapoor’s son Ranbir Kapoor is going to launch his career by competing with the Bollywood badshah. Both Shahrukh Khan’s “Om Shanti Om” and Ranbir’s “Saawariya” are very big projects and are presented by giants of the film Industry. The film “Saawariya” was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and is going to be released by Sony pictures. The film is also going to be the debut film of Rishi Kapoor’s son Ranbir Kapoor and Anil Kapoor’s daughter Sonam Kapoor. Whereas “Om Shanti Om” was directed by Farah Khan and is going to be released by Eros Entertainment. Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone are playing the lead roles in the film. Both films have high expectations. Both are hitting the screens on friday 9th November.

Bollywood actor Rahul Bose is a very kind human at heart. The actor has adopted six children from his charity institution located at the Andaman Nicobar islands. The children named Rukhsar, Matrena, Pratima, Jinu, Bindu and Animesh have been put at Rishi Valley in Andhra Pradesh for their education. He has raised around 24 lakh rupees for the education and upbringing of the children. “There will be six children selected from Andaman every two years,” he said. “The kids from Andaman were my first project and my second is the rehabilitation of drug-addicted children, and teach them skills after they quit drugs. We want to reach out to sections of society that need reaching out. We need to fill those cracks,” added the “Jhankaar Beats” actor. Well done! Good work Rahul Keep it up.

Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor and director Ken Ghosh have already had two films together. The duo started their filmi-relation with a love story titled “Ishq Vishk” in 2003 which was the debut film for Shahid Kapoor. He received a Filmfare award in the debut category for his performance in the movie. Later two came up with a thriller “Fida.” These two films were produced by famous music company “Tips.” Now they are teaming up again for their third film which is going to be produced by corporate giant “UTV”.

When asked, the director confirms the news saying “That’s true. But at the moment I can’t reveal more than that, all I can say is both Shahid and I are very excited about this project.” Shahid’s recent movie “Jab We Met” along with his now Ex-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor is a big success and the movie before this “Vivah” was also a successful one. With two consecutive successes naturally Shahid is on high except for his break-up with Kareena. After the recent success of Jab We Met, it is the first project the bollywood actor has officially confirmed. Let’s wish he would continue his success streak.

Although it is not yet officially confirmed, the rumour is that “Aryan” director Abhishek Kapoor is going to make a sequel to Farhan Akhtar’s block buster “Dil Chahta Hai.” The movie, which released on 24th, July 2001, starred Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Khanna and was one of the biggest hits of the year. The film also won more than 20 awards and even more nominations. According to sources, Farhan along with his partner Ritesh Sidhwani has sighned the “Aryan” director Abhishek Kapoor for their new project. And the assumptions are that it is a sequel to “Dil Chahta Hai.”

The film for which the title “Magic” is considered, is supposed to star Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny and Farhan himself in the lead. The project is expected to begin in January next year (2008). Also the talk is that the story of the film will take off from where “Dil Chahta Hai” closed. Let’s just wait and see up to what extent the above speculations would be correct.