Salman, Shahrukh, Aamir come together to rescue producers

Mumbai: Indian filmmakers have requested the Bollywood stars to pay for their staff using their own money instead of passing the expense onto the producers. Superstars like Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have come together to rescue producers from the expense by readily agreeing to their request.

The Film and Television Producers Guild of India decided recently that all actors will have to pay their staff from their own pocket. Till now, producers had to bear the additional expenses of an actor's personal staff which includes, make-up man, driver,hair stylist, personal trainers, etc.

According to producers, these costs added up to anything between Rs 15,000 to approximately Rs 50,000, depending on how famous and popular the actor is.

It has been said that Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan staff expenses per day are usually around Rs 40,000. Mukesh Bhatt told a daily that spot boys and drivers sometimes demand Rs 20,000 per day. The recent government decision to impose a 12.36 percent service tax from the producers also forced them to take this decision.

Reportedly, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan and Ranbir Kapoor have also agreed to this rule and have signed the papers.

Well, Salman, Shahrukh, Aamir we really appreciate your initiative!

Katrina Kaif acts smart, keeps Ranbir away from Deepika!

Bollywood has a long list of break ups, patch ups and love triangles. One such classic example revolves around the love stories of Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor-Deepika Padukone. Though both couples have split long back, things went on smoothly, when all the four were present at the same time, same day, at the Mehboob Studio premises in Bandra.
While Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone were shooting for their upcoming film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Katrina Kaif was present there to shoot for an ad film. That wasn't the end of it as Salman Khan's presence was an added enticement to the entire scenario.
But, the rumours say that it was Katrina Kaif, who acted really smart amongst all four. She was spotted being quite friendly with both her rumoured boyfriends, Salman and Ranbir. A leading daily reveals that Kats not only visited Sallu on his sets of Dabangg 2 at the studios, but also later went up to Ranbir to have a lunch with him. Rumours also say that when Deepika saw Ranbir & Kats together having lunch, she stopped herself from interrupting in between. She then retired to her vanity van for lunch.
Well, that was really smart of Kats. Wonder, how Dippy would have reacted after spotting Ranbir and Katrina together.

Salman Khan to get jailed for 3 years?

Mumbai: It's a known fact that actor Salman Khan and legal troubles share a decade old relationship. Though he has been trying hard these days to move on to a better and cleaner path, it looks like people are not ready to forgive him for his past illegal deeds. The 1998 black buck killing case is again haunting the superstar.

The recent report says that the Rajasthan High Court yesterday had revised the charges against Salman Khan and his colleagues in the 14-year-old black buck killing case. Disposing of a state government plea against a sessions court order dropping some of the charges against the accused, the High Court has held that Khan will be charged under Section 51 of Wildlife Act and Section 149 of IPC (Unlawful assembly), said Hastimal Saraswat, counsel for Salman Khan. Section 51 of Wildlife Act carries jail sentence up to three years or fine or both.

Salman was found guilty under the Wildlife Protection Act on charges of killing black buck in 1998. He was found guilty of killing two black bucks, a protected species of antelope. Salman was accompanied by his other co-actors: Saif Ali Khan, Tabbu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, who are also under section 52 (Attempts to contravene, or abet the contravention of, any of the provisions of this Act) of Wildlife Act and section 149 of IPC.

Cocktail rakes in Rs 20.08 cr at overseas Box Office

Mumbai: Hindi movie Cocktail has continued to keep the bells ringing at the international market. Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer film has done a wonderful collection at the overseas Box Office with its second weekend collection reaching Rs 20.08 crores nett. It has set a new bench mark for the upcoming romantic comedies in the foreign market.
Cocktail has done good business in America, where it was released in the maximum number of theatres, when compared to other foreign countries. The film has collected Rs 96.46 lakhs ($1,72,174) from 96 screens at USA Box Office in the second weekend, thereby taking its ten days total to Rs 5.75 crores ($10,27,121) in the country.
The Homi Adajania directed romantic comedy film has collected Rs 60.87 lakhs (£69,959) from 58 screens at UK Box Office, taking its second weekend total to Rs 4.82 crores (£5,54,697). The film Cocktail has collected Rs 6.50 crores (AED 27,00,000) in the second weekend.
Cocktail has collected Rs 30.94 lakhs (A$53,608) from 16 screens at the Australia Box Office in its second weekend. The movie has grossed Rs 1.73 crores nett (A$3,00,054) in the country. The film has raked in Rs 5.24 lakhs (NZ$11,833) from 7 screens at the New Zealand Box Office with its ten days reaching Rs 28.97 lacs (NZ$65,518).
However, Cocktail had collected Rs 11.26 crores nett at the foreign Box Office in the first weekend. The romantic comedy showed a considerable decline with its collection crossing Rs 1.93 crore nett in its second weekend. When compared to the first weekend, the business of the film has dropped by more than 85%.

Dimple Kapadia regretted her decision of marrying Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia were the first superstar couple of Bollywood. Rajesh Khanna married Dimple, who was 15 years younger to him, in March 1973. At that time Dimple Kapadia was still shooting for her debut film Bobby. Bobby was a superhit and people loved Dimple Kapadia in the movie. But Rajesh Khanna stopped Dimple from signing more films and told her to stay at home. Dimple was not even seventeen when she gave birth to her first daughter Twinkle Khanna. But Khanna hardly used to spend time with his family. Soon Khanna and Dimple's marriage started falling apart and Dimple Kapadia regretted her decision of marrying Kaka.
Dimple Kapadia once said in an interview to a magazine, "The life and happiness in our house came to an end the day I and Rajesh got married." However, even after living separately from Rajesh Khanna, the couple never thought of divorcing each other. Talking about her divorce Dimple Kapadia had said that she and her husband Rajesh Khanna have decided to leave things as they are, as they both don't want to go for second marriage.
However, in the later years of Rajesh Khanna, Dimple Kapadia did her best to take care of the ailing actor. Reportedly, she even shifted to Rajesh Khanna's residence Ashirwad to keep an eye on his health.
Well, even after so much of ups and downs in their life Dimple and Rajesh were one of the most loved couple of Bollywood

Movie Review of Tuneega Tuneega

Director: M.S.Raju

Cast: Sumanth Ashwin, Rhea Chakraborty, Naga Babu, Prabhu Ganeshan, Shafi, Seetha, Sayaji Shinde, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam and M.S.Narayan

He might have churned out blockbusters as a producer, but filmmaker M.S. Raju fails to strike a chord as a director. He donned the director's hat for the first time in 2008 with Vanna, which was a dud. And once again he fails to charm with Tuneega Tuneega.

Tuneega Tuneega marks the debut of Raju's son Sumanth Ashwini, but it is a big let down, courtesy a badly written script.

The film narrates the story of Karthick and Nidhi, who are the kids of two good friends Ramaswamy and Ravindar. As a child Nidhi cannot tolerate continuous sniping from Karthick as result she develops a hatred towards him. She later moves to the US for further studies.

Even When she comes back, she has the same level of hatred towards Karthick. But slowly love blossoms between the two. They decide to get married until a cunning relative of Ravindar starts creating problems.

He wants to get his son married to Nidhi for usurping the huge property. How Karthick gets his lady love forms the rest of the story line.

Raju presents a youthful love story, but frankly it reminds you of the films made in seventies and eighties.

That is not the only weak point in the film. The characterisation of the lead artists is so sketchy and inconsistent. The film moves at such a slow pace that one has to have a lot of patience to watch the second half.

It is really surprising to see an experienced film personality like Raju crafting out movies with age-old stories, when Telugu filmmakers are trying to move away from cliched patterns and make films likeEega.

Sumanth needs grooming. The script also does not allow him to showcase his talents. He is a good dancer. Rhea fails to create an impression.

Veteran artists Shivaji Prabhu, Nagababu, have performed well. The comedians Dharmavarapu and M.S. Narayana have not been properly used in the film.

The title song is catchy, but it is certainly the picturesque visuals which are the great strength of the film. The dialogues written by Parachuri Brothers lack freshness and have been heard before in many of their own films.

Prabhu Deva to launch Virat Kohli in movies?

Superstars in their respective fields, cricketer Virat Kohli and actor-director Prabhu Deva got along like a house on fire in Bangkok while they were shooting for an ad together. Chances are they might even join hands for a movie.

Kohli, who was initially reluctant to dance, was coaxed by Prabhu Deva to try out some intricate steps for an ad for a shoe brand. The results were so impressive that somewhere down the fun zone the duo established during their two-day shoot, the idea of a movie launch for the star-cricketer came up.

And if a source is to be believed, Kohli is not averse to the idea.

Once Prabhu Deva, who according to Ram Gopal Varma is one of the three most successful Bollywood directors today after Rohit Shetty and Sajid Khan, wraps ups his current commitments, he may plan a launch for Kohli.

Prabhu Deva is currently busy with the launch of Kumar Taurani's son Girish. He is working with him for a remake of his 2005 Telugu hit Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana. The original film featured Siddharth and Trisha Krishnan.