Photos - Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma at Patiala House Promotion:
Photos - Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma at Patiala House Promotion
The couple got married last month and had a brief celebratory getaway on an island near Bangkok with close family and friends. Thereafter, Imran was supposed to take Avantika for an uninterrupted honeymoon to an exotic island, possibly Hawaii, but the actor’s Bollywood projects have spoiled the fun.
We hear that Imran will now commit himself to the shooting of his two films -- Mere Brother Ki Dulhan with Katrina Kaif and Short Term Shaadi with Kareena Kapoor -- till the middle of this year.
As a consolation he has promised Avantika to make up for the lost honeymoon later on. But we think when it comes to honeymoon, timing is everything. It’s got to be right after the wedding, when a couple is still letting the fact of their matrimony sink in.
'Patiala House' Movie Review: From 'Kal Ho Na Ho' to this Kahlon saga about baap-beta stand-offs, director Nikhil Advani has remained an undeviating votary of melodrama. With dogged determination, he has followed the one-point formula through one hit and two massive flops in his career: piping in as much melodrama and tear-jerking moments quintessential to the Hindi cinema genre that’s been dying for years but is yet not fully dead. Patiala House, in that sense, is another salaam-e-kitsch by the director who refuses to throw in the towel or change course despite two rude awakenings from the box office.
Times change, people don’t. That’s precisely also the case with Gurtej Singh Kahlon (Rishi Kapoor) -- a proud Sikh in Southall, London -- who has nurtured a visceral hatred for the goras ever since a fatal racist attack on his late mentor (Prem Chopra) two decades ago. Over the years he has grown (rather degenerated) into an autocratic figure whose diktat is the final word in the household called Patiala House, bustling with daughters, ghar-jamais, cousins and a sheepish, servile beta Pargat (Akshay Kumar) who toe the line etched by their bigoted bauji.
Everyone has had to sacrifice some dream. Someone wanted to be a rapper, but is now doing kirtans; someone wanted to be a chef but is making jalebis; someone wanted to be a film-maker but is a cabbie. Most of all, Pargat has smothered his dream of being a pace bowler for England and is now content with an utterly boring and humdrum existence as the keeper of a provision store in Southall. All because of the gora-hating, venom-spewing, domineering bauji.
But then, a young girl Simran (Anushka Sharma) with a questionable reputation prods and dares Pargat to realize his dream and play for the English team against the wishes of his father.
For most of its running time, Patiala House keeps zigzagging between melodrama and light humour. One moment, Advani wants you to yank out your kerchiefs to dry the moistened eyes, the next he tries to regale you with the antics of the Punjabi brood with its bunch of wannabes. That’s the course the film charts for the first half before slipping into a somewhat silly zone in the second half, as the odds and sods of the Patiala House literally run from pillar to post to keep the truth hidden from bauji.
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Everyone has had to sacrifice some dream. Someone wanted to be a rapper, but is now doing kirtans; someone wanted to be a chef but is making jalebis; someone wanted to be a film-maker but is a cabbie. Most of all, Pargat has smothered his dream of being a pace bowler for England and is now content with an utterly boring and humdrum existence as the keeper of a provision store in Southall. All because of the gora-hating, venom-spewing, domineering bauji.
But then, a young girl Simran (Anushka Sharma) with a questionable reputation prods and dares Pargat to realize his dream and play for the English team against the wishes of his father.
For most of its running time, Patiala House keeps zigzagging between melodrama and light humour. One moment, Advani wants you to yank out your kerchiefs to dry the moistened eyes, the next he tries to regale you with the antics of the Punjabi brood with its bunch of wannabes. That’s the course the film charts for the first half before slipping into a somewhat silly zone in the second half, as the odds and sods of the Patiala House literally run from pillar to post to keep the truth hidden from bauji.
'Thank You' movie first look: Husbands will be sorry… Wives say thank you - this is what the poster of the film Thank You says. Directed by Anees Bazmee, the film is an out-and-out comedy starring Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Irrfan Khan, Celina Jaitley, Sunil Shetty and Rimi Sen.
Sonam is paired opposite Akki for the first time. She plays a tennis player while Akki is a playboy who falls in love with her. The film is shot in exotic locales of Canada: Vancouver and Niagra Falls.
Sonam has posted many photographs from the sets of Thank You on her Twitter account. She looks awesome with Akshay and that is also the USP of the film. The bombshell Mallika Sherawat has been roped in to do an item song in the film.
We hope Anees-Akshay pair to do some dhamaal with Thank You at box office, repeating the success story of films like Welcome and Singh Is Kinng.
Sonam has posted many photographs from the sets of Thank You on her Twitter account. She looks awesome with Akshay and that is also the USP of the film. The bombshell Mallika Sherawat has been roped in to do an item song in the film.
Pics - Hot Shazahn Padamsee on Maxim India Cover (Feb 2011):
Pics - Hot Shazahn Padamsee on Maxim India Cover (Feb 2011)
Pics - Priyanka Chopra on Madhuri Dixit's 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ sets:
Pics - Priyanka Chopra on Madhuri Dixit's 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ sets
Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma team up again with another Ysh Raj's film: Don’t know about their off-screen chemistry but on screen they are just smashing! Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh, the hit couple of Band Baaja Baaraat, are going to be back with another Yash Raj rom com by the end of this year.
Director Maneesh Sharma of BBB will again bring Anushka-Ranveer on celluloid for the film Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl. Yes, that’s reportedly the title of the film which indeed sounds very interesting. Ranveer will play a casanova who makes his living by cheating girls, and later finds his true love in Anushka.
The whole team of Band Baaja Baaraat including the dialogue writer Habib Faisal is coming together for Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl. It’s heard that the story idea is by Aditya Chopra. The movie will go on floors by April this year and is expected to release on December. Whoa!
The whole team of Band Baaja Baaraat including the dialogue writer Habib Faisal is coming together for Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl. It’s heard that the story idea is by Aditya Chopra. The movie will go on floors by April this year and is expected to release on December. Whoa!
In the movie, Mika has sung a peppy song titled Jugni. It’s a promotional track that was recently shot on the film’s lead actors Kangana and Madhavan with Mika joining in for a jig.
While filming the song, director Anand L Rai came up with the idea of making Mika kiss Kangana at the song’s end, just the way he locked lips with the item girl Rakhi Sawant a few years ago at her birthday.
The antic was intended to be funny, but Kangana wasn’t comfortable in being kissed by Mika. So she told the director to axe the kiss.
“Yes, I finally agreed to do 'Rascals'. I always wanted to work with David Dhawan. And it is Sanjay Dutt's first production. So all the more special. I've about 20 days' work. However, cameos as a rule are not what I'm looking for in my career right now,” Arjun is quoted to have said by a news agency.
The actor has left for Bangkok to shoot for his part in the movie, starring Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgan in lead roles.
But the movie Arjun is eagerly looking forward to is Shahrukh Khan’s Ra.One in which he plays the villain.
“I've played the bad guy successfully in Om Shanti Om. Even Raajneeti had shades of grey. So there's no apprehension about acceptability as a villain. At the end of the day, a good role is a good role, black or white or grey. I'm happy with the way my career has shaped up,” the 38-year-old actor said.
Katrina Kaif, Sonakshi Sinha featuring for an item bomb!: The movie buffs whose appetite for the raunch has been whetted by the tempting likes of Munni and Sheila better gear up for what could be the mother of all item songs - featuring Sonakshi Sinha and Katrina Kaif.
Yes, the current hot properties of Bollywood will join hands for Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder’s next film Joker, to be directed by Shirish.
The movie initially did not have any item song, much to the dismay of the leading lady Sonakshi Sinha, who was itching to show her dancing prowess. But Farah finally heeded her leading lady’s wish and granted her more than was asked for.
We hear that Joker will now have a raunchy item song featuring Sonakshi and a top Bollywood heroine, most likely Katrina Kaif. Most elated at this news is Sonakshi who says she’s confident that the song will be “lavish and aesthetic.”
Forget item songs, this one might well turn out to be an item bomb!
The movie initially did not have any item song, much to the dismay of the leading lady Sonakshi Sinha, who was itching to show her dancing prowess. But Farah finally heeded her leading lady’s wish and granted her more than was asked for.
We hear that Joker will now have a raunchy item song featuring Sonakshi and a top Bollywood heroine, most likely Katrina Kaif. Most elated at this news is Sonakshi who says she’s confident that the song will be “lavish and aesthetic.”
Forget item songs, this one might well turn out to be an item bomb!
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