Rock Concerts to promote London Dreams

This is very different from the traditional ways of promoting films, Vipul Shah, director producer of upcoming film London dreams has come up with a novice idea. Vipul Shah is arranging two open-air rock concerts at two venues Mumbai and Delhi next week, most probably on Oct 27 and Oct 28, 2009. The concerts will feature Ajay Devgan, Salman Khan, Asin in concert with musicians Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.





The stars will perform in front of thousands of fans amidst the flawless security arrangements. Says Vipul, ''We don't want any security lapses. Our stars will be completely safe on stage. They will be performing not only to the songs from London Dreams. We're also looking at staging some of Salman and Ajay's biggest hits.''

Bollywood stars have never gone on stage to perform at live rock concerts. Vipul corrects that perception, ''Recently a similar thing happened with Rock On when the entire cast performed live. Many years ago Mukul Anand got Sanjay Dutt, Raveena Tandon and Salman Khan on stage for the promotion of Dus. So these London Dreams concerts will be deja vu for Salman.''

The stars have already started preparing for the two live concerts. While performing live for Salman is not a new experience, Ajay suffers from stage fright. But gradually, Ajay has been getting used to crowds and feels he can do it.

It will be a huge event , at the venues a turn-out of at least 3000 - 4000 people is expected. It would be no-ticket free-entry affair, so you can call it priceless experiences. After the concerts in Mumbai and Delhi, Vipul intends to stage similar live performances in the other metropolises.

London Dreams is slated for a 30 October release.

Priyanka alone on a holiday

Priyanka Chopra, after giving great hits in Dostana, Fashion and Kaminey needs a break. But Priyanka Chopra is enjoying her holiday without her good friend Shahid Kapur. Priyanka decided to give herself a break after getting frequently ill, due to lot of stress.




Priyanka is having good time with her friends and her parents are joining her soon. But Priyanka has taken a break from the break, as she has to dub for her latest film What's Your Raashee which is directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. In between her vacation the actress came back to Mumbai for dubbing the film.

Veer's shooting postponed due to Swine Flu

Bollywood 2010 releasing film Veer's shooting in Pune was cancelled at the last minute because of the wide spread of swine flu in the city. The film stars Salman Khan in the lead role and the film is directed by Anil Sharma.




Even the schedule of Karan Johar's Kurbaan too was postponed because of the rising cases of flu in the city.

Producer Vijay Galani is now looking for a similar location in Mumbai for the shooting of the film Veer. Director Anil Sharma says, "We decided it is better not to go as our was a big unit and it would attract huge crowds. The Pune administration is busy with the swine flu and it would be unfair for them to look after us too. We didn't want to take an unnecessary risk and have our unit exposed to swine flu. Salman also Wanted [^] it to be cancelled as he said this is the right decision."

Salman Khan is also looking forward for his two more releases for 2009 Wanted which is ready for release on September 18, Main Aur Mrs. Khanna which is releasing on October 16 and London Dreams will be releasing on October 30.

Dutt risks for Luck

Sanjay Dutt has performed a stunning action sequence for Shree Ashtavinayak's Luck. He jumped from a speeding train, blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back without any cables or dummies.

Soham Shah, the director of Luck, says Dutt's sequence is one of the biggest and the most expensive highlights of the film as it required to show the five running trains that was shot in Goa as it was technically impossible to set it up in Mumbai or any other big city.

Some trains were kept on standby for a couple of days on two railway tracks. It was a very expensive shoot. A five-day shoot with five trains a day costed the producer over Rs 1.5 crore. "It's Sanju's introductory sequence. He jumps, along with other actors, from a running train, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back."

All the needed precautions were taken for the same. Says Soham, "It's about these characters testing their luck. We set up cables and kept harnesses ready. So, if anything went wrong Sanju would be not be injured. But when we narrated the scene to him, he said he didn't want
to use any safety measures or dummies. He was kicked about shooting such a high-voltage action scene on his own." Action director Allan Amin led the action team.

Adds Dutt himself, "I hadn't shot such a hard-core action sequence in a long time, so when the opportunity arose, I decided to do it myself. Initially, I was a bit nervous but then I gauged the jump from the cage in the train to the tracks. After the jump, we had to speed away
from the train, and keep running. For that split second, I had m heart in my mouth but fortunately, things went well."

Luck is the debut vehicle for Shruti Hassan alongside Mithun Chakroborty and Imran Khan among others.

Ritesh-Genelia What's Cooking

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Actors Ritesh Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza recently spotted together dining at a Mahim restaurant. No matter how many times the actors deny that they are seeing each other, one could not believe it after seeing them together at some restaurant in Mahim, Mumbai.

Both the actors and their friends were gathered together for a party to celebrate the success of Ritesh Deshmukh’s father Vilasrao Deshmukh being appointed as the Central Minister of Heavy Industries.

Both the stars had ordered for traditional south Indian food. They were together for over two hours and were comfortable with several fans who occasionally approached them for autographs. While they readily gave autographs, they refused to be photographed together.

If this is true then why they are hiding their relationship when they look so good together and seem so completely in love !!!

Ritesh-Genelia What's Cooking

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Actors Ritesh Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza recently spotted together dining at a Mahim restaurant. No matter how many times the actors deny that they are seeing each other, one could not believe it after seeing them together at some restaurant in Mahim, Mumbai.

Both the actors and their friends were gathered together for a party to celebrate the success of Ritesh Deshmukh’s father Vilasrao Deshmukh being appointed as the Central Minister of Heavy Industries.

Both the stars had ordered for traditional south Indian food. They were together for over two hours and were comfortable with several fans who occasionally approached them for autographs. While they readily gave autographs, they refused to be photographed together.

If this is true then why they are hiding their relationship when they look so good together and seem so completely in love !!!

Glittering Show "Marathi Film Awards 2009"

Aamir Khan, ageless beauty Rekha and oscar-winner ace musician A.R. Rahman was felicitated at the 46th annual Marathi awards held in Mumbai on May 30th. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan presented the prestigious 'Raj Kapoor awards' at the Bollywood stalwarts for the special contribution to the Indian cinema.

The award has been named after the legendary film Bollywood personality Raj Kapoor.

Bollywood icon Rekha, who is considered to be one of the evergreen Bollywood actresses, looked as scintillating as ever in Indian traditional drape and thanked the State Government and public for the honour.

Aamir Khan's last film 'Ghajini' was one of the highest grosser in the year 2008 and was accorded with several awards for his movie based on dyslexia 'Taare Zameen Par'.is first appearance on the silver screen was as a child actor in his uncle Nasir Hussain's film 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat' way back in 1973.

Oscar award winning music director Rahman was felicitated along with the technical team of 'Slumdog Millioanire'. He had also sang movie's award-winning song 'Jai ho' on stage. Rahman fetched two Oscar for rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy competing in a TV game show. The movie scooped eight Academy Awards earlier this year.Child actor Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail was also present at the event.

Bollywood is worth about 85 billion rupees and is forecast to more than double to 175 billion rupees by 2011.Despite being so prolific, Bollywood makes more than 800 films a year-the industry's revenues stand at half of what the Walt Disney studio made in box office revenues in 2006.

Sonam Kapoor learning acting

An actor par-excellence Anil Kapoor is not really happy about this decision but his daughter Sonam is not paying heed.

The young lady has enrolled herself into an acting course in New York this summer. Maybe it’s her way of beating the Mumbai heat or taking a break from the offers (or the lack of them) that she has in Bollywood.

Or maybe she’s realised she needs to give a touch-up on her acting skills and is doing the course to enhance them. We don’t know the exact reason but we can tell you it’s going to be a crash course for a couple of months and she will be renting an apartment in Manhattan while she studies.

Her friends who studied with her in Boston will also be staying with her in her pad and while she’s there, they plan to make the most of it.

Anil wanted her to stay in Mumbai and make her presence felt among filmmakers and also sign more projects.

But Sonam would have none of it and has made up her mind.

Take your fathers word Sonam baby...he is experienced isn't he??

Deepika Padukone has a phobia of snakes

While shooting for the second issue of Harper's Bazaar in Thailand, Deepika Padukone found snakes in quite close proximity.

Deepika always had a phobia about snakes. while Deepika was relaxing outside her room at night she saw a huge snake, almost three feet long with it's hood raised.



Deepika shuddered and said, "It was the scariest moment of my life. I jumped and screamed loudly. My mom was in her room and came out to see all the commotion was about but by that time the snake had slithered away."

But Deepika prefers to cite the incident as a positive one. Deepika said that in India, snakes are worshipped and it's a very good omen.

It was a privilege shooting for Harper's Bazaar India's second edition. Atul Kasbekar shot some great pictures in Thailand. Deepika is always ready for a good cause. Last week, she walked the ramp in a Carolina Herrera dress for Mai Mumbai at the Lakme Fashion Week ,a show put up by Vikram Chatwal and Naomi Campbell to raise funds for the 26/11 victims of the terror attacks. The funds are going for 26/11 victims and provide infrastructure like ambulances and first aid.