Saturday, March 21, 2009

Lara Dutta oozes glamour on ‘Maxim’ cover

Maxim has always shown Bollywood actresses in their ultra hot avatar and it could not be a better time for Lara Dutta to appear on the covers of this magazine when her much hyped film ‘Billoo Barber’ is all set to hit the theatres. The movie has Lara in a de-glamourized look as a mother of two kids, but the February 2009 issue of ‘Maxim’ showcases Lara in her hottest best. However, this is the second time the magazine is featuring her. Attired in skimpy black and red outfits and sporting a short hair cut, Lara does look sensuous. Check out the pics for yourself…










Amisha Patel’s boyfriend loves her hot image

Where most boyfriends are uncomfortable about the skimpy ans revealing clothes of their actress girlfriends, this one is here with a difference. We are talking about the latest boyfriend of Amisha Patel who is very comfortable and encouraging with the sexy makeover of her girlfriend.
Kanav Puri is a London based businessman and came into Amisha Patel’s life after her breakup with Vikram Bhatt. Recently, Amisha has done quite a few bold photo shoots and roles, be it her role in ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic’ or her near topless photo shoot for Dabboo Ratnani’s calendar. Kanav has been very supportive in all this and even got these sizzling snapshots of Amisha blown up to poster size and put them up in the bedrooms of his apartments in Delhi and London. Kanav normally stays in London but puts up at his Delhi residence when he visits India.
Beaming about her boyfriend Amisha said, “He’s comfortable with my photographs and also very proud of the fact that I am known for my hot body.”





Sanjay Dutt’s Anniversary Bash

It has been one year of marriage for actor as well as politician Sanjay Dutt with wife Manyata Dutt. Both Sanjay and Manyata on this occasion hosted a party which was attended by celebrities both from Bollywood as well as politics. The most renowned personalities from the glamour as well politics presented at the party, were, Abhishek Bachchan and Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh who greeted the happy couple on their anniversary. The party was held at Sanjay Dutt’s Pali Hill residence. We from Bollywood-Stars do also wish them a very happy wedding anniversary.
















Habib and association out to promote ‘Billu’

The promotional campaign for changed ‘Billu’ earlier “Billu Barber” is getting intensive with every passing day. Recently, co-stars of the movie Irfan Khan and Lara Dutta were seen together while promoting the movie at Jawed Habib as posing before the poster of the movie. During the promotion, Habib, himself, stood before the poster along with stars on the promotional tour holding pair of shears for the sake of style. At the time Irfan Khan was standing with garden hedge shears and he allowed Habib, to try styling and trimming on his hair.This promotional activity created curiosity and program was attended by media persons in large. As the part of promotional campaign ‘Habib’ would distribute coupons along with movie tickets and some selected theaters would have Habib trained stylists as providing hair cutting services. Spoke persons from Jawed Habib told that brand ‘Jawed Habib’ is quite happy with their association with SRK banner produced movie and would try their best efforts to promote the movie as far much as possible.














Hrishita Bhatt- At Samanvay Promoting Jugaad

The Anand Kumar directed ‘Jugaad’; starring hot Hrishita Bhatt with Manoj Bajpai is among the three releases of this Friday. Hrishita informs, “Jugaad is about the ups and downs of life….”While the movie is also big time return of Manoj to the big screen.
Hrishita Bhatt was at Ahlcon Public School at their Annual Day- SAMANVAY to promote her movie-‘Jugaad’. Casually dressed in Brown Jacket and cool denims she looked stunningly hot.
The literal meaning of ‘jugaad’ is making shift arrangement/manipulation; the leading lady of the film Hrishita Bhatt seems to have a different take on the theme!
The movie star cast includes- Manoj Bajpai, Hrishita Bhatt, Vijay Raaz, Govind Namdeo and Sanjay Mishra. The movie has got three star rating from the box office.
The film circles around the well-known sealing issue that had been a hot subject in India’s capital city, Delhi in 2007-08. The story is of Sandip Kapur (Manoj Bajpai) who heads an advertising agency; who is amidst a demanding life when his problems to his life are heightened as his agency is sealed by the Muncipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Sandip fails to re-establish his company, despite his best efforts.





Shahid still hopeful of love

Shahid sour past relationships with Bollywood actresses Hrishita Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor has not made him into a lovelorn guy as he still is hopeful of falling in love all over again, but currently he is single and enjoying his bachelorhood to the core.




Shahid says, “Yes, life’s good and I am really enjoying this phase of my life.”




Shahid was recently voted by the youth as their youth icon and Shahid is visibly delighted, “Being voted as a youth icon is both an honour and very encouraging too. The year has begun on a good note and I don’t want to look back at all.”




Quiz him about his various links with his female co-stars, and pat comes the reply, “Well, what can I say? It’s very sweet of people to keep linking me up with somebody or the other. I think they just hate to see me single.”




Finally he ends the interview on this note, “Life throws googlies at you. You catch some, you miss some! But, I haven’t lost faith in love. I am like any normal guy. I would love to fall in love again. But, as of now, I am single. I would rather have people talk about my work.”

Shehenshah Big B visits Baadshah SRK

Shehenshah-e-Bollywood- Amitabh Bachchan has wished Baadshah-e-Bollywood a speedy recovery and is planning to visit SRK at him home Mannat, after SRK’s successful arthroscopic surgery.




Amitabh wrote on his blog, “I had sent him (Shah Rukh) a message for his speedy recovery. He called back to thank and inform me that he is home. ‘I was getting depressed in hospital, so came away’.”




Big B also messaged him, “I was planning to visit you in the hospital” to which SRK replied, “Come home sir, we shall play some games.”




Amitabh further said, “Don’t take after surgery too lightly, I warned him and take rest and do not get into any kind of activity. He sounds a little groggy. I shall visit him tomorrow.




”Well that’s quite nice of Big B, guess the cold war between them is over.
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Indian Idol finally gets its first female winner

This time, the foruth series of popular TV show ‘Indian Idol’ was unique as the show finally got its first female winner in the form of Sourabhee Debbarma, who won title of ‘Indian Idol 4′ on Sunday ruling out her close contestants the Bengali girl Torsha Sarkar and army man Kapil Thapa. The 22 year old girl who surprisingly has had no professional training in music walked away with a Rs.10 million contract with Sony TV and a car. The result was based on public voting.
The celebrity guests of the finale included Bollywood stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh, who had come to promote their forthcoming film ‘New York’.
Others from the Indian film and music industry, including judges Javed Akhtar, Anu Malik, Kailash Kher and Sonali Bendre, too were present to cheer the finalists.
















Kangana Ranaut sweating it out at the gym

Though Kangana Ranaut is still far behind in the race for top Bollywood heroines, there is no denying the fact that Kangana has managed to make her presence felt in this competitive world of Bollywood. She will soon be seen in her sexiest best in ‘Kites’ with Hrithik Roshan.
But the envious figure that Kangana prides at does not come easy. The girl keeps fit by hitting it hard at Leena Mogre’s gym. Here are some pictures of Kangana sweating it out at celebrity fitness trainer Leena Mogre’s gym, Bandra














Amrita Arora’s pre-wedding party

This March, two of our beautiful Bollywood ladies will be tying the knot. First is Ayesha Takia and another one is Amrita Arora who is all for her big day on March 6. Amrita and her beau Shakeel Ladakh threw a grand party for their close friends on March 1. The celebrations have been planned for a stretch of over three days: There will be a church wedding on March 4, a sangeet on March 5 and the nikaah and reception on March 6. Best friend Kareena Kapoor is going to be one of the bridesmaids and sister Malaika Arora, the maid of honour.
Amrita’s wedding gowns and also the bridesmaids’ clothes have been designed by Ashley Rebello. The mehendi outfit will be by Manish Malhotra and Shantanu-Nikhil are designing the traditional wedding lehenga.













Preity Zinta in Napier to cheer Indian team

Bollywood star Preity Zinta made a surprise visit to the McClean park, moments before the toss in the first ODI between India and New Zealand there to cheer The Kings Eleven Punjab, an IPL franchisee co-owned by Zinta.
“I have been invited by the New Zealand Prime Minister and will be attending the official function hosted for the Indian team on March 5 at Wellington,” said Preity, who looked gorgeous as ever clad in faded blue jeans and a blood-red top.
Preity briefly met Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Irfan Pathan before the start of the match and wished them well. “I met Yuvraj, Dhoni and Irfan briefly. Nothing much,” she revealed.
Indian team moral was already down by white wash in T20 series. But it seems her present has worked magic and Indian team won that day’s match.








Preity Zinta in Napier to cheer Indian team

Bollywood star Preity Zinta made a surprise visit to the McClean park, moments before the toss in the first ODI between India and New Zealand there to cheer The Kings Eleven Punjab, an IPL franchisee co-owned by Zinta.
“I have been invited by the New Zealand Prime Minister and will be attending the official function hosted for the Indian team on March 5 at Wellington,” said Preity, who looked gorgeous as ever clad in faded blue jeans and a blood-red top.
Preity briefly met Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Irfan Pathan before the start of the match and wished them well. “I met Yuvraj, Dhoni and Irfan briefly. Nothing much,” she revealed.
Indian team moral was already down by white wash in T20 series. But it seems her present has worked magic and Indian team won that day’s match.


Wedding Bells for Bollywood beauties

It is wedding time in Bollywood with two of our most gorgeous actresses tying knots with their hubby. Actress Amrita Arora got married to Shakeel Ladak by Catholic rituals at Olive restaurant in Mumbai. The wedding was graced by Bollywood biggies that include Gauri and Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan and Zayed Khan with their wives along with Twinkle and Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, Urmila Matondkar, Priyanka Chopra, Mehr and Arjun Rampal, Manish Malhotra, Tusshar Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan to name a few. However, there was an initial disappointment when the got a call from the Mt Mary Basilica stating that the wedding ceremony would not be possible because of security issues.
Also, this March, beautiful Ayesha Takia married her long time boyfriend Farhan. Her wedding took place on March 1, 2009 in Mumbai. They had a quiet nikaah as per Islamic tradition. Only family members attended the wedding ceremony which was a simple, private affair with only near and dear ones invited. On the night of 2 March, Ayesha and Farhan gave a party to their friends and other friends from the industry.
Check out the beautiful Bollywood ladies as coy brides at their wedding ceremony.




































Aishwarya and Abhishek shoot for ‘Raavan’

Aishwarya Rai and hubby Abhishek Bachchan are busy these days with the shoot of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’ and ‘Ashokavanam’ in Tamil which is taking place on the banks of Hoogly. Abhishek is playing the central character in Mani Ratnam’s movie Raavan, a modern adaptation of the epic Ramayana. Aishwarya Rai plays a contemporary Sita, appearing as an accomplished Carnatic Musician in the movie. While Abhishek stars in the Hindi version, southern star Prithviraj Sukumar plays the lead role in the Tamil version.
Besides Abhishek and Aishwarya, the film also stars Aishwarya Rai, Vikram, Manisha Koirala, Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Tejaswini Kolhapure, and Ajay Gehi.
The actress has been shooting for this movie here since February 17 while her husband Abhishek Bachchan too has joined the sets recently. The shooting is expected to continue till mid-March. Ratnam has chosen Saheb Kothi, an old Zamindar Bari (mansion of landed gentry of yore) on the banks of River Hooghly at Agarpara, in North 24-Parganas District. He has kept the unit and the locale strictly out of media glare.









Shilpa Shetty opens up her chain of medi-spas

After winning the title of ‘Big Brother’, Shilpa Shetty has stepped into many shoes, Television host, Yoga Guru, actress, producer, business woman, active fighting against AIDS and racism, to name a few. Now, she has decided to take up the task of making people beautiful. It is known to very few people that Shilpa is a trained beautician and that she always wanted to own a ‘beauty parlour’.
Shilpa Shetty has launched a chain of medi-spas all over Mumbai in partnership with spa owner, Kiran Bawa. IOSIS is not quite a beauty parlour, it is closer to a spa, Shilpa said at the inaugration.
A source close to the actress reveals, “Shilpa hasn’t had a party for a long time but on March 10, she will have a double celebration the Royal Rendezvous to celebrate her partnership with Rajasthan Royals as well as the opening of her new medi-spa at a five-star hotel in the suburbs. She has already asked people to block the date.”