katrina Kaif collapses on the sets of ‘Tees Maar Khan’

his Wednesday, Katrina Kaif was to shoot at a location of Malshej Ghat for Farah Khan’s ‘Tees Maar Khan’. The actress was done with her makeup and walked on to the location, greeted her co-star Akshay Kumar and director Farah Khan and then it happened…. She collapsed in a heap…just like that!

There was panic and utter chaos at the location for the next three hours, as the medical facilities in Malshej were hardly adequate. Co-star Akshay Kumar quickly called up a doctor from Mumbai and a doctor was rushed to Malshej. However, before the doctor arrived, Katrina revived, though she was still weak. The doctor diagnosed that the collapse was due to over exertion and lack of sleep. He advised rest for Kaif.

Farah suggested they cancel her shooting for the day, but Katrina insisted on shooting in the second-half of the day’s schedule.

Ranbir Kapoor to endorse John Players

The dashing Ranbir Kapoor has been roped in as the brand ambassador of John Players, men’s apparel brand from ITC. The company has also announced the launch of new advertising campaign, ITC said in a statement which also read as, “Scheduled to be launched in April this year, the advertising campaign, which is simple and clean, captures the various moods of Ranbir.”

Speaking on the occasion, ITC’s divisional chief executive Atul Chand said, “With Ranbir, we plan to strengthen John Players’s connect with the youth and the foundation has been laid today with the launch of new brand logo.”

Check out the exclusive pics of Ranbir Kapoor for John players.

Salman Khan is interested in working with Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone debuted with SRK starrer ‘Om Shanti Om’ which was in a sort of proxy war with Salman Khan’s ‘Saawariya’ at the time of its release. As such, there was not much interaction between Sallu Bhai and Deepika. However, time and again, it was said that both the actors had expressed their desire to work with each other. Deepika had once said to BT, “Salman is one actor I’m looking forward to doing a film with.”

Now that gossip columns are going red with the rumors of Ranbir Kapoor seeing Salman’s girl Katrina Kaif, Salman seems to be more eager than ever to work with Ranbir’s ex-flame Deepika Padukone. Trade sources say that director Anees Bazmee will cast the two as the leading pair in his next project. Where Deepika said that she is unaware of these reports, sources close to Salman say that this is a definite and immediate possibility because “Bhai wants to do a movie with Deepika.”

Whether the two will get an opportunity to display sparking on-screen chemistry, only time will tell.

Miley Cyrus to Serve as Mentor to American Idol Aspirants, Perform on Results Show This Week

She might hate the Internet, her own hit Disney show and the entire country music genre, but Miley Cyrus still has plenty of passion and expertise to go around.

The teen queen will be the celebrity mentor on American Idol this week, Fox confirms. Tuesday night will reportedly feature a Billboard No. 1 hits-themed show.

Of the 11 contestants left, three are teens: last week's sensation Siobhan Magnus, 19, Aaron Kelly, 16, and Katie Stevens, 17. Tim Urban is just 20 years old.

Of course, the three teens all took on The Rolling Stones - more than triple their age - and pleased the judges with their homages to the rock gods last week.

Will Miley be able to steer them in the right direction this week? Or will the girlfriend of Liam Hemsworth act like she's better than them? We'll soon find out ...

Miley Cyrus is promoting The Last Song this week. No doubt there will be a plug - or maybe even a track - or two from that tear-jerker when she comes to American Idol.

On Wednesday’s results show, Miley will be back to perform her hit song, “When I Look At You,” while new couple Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato will duet on “Make A Wave.”

In other words, clear the space on your DVR now, because this watershed moment in teen music history may be one you hold onto and savor for many years to come.

Tiger Woods Admits "Pretty Bad Things," Living a Lie in First Interviews Since Sex Scandal

In his first two interviews since his November car crash and sordid sex scandal,Tiger Woods spoke with ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman about his "transgressions," subsequent treatment and upcoming return to golf.

The most repeated sound bite: "I've done some pretty bad things in my life."

Ya think?! But to his credit, he at least took tough questions and was sober-sounding, apologetic and maybe even sincere, unlike his February apology speech.

"I was living a life of a lie, I really was. Stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be ugly," he said.

Of his public apology, "When you face it and you start conquering it and you start living up to it, the strength that I feel now, I've never felt that type of strength."

Apologizing to his wife Elin and mother Kultida about his many mistresses were the "low points" for Woods, who gave five minutes to both ESPN and Golf Channel.

"I hurt them the most," he said. "Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to – and to say the things that I've done truthfully to them was very painful."

While he wouldn't go into the post-Thanksgiving meltdown, saying it's either in the police report or between Elin Woods and himself, he was asked some hard ones.

But why not seek help sooner? "I didn't know I was that bad."

On why he had so many affairs? "Just one is enough."

While we would have preferred he comment on his Joslyn James sexting, Tiger did have a great line about fans' reaction to his comeback, saying "It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there ... I hope they clap for birdies too."

'Alice in Wonderland' 

Nearly a century and a half after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland first acquainted readers with the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the rest of the peculiar inhabitants of author Lewis Carroll’s fertile imagination, filmmaking technology has finally developed the tools capable of properly rendering Carroll's exquisitely twisted world on the big screen. And who better to oversee the translation than Tim Burton, Hollywood’s foremost mass-market purveyor of dark, quirky fantasy? If there’s any director working today who can lay claim to Carroll’s creative inheritance, surely it is him.

His creation, Alice in Wonderland, is fashioned not as an adaptation of Carroll’s two Alice-centered books but rather a kind of sequel to them, its titular heroine (Mia Wasikowska) redrawn as the mischievous 19-year-old daughter of English aristocrats. Given more to chasing small animals than attending society functions, Alice is the kind of adventurous, free-thinking Victorian renegade who thinks nothing of drinking suspicious beverages found at the bottom of rabbit holes.

If only she were more interesting. Burton’s Alice isn’t so much a character as she is a tour guide, leading us through the director’s $150 million museum of digital delights. Virtually everything on display in the film, from the giant mushrooms of the Underland forest to the bulging eyes of Johnny Depp’s (literally) mercurial Hatter, was either created or enhanced inside a computer, presumably one with a direct connection to Burton’s cerebral cortex. (Interestingly, the enhanced Depp bears a more than passing resemblance to Elijah Wood, who the producers could have gotten for a lot less money.) Much like Alice herself, it’s gorgeous to look at but never particularly  engaging.

Were he alive today — and reasonably coherent — Carroll himself would no doubt marvel at the visual grandeur of Alice in Wonderland, its CGI world as detailed and immersive as the most vivid of his migraine-induced hallucinations. But he might frown at the short thrift given to his characters. Esteemed cast members like Anne Hathaway (The White Queen), Crispin Glover (The Knave of Hearts), and even the mighty Depp can’t hope to compete with the beauty of their surroundings — instead of actors chewing the scenery, the scenery devours the actors. (A notable exception is Helena Bonham Carter, the cast’s lone standout as the screeching, acerbic Red Queen.)

Alice in Wonderland is really designed to function as an inoffensive family flick, and in that regard, it boasts more than enough pretty fluff to keep the minds of most pre-teens occupied for the duration of a Saturday matinee. But afterward they might be hard-pressed to recount details of the story, which involves Alice having to find a magic sword so she can slay a giant dragon and unlock the Legend of Zelda. Or something like that.

Filled with moments of fleeting exhilaration and empty whimsy, Alice in Wonderland never really grabs the viewer in any meaningful way, its overall experience more akin to that of a theme park ride than a movie. Which I half suspect was Disney’s intention all along.

Film ‘Prince’ will prevail despite IPL – Kumar Taurani

Mumbai, Producer Kumar Taurani is pulling out all stops for his next film, the Vivek Oberoi-starrer “Prince”. He is releasing it simultaneously in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, not taking the IPL threat seriously.

“According to my report, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has not had the same craze this year as it had enjoyed in the last two seasons,” Taurani told IANS.

“The second thing is our film is coming in the middle of the series. What we calculated is that the IPL craze is at its peak in the first two weeks and during finals; so there will be a dull period in between when we will release our film.

“We started the promotional work much earlier. We showed the first promo during ‘Ajab Prem…’ so that we and the audience could connect with ‘Prince’ when it is released,” he said.

“I think we will cross 1,000-plus prints and we are releasing the film across the globe. We are going big time.

Directed by Kookie V. Gulati, the film is releasing April 9.

It narrates the story of a thief who wakes up one morning to realise that he has lost his memory and his life is at stake. Apart from Vivek, it also features Nandana Sen, Aruna Shields and Neeru Singh.

“We are dubbing the film in Tamil and Telugu and we are really going for a very good quality. We are working hard on it. Every thing, be it music or songs, we are releasing simultaneously and we are also promoting it well in those territories,” Kumar told IANS.

Talking about the title of the movie, he said: “The name ‘Prince’ was not available with me, it was with Eagle Films. I repeatedly pleaded with them to give me the rights. My lead character’s name is Prince and so I couldn’t leave the title.

” ‘It’s Show Time’ was my tag line and it’s still there. So I released the first promo as ‘Prince – It’s Show Time’. Ultimately we were able to convince them and got the rights for this name,” said Kumar.

This is the first time that Kumar is associating his name with a film.

Katrina Kaif collapses on Tees Maar Khan sets

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif has been facing a series of health problem of late. The latest hear is that she collapsed on the sets of Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan yesterday (March 17) morning. there was a major rumpus on the sets as Katrina collapsed before the shooting of an important scene at Malshej Ghat.

Akshay called in a doctor from Mumbai. Much to the relief of the cast and crew of the film, the doctor said that the sudden collapse was due to over-work and lack of sleep. Following the incident, Farah suggested that they called off the shooting for the day but Katrina insisted on shooting in the second half of the day.

Take care Katrina!!!

Who looks hot in a sari???

Who looks hot in a sari? Is it the light eyed Ashwariya Rai Bachchan, traditional looking Vidya Ballan, dusky beauty Kajol, ravishing Sushmita Sen, tall beauty Shilpa Shetty or the ever green Madhuri Dixit.

Kareena Kapoor to be a glamorous mother!!

Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor is on pins and needles of late. She had said early this week that she loves babies. She may not be ready for motherhood in real life but she is ready for it in reel life.

Well, the news is that she would play a glamorous mother to an eight-year-old in Anubhav Sinha’s Ra.1, which features Shahrukh Khan in the lead role. It is said that she would be seen in glamorous outfits designed by Manish Malhotra.
He revealed that the film is based in London and Kareena needs to be dressed keeping in mind the avatar of a modern mother.

Ranbir and Katrina Love saga continues

A lot have been told about the hushed up love affair of Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor. But now it’s the time we throw some light on their ‘love affair’ again! And yes, this time it is not any ludicrous or a press implicated story. Infact this time there is a witness. Guess who? Yes, its none other than Priyanka Chopra!

Last year, during New Year’s, press had reported how Katrina had flown to US to be with Ranbir, where he was shooting for Sajid Nadiadwala’s Anjaana Anjaani. When she became aware of the expose, the actress who’d claimed to the world that she was in UK with her family for the holidays, hopped on the next flight to London. Once home, she made sure she spoke to everyone from her landline, in order to prove to everyone (mainly Salman) that she was in London. Kat flew to the US a few more times to spend time with her man. She was discreet and made sure that she stayed away from the set, and no-one spotted her there until one night! Sounding like some thriller story! Only it’s the expose of a relationship, which brewed behind everyone’s back!

Except one night, when she came face-to-face with the film’s leading lady Priyanka Chopra. She panicked and the first thing that came to her mind was that now the news would get back home. Since the two actresses are not on talking terms, Kat asked her beau to speak to her and convince her to keep their little secret. And no one found out. Until now, that the unit is back. It is no longer such a secret. Who would like to contain such an explosive piece of news?

However, it’s not sure who spilled the beans though!

Hrithik slapped by Barbara Mori!!

“Shooting for the movie Kites was total fun” says the director Anurag Basu. He recalled an incident where Barbara tried to play a prank on Hrithik. The actressslapped Hrithik for a particular sequence and the director okayed it. But she asked the director for a retake as she wanted to slap Hrithik again.:P

Hrithik was taken aback when the director asked for a retake when he had already okayed it not long ago. When the retake actually begun, Hrithik smelled a rat and slapped Barbara instead. He shocked his co-star for her prank and the unit of the film had a good laughter over it.

Maybe all the rumours between Hrithik and Barbara be having an affair during the shooting of started because of their wonderful chemistry.

List of winners of 55th Filmfare Awards 2009

List of winners of 55th Filmfare Awards 2009

Mumbai, (BollywoodWorld.com) Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan were cited as best actor and best actress respectively at the star-studded 55th Filmfare Awards ceremony here late Saturday.

Bachchan won the award for his role in “Paa”, while Vidya Balan claimed the trophy for her role in the same movie. As Bachchan was not present in the ceremony, Vidya Balan took the award on his behalf.

Hosting the gala night were Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan, whose one liners had the audience in splits. Their on-stage chemistry was much appreciated by the Bollywood stars present at the ceremony at the Yash Raj Studios.

SRK and Bachchans get pally

SRK and Bachchans get pally

And on Sunday night, when Ambani decided to unveil his plans, everyone present was left completely in awe.

More interestingly, it marked a sort of getting together of two of the industry's most powerful men, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.

King Khan was seen warmly greeting Amitabh Bachchan, after which the two had a long conversation. But it didn’t stop there. While Amitabh made an early exit, SRK left for a meeting soon after midnight, after making sure he invited Abhishek and Aishwarya to Mannat before leaving.

Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan in "Running With The Bulls"

Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan's roles in Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls will offer them something new.

Farhan Akhtar’s character Karthik in KCK was that of an introverted loner, while Hrithik plays a solitary paraplegic in Guzaarish. They have prepared intensely for their roles, with Hrithik gaining weight and moving around in a wheelchair and Farhan shutting himself from the world for almost a month. But they don’t have to do anything like that for Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls.

Zoya Akhtar’s film will be shot in Spain and will help the actors live it up. The film is about male bonding, ala Dil Chahta Hai. It’s a fun-filled road film about male bonding. Abhay Deol plays the third best friend. While Hrithik and Farhan are buddies, having worked together on Lakshya, Farhan wants to hang out with Abhay so that the camaraderie in the film is natural.

Farhan Akhtar says, ‘I think I am destined to return to male bonding films as an actor and filmmaker. I am looking forward to Zoya Akhtar’s film because it is going to be fun and spontaneous. I don’t need to prepare much for it except for hanging out with Abhay and Hrithik before we head to Spain. Hrithik and I haven’t hung out in a while, and Abhay is somebody I need to get to know. This film feels a little like Rock On! because that was also about friendship and it obviously takes me back to my Dil Chahta Hai days.’

The shooting for the film begins in Spain in April and will be completed in about 4-5 months, as Farhan Akhtar starts shooting for Don 2 in September this year.

Shahid and Kareena break their Silence

Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor

Recently, Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan hugged and patched up; even Kareena has ended her cold war with Aishwarya. All of this happened at Karan Johar’s birthday party last year. Karan has taken his role asBollywood Peacemaker to the next level. Last week, Karan played a catalyst, making Shahid and Kareena not only acknowledge each other’s presence, but also strike up a conversation. The patch up took place at Shahrukh’s bungalow, Mannat, where King Khan had his celebration of My Name Is Khan.

A source said, “Shahid and Kareena came face to face, everyone thought they would simply ignore each other like they have done so many times in the past. But this time, Karan happened to be present right there and instead of marching past each other they slowed down for a bit. And the rest, as they say, is history.” They both had a warm exchange and even Saif joined them later. Kareena and Shahid were both unavailable for comments. Kareena’s spokesperson said, “Kareena has no problem with anybody, including Shahid.”

Kolkata Knight Riders Colour Change by SR Khan 

Indian Premier League (IPL) - Kolkata Knight Riders have asked Manish Malhotra to design outfits for 96 cheerleaders.

Shahrukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders will stride into the Indian Premier League not wearing black and gold - as worn for the last two years, but dark purple and gold. His cheerleaders too will be a mix of foreigners and Indians and will sport the team's colours of dark purple and gold with a dash of lilac in it.

"Yes the colours of the Kolkata Knight Riders team and cheerleaders have changed," ShahRukhKhan told MiD Day last night.

Manish Malhotra who has designed the Kolkata Knight Riders cheerleaders' outfits (and the new KKR team jersey as he has been doing for the last couple of years) said, "There will be 12 cheerleaders in each match and I have been asked to design 96 cheerleader outfits as all cheerleaders might not be repeated in all the matches."

He added, "This year the cheerleaders' outfits will be according to the team's colours - brinjal purple with a hint of lilac and gold. There are no accessories except gold tassels hanging from the drawstrings of the shorts. The girls will be wearing special dull gold shoes. The jersey will be a long sleeveless sporty top with fitted long shorts below. The shorts will be above the knee.”

In 2009, NDTV Imagine and Red Chillies extended their partnership with a reality show, Knights and Angels where auditions for cheerleaders were conducted across the country with six girls being selected for the cheerleading squad. This year, Shahrukh Khan along with Kolkata Knight Riders members handpicked girls from all over India and abroad. The girls wore black and gold jerseys with short skirts

Katrina Kaif :I m not Hot & Sexy

No doubt Bollywood Beautiful Actress Katrina Kaif is one of the most happening actresses in Bollywood's todays time. Katrina is known for her glamour roles, and guys feel weak in the knees every time she puts on a Hot Avatar. But this very girl doesn’t believe she is sexy.

Katrina Kaif said that she doesn’t think she is hot and sexy. Katrina thinks that the audience has certain opinion of each person, and that one should not disappoint them. She quoted the example of Vidya Balan, who is known for her ethnic roles, and yet people love her in that image. She added that everybody has a place and one should be comfortable with that.


Well, Katrina Kaif should also know that ‘being sexy’ is her strength and make use of it to the fullest!

Shah Rukh throws party for Akon

International R&B singer Akon sang his popular number Smack That at a party hosted by Shah Rukh Khan, as it was the Bollywood superstar’s favourite song. Akon might lend his voice for a song in Shah Rukh’s upcoming sci-fi film RA.1.

“My kids love him, I love him. I want you all to give him the biggest welcome into the country that anyone has ever had,”
said Shah Rukh who danced with his favourite singer on the stage.

Juhi Chawla, co-owner, and Saurav Ganguly, captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders, were also present.

Shah Rukh, Kareena welcome Akon

Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor welcomed American R&B singer-songwriter Akon in traditional style at the press conference of SRK’s sci-fi film, RA.1 in Mumbai.

Katrina’s Hindi improved after Raajneeti

Katrina Kaif has a point to prove in Raajneeti. It’s not just the National Award that she’s aiming to get with her performance. It’s the long-winded rhetorical dialogues that she wants to get tone-and-pitch-perfect so that once and for all no one would ever say she can’t speak Hindi fluently.

Katrina admits her Hindi has improved considerably after working in Raajneeti.

“None of my roles so far required any specific fluency in the way I spoke. When I got a chance I decided to work on it really hard.”

The shooting of Dabangg in Wai seems to be quite an accident-prone event for the cast and crew. Only last week, Salman Khan was rushed to a local hospital after he complained of smoke congestion when a fire erupted on the sets. Now Salman’s co-star in Dabangg, Sonu Sood has landed himself with a fractured nose while shooting for the film earlier this week.

“Yes…It’s true that I got hurt two days ago while shooting. We were shooting a fight scene between Salman and me that is a part of the climax. During the practice, one of the fighters jumped and his knee happened to hit my nose real hard. The pain was quite severe and I was taken to the hospital for an X-ray and scan. The X-ray revealed a fracture in my nose. The doctor advised me bed rest for 3-4 days, but since we were shooting the climax scene between Salman and me I didn’t want to delay the schedule. I landed on the sets the very next day after taking some painkillers and shot for some light scenes” said Sonu.

One must say that Sonu has indeed shown true professionalism by continuing to shoot in spite of a fractured nose.

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