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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is known to be a man with great patience
and humbleness. But an abusive blogger’s constant abusive posts on Big B
have crossed the limit of his patience too. In fact, he started sending
similar abusive messages to the actor. Now, Big B has approached police
complaining against the person responsible for all these.

Here’s a quick clarification about Sanjay Gupta’s next film. A section of the media has reported that the maverick film-maker is planning to remake a Spanish film, which is expected to star the Deol brothers - Sunny and Bobby - in principal roles. The news is partly true, partly false.

Partly true: Gupta is remaking a Spanish film. But the other part of the news - the casting - is completely wrong. The fact is that it’s a four-hero project and Gupta hasn’t signed anyone as yet. “I haven’t signed Sunny or Bobby. We are still scripting,” he sets the record straight. The truth is, Gupta will start the film early next year, after the Meghna Gulzar film, produced by him, is complete.

As far as the casting of Gupta’s film is concerned, there’re whispers that he is planning to cast Anil Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Arjun Rampal in principal roles. Awaiting the official confirmation from Gupta.

The trend of making sequels has caught on in a big way. In fact, the moment a film hits the bull’s eye, most producers immediately jump at the idea of making a sequel to the film. The announcement of a sequel creates tremendous excitement within and outside the film industry and gradually, the film becomes a brand.

The latest news doing the rounds is that producer Ramesh Taurani is planning to make a sequel to ISHQ VISHK. Rumours are rife that Ratna Sinha will direct the film, which is expected to star Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the lead. However, Ramesh Taurani denies the development completely, “It’s untrue. We don’t have a story for a sequel, so how can we announce the film in the first place?” But he confirms that Ratna Sinha did narrate a subject to him. “But it was for an altogether different film. Beyond that we haven’t had any discussions,” Taurani adds.

Meanwhile, Taurani is gearing up to start RACE 2, directed by Abbas-Mustan. This film is likely to take off early next year.

He is a man who is a clear example of the proverb ‘Actions speak louder than words’. He is the ace film maker Siddharth Anand, who has to his credit, commercial films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Salaam Namaste.

Well, he is the man who is also the talk of the town, for he has got a mega film up his sleeve releasing this season. The film’s called Anjaana Anjaani and stars the mint-fresh pair of Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.

Here’s your chance to catch Siddharth Anand up, close and personal on Bollywood Hungama’s Celebrity Chat on Wed, September 1 at 1330 hrs IST. Don’t miss it!

He is a man who is a clear example of the proverb ‘Actions speak louder than words’. He is the ace film maker Sidharth Anand, who has to his credit, commercial films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Salaam Namaste.

Well, he is the man who is also the talk of the town, for he has got a mega film up his sleeve releasing this season. The film’s called Anjaana Anjaani and stars the mint-fresh pair of Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.

Here’s your chance to catch Sidharth Anand up, close and personal on Bollywood Hungama’s Celebrity Chat on Wed, September 1 at 1330 hrs IST. Don’t miss it!

Started in the year 2000 with the aim of exploring and encouraging new animation content creators, TBS Digicon6 - animation awards is scheduled to take place November this year in Tokyo, Japan.
The organizers have partnered with Mumbai based animation education Frameboxx, which will be representing Digicon in India and will also be responsible for collecting the entries. Apart from the international edition, the duos have also planned an India chapter for the awards which will be named as Frameflixx - Digicon awards.
Says Rajesh Turakhia, MD of Frameboxx, “As you are aware that Frameboxx has successfully conducted the Frameflixx awards for 2009 & 2010, the whole idea of collaborating with TBS and planning for the India chapter is to raise the same to the international level.”
The entries sent are judged by a judging committee, set up by the secretariat on the basis of creativity, expressiveness, design and artistic quality, sound effects and other such criteria.
“The exposure that the Indian participants will get is going to be enormous and all qualified Framelixx - Digicon entries will be direct entries to Digicon Asia. Besides Frameflixx, the entries collected by our other online partners will also have a direct entry to Digicon.” he added.
TBS Digicon’s Takafumi Yuki shared, “This year is the first time that the Awards will be jointly announced. Efforts are on to popularize the event, raise awareness and get more and more artists participating in it.”
For more details about the awards and participation, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/2cvcsgy

Bollywood films being inspired by Hollywood movies is a phenomenon as old as the hills. However, in the recent past, more and more filmmakers are going the right way and procuring legal rights to remake rather than blatantly plagiarising Hollywood films.

Mukta Arts’ production Hello Darling which released last Friday also found itself in a soup few days prior to its release when 20th Century Fox claimed that the film is a copy of the 1980’s Hollywood film Nine to Five (9 to 5). Both the films apparently deal with 3 working women out to teach their perverted, sex-starved boss a lesson. 20th Century Fox would have stopped the release of Hello Darling; however a timely intervention and an out of court settlement by Subhash Ghai helped the film release on its scheduled date.

When we contacted Mr. Subhash Ghai, he didn’t deny the news, “Yes we’ve had a settlement with 20th Century Fox. When our team of writers started writing Hello Darling there was no deliberate intention to take references from any particular film. However, when I saw the first cut of the film last month, I did notice that it was similar to some extent to the 1980’s Hollywood film Nine to Five. That’s when I spoke to the people at 20th Century Fox. Since the film was nearing release, there was no question of acquiring rights at that point of time. However, we mutually decided to arrive at a settlement so that the release is not affected. They were kind enough and as scheduled our film released on the said date i.e. Aug 27.”

Bipasha will be spending a lot of time in Goa in the coming weeks. First she will shoot her fitness video on the beaches quickly before winter sets in. Then she is all set to shoot a re-mix of the song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ for Rohan Sippy’s film of the same title.
In Rohan Sippy’s film, Bipasha Basu is all set to swing to the sound of the R D Burman track ‘Dum Maro Dum’. The copyright issues with Dev Anand and his film Hare Rama Hare Krishna have apparently been sorted out. Pritam Chakraborty is all set to record a new version of the Asha Bhosle classic.
Says Bipasha, “I can’t talk about it right now. But when it happens it will happen. Give it another two weeks.”
She has another issue-based film Aakrosh coming up after Lamhaa. And Bipasha wonders how the audience would react to it. “The social issue, honour killings, is treated like a thriller. Even Lamhaa was treated like a thriller. But how many people went to see it?”
Bipasha plays a schoolteacher in a tradition-bound village in Aakrosh. “For me the interesting part of doing Aakrosh was to see how far away I can get away from my glamorous image. I discovered it was easy for me to do real characters. The director, Priyadarshan, is a delight to work with. And my co-star is Ajay Devgn who is a good dependable actor. I’ve another film Mr. Fraud with Ajay directed by Abbas-Mustan which got stuck. I don’t know if that will ever release.”
Bipasha has a message for her colleagues who are keen to lend their names to issue-based films. “Don’t charge any money for working in such films. It’s the only way to make issue-based films commercially viable.”
Says the actress, “After Lamhaa, I am tempted to tell a committed filmmaker like Rahul Dholakia to make out-and-out commercial films. Or if you make a film on a social issue then make sure it doesn’t go over-budget. The audience doesn’t care about what’s happening in the real world. It’s shameful that Lamhaa was so costly. If it was made for Rs. 4 crores it would have been a hit. When a mainstream actor does a film on a social cause it should be done free of cost as a sign of commitment to society.”
Bipasha is all set to go to Goa well in advance of her earlier plan to shoot her video. “I want it to be shot outdoors in Goa. Winter gets too crowded. And I’ve a film to shoot in September. So I’ve to rush the video. I am going crazy doing my calorie counts. This time I’ve no team. I am doing everything on my own. It’s a little boring to do it by myself. But I’ve always been a loner.”
And yes, all is well between Bipasha and John. Says Bipasha confidently, “If God forbid, anything were to go wrong between me and John, he would be the loser not me.”
John Abraham may go right ahead and insure his body parts. Bipasha isn’t doing any such thing. Bipasha can’t see the sense of John insuring his butt.
She says, “I’m a body person and I am definitely into fitness. But I’d never insure any body part. He’s welcome to do what he likes. I just want to know which insurance company is insuring his butt.”

Amitabh Bachchan was probably the first most sincere celebrity blogger in Bollywood who used the platform to connect with his fans and update them on his activities, thoughts and interact with them regularly. No wonder then that he had innumerable followers who would start their day with reading what the revered Big B had to say.

But apparently there was one errant follower who used the ability to comment on the blog to vent out his negativity. He would leave derogatory remarks that would cross the line of decency and were abusive. Big B mentions in his blog, “There is a serious effort by a member that writes and comments on this blog to use language and expression that is abusive, filthy and utterly disgusting.” The unrelenting person would even send messages that were downright vulgar on Big B’s phone and provoked the star to take corrective measures.

Amitabh Bachchan reported the matter to the authorities and now any attempt from this miscreant would come under legal cyber space action.

The ‘Khatta Meetha’ debutante Trisha Krishnan who will next be seen
in Hindi with Pratik Babbar has become embroiled in a drug scandal. A report on a Telugu channel claims Trisha’s name features in the
list of clients of a Nigerian drug dealer. All because she has a very
close friend of African origin, the dress designer Sidney Sladen!

Excitement of Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai clashing in theaters
would have to be kept on hold for some other day. Reason being that
Ash’s ‘Robot’ (with Rajnikanth in the lead), which was supposed to be
released on 10 September (the same day as Salman’s ‘Dabangg’), has now
been moved to a later day. Indications are that the film would now
arrive on 24th September.

Actress Shubhangi Aatre, who plays the lead role in the show ‘Do
Hanson Ka Jodaa’ a joint venture between Imagine and Rajshri
Productions, was recently involved in an accident. Now, it’s being heard
that the show would be taken off the air as there is a major
unavailability of the female lead of the show.

Well, that’s the question that everybody seems to be asking about the Sajid Khan’s hit film Housefull that’s all set to have its worldwide television premiere on August 29, 2010. When the film was released in theatres earlier this year, it had the remix version of the yesteryear’s famous track ‘Apni Toh Jaise Taise’ (from the late Prakash Mehra’s hit film Laawaris), which later on became the reason for a controversy that’s dodging the film till today.

Prakash Mehra’s son, Puneet Mehra, objected to the usage of the song in Housefull saying the producers had not taken rights for the same. While the makers of the film claimed that they had purchased the song rights from the music label Sa Re Ga Ma. The issue was however settled and the film released in theatres with the song.

Coming to the television premiere of the film, Puneet again moved to court objecting on the usage of the song in TV premiere of the film. A High Court ruling was passed in Kolkata yesterday stating that Housefull cannot be aired on television if the song in question is not deleted from the film. Eros reportedly has decided to go ahead with the telecast of the film without the song. However, official confirmation of the same is awaited.

Celebrations are already on the cards way before the release as the
first promo of ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ garnered over 11,000 video views within
the first 5 hours of its release on a popular web portal – a response
received by a privileged few.

The queen of Indian Tele - Series, Ekta Kapoor is presently busy
working on several generation leaps in her shows. This ‘leap‘was evident
in the serial ‘Tere Liye’ and was welcomed by viewers, however, one
ponders, what the outcome would be once, ‘Bandini’ (features on Imagine)
take an 18 year leap!

Producer Feroz Nadiadwala waited four years for Akshay Kumar to
return to the third film in the Hera Pheri series before they parted
ways because of the price factor. With Akshay gone, Feroz had to change
the entire cast of Hera Pheri.

Namita the curvy actor of Telugu film industry has stayed away from
the camera for a long time now. The actress has not released a single
film since last year and she has cut off all her contacts, with the
industry people and the media as well. The actress has reportedly
secluded herself to a close circle of friends and does not want to share
her personal life with anyone. A few days back she was seen at the
Chennai Airport, where she explained the reasons for her absence from
Tollywood.

Mani Ratnam will be honoured with Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival to be held in September. Announcing this at Cannes, just before the launch of Mani Ratnam’s Film Raavan, Venice Film Festival director Marco Muller said, Mani Ratnam is one of the greatest innovators in contemporary Indian Cinema. He helped introduce the auteur concept to contemporary Bollywood. We are very proud to honour the work of the great Indian director Mani Ratnam.

In addition to Mr. Mani Ratnam, Mrs. Suhasini, Mani Ratnam and Mr. Vikram are attending the 67.Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica (67th Venice International Film Festival.)

The Award Ceremony and the screening of Raavanan (Tamil) and Raavan (Hindi) will take place on September 6th. The said films both Tamil and Hindi will also take part in the PUSAN International Film Festival in October 2010.

Any film Aamir does becomes a topic of discussion nationwide. Be it his film on the education system - 3 Idiots or the recently released Peepli [Live], a film on the farmer suicides. They don’t call him ‘The Perfectionist’ for nothing.

If that wasn’t enough, Aamir continues to be a red-hot property even in the ad world, in terms of brand endorsements too. After the Etisalat deal, Aamir has apparently, been signed up as the brand ambassador of the ‘yet-to-be-launched’ two wheelers from the Mahindra stable.

Get geared as Aamir might just take you for a ride (literally).

Whenever one gets to hear of Saif Ali Khan, the terms that get associated with him are talent, style, poise and lots of élan. Here on, add one more term, and that’s ‘acute business acumen’. Testimonial to this is the fact that he is now all set to launch an ‘Agent Vinod’ game, for his upcoming film which goes with the same name. It’s a game that will have the user become ‘Agent Vinod’ and go looking for the clues in the country, interacting with many characters, including that of Kareena’s as well.

For this game, Saif has tied up Sangam Gupta of Trine Animation and Gaming Studio. Readers may note that this is one of the very few companies that create Xbox and PlayStation games. Saif has planned to start the pre-release promotions of this film in April next year, with the PlayStation game and a comic book. Talking about the two concepts of promoting the film, Saif said that the idea was to come up with a different medium of expression that will appeal to kids as well as adults.

For the uninitiated, Agent Vinod stars Saif in the lead, with his real-life lady love Kareena Kapoor. The film is directed by Sriram Raghavan.